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I just made a yummy organic tea wish I could drink it.

1 cup japanese maple organic fert from peace of mind
1 tablespoon dolomite lime
1 tablespoon black strap moles asses :muahaha:


sitting in 2.5 gallons of water.
 
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DiggityD

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Very nice! I have few questions though, as I am relatively new into the world of organics, and I have been utilizing teas for all of my gardens including veggies and lawn. I have never heard of using the dolomite lime in a tea before. Do you use the pellets or the crushed? Is it soluble in the water or does it just sit in there? Does this help speed up the break down and availability of the lime? And also, what is the N-P-K value of that Jap. Maple fert? I have several Jap. Maples in my yard!

Sorry about all the questions, just trying to probe your brain a bit.......
 
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DiggityD said:
Very nice! I have few questions though, as I am relatively new into the world of organics, and I have been utilizing teas for all of my gardens including veggies and lawn. I have never heard of using the dolomite lime in a tea before. Do you use the pellets or the crushed? Is it soluble in the water or does it just sit in there? Does this help speed up the break down and availability of the lime? And also, what is the N-P-K value of that Jap. Maple fert? I have several Jap. Maples in my yard!

Sorry about all the questions, just trying to probe your brain a bit.......
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I use crushed dolomite and I am sure you could use any as the steeping with a bubbler should break it down. I usually just sprinkle the dolomite over each plant site( or in a tea) and it works withing in a couple days for my ph-at least for me. There is also bone meal in the japanese maple fert which people say you cant put in a tea but once again -it works for me. I have burned plants with straight bone meal tea so I know for a fact bone meal can be accessed much sooner than mixing in soil and waiting 3 weeks.
 
BurnOne

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Dolomite will do absolutely nothing when used like that. Bone meal either. Bone meal won't burn plants. Nitrogen burns plants.
Burn1
 
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emmy75

emmy75

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SS may I suggest getting some worm castings for your tea. Also if you go to organics for Beginners you will find few great tea recipes.

Good luck you with a very strange sense of humour.
 
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strain_searcher

I appreciate the suggestions. I am all over worm castings been using them for years. I did notice the plants loved my tea ,even the stalks look beefier. What may work for me may not work for others. burnone I have to disagree I burned my plants very badly with bone meal tea years ago. I used waaaay to much and smelled up the grow like sweaty balls in a wet blanket.
 
Tactical Farmer

Tactical Farmer

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Wow - 1C POM to 2.5G :yoinks:

Plus the lime, seems potent..

1. Do you dilute / cut ?

2. Is this a high boost feed or just a everyday brew ?

3. What the water - RO - Tap ?

Got me thinking of some POM Fruit & Flower brew.. :rasta:

Thanks
 
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rckymtnthuglife

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Well, I'm gonna have to agree with ole B1, dolomite lime in a tea serves no purpose. This is the reason why we let it compost in our soil for a couple of weeks before use.

I believe the reason why you can put a whole cup of POM into 2.5 gallons of water is because a good chunk of what's in there won't do shit in a tea. Look at the whole POM lineup all the ingredients are exactly the same (except the bat guano) the only thing that changes is the guaranteed analysis. Another thing that gets me (I'm using the 5-5-5) it has epsom salt in there...I can see the shit. No mention of magnesium sulfate on the ingredients. Personally, I think POM is great to add to soil mixes but unless you're using the bat guano, it's not that great for teas. JMHO
Rocky
 
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Look at it this way guys. pom japanese maple has a ton of microbes and bat guano in addition to the bonemeal. Anything else you dont think gets broken down goes right onto the top toil when I water( and a head start to break down quicker) so I dont see what the big deal is. When ever i have added dolomite lime directly to the soil to correct ph it has done wonders within a few days. I crush my dolomite to a fine powder usually but not always.

As far as the bone meal theory try it for your self and then comment. Put a full cup of just bone meal tea to 2 gallons water and steep it for 2 days then water your plants. I had burned brown spots within 24 hours and destroyed one plant. Its documented somewhere in my millions of photos and in a thread where i was growing a captain crip strain. As far as what I do to my plants and what I feed check out my gallery , I believe the pictures speak for them selves.
 
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TF Thanks. If I were to do it again I would steep for 2 days and use a half a cup of pom. Give it a shot. My next tea will be just worm castings and moles asses
 
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catmanrob

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9 posts plus 3500 on CW and another 500 or so around here on another name...Its cool bro, in do time Ill put up pics.....ask capt. crip, texas kid and all your hero's bout me, hope your gro is well....and life even better, just trying to help people around...
 
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Dopeboy668

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Catmanrob I wasnt tryin to insult you or anything or say you couldn't grow. It jus caught my eye as unnecesary to jus say yeah what he said. Also with only 9 posts it looked like a newb tryin ta give an experienced grower advice. But I beleive you and im sure you meant no harm. I'll be puttin picsup real soon to(2-3 days). Jus waitin for my cam ta get here. But anyhow I wish you all the best and may your weed grow dank. Peace
 
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maryjohn

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pics prove nothing, and with all due respect, cannabis often does well despite the grower, not because the grower is on the ball. When one looks at species that are truly hard to cultivate, one sees fewer divergent techniques. Look up darlingtonia for an example of a truly finicky plant. Nobody gets around the requirement for cooling the soil at night, so there are no arguments over that.

There is a latin term, post hoc, ergo propter hoc. It's a logical fallacy, describing the very human propensity to see causality whenever events happen in succession (as in, you applied a bunch of bone meal, and your plants got "burned"). We evolved that way to survive, but in this setting it is a cognitive impairment. I would ask first what prompted the addition of the bone meal "tea" (it's not soluble), and then wonder if the original problem continued and caused the damage attributed to the bone meal. Also possible would be overwatering (based on the olfactory description), and countless other possible issues I would consider before turning all of organic gardening on its head to support the theory.

The OP is basically telling us the world is flat and he has the pictures to prove it. With all due respect, I disagree. My plants get water only, and they are doing fine. If I gave them the tea listed in this thread, they would still do well. Would I attribute that to the tea, or LC's soil mix? Let's say my plants go downhill. Should I assume LC's soil mix is a crock?
 
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