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tutorial Beginner's guide to AACT/Compost Tea
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Is Casting tea the equilvilant of crack cocaine to plants
No, it's the equivalent of a plant having a steak and potatoes dinner verses junk food which I think synthetic fertilizers are the equivalent of.
No, it's the equivalent of a plant having a steak and potatoes dinner verses junk food which I think synthetic fertilizers are the equivalent of.
Exactly. Could not have said it better myself.
...I just peed a littleNo, it's the equivalent of a plant having a steak and potatoes dinner verses junk food which I think synthetic fertilizers are the equivalent of.
I just made a batch of tea using a cup of white sugar. I was half expecting the bleach in the white sugar to kill off the myco, but its doing great! after only 2 hours its got a nice froth on top.
I used
1 cup white sugar
3 cups hot compost
150ml botanicare pure blend grow
1 cup promix HP (inoculated with myco already)
5 rotting strawberries
1/2 a rotten long english cucumber ( this thing was so gross, it was like liquid)
Nice!
White sugar eh? that will be a cheap alternative it it works. I may try this to.
White sugar eh? that will be a cheap alternative it it works. I may try this to.
Thanks ima try your way!
Heres batch 5. Bout to get used
White sugar?
I am sticking with unsulphured Molasses as it is 100% natural and contains trace elements.
I have to admit to being a bit skeptical about how well the sugar will actually work all that well. The trace elements in molasses are not prsent in refined sugar. I did a quick check to make sure that my memory was correct about how sugar is devoid of any nutrients and came up with this useful link.
Quote taken from:
http://www.starch.dk...tarch/sugar.asp
Just because it has no benefit, and a great deal of negatives, for human consumption does not necessarily mean that it is completely unhealthy for plants. For example, I add bat poop into my compost tea and I'm sure that bad things would happen to me if I decided to give it a taste. The thing that worries me the most is that so much of the good found in molasses is intentionally stripped out of sugar during the refining process.
Fireface: did you try looking for molasses without additives? One additive to molasses is sulphur (although trace sulphar can exist naturally in the very dark specialty molasses).
Quote taken from:
http://www.starch.dk...tarch/sugar.asp
Just because it has no benefit, and a great deal of negatives, for human consumption does not necessarily mean that it is completely unhealthy for plants. For example, I add bat poop into my compost tea and I'm sure that bad things would happen to me if I decided to give it a taste. The thing that worries me the most is that so much of the good found in molasses is intentionally stripped out of sugar during the refining process.
Fireface: did you try looking for molasses without additives? One additive to molasses is sulphur (although trace sulphar can exist naturally in the very dark specialty molasses).
i just started a batch myself! jamaican/mexican guano, alfalfa meal, ancient forrest, dried grass cliipings, molases, and added the bennies(great white) gonna see how it turns out and give each plant a little watering and foliar spraying in 3 days!!!!
its made by general organics, its soil hummus from the tundra in Alaska, its basically compost with humus. i like it for my teas
I use white and brown sugar, molasses is a hard find around here, then again sugar is only a food source for the essential brew, but then again maybe i wrong about that.
PS: has anybody compare the result of aact and nact? really want to know the result
Sure did, went to 3 grocery stores, all had the same brand of molasses with sulphur listed in the ingredients. I may try to pick up some raw cane sugar if the price isn't too high.
I figure that my tea is running off the sugars in the rotten fruits and veg I threw in. We will see if the head subsides once those sugars are used up. Its been 9 hours and its only getting frothier.