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Tea brews

Blu_channel

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I've been trying out a few different tea brews and thought I'd share. I make all my teas in a basic way with a 5 gallon bucket and 3 5 inch airstones. I also eyeball my inputs and dont measure out anything exactly.

First tea, I collected a couple handfuls of tree leaves, humus, mycelium, worms, ect... from different parts of the forest and throw it in a 5 gallon bucket filled 3/4 with water. Add in a handful of kelp, malted barley and homemade fish amino acid (salmon eggs and fiah waste). Brew for 24 hours. Then use this to water my compost as needed or plants in early flower.

Another tea I been making is water, kelp, malted barley, fermented carrots and fermented crabapple.

Both brews are simple and work great for my soil. The plants seem to love them. What kind of teas do yall makes?
 

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Blu_channel

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2nd tea brew and fermented crabapple, low Bush blueberries and carrots
 

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Ratzilla

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I have been making tea's for years.
I don't have a microscope so i really don't know what is in my tea's except by the way my plants react.
First off i collect rain water. I have a 5 gallon bucket with 3 air stones on the bottom.
I use a gallon paint strainer bag and hang it in the water from a screen that i place on top of my bucket.
I always use yucca as a natural surfactant because it loosen the water molecules properties it makes my water wetter!
Worm casting or a humus is needed for the microbe life that will be cleaved from the materials in the bubbling bucket.
Molasses is food for this life and is used @1 tsp/gal.
I like using Alfalfa during vegetative and always a touch of kelp meal.
I also use some, for my plants tell me so, that they love guano's Hi N in veg. and 0-4-0 in flower.
If i spot any unusual deficiency's I'll use the appropriate elements.
I bubble for 24-30 hours before use.
I do not use any liquids except maybe some fish hydrolase .
I also water my plants twice first with plain rain water with a touch of yucca then come back a hour later and give them the tea ,always water to a little run off.
My plants talk to me and say thank you kindly!
RatZilla :tiphat:
 
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