mortyb
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Any recommendations for cleaning & storing my compost tea brewer?
Whenever I brew compost tea, I scrub the bucket, air stones, and tubing with hot water & dish soap, rinse heavily with water to remove all soap, then fill up 5-gallon bucket with hot water + 2 tsp of bleach. I let this sit overnight, pour it out, then hand scrub it all with water to try and remove any bleach residue.
After this, I fill up the 5-gallon bucket with water again, run the pump with the tubing & air stones to try & remove any bleach that might have soaked into the air stone.
Then I run the pump with the air stones outside of water to dry the air stones & tubing out.
After this, I dry all of the equipment with paper towels & store it.
This works most of the time, but as you guys can guess this process takes a very long time & many times I don't fully dry out the air stones & they start to develop mold on them after a while.
Does anybody have an easier more reliable method?
Whenever I brew compost tea, I scrub the bucket, air stones, and tubing with hot water & dish soap, rinse heavily with water to remove all soap, then fill up 5-gallon bucket with hot water + 2 tsp of bleach. I let this sit overnight, pour it out, then hand scrub it all with water to try and remove any bleach residue.
After this, I fill up the 5-gallon bucket with water again, run the pump with the tubing & air stones to try & remove any bleach that might have soaked into the air stone.
Then I run the pump with the air stones outside of water to dry the air stones & tubing out.
After this, I dry all of the equipment with paper towels & store it.
This works most of the time, but as you guys can guess this process takes a very long time & many times I don't fully dry out the air stones & they start to develop mold on them after a while.
Does anybody have an easier more reliable method?