Nice info everyone...

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Forrest of Cheem..... I do use them and love them. I use the SPT by BMO, in tea form. Since yours are already pelletized, they are meant to be directly mixed with soil.
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The mcyo fungi do not become active, in either form, until they are stimulated by the chemical excretions of plant roots. So, they will just remain dormant, until plant roots get into range to jump start their life cycle.
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Hope this helps....
Keep it Real......Organic....
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i have a pot brewing at the moment. but i think i didnt let the tap water sit long enough,,,( shit ) what will this change? ( having chlorine in the water

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may as well start over man chlorine will kill everything in there.

so what your saying is that the chlorine in my tap water is strong enough to sterilize 500ml of bat guano>>?? sorry but i think your wrong but thanks for trying to help!

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Agreed. The trace amounts of chlorine or chloramine will not sterilize bat guano's nutritional value. The only problem is that the chlorine in your water can kill off some of the micro-organisms that are generated by bubbling the tea.

And the trace chlorine probably won't kill off the whole of the micro-beasties. BUT in the future it'd probably be a good idea to either let the water sit or find another source of clean H2O.


I keep South American dwarf cichlids in an aquarium so I know a bit about Chlorine and Chloramine. When you first "cycle" a tank (grow good bacteria/organisms) you use a de-chlorinator to treat the water. Water that hasn't been treated does hinder the growth of beneficial bacteria.

Good luck on the grow. That organic's gonna taste sweeeeet!

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like forest of chemm said the tea will still have the npk and other nutritional values but won't do much to enhance or replenish your microherd.

but hey man i'd love for you to check it under a microscope and report if you see any beasties.

thanks guy!!

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Hello Everybody,

I remember reading that adding water to a brew does not necessarily dilute its strength.

Do I recall this correctly?

That's correct, 5 gallons of brewed compost tea can cover 10,000 square feet. It can be mixed with a hose sprayer - that's the only way you can really cover 10k square feet with only 5 gallons of tea. Now, you don't have to dilute it, but the tea is so rich (dense) with microbes that they will actually colonize the soil (and plant) at a lower density - and you will be 'wasting' tea/microbes.