Reusing Guano from tea

[v321]

Anyone ever reuse their teabag and misc things in there? guano/ewc/etc...

After bubbling tea for a day or two, I take out the teabag and there is a bunch of gunk still in there. I leave it out or give it to the outdoor garden, but recently Ive been thinking of saving some cash and reusing it? Anyone do it, safe? do you need more amendments?

Also I have two kinds of guano I put in, one is the powdered kind and pellet kind. Im having a hard time keeping the powdered guano in the teabag and I dont have a blender to spare to crushup the pellets, so I get really soggy teabags... I feel they are getting a superdose when I use the powdered kind since most seeps out the teabag...

 

[jaykush]

take out and throw on top of your soil, then water in with the tea. then forget about it nature will do the rest.

 

[Clackamas Coot]

^^^Word!

It also applies when using kelp meal to make a tea - take the kelp meal and put it into your soil mix or better yet, put it into your worm bin.

CC

 

[otherwhitemeat]

So, just to confirm--the sludge from Guano teas can't burn our plants or cause lockout concerns?

 

[jaykush]

im sure if you piled it up too much and you kept feeding it could be too much, just like anything can be too much even plain water. you will be fine, just remember the top dressing becomes slow/medium release fert if you used guano. so you might only need water next time, really just do what the plant says and you'll be fine.

 

[maryjohn]

it's interesting to think of the soil as an economy of sorts. if you inject too much stimulus nobody needs anything so there is no trading going on. not enough, and scarcity becomes too great and your population shrinks.

It's a bit simplistic, but helpful IMO.

 

[otherwhitemeat]

I like the idea of mixing into my next batch of LC rather than topdressing...waste not want not, something will eat it!

 

[maryjohn]

I like the idea of mixing into my next batch of LC rather than topdressing...waste not want not, something will eat it!

not the best idea. top dressing raw manure is better than mixing it in. If you want to mix something in, for the most part it needs to be composted first. Much longer than blood meal IMO.

something will eat it, yes, but to do so it will take something from someone else (aka composting). You want that 'taking' to happen away from the roots as much as possible. Animals poop on the ground, and it breaks down from there, so that is how the system as evolved.

in the long run you will have better soil, but for the duration of your grow you might slow things down.

 

[otherwhitemeat]

not the best idea. top dressing raw manure is better than mixing it in. If you want to mix something in, for the most part it needs to be composted first. Much longer than blood meal IMO.

something will eat it, yes, but to do so it will take something from someone else (aka composting). You want that 'taking' to happen away from the roots as much as possible. Animals poop on the ground, and it breaks down from there, so that is how the system as evolved.

in the long run you will have better soil, but for the duration of your grow you might slow things down.

Good to know!