i recently did an entire run in coco using only homemade teas. I noticed very slow growth and horrible yields. I am planning on testing a few different mixtures of organics and regular nutes next time, and possibly trying the same technique with soil. the quality is awesome, but like i said, either through fault of my own (most likely) or process i suffered a 50% loss in yield compared to all GH 3 part, Big bud etc
i recently started a run using teas as well side by side with soil with a strain im very familiari with. The growth indeed was slow compared to gh in the coco, but the soil plants did better than usual.
i was planning on doin a coco/perlite run from an aerated resoivoir of mainly worm casts and kelp meal, adding bat guano and molassess in flowering... bat guano and worm casts being odourless and able to sit in water very well.... therefore brewed strongly i do not see why proper compost teas with an npk wouldnt work better than iguana juice, pbp etc....
i was thinkin about creating a liquid soil approach where they are fed every day no flush until the last week.... lots of tea bags and maybe home made sea solids which sound like they could make such a nute regiment work....
i am too desperate to grow in coco fully organically and get the same great yields without using one part bottled ferts... there must be a way to make this work.... and work well... looking at their labels is a good start and you'l find it aint that exotic.... i do want to exclude fish emulsion tho...
My friend works at a hydro shop and every week the compost tea gets dumped out. He takes a few gallons home and dilutes that into a 50 gallon barrel. He then runs it through his medium to do a weekly flush. It's just RO water and microbes. He doesn't even adjust PH.
The beauty of this is the plants love the weekly flush and get the benefit of having a rootzone teaming with microbes.
I though it was a fabulous idea and plan to do just that.
