apanihi
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Some girls like it when you tie them down and take their tops off.
Some girls like it when you tie them down and take their tops off.
What a night. Mixed up about 3/4 of a cubic foot of soil mix and made another batch of nutriant tea. As far as the tea goes, I am bubbling it for foliar purposes. So followed MM's instructions above for that. Brewed one gal. with 1/2 cup of alfalfa, 1/2 tablespoon of kelpmeal, and a teaspoon of blackstrap molasses. Brew for 24hrs and foliar four times.
Question: how long can I brew before it goes bad?
Still debating a clone attempt. I definetly have everything I need.
Soil mix:
.25 cubic foot of peat
.25 cubic foot of local organic soil
.25 cubic foot rice hulls, perlite, vermiculite, hydroton(in order of most to least)
1/2 cup soft rock phosphate, 1/3 cup
3/4 cups greensand
3/4 cups of Azomite
3/4 cups Gypsum
3/4 cups oyster shell
3/4 cup Alfalfa meal
3/4 cup Kelp meal
3/4 cup neem karanja meal
3/4 cup crab meal
1/2 cup Fish bone meal
Excellent resource for compost tea brewing! I use this recipe as well, it can go for 30-36 hours before it goes bad. What happens is the food stocks are consumed after a while by the microorganisms, and this depletes the oxygen levels in the tea and it'll begin to turn anaerobic. Earlier is better than later, I usually cut mine at about 30 hrs. If you're foliar spraying with it be sure to strain it well (nothing under 400 macron) so it doesn't clog the sprayer nozzle. This will fix the N deficiency in a week or less, foliar sprays act faster than drenching in the sense of feeding. Nice regimen man
Is this soil mix listed for your mature plants or your clones? It looks a little hot to me... (Clones require less nutrients than seedlings)
.75 cubic feet comes out to be a little under 6 gallons of soil. If this is how much you're adding these measurements to you're going to fry those babies my man! Where are you getting your recipes from?
EDIT: toss the greensand, unless you're going long term with no-till. It takes 2 years to break down and become available, this is why The Rev gets called out for his attempt at a TLO soil recipe. Kelp contains all 28 minerals that plants need, so even if you were no-tilling in beds or something long term the green sand would be useless if you're using kelp at the same time.