Compost tea question

[cizza]

Hello everybody,

I just made a compost tea and I have a question about this stuff. Is it the waste from microbes, the microbe colonies or the molasses? Excuse the quality of the pictures, it is water indoors - hard to capture indoors on the phone.

My next question is if this is right? This plant is 92.71 mm tall and it is extremly compact. Is that allright? It strikes me as there is not much of cell prolongation happening. They grow quite slow, about 1 cm a day but to be fair they got burned by nutritions.

Here's the picture:

The same plant

And lastly what kind of reaction is this? These plants got nut burn which is very easy to tell but I didn't find anything like this in forums. Any insight will be very appreciated.

Since my plants got burned I flushed them with water and they look much better now. But how long before I can start using nutrients again?

Thank you for any answers on my problems. Peace.

 

[cizza]

Ok, so I didn't manage to post the pictures the first time, I'll try it again in the same order. Sorry about that:

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[Midnight Tokar]

Don't know what the first 2 pics are (your tea brewing?) but, how old are those plants and are those beer cups?
If they are I'd say that it's time to transplant and/or feed.
Go to the organic section and look at the stickies, there are some excellent articles on making teas. https://www.icmag.com/ic/forumdisplay.php?f=65536

You don't say what nutes you are using and at what strength?

 

[Botanist Prime]

They look fine to me...I think it may be time to up-pot here in a few days, I think you will find that if you are using a good potting soil that there is plenty of nutes in said soil to carry them another few weeks after you up pot...Furthermore I only add nutes when they look hungry. Otherwise I only use B vitamins with oxygenated H20. Through your veg cycle if you use a weak worm shit tea every couple waterings you shouldn't ever burn your girls... Good luck

 

[cizza]

Thank you for your replies.

The first 2 pictures are the compost tea. I used TNC Molasses which I won't use again as they raise the EC about 0,4.

The plants are about a week to 10 days old since I put them into the soil.

I am using Jungle In Da Box fertilizers http://jungleindabox.cz/en which contain Vitamin B in unknown quantity.

I will check the organic section properly.

Thank you

 

[xmobotx]

yes lots of helpful people in the organic forums too

 

[MynameStitch]

how often are you using the compost tea? that plant looks very dark like it has too much nitrogen.... and the cups definatly need to go, I bet your watering that thing almost every day to every other day...... you do have a little hot, the tips are slighty fringed. Yes, compost tea has lots of benificial microbes ... what are you using to make it? Are you using air pump or just stiring it?

 

[cizza]

I used the tea just once and used the air pump for it. The leafs look very dark because the plant is under led light, they render colours differently under leds, much darker. Yes, I watered them basically every day. The tea was made from worm castings.

How often can I use the tea?

Thank you for the replies.

 

[xmobotx]

if you are not running a brewer w/ an airlift ~or a fairly powerful pump w/ airstones; esp. w/ EWC; you may have similar success just making an EWC slurry >mix as you do {something like a handful to a few gallons} apply right away

you need only water w/ the EWC/compost tea on occasion; think of it like an inoculant

it is when you actually use compost to make your tea that you want to follow a recipe {usually something like compost, kelp meal, molasses} and that must brew for 18-24 hours w/ plenty of air @ around 70*F ~same idea; apply occasionally as an inoculant

i do agree that these plants will respond well to up-potting