Just wanted to share my worm tea setup. Mine has evolved over the past MONTH lol. I've been reading alot online about worm teas and how they are so good for plants.
Phase 1: I started off with a lowes 5 gallon bucket, using a 60gph pump with cheap aquarium stones. Its a common setup you can find plans for on the internet. A few trys and the stones clogged up, and i returned them.
Phase 2: Since aquarium stones clog up so easy, i decided to use aquarium tubing and putting holes in them, but that did not work because my pump was too weak. So i returned the pump.
Phase 3. I got a 70 liters per minute powerful pump. which is about 1000 GPH lol. Got it for $60 bux from a local hydro. Attached that to my aquarium tube with holes but that did not work well.
Phase 4. I found plans for a PVC based setup where you drill holes into a PVC. I hooked up my new pump and man the water was boiling! Really large bubbles. The tea did not do so well i'm sure because of such large bubbles. Ditch that.
Phase 5. I did some more research and found about these great diffusers that do not clog and are perfect for making worm tea. They are sweetwater air diffusers. I found some 9 inch ones real cheap on ebay. i decided to get a 22gallon container for brewing the worm tea as 5 gallons is too little for all my 70+ plants and fruit trees. Here is my setup:
6 - 9inch sweet water air diffusers with 1/2 NPT connectors to a PVC.
Inside the container. Going to aerate the water to get rid of chlorine and added 1gm of ascorbic acid (pure vitamin C) to get rid of chloramines which are harder to get rid of than chlorine.
A test run, wow, the bubbling is perfect. Very nice. The idea with smaller bubbles is to help coax the microbes/bacteria off the worm castings.
Close up of bubbles, no wonder sweetwater is the industry standard
The pump i got attached to the setup, its in my garage. I also have a aquarium heater to make sure the water is a constant 80.
My final setup, this container is perfect. I used two bamboo sticks to hold the two bags of worm castings. Each paint strainer bag has 4 cups or so of worm castings. Also added some unsulphured blackstrap molasses to feed the microbes.
Lets see if there is any action tommorow (foaming).
Phase 1: I started off with a lowes 5 gallon bucket, using a 60gph pump with cheap aquarium stones. Its a common setup you can find plans for on the internet. A few trys and the stones clogged up, and i returned them.
Phase 2: Since aquarium stones clog up so easy, i decided to use aquarium tubing and putting holes in them, but that did not work because my pump was too weak. So i returned the pump.
Phase 3. I got a 70 liters per minute powerful pump. which is about 1000 GPH lol. Got it for $60 bux from a local hydro. Attached that to my aquarium tube with holes but that did not work well.
Phase 4. I found plans for a PVC based setup where you drill holes into a PVC. I hooked up my new pump and man the water was boiling! Really large bubbles. The tea did not do so well i'm sure because of such large bubbles. Ditch that.
Phase 5. I did some more research and found about these great diffusers that do not clog and are perfect for making worm tea. They are sweetwater air diffusers. I found some 9 inch ones real cheap on ebay. i decided to get a 22gallon container for brewing the worm tea as 5 gallons is too little for all my 70+ plants and fruit trees. Here is my setup:
6 - 9inch sweet water air diffusers with 1/2 NPT connectors to a PVC.
Inside the container. Going to aerate the water to get rid of chlorine and added 1gm of ascorbic acid (pure vitamin C) to get rid of chloramines which are harder to get rid of than chlorine.
A test run, wow, the bubbling is perfect. Very nice. The idea with smaller bubbles is to help coax the microbes/bacteria off the worm castings.
Close up of bubbles, no wonder sweetwater is the industry standard
The pump i got attached to the setup, its in my garage. I also have a aquarium heater to make sure the water is a constant 80.
My final setup, this container is perfect. I used two bamboo sticks to hold the two bags of worm castings. Each paint strainer bag has 4 cups or so of worm castings. Also added some unsulphured blackstrap molasses to feed the microbes.
Lets see if there is any action tommorow (foaming).
