What's new
  • Happy Birthday ICMag! Been 20 years since Gypsy Nirvana created the forum! We are celebrating with a 4/20 Giveaway and by launching a new Patreon tier called "420club". You can read more here.
  • Important notice: ICMag's T.O.U. has been updated. Please review it here. For your convenience, it is also available in the main forum menu, under 'Quick Links"!

Nutrient Tea Recipe NPK feedback

Hey folks, grown with synthetic nutrients for a long time but giving this organic thing a whirl. Would someone be able to constructively critique this tea recipe I worked up? This is for application to some plants that are already growing and topsoil amendment is not feasible at this time.

Recipe is for a 90 Gallon tea brewer with 2 X Ecoplus 7's.

400 Grams Bat Guano (9-3-1)
160 Grams High P Bat Guano (0-13-0)
400 Grams Alfalfa Meal (2.5-1-1)
200 Grams Seaweed Extract Powder (0-0-17)
100 Grams Crab Meal (4-3-1 + 14 Ca)
400 Grams Earth Worm Castings
90 Grams Epsom Salts (9.8 Mg, 12.9 S)

50 Grams N
37.8 Grams Total P X 0.44 = 16.63 Available P
43 Grams Total K X 0.83 = 35.69 Available K
14 Grams Ca
8.82 Grams Mg
11.61 S

Mix will have cal mag added before application to have Ca between 1/1 or 0.8/1 ratio to N and MG at approx 1/3 ratio to Ca. Micronutrients such as zinc and iron should all be covered by the seaweed. The multiple ingredients might sound over complicated but I am trying to cover all the NPK bases as well as applying as many chitin rich products as possible (High N Bat Guano + Crab Meal) which have been shown to create pathogen suppressive soils along with Alfalfa for the triacontanol.

Any thoughts/advice/critique welcome!
 
Last edited:
Top