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When I harvest native plants for teas. I generally take the fresh shoots and or the flowers !! They seem to have the greatest concentration of micro/macroComfrey also requires high amounts of water, so I don't really grow it myself. I use what's already growing around me for making fermented plant juices/extracts.
Consider this--we already know that in each area of the plant there are particular hormones, as well as nutrients. So, for a flowering tea, consider using flowers. I've gotten a rhodendron that doesn't like to bloom where it is to bloom by making a tea of spent Camellia blossoms.
As I mentioned before, comfrey won't grow well where I am without adding a LOT of water, which makes zero sense to me in any context. So, what is growing around me? Various oxalis species, woolly mullein, various thistles. So I use those.
Sage is also a great tea additive and ground oatmeal is excellent for fungal dominant teas! !My girlfriend made a moisturizer conditioner with organic honey and organic coconut oil. I disssolved it in my tea for 6 hours after the first tea feeding (I water twice for first 2 waterings after transplant to ensure proper saturation.... I also added this organic amino acid stuff. it's the bomb diggity.
I've been finding random shit to add like that and it's dope. I love this thread and y'all lol
At first I was putting them in whole, as I found them. Then I did some reading and found that I'll be able to extract more if I macerate. So I spent $20 on a cheap stick blender, put the plant material in a bucket, add a little bit of water and whizz it for a while. Then, let it do its thing as you've planned--either a straight tea with just plant material and water, or adding a bit of sugar and making it ferment (don't forget to cover it, and I find it's best if you have a place that's relatively free of flying bugulars).@Seamaiden when you add said ingredients like blossoms and the likes do you throw them in fresh, dried, ground up? When do you add them to your tea, and are there any big no nos. good stuff y'all!
Try a health/bulk store for your aloe Vera. You can get ground meal made from aloe . There is even a refined liquid version from 100x -500xOk so my mom came into town and we couldn't find veggiemite. So she grabbed some Braggs aminos. It's derived from soybean oil and is non gmo certified, so it's decent quality. I use one spray for my teas, I've also been making a combination of whisking honey, hot water or hot coconut water and coconut oil... Whisk it together and throw a tblsp into your tea, maybe more if you want...
Also, coconut milk- way better enzyme then cornseed meal because of its abundance and were not destroying out world growing it..... Great P and K ratios too.
So update is look for bragg amino in sprouts or whole foods , use one to two sprays per gallon
Coconut milk instead of corn!! If we do organics let's actually go all the way and help the earth :)
Also using diced or blended aloe Vera in my teas too.
For now, peace and good times brewing your stuff
That is mostt definitely the best way if you have one to cut from. I have a nice big jade plant which is in the aloe family. I've used leaves from it in my teas as well.I like taking it straight from the plant, mainly cuz they're growing next to eachother I guess lol
BRILLIANT idea!So she grabbed some Braggs aminos.
Yes, that plant shown above is a jade plant, not an aloe vera.
BRILLIANT idea!
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