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    If you dont have a bubbler for the tea can you stir it once a day to keep it full of oxegen? or will this not work well??
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    Wont work nearly as well, nor be considered an AACT.

    Though you CAN Brew COMPOST TEAS with no Airstones, or stirring for that matter.
    You can simply let materials rot in water out back for weeks/months.. Though it is a much messier/smellier/ikky feed.
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    Use two containers and elevate one over the other. Poke a hole in the top one. When it's empty refill it from the bottom one.

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    The reason you use an air pump when brewing teas is to oxidize the water to a point that the micro-organisms in the compost materials are able to thrive and multiply. Without the bubbles, there is no oxygen, and the bacteria and fungi suffocate/drown. Stirring the tea once a day won't do much, and you will have an anaerobic tea. You can still make teas with nutritional value this way, but there will not be any active beneficial micros in your tea. I wouldn't recommend putting compost or ewc in water and letting it sit and then adding that to my soil, I feel a lot of bad guys would live well in anaerobically decomposing organic matter. But I have seen many grower's soak things like blood meal, bone meal, kelp meal, and guano, and use these "teas" to water their plants with no negative side effects.

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    Beneficial microbes need oxygen to do their thing. Aquarium air pump air lines and diffusers will cost under $20.

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    alright thank for the info.
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    stir that fucking tea it will aerate it plenty. i started doing teas this way and i was still getting frothy batches after 3 days. when put the air pump to work now its overnight.
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    so you want frothy shit? how often should i stir? and im not planning to use a bag, or nylon sac. ill jus do a rough strain.
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    im about to start the tea right now actually, so im planning to basically jus chop a bunch of corn sprouts from the field up with a bunch of other random green vegetation, mix it with decomposing compost i got, its mainly a combination of dry grass clippings and green vegetation, plenty of old fruit and vegtables and egg shells ect.
    ill put it in my bucket, fill it like half way or a little less. then jus stir the shit outa it?
    hows this guna work with tap water. let the chlorine evaporate out for a couple days maybe?
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    The two bucket method does really work. The waterfall effect aerates the water as it falls and aerates the water in the lower bucket by creating bubbles. But like others have said, an air pump is all of $10-20 and you can use it for bubble cloners, small DWC setups... they never go to waste.

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