tutorial Beginner's guide to AACT/Compost Tea

[Proud Marine Dad]

So is sugar microbes only food source?

Yes. That and whatever they eat that is coming from the compost which they obviously must be feeding off or they wouldn't be there right?

I think pine needles are too harsh and I would imagine the acidity of them could harm the beneficial microbes.
Someone else here posted about the effects of pine but I forgot who it was.

 

[HotPeppas]

Would like to see those results

 

[indoChilli]

another question here, i use aact every two weeks, is this more or less needed by the plant or should i do like once a week?

 

[bigbodybussey]

another question here, i use aact every two weeks, is this more or less needed by the plant or should i do like once a week?

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this one...I've sprayed 3 times in a week and the only ill effects I noticed were extremely lush plants, multitudes of flowering blossoms, and rapidly developing pods...

But, I would say you could do it several times in a week for 2 weeks or so and then every 1-2 weeks or whenever you felt like giving the plants a treat.

 

[Cayennemist]

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this one...I've sprayed 3 times in a week and the only ill effects I noticed were extremely lush plants, multitudes of flowering blossoms, and rapidly developing pods...

But, I would say you could do it several times in a week for 2 weeks or so and then every 1-2 weeks or whenever you felt like giving the plants a treat.

The only thing I can think of that would be bad about over feeding tea would be:
Acid or alkaline buildup from your water
or Salts from the compost or what ever the tea is made of.

I think that would take A LOT! like every day for a long time.

 

[indoChilli]

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this one...I've sprayed 3 times in a week and the only ill effects I noticed were extremely lush plants, multitudes of flowering blossoms, and rapidly developing pods...

But, I would say you could do it several times in a week for 2 weeks or so and then every 1-2 weeks or whenever you felt like giving the plants a treat.

Need a bigger can then, i only use like 5ltr can to aerate, going to try some feeding variation then, so that i can see the optimal feeding time and result.

The only thing I can think of that would be bad about over feeding tea would be:
Acid or alkaline buildup from your water
or Salts from the compost or what ever the tea is made of.

I think that would take A LOT! like every day for a long time.

I use ground water, my tea consist of:

Worm casting
Fermented goat poo
Fermented rabbit poo
Seaweed compost
Guano
Mychorizae

This tea can have less or more then the ingredient stated above, anything i have in reach and available is put in there.

 

[Pinoy83]

heres my 35gallon worm tea after 10hrs

4cups worm castings
1/2 cup humic acid
1/2 cup liquid kelp
2 pounds fish
1/2 cup of my secret stuff
3tbsp mykos
3tbsp of bat guano
3tbsp of peruvian seabird guano
and 1/2 cup unsulphurred molasses

 

[bigbodybussey]

1/2 cup of my secret stuff

you're not pooping in it are you... ...

cause that's my secret ingredient.

 

[3/5King]

Hahahahahaha....I need to go out and find something with myco today...

 

[Pinoy83]

Lol

 

[bigbodybussey]

Hahahahahaha....I need to go out and find something with myco today...

Great White Myco is good stuff, potent, but damned expensive. Around $50 here for a container the size of a vick's vapor rub container.
I use the 1lb. canister of Plant Success Granular - It has 13 different variations of endomycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae, and trichoderma. All for around $17.

 

[Cayennemist]

I know you pinoys, not fish sauce is it? All my Filipino friends eat that and I cant stand to be in the same room. Some stanky stuff. I miss all my Filipino friends. I need to go visit them. They had me come over one night, got me toasted and made me do karaoke and took pictures... they now how to party!

 

[Pinoy83]

I know you pinoys, not fish sauce is it? All my Filipino friends eat that and I cant stand to be in the same room. Some stanky stuff. I miss all my Filipino friends. I need to go visit them.

Not fish sauce but I love them to season some of the food I cook ;p...it stinks but taste good after...You should ask them dor dried fish ita good with the tea also

Great White Myco is good stuff, potent, but damned expensive. Around $50 here for a container the size of a vick's vapor rub container.
I use the 1lb. canister of Plant Success Granular - It has 13 different variations of endomycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae, and trichoderma. All for around $17.

Yep they so damn xpensive,the next tea im gonna make ill be putting some banana peels and grounded up egg shells,ill just use whatever I see on our kitchen lol

 

[Fremp]

His was cheaper^^

 

[Cayennemist]

I have been looking in to a way to farm myco... Or at least thinking about it

I don't want to spend a dime on products... just use waste from my kitchen, yard, and anything els I can get for free. That is just a goal, but it may not be 100% possible.

 

[bigbodybussey]

I have been looking to mister mist...but the problem comes with strain isolation from what I have found...and without microscopic identification, there's no other way to definitively know what we'd be growing. With that in mind, you have your own active compost bin - you have all the bacteria and fungi you need...(and I'm coming to steal some along with that purple bhut, haha). I'm with you, I'd rather be able to not buy anything and be self sustained.

 

[Pinoy83]

i save all the egg shells and banana peels and even sometimes papaya at my work place, i even ask my lil sister to save the eggshells at mcdonalds since shes a assistant manager down there, ill dry them up in the sun and grind it and some will go to my worm bin and some to the tea ill be brewing

 

[scratchzilla]

Say, hypothetically that I'm using DWC with and organic nutrient. Could I add some AACT, or even just a small amount of raw compost to my reservoir to great a mcyo herd?

 

[Cayennemist]

Say, hypothetically that I'm using DWC with and organic nutrient. Could I add some AACT, or even just a small amount of raw compost to my reservoir to great a mcyo herd?

NO! unfortunately not, but you can spray the AACT on the leaves.

 

[Pepper-Guru]

I have been looking in to a way to farm myco... Or at least thinking about it

I don't want to spend a dime on products... just use waste from my kitchen, yard, and anything els I can get for free. That is just a goal, but it may not be 100% possible.

Shredded pepper plant roots and stems, a bit of molasses, brew with a stone . Myco farming. Use to innoculate more compost matter and soil near base of existingplants.