Can’t u tell??
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how do you make the teas? this interests me way more than the nutes I’m using
I mix two different teas, one for flower and one for veg
For flower:
a large scoop of some compost
1/2 cup bio-live
1/3 cup kelp meal
1/3 cup phosphorus based bat guano
Heaping teaspoon of concentrated humic acid
I mix that up real good and then pour it into a 1 gallon paint strainer
I hang that in a full 5 gallon bucket of water with an air stone bubbler in the bottom and add 2 oz’s molasses
I usually brew that for 48 hours. I mix 1 gallon of that tea to 4 gallons of water. I acually have a 20 gallon nutrient tank in line with my water tanks and auto irrigation lines so it makes it easy to apply
During flower cycle I use tea for every other watering
For veg cycle I just substitute feather meal for the bat guano
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that’s badass, seems very simple
If your salt mixes and ipm are on point, it’s pretty easy to run a 0 nutrient water waste facility on salts…capture the “waste” from the bloom rooms, pass it through UV and use it to water the veg room. It honestly makes you a lot better grower because you’re incredibly conscious of the ph and ec of your runoff.
It is an issue that needs to be addressed , we ha e a neighbor with 10,000 square feet of canopy that dumps 10,000 gallons of runoff a week.
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That’s a great way to reduce runoff!
They also make “reverse electroplating” setups that will pull out the salts and can be skimmed off to be sealed up and discarded safely. The remaining water is low enough EC that it can be dumped down the drain or used to water plants outdoors.
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We are running the AC condensation and runoff to a 5k holding tank to irrigate our landscape.
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its the boost… gotta be the BOOOOOOST!
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If you want some real nitrous give @AgTonik a shot.
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I had to use this as my new profile pic!!! Lol. Holy shit that picture is fitting.
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Oh the good ole days, uhauls full of tanks.
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Had me confused
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Just know I’m the cool one with the green little circle on my pic. How can u confuse the greatness
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im sorry oh greatOne
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*oh baked one
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a good compost tea you brew yourself(live bio microbes.)
take worm casting. get brew bag, fill w casting and maybe some local silt or whatever its called… pull back layers oak leaves gets that fine dirt. add it to the tea bag
fill 5 gal or whatever size container w water(clean ro or distilled the best
add air stones to bottom on all Time. toss in some black molasses. let the microbes eat the sugar and repopulate
you can save small.amounts each brew to add to next batch instead new bag tea if you add more.sugar and keep the same ones brewing
microbe teas I believe help fix ph issues(calcium carbonate crushed and brewed w folic acid makes.for great soil ph corrector and chelstion aid but that’s another time…along w adding in the mucb need rhiszosphere w soil
they make great veg foliar teas. high in nitrogen I believe
less notes the best . I never liked salt based nutes. I got the best more fire bud but never as big as salt based hydro set up right kills it
I tried but my water was to warm
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Make up a wrecking crew one, and maybe have russo off to the side and fast eddie rolling thru. If you know you know.
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I’ve always been a salty cash cropper, but grow organic outside and for my wife and patients. There are 3 base inputs that only need a little cal-mag boost in veg and P boost in flower.
Have an air stone going in a 5-gallon bucket. Add 2.5-5ml AGT-50 (or humate of your choice). It balances pH and the carbon helps the rhizosphere like @StoneD said
-Add either 2 c. composted horse or cow manure, 1/2 c. neem seed meal or 1/2 c. insect frass to the bucket.
-Add 2 tbs. calphos or gypsum and 1 tsp epsom salt for veg. Add 2 tbs. high P bat/seabird guano for flower.
-Bubble for 24-48 hours and use.
You can add biostimulants of your choosing like kelp, alfalfa or crab/shrimp meal, but these are always my organic base mixes.
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Badass ive wanted to try this for a while. How much molasses?
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