I have been reading about nutes that can be homemade and I found worm tea and I am wondering if i use this is it a stand alone nute or do i need to add other stuff? if using with other nutes do i need to use less of them or the same? I am trying to make nutes that can be made or bought at home depot or like that i can use for hempy bucket. thanks.

Get bone and blood meal from home depot or lowes. Organic and works wonders to say the least. Hope i helped

Tom

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i wouldnt make homemade worm tea but you can get alaskin fish fert witch is a 5-1-1 and terricyle folirar spray and thats all you would need until it starts to make flowers but dont over do it with the ferts sometimes less is more

I'm using bone meal right now and that stuff rocks 6-10-0. Blood meal can burn the plants so be careful. You can throw all sorts of things into the tea. Put 1 tablespoon of unsulphured molasses per gallon of water to get the tea going.

Start with the worm tea alone, it is an awesome all-around fertilizer.

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Works very well but if you are concerned about mad cow disease then don't use blood or bone meal as nute source.

Worm Castings Tea is excellant for starting, or as a tonic, but it is not strong enough to carry you through the veggie stage of growth. Worm Castings only have 1% total nitrogen (.1% soluble (quickly absorbed) .9% eventually absorbed, no P, no K). Mary needs much more N, than that - after she spreads her third set of leaves. Start with your tea, then consider the following : Make all teas by oxgenating them - in a bucket with a cheap aquarium air pump / air stone for at least 24 hours.

Alfalfa Pellet or Meal - aka - Rabbit Food at the feedstore - one cup to one gallon of water (NPK 2-1-2) Make a tea - water in - smells like a wet sock.

Unsulphured Molasses - next to the pancake syrup at Wally World - one ounce to one gallon (NPK 5-1-2) - make a tea -smells nice - reminds me of Rum.

Fish Emulsion - (NPK 5-1-1) - smells, well - like fish guts..But a tried & true fertilizer, full of trace minerals; use as per label.

Bat Guano (NPK 10-2-3) if fresh - a little more expensive, but full of wonderful microorganisms - capable of leveling out any soil & improving it. Use as a tea (4 tablespoons of guano to a gallon of chlorine free water), water in - put the left over crud in the compost pile.

Mix & Match or Double a dose... experiment - just start low and add as you go... Stay on the path, less taken - Grow Organic - Plus check out Ebay - search for Organic Fertilizer - they have a pretty good selection. Any tonics or fertilizers by Blue Mountain Organics (kinda hard to find) are excellant. They have worm castings, bat guano, llama manure, even zoo doo.....
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thanks for the replies this is so fun and I am learning so much and hey its organic yeah. what about mushroom compost? I have seen this at a few garden shops could it be benificial? I am going to get the fish emulsion now I found it at a new nursery and was unsure if I needed it but now i will get it thanks. any suggestions let me know recipes as well. I will post if I discover a good recipe.

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Mushroom Compost - it is the left over soil (compost) from a commerical mushroom grow. By law, the stuff has to lay fallow (unused) for two years, before it can be sold. It tends to be pretty decent stuff. Because so much fungi action has occurred in it.
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I have mixed it with equal parts of worm castings, pertilite and some of my own compost & gotten good results. The stuff I bought was at a grocery store - greenhouse. I only paid $ 5 for a 40 pound bag. So, it was cheaper than most stuff you get at Wally World. It was very dark, & earthy smelling - always good signs. Plus since it has to sit so long, no weeds popped up, and there were no bugs (pests - gnats, flies or grub worms).
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Hope this helps..

yeah that is great I am going to pick a bag up next time I make some tea. thanks.