looking for SIMPLE tea for flowering

haole420

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i've been using the used veg nute solution (~500-800ppm) from my aero setup and dumping that into a garbage can with compost, fresh seaweed, seabird guano, fresh bovine blood from a huge brisket, molasses, some tarantula, a little great white, tap water, and rain water. festered with open lid for about 1 week.

fed it to my three bushes in soil (hydromix) that are at the end of almost 3 months of vegging at around 700ppm. a few days later, got a boost in growth. the leaves and stems were so covered in terpenoids that my fingers were super sticky after a session of bending and tying. i think they're ready :)

before this, i was just feeding them GH nutes up to 1000ppm. only flushed once before feeding them the compost tea for the first time last week. i want to stick with this nasty tea as my base since it seems to be kicking ass.

looking for something to add to my tea to transition into flowering in a few days. organic or synthetic, i don't care. whatever works.

i want to keep things simple. i like to paint in broad strokes. looking for two or three things that i can add to my tea or off-the-shelf product(s) that i can feed separately to transition into flower and carry me into through the first month.

ground up fresh bait fish? shrimp? bat guano? my peepee?

back off the seaweed? some seem to think it imparts a weird smell in final product, but somehow i doubt that. that shit is so digested by the time the plant absorbs the nutrients from it. but then again, it does have a lot of iodine. maybe it's the iodine that makes it smell/taste funky? the iodine can also kill a lot of beneficial microorganisms, but i haven't found any threads discussing that.

thanks in advance.
 

valjean

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i like bat guano, im using a fossilized one right now called primeval something or other. dont have the original packaging but for tea aurora innovations sells the only 100% water soluble guanos i know off.. have used sunleaves jamaican and indonesian with wonderful results as well.
 

ClosetSafe

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Sunleaves actually has a feeding schedule for their bat guano(I never knew, not trying to be rude). The Mexican one is for the veg(High in nitrogen, low in both P and K), but I think the jamacan guano is for transitioning into to flowering. It has the high phosphorus level. Not sure which Sunleaves bat quano would be best.

Something great also for promoting quick flowering, Open sesame. It's got that high phosphorus kick needed for the early flowering, as opposed to the potassium kick at the end of flowering. Fox farm makes it. (beastie blooms is mid flower with some like 0-50ish-30ish (can't remember) and cha ching is weird. I expected it to be more like 0-30-50, but it's like 9-some thing something... Someone said nitrogen kicks at the end when a plant would typically have depleted that mineral long ago in a natural ecosystem is the new thing to do in controlled systems. I personally wouldn't want to be throwing nitrogen at my plant that I'm about to flush.... but that's my rant
http://www.foxfarmfertilizer.com/products_solgran1.html
 

valjean

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do you have a link or know the feeding schedule they reccomend? i am curious as to how they reccomend it be applied
 

valjean

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whooo that is a fucking hot mix... 2-3 tbsp is *heavy* i go like 2-3 tsps per gallon...
 

valjean

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im pretty sure 3 tbsp per gallon of the high phosphorous guano would severely damage if not kill my plants hahaha.
 

rosecitypapa

Active Member
Do you have an airstone in the brewer, if not, you want one. Also try Alfalfa meal (3-1-2) at the rate of 1/2 cup/gal to start.
 
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