kingofqueen
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Does anyone use it straight.? Watering with it first time in an hour trying to decide what to do !
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Do You Have To Dilute Your Tea?
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If you've never used it before, cut it 1-1 with water and see how it goes.
Sometimes I use it straight and sometimes I cut it, depends on how much I need. I brew 2, 5 gallon buckets at a time, but there are times I need 20 gallons of tea. Then, I dilute it.
But your tea is just that, your tea. I have no idea how strong you brewed it. It's easy to add more, a real bitch to get it out if you added too much.
Go easy and watch what your plants do, they'll let you know.
Wet
Sometimes I use it straight and sometimes I cut it, depends on how much I need. I brew 2, 5 gallon buckets at a time, but there are times I need 20 gallons of tea. Then, I dilute it.
But your tea is just that, your tea. I have no idea how strong you brewed it. It's easy to add more, a real bitch to get it out if you added too much.
Go easy and watch what your plants do, they'll let you know.
Wet
brickedup417
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we make ours pretty strong so we mix 5 gallons of water to every gallon of tea, like wetdog said its easy to overdue and a bitch to fix.
kingofqueen
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cool thanks we,,,ll see what happens
trichlone fiend
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...I use 2 cups of tea per gallon of water.
kingofqueen
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Cool info guys ! I ended up watering with it straight .I used the excess on two of my tomato plants also.They are all looking good this morning no adverse effects and they look healthier actually .We will see as time goes on.
That's a good ratio. In commercial applications five gallons of correctly formulated and brewed AACT is diluted to cover an acre of crops.
kingofqueen
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Thank you +rep
kingofqueen
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I<m using age old dry nutrients,Brer Rabbit unsulpered molassas,sunleaves mexican bat gauno, age old mycro,and tap water after letting it set for 24 hrs and brew for 24 hrs.
trichlone fiend
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What you'll need:
Seabird guano, bat guano, earth worm castings, kelp meal (or liquid seaweed), molessas, a bubble stone and bubble pump, a paint strainer. 5 gallon bucket.
What to do:
Get a couple of gallons of water from tap....let set on bubbles over night to dechlorinize it, then pH balance the water to 6.5....take a couple tablespoons of each (worm castings, seabird, bat, kelp, molessas) and put inside paint strainer and tie shut...hang the mix over the bubble stone to make movement/activity in the water....let set for 24-48 hours....put 2 cups of this per gallon to new dechlorinized pH balanced water, then water in once weekly.
...you'll want to back up off of the earthworm castings and the seabird guano in mid flower to eliminate nitrogen avalibility.
...the molessas and liquid seaweed are liquid , however, still use table spoon measurements.
...stop giving tea @ weeks 5 for an 8 week strain, or allow a couple weeks to leach/flush (not so important organically but, I prefer to save the $)
Dinosaur Bone
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From the Recipes, it sounds like many are making more of a Manure Tea, rather than a Compost Tea.
If its got a lot of Guano, Blood Meal and so forth its more of a manure, or fertilizer tea... in which case it should be diluted. At least the first time.. just to make sure it doesnt burn..
They are. The purpose of a compost tea is to supplement soil microbe colonies, not fertilization. Those fertilizers are far more effective as a grow medium component or side/top dressing rather than using them in a tea.