Compost tea can help against overfert?

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Lucaspdx

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Stimulating the life of the soil can help digesting the excesses ? Or the compost tea would aggravate the problem with more nutrients ?

Little doubt that i been thru...don't want to get the soil muddy or overwatered with a big flush since its organic...thx :D
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Not really. All it will do is increase population and activity of soil microbes. Teas have a typically meager npk value but do provide a bit of soluble nutrition. Depends upon the recipe/ whatever you add to it.
I only use 2 tea recipes:

Handful of worm castings
Teaspoon of molasses
2 tblspn Kelp meal
Or
Same recipe with 1 tsp of liquid fish w/ seaweed per gal of water

Bubble for 36+ hours in 3-5 gal of clean water

The latter provides slightly more npk but either tea will not completely sustain plants for very long without a slow release fertilizer added to the mix. I like using chicken manure and fertilizer spikes myself but that's just how I roll.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

Well-Known Member
Richard Drysift said:
Not really. All it will do is increase population and activity of soil microbes. Teas have a typically meager npk value but do provide a bit of soluble nutrition. Depends upon the recipe/ whatever you add to it.
I only use 2 tea recipes:

Handful of worm castings
Teaspoon of molasses
2 tblspn Kelp meal
Or
Same recipe with 1 tsp of liquid fish w/ seaweed per gal of water

Bubble for 36+ hours in 3-5 gal of clean water

The latter provides slightly more npk but either tea will not completely sustain plants for very long without a slow release fertilizer added to the mix. I like using chicken manure and fertilizer spikes myself but that's just how I roll.
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Great advice.
 
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