outwest
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So I started this thread with the intent of asking for help, but as I started to spell out what I needed help with, I was able to figure out what I needed help with, she here goes. . .
I've been using OG Biowar products (formerly Cap's Bennies) for a few runs now with great success. The only problem is that I've been WAY overusing them. It doesn't hurt the plants at all, but it definitely hurts my wallet (sorry Cap, I know it helps yours!).
The OG Bio Brew recipe listed here: http://ogbiowar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BIO-BREW3.pdf is for 4 gallons of brew which inoculates 320 gallon of water (at a rate of 1 cup of brew to 5 gallons of water). That's WAY more than I need, typically 10 gallons of water is the amount I need to inoculate.
So it would seem to me that if the stated recipe inoculates 320 gallons, and I need to inoculate 10 gallons (which in theory requires 2 cups of brew). I can cut everything by 1/32 correct?
If my deduction is correct, here's the OG Biowar Recipe for us regular guys who may only need to inoculate 10 gallons at a time.
2 cups of water
2 ml hibrix or molasses
3/8 tsp OG Biowar Foliar & Root
1.5-3 tsps of worm castings
During veg as an added vitality boost use 1.5-3 tsps alfalfa meal.
I guess my question at this point is how the fuck do I bubble 2 cups of brew? Can I just mix this amount with a gallon or two of filtered water and still dilute it with the remaining 8-9 gallons. Will it brew properly if it starts at such a strong dilution rate?
Thanks, farm.
outwest
Why dont you just brew it straight in the 10 gallons you will be using to water?
I prefer the full concentrated version when I do root soaks for my coco plants. The 1cup per 5 gallons is more for recirculating reservoirs to keep shit like slime away. Full strength is the way to go, if you can afford it.
PS you do not need to bubble to get them going, simply stirring the cup a few times a day should suffice. That being said you could do it in a cup no problem.
Thanks, Cap. How frequently should a full strength brew be applied? Weekly?
outwest
Thanks, cap. Your open mind is appreciated. I think I've found a way to use your stuff at a rate that realizes the benefits of it high concentration for a garden my size without over doing it. If the plants are banging and I can go a little easy on my wallet, then I'm golden!
You touch on an important point about the tea brewing process. Mix it up dot always brew the same way twice. Variety and density of various microbial populations during the plant life uncle seems to keep things green and growing.
outwest
What a excellent thread and information guys! Excellent!
My two cents are that during the veg and flower cycles, that you keep a batch "brewing" pretty much the entire time. This eliminated the problem of making too much as at first I would always brew a 5 gallon batch which is actually only 3.5 gallons of tea as I leave room in the 5 gallon bucket for foam and to keep things from spilling over the edge, and also keeps splashing to a minimum from the air stone...but instead of trying to use the entire batch up or store the batches, I would just use the tea as needed in the amounts needed, and keep the brewing tea brewing.
This eventually is what led to the evolving tea project currently under way, but for those not interested in that, you can still apply the procedure to your current set up.
Just use a 5 gallon bucket and fill with 3.5 gallons of solution and add food on a weekly basis, or a every 2 to 3 days basis depending.
Apply the tea once every 3 to 4 days, and replenish the 5 gallon bucket with however much water you used in your inoculating application. By the time your next inoculation application is due, the bacteria and fungi should have had enough time to reproduce and build the micro colonies back up.
Then add food to your 5 gallon brewing bucket ever 5 to 7 days accordingly. Being able to take a culture sample for examination is extremely helpful and takes all the guess work out of monitoring your tea, but you can use the famous smell test as previously mentioned to make sure everything is ok.......
For smaller setups and needs you could simply use a brewing bucket smaller than 5 gallons, but I would not suggest going smaller than 3 gallon brewing buckets, and brewing at least 2.5 gallons at a time. You should still be able to keep a batch brewing, and not waste any tea or powder.
Another advantage to this method is that it saves on money and makes the product from Capulator last longer as you only need to actually add more powder about every 3 weeks instead of every batch you brew.
If anyone is interested I can map out the exact schedule used of what was added and how much and when that could be used as a "guide" or reference point that you can use to create your own custom feeding/inoculating schedules.
It saves money and product and also IMHO you get a much more diverse and concentrated and more effective tea full of amino acids, proteins, ect.....
Be Well
HR
What a excellent thread and information guys! Excellent!
My two cents are that during the veg and flower cycles, that you keep a batch "brewing" pretty much the entire time. This eliminated the problem of making too much as at first I would always brew a 5 gallon batch which is actually only 3.5 gallons of tea as I leave room in the 5 gallon bucket for foam and to keep things from spilling over the edge, and also keeps splashing to a minimum from the air stone...but instead of trying to use the entire batch up or store the batches, I would just use the tea as needed in the amounts needed, and keep the brewing tea brewing.
This eventually is what led to the evolving tea project currently under way, but for those not interested in that, you can still apply the procedure to your current set up.
Just use a 5 gallon bucket and fill with 3.5 gallons of solution and add food on a weekly basis, or a every 2 to 3 days basis depending.
Apply the tea once every 3 to 4 days, and replenish the 5 gallon bucket with however much water you used in your inoculating application. By the time your next inoculation application is due, the bacteria and fungi should have had enough time to reproduce and build the micro colonies back up.
Then add food to your 5 gallon brewing bucket ever 5 to 7 days accordingly. Being able to take a culture sample for examination is extremely helpful and takes all the guess work out of monitoring your tea, but you can use the famous smell test as previously mentioned to make sure everything is ok.......
For smaller setups and needs you could simply use a brewing bucket smaller than 5 gallons, but I would not suggest going smaller than 3 gallon brewing buckets, and brewing at least 2.5 gallons at a time. You should still be able to keep a batch brewing, and not waste any tea or powder.
Another advantage to this method is that it saves on money and makes the product from Capulator last longer as you only need to actually add more powder about every 3 weeks instead of every batch you brew.
If anyone is interested I can map out the exact schedule used of what was added and how much and when that could be used as a "guide" or reference point that you can use to create your own custom feeding/inoculating schedules.
It saves money and product and also IMHO you get a much more diverse and concentrated and more effective tea full of amino acids, proteins, and enzymes ect.....
I am most sure that having these compounds in your feeding schedule is what makes organically grown products "better" in aromas and taste as well as potency.
Be Well
HR
Thank you for the kind words cheaplastic, but I should make note here that it is people like you and people like outwest, and Capulator and the many other members here that inspires me to want to help and to try and find new ways to improve our methods and the work we do for these amazing plants that has shown some of the most effective medicinal properties known to man and the earth. The other motivation/inspirations is when seeing or reading about how it helped someone sick get better.
If you have never seen MMJ at work up close and personal, you get a almost "divine" feeling about you, especially when it is someone close to you like a relative cured of skin cancer by simply using a lotion type product as opposed to the deadly cancer treatments with radiation that modern medicine would have you do instead.
This will change your entire perspective of things I assure you. I saw a single mother that was still a child herself practically, and had a very nasty brain disorder that made her studder and choke when trying to speak so bad that nobody could understand her at all. Her child of 2 years old was trying to learn to speak from the mother, the childs only teacher. One hit from a small pipe or vaporizer and this young girl could speak as fluent as a professional speaker.
Of course she was arrested for possession, her child taken away by the courts as she was voted "unfit" to be a mother with her nasty drug habit and all which consisted of one hit a day of MMJ from a small pipe. I think she said she used about a1/4 of an ounce every 2 weeks......she would not eat herself so she could have the money to afford the MMJ as she had to buy it off the street from some gnarly drug dealer, but this was a sacrifice worth it to this mother because it allowed her to be able to communicate with her 2 year old child at such a critical learning time in the young child's life. She said she would thankfully skip a few meals for herself and go hungry in trade for time she would get to communicate normally with her young daughter.
What a world....sorry for the off topic subject and post.
Be Well
HR
You've given a number of suggestions about LPM for pumps, from the above zero on up to 80 at the website... 'sup with that? I have a 5 gallon water-bottle vortex-brewer I made, and I wanted to use that along with a 20LPM pump (GH Dual Diaphragm) because it's so quite... would that work?PS you do not need to bubble to get them going, simply stirring the cup a few times a day should suffice. That being said you could do it in a cup no problem.
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