Enjoyed hearing your take on brewing compost teas. I have gravitated toward a very similar mix, though I have added ACV, Garrett Juice Pro, mycorrhizae and trichoderma fungi from 2 sources and Agricola's High Octane Mineralized Organic Fertilizer which includes Azomite and many of the minerals and sands and rocks you touched on. I grind it up in a coffee grinder to make it superfine so that it will be more readily soluble in the tea . I use an inline water dechlorinator and a circular wound blubber frame that fits into the bottom of my 5 gal bucket. It seems to work well. I know it's probably overkill, but our soil in N. Texas is very alkaline black clay and it can use all the help it can get.
I see people asking for field trials, and others giving them channels to watch, and saying it's not worth it. I have watched some of these trials. They use this on great well kept soils. Soils abundant in microbes, trace minerals and so on. Of course for them, they don't see much difference, but if you have soil(AKA dirt) that needs a lot of TLC, then it's great. The worse the soil is, the better it works. Is still good to use once, or twice a year on good soil, just to keep it tweaked to it's best performance. I had red clay in part of my garden. I mixed my diy compost in with it, and used compost tea on it. A couple months later I could crumple that clay in my hands when it was wet. It no longer was sticky. .......................... Thanks for all the videos you make to help gardeners to do better.
I also strain (several times) and dilute ( 50/50 with R/O, rain or clean air bubbled water) with my tea and add both to a spray bottle to do a foliar feeding at the same time as I do a soil feeding. I feed either early morning or late evening to avoid the water amplifying the day sunlight and burning the leaves. Have extra clean water available (second sprayer) if you notice leaves discoloring wash with clean water immediately. This rarely happens but sometimes to much guano is added by accident. Better to be prepared then not, lol. I also like to add fish emulsions and blood or bone meal, just depends if vegging or flowering. Suggest bird guano for vegging and bat guano for flowering. Yes I grow fruits and medicine and it works for both. Also you didn't show or mention that after 48 hours if the tea doesn't have a foamy beer froth it didn't make the microbes and discard it. If it smells really fishy rotten discard it.
I enjoyed your video on super charged tea. I make microbes using a rice mix along with milk and then molasses. I think this is called lactobacillus. I use a air pump in afive gallon bucket with about four gallons of water when I make my tea. My question is would it be benificial when making your super charged tea to put the lactobacillus in?
I do a worm composting tea. I had a couple plants look yellow or dead,and with in two days they where green and looking healthy. I had a little tree that looked dead for a year and started adding worm compost tea to the pot and new leaves have came out and living. I do experiments on things I do.
Thank you for the video 👍 Question though, is this a vegetive growth tea recipe or a flowering recipe? Do you have a recipe & video for both? Thanks again, GREAT INFORMATION 😊
Great video and thanks for sharing this! Can I have a written list of materials you used? I will have to find it in my country so it would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.
you should try first steering away from animal compost and stick with things like leaf mold compost, fungal compost, worm castings..etc.... really cant burn your plants!! Also add things like azomite or excelerite (didn't check spelling) to get your trace minerals in there! also oxygenate your compost tea directly by using a burlap bag ( not small but not big), insert all your ingredients in the burlap bag along with the air stone (go with over kill on this part rather than not enough) and then have one air stone in your bucket... If you use a air pump that will do 45 liters per min then you will be helping produce tons more microbial activity!! Happy brewing and hope this info helped!!
I have been making compost tea for a few years now with great results..Worm castings being the main ingredient, kelp, molasses, liquid fish. Now what I am wondering is sometimes I think by putting more ingredients in the solution the better, Can I overdose my tea and hurt my plants by adding extra doses of the ingredients i listed? Also how long can your water sit without air after brewing before it is unusable? I know it can go anaerobic and actually kill plant's.
My worms are great but I have a quick question. I used the worm casting in a sock and made up a 55 gal drum of worm tea with blackstrap molasses, rainwater, and a constant bubblier. Over the last week everything has been great but today the water has turned black with a slight smell to it. Will this harm my plants?
Hello Mlgardener, Thanks for sharing your info. I have a question for you. I made some worm tea, and only let it sit for 30 hours. I did not see any foaming occurring with my batch. I want to know if I should brew the tea for a longer period of time? I am using worm castings, two air bubblers, un-sulpherated molasses, and rain water. Also, do you know if there is a way to test to see how potent your batch might be? Thanks for any info you could provide.
Hey MIG, I made some worm tea with my newly made worm castings. I am brewing in a 5 gallon bucket. I added worm compost (a few handfuls and added 1 cup of pure sugar). About 3 weeks later the bucket is foaming like a beer (6 inches of head). The foam is very soapy. It is very viscous (pancake syrup). It smells like earth. I put it on my plants and they are DARK GREEN after one day. Do you notice your tea becomes very, very thick?
3 tablespoons of humic acid 1/4 cup of crushed rock dust 1/4 cup Pelletized sea bird guano 3 tablespoons Unsulfured molasses 3 cups of worm castings 3 tablespoons of fish emulsion Rain water 5 gal bucket Bubbler
Great video. Getting a 'cleaner' compost is about impossible for most of us, I should think - certainly that's my case. I feed my worms just about everything, plus the worm bin is outside in al the elements. That's just out of necessity mainly. I wondered what you might think about the use of a muslin bag for filtering or some other filter mechanism? I know it's going to keep back some of the goodness, but if it filters out bug eggs, etc, surely some goodness is better than nothing? I know my plants have done well with worm compost tea but I have wondered about the bugs and blight etc.... What do you think about filtering the compost tea? Many thanks for your time to post videos and share.
Thanks so much..this recipe is awesome. ....I tried it out and my veggies loved it...everything looks super healthy! Great video and explaination how and why this tea works
this is a great video...when can I feed this compost brew to my seedlings? Should I feed the posts with the seeds in them even if my seeds have not yet germinated?
Luke i made and applied to tomato roots how long will this last on plants .How does it leave plants just disappears or to much watering wash it away?THANKS
As a commercial farm I have to so this is a great video. Just wish he would of talked more on the importance of the bubbler. With out it your growing bad stuff. And powder molasses? Where I'm from we call that brown sugar lol
i use aquarium water to start, brew with molasses, worm castings/compost, epson salt and wood ash from the fire pit. my question is how long can brew be stored before it goes anerobic?
Vermicompost supercharged tea 5 gal rain water Bubbler 3 tablespoons of humic acid 1/4 cup crushed rock dust 1/4 cup bird guano 1/4 cup unsulfured dehydrated molasses 3 cups of worm castings 3 tablespoons of fish emulsion Let it sit bubbling for 48 hrs Use once/ twice a week
Are you familiar with milk kefir? If so, do you have any recommendations as to how to use the whey as an innoculent? I know that you can add some whey to a spray bottle and spray directly on plants (diluted). Can I use whey directly in my worm bin or compost tea?
what is a decent substitute for the fish emulsion? i have two Beagles and the smell makes them loony and they try to get into whatever container the smell is coming from. Thanks.
Hello, so what if I use a 55 gallon. is the measurement more? I have a 150 feet of mixed plants and I don't think 5 gallons will do. thank you for your time...
Good video and explanation, Luke. I try to filter my tea by putting the "ingredients" in a sock or panty hose or cheese cloth or other "filter" mechanism so that the solids don't clog my dispersion method. When we finish the hoop house, I plan on using a drip irrigation system with a fertilizer additive, such as compost tea, worm tea, or fish emulsion. The small orifices in the drip emitters can easily get clogged, so filtering out the solids can add extra life to a drip emitter system.
I thought about that exact same thing, but I then decided I would put it through a back and forth sprinkler instead. The drip is nice, but doesn't get the leaves. I want everything to be covered in this goodness!
hello my brotha! hope u doing great! my friend just sent me a watsap screen shot of a comment u made on another video. you were talking about getting youtube views etc using other sites. i have just started my own channel and I'm really serious about growing it. actually, its all i care about right now. is there anyway you can please give me some advice? thank u so much, have an amazing day!
Sup Ryan, doing great thanks! Haha, that must have been some time back now, I've since given up on the idea of using RU-vid to gain traffic and with all the research I've done on other matters, it's hard to keep track of all the techniques used for a particular thing (stoner memory). I recall a site called Addmefast that works pretty well but can be a bit of a bitch at times. The best advice I can give at the moment is to research, "SEO" and "Natural Traffic". You want to avoid those who have set up fake social media accounts just to get points to get traffic to their own shit. Also, keywords and Meta Data, use them! Google loves those and RU-vid is well integrated into that. Matter of fact, read the following article where I summarized some stuff in a YT video linked in that article. my.wealthyaffiliate.com/steevo/blog/fabulously-free-functional-seo-tools
is brewing compost tea dangerous?? I read that because a person doesn't know what bacteria is in their compost and feeding sugar to the compost could make bad bacteria like e. coli grow. Please advice
Hi! great video, thks! I live in South America and I want to make this tea, but I´m not so sure what do you mean by rock dust... can you tell me exactly what it is? (composition) Thanks a lot!!!
Interesting video and I love to hear anecdotal results. I also understand the reasoning but I'm not sure its worth the effort. Can you point to some controlled field trials? Thanks for posting.
See the trials at one one yard revolution and alberta urban gardening youtube channels. Both concluded the that few of the claims held up and that it wasn't worth the effort.
Great Vid.. I am brewing up a batch now for some Eggplant and Tomato seedlings.. I see this Vid is a few years old, are you still using this worm casting tea?
Hi, Great information I'm interested in making the tea but I would like to make it in a 50 gallon container , should I adjust the mixture by multiplying your recipe accordingly? or would you use less or more of an item ?
thanks Indy! When is your next video coming out? :) I am really looking at getting into jem hunting with Sindy since that is an interest of hers, but I will always be a gold guy lol. What I mean to say is, I would't mind seeing a couple howto vids from a pro like yourself!
Luke neighbor says your an other compost or worm tea is only good if drenching roots folier spray does no good because it dries to fast an will not penetrate leaves how to respond?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing this easy to understand video. Purchase most of the stuff online and have applied a second batch to my tomato plants and grape vines over the past 3 weeks. Last year I had blite and black rot; this year everything looks great so far. Is it okay to apply once a week?
This is interesting, I want to move from chemical fertilizer and start using this on my lawn. Anybody has experience on this? It looks like it is the same principle. Any help would be appreciated.
I think I just make my tea I worm castings and molasses other stuff you got right there you can put that on your top soil and water it in but to be adding all that stuff I cannot say that and stress to most people you may be killing what you're trying to get. Now you have research on this that I can look at watch read basically read I'll be happy to take a look at it
Thank you for the information. I once lived in Marysville Michigan. Nice town. I went to elementary school at Gardens. Our home was located in a subdivision off Range road next to Woodland and the Skill center. Thanks again for the information and do me a favor and take a deep breath of fresh air outside. Until ypur away from it you don't realize how beautiful the weather is in the summer. I now live in Eastern North Carolina and the climate is considered Subtropical. This is the only area in the world that the Venus Flytrap grows wild. I am going to test this batch of worm tea on some and see if they grow teeth. Lol. I believe with some stress training and the worm tea that I can create a result that will make for prize winning photographs. I hope they reach 6 foot tall and start eating birds. Never know but if I'm successful in prize winning plants I will mention your method and your site.
I don't see anything on my screen when you point over your shoulder. This happens all the time in videos I watch when the people are referring some other video. Maybe it's my ad blocker, I don't know, but I didn't get that link to the simple tea recipe.
+MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living that's great to know the ideal PH but what about the tolerable ''range'' of PH? and I was also wondering weather I can use regular white sugar as the suger suppliment or not? thnx for sharing your amazing experiences
