Tea Recipe

Capulator · Jun 18, 2012

populations will linger on foliage for about a week.

Capulator · Jun 18, 2012

the residue is the carrier. It is harmless. pharma grade talc. it helps to let the solution settle for a minute and pour/take off the top.

oscar169 · Jun 18, 2012

Capulator said:
the residue is the carrier. It is harmless. pharma grade talc. it helps to let the solution settle for a minute and pour/take off the top.

Is that the white stuff that always @ the bottom of my Tea ? have been wondering if I was not getting mixed but I have 88 liter min pump on 5 gallon pail. :p

Capulator · Jun 19, 2012

oscar169 said:
Is that the white stuff that always @ the bottom of my Tea ? have been wondering if I was not getting mixed but I have 88 liter min pump on 5 gallon pail. :p

yeah I always have it in the bottom of my bucket too. I rinse mine out in the garden. If you dont have a garden you can use the sink or bath tub, or let it dry scrape it in to the trash... . Its non toxic.

Disambiguator · Jun 19, 2012

click80 said:
We are stacking the deck in our favor. As long as you keep it aerobic and use microbes in the numbers that Caps contains, it is hard to fail at tea making. In my opinion.

Exactly. The number of applications will vary depending upon grow culture and need, but the bottom line is that we are bringing in exogenous (outside) microbes to customize and improve the quality of the microbial population in our grow medium.

We don't need to inoculate EMs into every tea we make, and I think there may be some confusion in that area for some. Recipes using organic material/s- EWC, fish, humus, kelp, soy meal, crab meal etc, etc needn't have EM's added to make them effective.

Elaine Ingham is one of the pillars.

Mississip Hip · Jun 20, 2012

there is effective...and theres turbo.:)

CAPS is like running 30 psi of boost.

Purpose built lab designed bacteria can do more than naturally occuring bacteria (think N fixing)

not that nature is't a bad ass bitch.....I have had awesome results with EWC, kelp and molasses and nothing else

But CAPs bennies blow them away...IMHO

Mississip Hip · Jun 20, 2012

anybody got any 55 gallon recipes?

I'm guessing just scale up the proportions of my 5 gallon brews..?

oscar169 · Jun 20, 2012

Mississip Hip said:
anybody got any 55 gallon recipes?

I'm guessing just scale up the proportions of my 5 gallon brews..?

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weres the detials of that built, looks bad azz :cool:

Mississip Hip · Jun 21, 2012

in the nute and fert section...

umm...I forgot the title ..something about a big ass brewer?...you will see it...

click80 · Jun 22, 2012

Does anyone have some any idea of how much humic needs to be added when cannabis is flowering if you are just using teas? I am putting in bennies every 1 1/2 weeks at full strength. I have only used compost tea so far and have added Grandma Enggys almost every tea but very lightly. I am worried about overdoing it. I can't really find much to read that advises on humics/fulvics, well that sounds like it is fact based anyway. Lot of guesswork it seems like. I am not going to rely on the directions on anything by AN. Not bashing, just being truthful.

click80 · Jun 22, 2012

I guess my main question might need to be posted elsewhere. I have two Deathstar Moms that I should retire. I have had both well over a year now and have clones many times plus I used chemical nutes on them at first and then went OG. I have noticed a rise in EC lately and can't get it to flush out. I don't want to disturb what biology is in it by a major flush. The EC on one has risen to 1.9. I think that this is from using Tap water on my moms. I never had this problem when I was using RO.

Could this be a different type of salt buildup that comes from using Tap water? I am getting some signs of overfertilization on the very oldest fan leaves.

I am wondering if RO with just enough Humic in it to give it some PH will help it take care of itself, well that and the biology.?

Mississip Hip · Jun 23, 2012

If it were me, I would make a nice, simple ACT.

CAPs bennies or EWC, molasses and kelp.....and let the bennies clean up any salts you have built up.

I wouldn't be afraid of a flush either. Run the proper amount of water thru for your size pot....and then feed your ACT.

I haven't found much that good TEA wont fix....when it somes to general plant vitality and color.

click80 · Jun 23, 2012

Thanks....I was just worried that the flush would mess up the balance, but I suppose the salt buildup does the same.

Disambiguator · Jun 23, 2012

Nice Looking Brewer ^!
click80 hold that thought on tap water. will get back on it.

Mississip Hip said:
Purpose built lab designed bacteria can do more than naturally occuring bacteria (think N fixing)

not that nature is't a bad ass bitch.....I have had awesome results with EWC, kelp and molasses and nothing else

But CAPs bennies blow them away...IMHO

I don't want to be a stick in the mud and I don't want to put info out there that would be unsupportive of Cap and his enterprise in any way. I turned the group of growers that I work w/ onto Cap's bennies, (in fact, I'm waiting on a couple of them to get their shit together so that we can place an order as I type this.)

Right or wrong, some of us believe that inoculating the same EMs into the soil w/ every tea feeding is overkill. The goal is to transfer the activity that the tea has aroused into the rhizosphere and to continue nourishing and cultivating the the same EMs only in a soil substrate. ECW and other teas can be used as a substrate for Cap's EM suites or be made straight up to activate their endogenous (originating within) microbes. We haven't quantified this, I can offer no direct scientific proof, but the info we've been able to tease out supports this.

You're still going to get the best known specialized effective microbes into your soil regardless of application rate, so I don't really think it's a big deal. I couldn't have made that statement a year and a half ago- not w/ what I was paying for EMs and mychos back in the day. Yeah Cap! :cool:

Mississip Hip · Jun 23, 2012

Thats making the assumption that everybody is all organic.

I hit my plants with chem nutes and rely on the constant re-innoculations to constantly keep my herd populations high. Its a balancing act that I can only quantify with end product results.

I use bennies every feeding in one form or the other and pull 2p's a 1k bulb...consistently.

Maybe its just my "lucky hat"? I dunno...but I know it works for big yeilds on dank strains. So I keep on doing it.

Disambiguator · Jun 23, 2012

Mississip Hip said:
Thats making the assumption that everybody is all organic.

I don't operate under the assumption that everybody is all organic, but I work, think and write from an organic platform. I figured that the number of hybrid users in this thread was pretty sparse so I've been addressing organic growing issues from my own growing perspective.

Mississip Hip · Jun 23, 2012

Nice....everybody has their own tech that works for them.

So there is no need to reinnoculate BTi?

Disambiguator · Jun 23, 2012

Are you working under the assumption that I/we should know that you are growing w/ synthetics?

Mississip Hip said:
Nice....everybody has their own tech that works for them.

So there is no need to reinnoculate BTi?

you answered your own question.

Mississip Hip · Jun 23, 2012

huh?...lol.....

Do you think that there is no need to reinocc BTi? Seems like a straight forward question....

Capulator · Jun 23, 2012

BTi should be re introduced at least once every 15 days to maintain populations and the protein they excrete.

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