DJ Short Blueberry Grow by Snafu (all organic)

Now that we have commenced the vegetative growing stage, it is important to begin increasing the numbers and activating the soil microbes. In order to do this, one good tool to use is Actively Aerated Compost Teas.

Compost tea puts the microbiology back into soil. Since you cannot immediately introduce all microbiology into the rhizosphere or phyllosphere with just compost or mulches, AACTs are needed via a root drench or foliar spray.

Actively aerated compost teas are usually easy to apply--- to both soil and leaf surfaces---and are put right where they are needed. They are a fast, inexpensive, and excellent way to manage soil food web microbiology in your containers.

Simply get an air stone, tubing, air pump and 5 gallon bucket to make your brewer.

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An AACT just mixed using the recipe below. This mixture will be applied both foliarly and via root drench onto my Blueberry plants when it is ready, in 24-48 hours.


For vegetative teas, I use:
4 Gallons of Sat-Out, Chlorine Free (Must be chlorine free or it will kill the microbes)
5 TBSP Molasses
5 TBSP Pressed Kelp
10 TBSP of Peruvian Seabird Guano
2 TBSP Worm Castings
1 TSP Azomite
1 TBSP Concentrated Organic Soil Mix
1 TBSP Alaskan Humus

Mix all together and aerate for 24-48 hours, until you see a nice froth forming at the top after at least 24 hours. Then water into your vegetative plants normally.

If your plants could kiss you, they would.

so once you do this do you have to ph the water thats where im lost at
i ph test my tea's before i feed them and the ph pen says that the ph is 8 so what do i do to correct this

I dont ph my teas. I just dump it on when it looks ready. Matter of fact, I just dumped the above tea on the plants.

If you want to adjust the pH, I would throw some pH down from Earth Juice in there. The way I am growing, the soil microbes will take care of the pH level in the rhizosphere, regardless of adjusting pH or not.

Looks good, subbed for the ride.

Originally Posted by blimey

Looks good, subbed for the ride.

Thanks! Good to have you.

They're all vegg'ing now, plan on vegging them for a little while longer.

This journal is officially updated every Sunday.

I figured I'd let you guys know that I have sprouted the rest of the 10 pack of DJ Short's Blueberry.

I originally only popped 5, and documented them here.

The last 4/5 seeds have sprouted, and are all labeled 6, 7, 8 and 9.

The last seed has failed to sprout so far, and it has been resting in a germination chamber since last Thursday.

My plan is to do the exact same thing I did with the original 5. I decided to pop these in the chance that I wind up with 5 males.

And if all my Blueberries fail(which won't happen, just sayin'), I have just popped 10 Mr Nice Black Widows and 5 TGA Vortex.

In case you haven't guessed, I am a seed popping pheno-hunter.

I'm in! Looking great snafu! Have you ever tried just planting the 1gal smartpot right into the 7 gal? I ask because I saw that recently on another grow and thought it was a great way to transplant. Really looking forward to this one. I have some bb but haven't got it in the cycle yet. Good luck!

Hey Snafu -- are you going to do a journal on the new babies as well? I just ordered some Black Widow so would be interested in seeing some grow.