worm casting tea

[hashcat]

i want to incorporate some kind of compost tea into my grow to add beneficial bacteria.

im currently growing in straight coco (canna or bcuzz) and basically using the rez formula 6/9ml micro/bloom and kool bloom a couple times during flower. been using GH florablend compost tea but want to start making my own!

so basically i get a tub with newspaper, maybe some used coco, and greens like old lettuce and apples and add worms? do i have to keep this outside or can i do it in my growroom, and if i do it inside will it stink the room up? if i do it outside ill have to put it on my roof cuz i dont have access to a private yard

then after i have some good compost i take some in a nylon bag and bubble it for 24hrs-36hrs?

now this is where i get confused. do you water with the straight tea or do you mix it into a water solution, and at what ratio?

also, i plan on using the tea every other watering, with feeding on the other days. will the chem nutes fuck with the biology?

also, what other brands of products would you reccomend for someone to go organic but keep it simple. id rather have it come in a bottle and not have to buy 3 or 4 of them just to fulfill a nutrient regime. GH flora has been very successful for me so far and see no reason to change other than the fact that i will be doing compost tea.
im not a big organic freak or anything but it would be nice i guess. i dont want to suffer and yields either although i hear that is a common misconception when switching from chem to organic

[collieman]

hum tea kits from cutting edge

[Evergreen]

yeah that cutting edge shit is pretty bomb, I live like 20 miles form their headquarters. Good stuff

[mnglasshead]

My school uses a bin called an earth tub. It is a huge bin with a large auger diagonally going into the lid of the tub. You turn the auger on and walk the lid in a circle and the auger mixes everything inside. It has a pump which goes into a garbage can looking bin filled with mulch called a bio filter which just allows the sludge from the bin to filter through something. Then it is pumped out again into another bucket and that is the compost tea we use on our gardens here at school. They dilute it quite a bit, i believe 1/8 concentration if i am not mistaken because the compost we make is pretty strong. You should keep it in a place where it will not dry out entirely and keep moving it around. You could definitely do a DIY system a lot like this one, it works great for us. Let me know if you want pictures or any other information.

[ja rasta]

Defintley get a couple pictures if you don't mind. Any chemicals used at your school or just pure organics? Is water used to break down the concentrated compost, or something else?

[diggity]

this is just compost tea

[mnglasshead]

I haven't gotten pictures yet, I will soon, but I was able to get some answers to your questions. The tub uses no chemical additives. Currently they collect waste from our cafeteria and separate it into meat and compost material. The meat we give to a local farmer for his chickens to pick through. The veggies and other OM from the caff are collected weighed and added to the earth tub. We add new compost material everyday and turn the compost in the tub so adding water is not necessary as the constant addition of new sloppy shit is always going in. We try as best we can to balance the different types of bacterial life in our compost at any given time. Smell, color, consistency and other factors are great indicators of the amendments necessary. Keep the questions coming and I will keep answering. We have some weird permaculture systems at my school which I think would be interesting to try with trichome propagation. Let me know, and I will get pictures soon.

[hashcat]

yeah diggity thats what im talking about

those pics yours??

[diggity]

Yep, it's just straight compost tea with a little added molasses (after it bubbles for 24 hours is when you add the molasses). Not diluted at all, and mainly used for foliar application

[ubiogrow]

Please check out our web site I have a product that is all natural that will work great and is in a liquid and has all the benefits of a compost tea and has a indefinete shelf life. check us out at ubiogrow.com