Need a little help with my compost tea recipe

that soil has plenty of nutrients in it for the first few weeks if I remember right. even the EWC tea isn't needed yet since happy frog also contains myco. The first few waterings I'd def just go with an ewc tea since the npk value is very small.

Cool. Thanks for the info. How long should I wait before I should start making a more potent mix?

the happy frog should be good for 3 weeks or so . not real familiar with it .

a ppm meter may be a good idea , first tea I brewed up of my own turned out just a little hot at like 2800 ppm, was able to dilute it and get 15 gallons from it.

if you have all those ingredients right now i would save them you could just mach a little of the ingredients in a bowel with a little kelp extract and top dress, youll need some fungal or bacterial inoculate if you want teas overnight(its better and more powerful this i would buy some) i use mayan microzyme and great white shark.
you dont really need to make a full blast tea right now and if you top dress that will be perfect for seedlings.

this i what i would use for your topdressing, wormcastings, kelp extract, bone meal and a drop or 2 of molasses. everything else could over power your seedlings.


now back to the tea without the inoculate and the air pump and a mesh bag.

use more worm casting than anything else, small amount of bone meal (breaks down slow), moderate amounts of everything else can be used and like DB said you can always dilute. oh and add a carbohydrate such as hay alphaalpha or oats for the fungi.

here my normal tea recipe for 5 gal

high N guano 1.5 tbs
high P guano 3.0 tbs
6tbs of wormcastings
1 tsp of bone meal
1oz of seaweed extract
1/2oz of oats
5cc of great white shark(a little does a lot dont let them make you waste your spores)
1ml of mayan microazyme
3oz of cornsyrup(sugar is sugar i mix with a whole bunch of stuff whatevers cheap)
1oz pureblend pro soil (high in rock phosphate)
and probably a little of whatever else i got organic around in moderate dosages, put all the solids in a mesh bag let it sit over night bubble foamy tea the next day or 2

Thanks for the advice. I guess I have some shopping to do.

One more question. If I make a batch of tea and dilute some to use, how long is the undiluted tea good for? I assume that you do not put it in the fridge and use it over time.

Originally Posted by dbkick

a ppm meter may be a good idea , first tea I brewed up of my own turned out just a little hot at like 2800 ppm, was able to dilute it and get 15 gallons from it.

Good idea! I will get one of those for sure

You've got everything you need to make your tea except for the pump, no worries. I can tell you what amounts to use with what you have, no worries.

First off, I'm assuming the guano is high in Nitrogen right? If it's higher in P then you don't want to use that guano during veg. Just wanted to clarify that before giving advice.

5 gal bucket.....
1 gallon of water (rain water is best if you can collect some from your gutter when it rains)
1 cup of worm castings
1 cup of outdoor soil (soil from the floor of an old forest is best if you have one local, but any decent soil from outside, even your back yard is good)
1 cup of compost (if you can get some, not a big deal if you can't..like I said, we're working with what you've got)
guano (I imagine like a half teaspoon or less, but I don't know what guano you're using yet)
fish emulsion (whatever it says per gallon on the bottle)
1 tablespoon of unsulphered molasses.

Now just go buy an air pump and at least one airstone (the bigger ones). You can run a few lines with a few airstones if you want, but it's not necessary. I'd get one at a hydro or gardening store. If you get it at a fish store, just make sure it's not the weakest one. 12-15 dollar range.

Then bubble it for 24-48 hours and use it within 2-3 hours of taking out the airstones.

Don't use the blood or bone meal in the tea though. Bone meal isn't soluble, it'll stink that bucket up like nobody's business.

Good luck man.

Oh, and as poly said above that Mayan Microzyme is great stuff if you can pick some up eventually.