If you brew tea from fungal compost you get fungal tea. For cannabis, plain old compost seems to be best.
i love my fungal teas and so do my plants, even my annual veggies.
I actually like to keep the fungi relatively intact so it gets a foot hold and grows into the soil. To have spores as a result of brewing you need to have fungi which is producing spores/conidia. Otherwise you are just extracting existent spores from your (vermi)compost. Pump impellers will not harm bacteria nor protozoa and I have seen venturi systems which cause 'not too much' damage to hyphae. Nice job Superhero! [Does your pump heat up your tea?] [one reason to consider non-submersible pumps]
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Hi there
Great and informative thread for sure.
I'm kinda new to this tea brewing, but have been doing organic soil grows some time now.
My soilbase:
Champost which is a waste product from growing mushroom, compost from my own compost pile, a little sand, vermiculite, and perlite.
Fertilizers and minerals:
Kelp, Bone, Blood meal, bat guano, pulverized basalt and dolomite lime.
1 watering per week with kelp extract, else pure water in between. Every 2nd week during veg and pre flower foliar spray with kelp extract.
So far my plants have done well
But I'm getting really interested in all this tea brewing as I believe I could tweak my grows even more with all the beneficial bacteria and fungus.
I could use some soil from my compost pile to bring life to my tea.
But I actually have an even better idea I think, I'm just not sure if it will work.
I got some huge freshwater aquariums, with some huge biofilters in them. Furthermore I got fluidized sand bed filters on my tanks, which is a heavy aerobic filtration system that replenishes and renews aerobic bacteria nonstop. Also called a "Moving Sand Bed filter".
My idea was, to take a little cup of sand or sludge from my biofilter and use that in my brewing. The sand from my filter has HUGE numbers of fresh new aerobic bacteria in it.
In my eye's this would work. But I'm not 100% sure as I'm new in this brewing area.
Let me know your thoughts
Cheers
Sabe