Thank you for the reply scrappy however I was thinking how much should I use in a tea. found that with top dressing the guano hardly ever breaks down before flowering is already done.
I think it works fine top dressed, but I've used a modification the flowering tea recipe in the "Organics for Beginners" thread a bunch.
That recipe calls for:
- 2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
- 2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
- 2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
- 5 tsp. Acadian powdered kelp extract
Mix with water @ 2 cups of dry mix into 5 gallons of water to make the tea.
I use Indonesian guano and substitute high N. guano for seabird guano. I also mix in a bit of molasses (teaspoon per gallon) and sometimes a teaspoon per gallon of fish.
Pine
Thank you for the reply scrappy however I was thinking how much should I use in a tea. found that with top dressing the guano hardly ever breaks down before flowering is already done.
Scrappy
The guano tea product (Budswell) that kicked-off this concept 30 years ago don't use straight guano in their mixes, i.e. the bat guano concentrate is fermented thereby making the elements somewhat available.
Regardless, the breakdown time for bat guano approaches 8 months meaning that re-using your soil will give the gardener the greatest benefit from these amendments.
CC
I've always looked at that recipe and shook my head.
I've read adding guano to microbe tea can kill the microbes, so it's just top dressing guano for me.
Regardless, the breakdown time for bat guano approaches 8 months meaning that re-using your soil will give the gardener the greatest benefit from these amendments.
Are they all the same? I ask because I've top dressed (scratched in) Mexican (high N) guano on plants that were clearly N deficient in small containers and have seen them improve in days. P is a little harder to figure out as genuine P deficiency is less common.
Pine
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I've been experimenting with Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms as a soil conditioner and foliar spray. I've just started a compost tea brewing with some BIM in it, along with compost(s). Thing is, it seems like folks only recommend adding this kind of thing at the END of brewing. Anyone ever try this or know about it? What might happen adding the BIM / LAB serum at the outset?
I always recommend adding things at the onset of a brew.
I've been experimenting with Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms as a soil conditioner and foliar spray. I've just started a compost tea brewing with some BIM in it, along with compost(s). Thing is, it seems like folks only recommend adding this kind of thing at the END of brewing. Anyone ever try this or know about it? What might happen adding the BIM / LAB serum at the outset?
The one organism which you will not have in BIM or AEM and should have in ACT is protozoa, the primary nutrient cycling organism.
And you get protozoa from ____ ?