drinkingcoffeeinmaine
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Hello, I was curious to anyone's thoughts on a bloom compost tea recipe I am thinking about crafting.
I haven't flushed out the ratios yet, but I have general composition.
Looking to check in with more experienced growers here, cause, um...I have been slightly heavy handed in the past with my creations.
My soil mix consists of Promix, peat moss, chicken manure compost, and Down to Earth Bio Live Mix
I have top-dressed with blood meal, bone meal, fishbone meal, bat guano, kelp meal, and worm castings throughout the season.... and used some DE to deter ants, ineffectively I might add.
I haven't been out to the site in a few weeks and my father in law has been using liquid nutrients of a Mother Earth Tea/ Recharge mix and Fox Farm Big Bloom. Plants are reported to look healthy, although the pics he sent leave much to be desired in terms of info.
Plants started flowering late July, and I was looking to give em a boost of K at this point, so I was going to make a compost tea of:
5 gallons H20
Worm castings
Insect Frass
Fish Meal
Fish Bone Meal
Kelp Meal
Seabird Guano 0-11-0
Azomite
Langbeinite
Molasses
Water out there may have substantial minerals in it, so I am not sure about the ratios, or the Langbeinite for that matter, never used it but the K numbers are intriguing
I do have access to reverse osmosis water on site, but people may be cranky if I use up five gallons of the tank, it takes so long to fill.
Wondering if I should I just stick with the Mother Earth Tea and Big Bloom, instead of developing my own recipe at this stage..... however, the crafting of recipes is the fun of it for me, even if they don't always play out there is learning involved.
I haven't flushed out the ratios yet, but I have general composition.
Looking to check in with more experienced growers here, cause, um...I have been slightly heavy handed in the past with my creations.
My soil mix consists of Promix, peat moss, chicken manure compost, and Down to Earth Bio Live Mix
I have top-dressed with blood meal, bone meal, fishbone meal, bat guano, kelp meal, and worm castings throughout the season.... and used some DE to deter ants, ineffectively I might add.
I haven't been out to the site in a few weeks and my father in law has been using liquid nutrients of a Mother Earth Tea/ Recharge mix and Fox Farm Big Bloom. Plants are reported to look healthy, although the pics he sent leave much to be desired in terms of info.
Plants started flowering late July, and I was looking to give em a boost of K at this point, so I was going to make a compost tea of:
5 gallons H20
Worm castings
Insect Frass
Fish Meal
Fish Bone Meal
Kelp Meal
Seabird Guano 0-11-0
Azomite
Langbeinite
Molasses
Water out there may have substantial minerals in it, so I am not sure about the ratios, or the Langbeinite for that matter, never used it but the K numbers are intriguing
I do have access to reverse osmosis water on site, but people may be cranky if I use up five gallons of the tank, it takes so long to fill.
Wondering if I should I just stick with the Mother Earth Tea and Big Bloom, instead of developing my own recipe at this stage..... however, the crafting of recipes is the fun of it for me, even if they don't always play out there is learning involved.