What Can I Search under for Tea Recipes

Zcomfort

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Ive been searching for organic tea recipes and all I get is compost tea and organic tea you drink. I need simple tea recipes for the plant stages, but not recipes the require alpaca poop or seabird poop. I can get mushroom, cow poop compost, fish emulsion, kelp, alfafa, FF bat guano(bloom) and a few other things but not crazy ingredients for these extravagant teas. K.I.S.S. is my organic game plan. Thanks
 

snew

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Any of those are great for tea. Look at the N-P-R break down. You want higher N during veg and not as much during flower. 1-2 to a cup with 5 gallons of water, aerate for a day or 2 and you got tea.
 

Zcomfort

Active Member
Any of those are great for tea. Look at the N-P-R break down. You want higher N during veg and not as much during flower. 1-2 to a cup with 5 gallons of water, aerate for a day or 2 and you got tea.
I know they would be great for tea, but I dont know how much of which ones to mix with which ones. I will eventually make compost tea when I get some compost that I started this morning.
 

Wetdog

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Just search this forum.

I did *alfalfa tea* for a search term and got over 100 hits.

You're not baking a cake. LOL I do about 3 handfuls of alfalfa meal, about the same of EWC and 1 handful of kelp meal. Chunk it all in a 5 gal bucket with a couple tbl of molasses and bubble away for a couple of days.

Wet
 

Zcomfort

Active Member
Just search this forum.

I did *alfalfa tea* for a search term and got over 100 hits.

You're not baking a cake. LOL I do about 3 handfuls of alfalfa meal, about the same of EWC and 1 handful of kelp meal. Chunk it all in a 5 gal bucket with a couple tbl of molasses and bubble away for a couple of days.

Wet
So why do you brew for more than one day and do you water with tea during veg, flowering or both. No, it is kinda like baking a cake. I did do a couple searches.
 

Wetdog

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So why do you brew for more than one day and do you water with tea during veg, flowering or both. No, it is kinda like baking a cake. I did do a couple searches.
Both veg and flowering.

I brew for more than a day because I'm lazy. LOL Sometime, close to a week.

Google the Three Little Birds, alfalfa tea. I thought it was here somewhere, but apparently not.

Anyway, what I do is this: I make 2 'teabags' from Queen size trouser socks from the $ store. About 4 cups of alfalfa meal, the same of EWC and about 1 cup of kelp meal in each. Hang each one in a 5 gal bucket of de-chlorinated water and a couple tbls of molasses. Let it bubble for a day or 2. My air pump is 2 outlets and I do 2 5gal buckets at the time.

I then take ~1/2 of the bucket and split between 4-5gal buckets of de-chlor water. That would be 8 total and 40 gallons of water. Give everything a drink. MJ only makes up perhaps 20% of what I grow, so the 40 gallons goes quick.

Fill the first 2 buckets back up with de chlor water, add some more molasses and keep bubbling. Do it all again in 3 or 4 days.

This is less for adding N-P-K than giving a shot of bacteria/fungi to an already amended soil. The second batch is more heavy with protazoa to eat the bacteria and add more to the soil.

No, baking is a pretty exact thing. This is anything but. Add or omit as you wish, but do small amounts of strong stuff (guanos, manures, etc.), till you see how they work/react.

Main thing is, follow your nose. It will smell, but if it stinks, nasty, toss it. You'll know, like the difference between horse shit and a uncovered septic tank.

Wet
 

<Grasshopper>

Active Member
Ok...here is a simple tea that kicks ass

5 gallons water ....bubbled with a airstone for 24 hours
1 or 2 cups fresh worm castings sourced locally from a worm farm if possible. Way cheaper then the grow store...I pay 6 bucks for 5 gallon bucket...totally fresh and full of bennie microbes
Normal dose of Earthjuice catalist if possible....if not then use 1 tablespoon blackstrapp molasses....( this is food for your microbes )
2 tablespoons kelp meal
Normal to light dose of humic acid found at your grow shop or online. I think mine was jurasic acid but that is no longer availible.
2 tablespoons high phosphorus bat guano

Ok....now bubble this for 30 hours.....mainly to multiply the microbes and fungi in the tea....but also to raise the ph up to normal 6-7ish because the earthjuice will have it at 4.5 when brewing starts....in 24 hours it will be 7 - 8 PH.
You will know when its done when there is lots of brown foam from the bubbles . If you want you can feed the tea 1/4 teaspoon molassas after 24 hours then use it after 30 total.

Apply this tea after 2 weeks flower to ramp up motabolism for pistol production. For a veg tea justleave out the the bat guano and use fish emulsion but only if they need it. This alone is a great microbial multiplier for your soil and the kelp meal and earthjuice has kelp plus other extracts that enhance growth.

This tea can be diluted/strained and foilir fed but a soil drench is better.

I have just started useing the teas past months.

 

mrduke

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I too have been on a mad search for tea recipes, what i found that is probably the simplest and most used/effective is
1 cup EWC
3 tbls alfalfa meal
3 tbls liquid kelp extract
and 3 tbls molasses
This little ditty will make anywhere from 3 to 5 gallons i do it in a 7 gal bucket and make about 4.5-5 gallons. never fill your bucket to much as the foam gets pretty crazy pretty qiuck.
 

SupraSPL

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The cheapest and simplest method is to mix the ferts in the soil ahead of time (guanos, kelp meal, humates, azomite etc). Then just brew microbe teas throughout the grow. They can be made very simple and much smaller than 5 gallons. As a soil drench 1 liter of tea covers 600 sq ft so 5 gallons would be overkill for indoor grows not mention you would have to run a more expensive air pump ~.4cfm. On the other hand I have watered in strong microbe teas and no harm done. Sunleaves has a 950 GPH (2.1 cfm) pump for $35 on some sites.

I brew 2 liters at a time with an $11 air pump no airstones. Microbeman's recipe has been working great for me and the liquid turns black as night.

EWC or compost mixture - 25ml/L
Molasses 5ml/L
Kelp Meal 2.5 ml/L (dont overdo this one)
Fish Hydrolysate .6ml/L (I skip this because I don't happen to have any)

Diversity is the goal so vary your sources of microbes and vary the brewing times. In place of some of the EWC I mix it up by using scoops of black forest compost, spent soil from previous grows, yeast, BMO super plant tonic and Epsoma Plant Tone or Bio Tone. Fresh EWC is best so make your own :)
 

Bnasty2337

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Day one:
Mix EWC, rabbit shit, sea bird guano, Azomite and Alaskan humas together and let sit for three days.

Day four:
Take your mix and place it in a nylon bag and place in 5gal bucket let brew over night.

Day five:
Add these liquids; blackstap molasses, kelp meal, sea weed meal and a splash of fish emulsion. Finish the batch off with horticultural corn meal. After all is mixed in brew for 72 hours and off you go.

EWC: 3 cups
Rabbit shit: 2 cups
Sea bird guano: 3 Tsp
Azomite: 1 cup
Horticultural corn meal: 2 Tsp

Liquids:
Kelp meal: 2 Tsp
Sea weed meal: 2 Tsp
Humas: 3 Tsp
Blackstap molasses: 5 Tsp
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Total: Super Tea
This recipe works wonders and is organic and full spectrum so use freely but I suggest using on well rooted plants in soil, but I have used in hydro and it still works great. Let me know if you like it!
 

Zcomfort

Active Member
Day one:
Mix EWC, rabbit shit, sea bird guano, Azomite and Alaskan humas together and let sit for three days.

Day four:
Take your mix and place it in a nylon bag and place in 5gal bucket let brew over night.

Day five:
Add these liquids; blackstap molasses, kelp meal, sea weed meal and a splash of fish emulsion. Finish the batch off with horticultural corn meal. After all is mixed in brew for 72 hours and off you go.

EWC: 3 cups
Rabbit shit: 2 cups
Sea bird guano: 3 Tsp
Azomite: 1 cup
Horticultural corn meal: 2 Tsp

Liquids:
Kelp meal: 2 Tsp
Sea weed meal: 2 Tsp
Humas: 3 Tsp
Blackstap molasses: 5 Tsp
_____________________________
Total: Super Tea
This recipe works wonders and is organic and full spectrum so use freely but I suggest using on well rooted plants in soil, but I have used in hydro and it still works great. Let me know if you like it!
So I can use this veg and flower? Where do you get rabbit shit and how do u know if its good? Does rabbit shit need to be composted. Yall been a big help.
 

Bnasty2337

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You could buy a rabbit or ask a pet store for some handfuls or buy it online. Veg or flower just use reason and let the plant get heathy and strong then drop the juice on them.
 
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