I'm curious how late in the bloom cycle y'all give your girls AACT?
I'm using microbeman's tea recipe (compost, EWC, molassis, fish hydrosylate) but with a bit of high-P bat guano added. The tea isn't very 'hot' nutritionally... just wondering if there's a downside to using it, say, 2 weeks before the finish? My reasoning being that those microbes will help the plant gobble up the last of the nutrients. Thoughts?
Not as far as I can see, but I don't usually use much more than the castings and molasses at the end. In fact, if you're looking for a good late season fade and your girls haven't gotten there, push more sugar, if molasses is your thang then do that. You'll cause a bacterial bloom, they'll fix the N temporarily in their bodies. Harvest before they start dying off or you could
possibly, but not definitely, cause N+, which we wouldn't want near the finish.
How late in the cycle I'll feed tea really depends on how I'm feeling and how the girls are looking. But generally I don't think I ever have done that in the last two weeks, I like to push sugars a bit in those last two weeks.
I'm wondering if I should maybe drop the bat guano. The molassis is fairly weak as I'm only using a cup for 15 gallons.
I consider that to be a normal dosing rate for something like liquid molasses--not too much, not too little. I would indeed drop the bat guano.
Are AACTs compatible with non-organic grows or is it redundant?
Redundancy wouldn't be the word I would think of. They *can* be compatible, but only IF you're feeding at very low rates, especially P. They're more touchy when using chemical salt fertilizer programs and require regular re-inoculation of the cultures. The simplest are Microbeman's recipes, which are all based on worm castings and molasses at its simplest.
