DWC and compost tea. PPM?

K well I have a moter in DWC she looks great. But was useing heavy 16 veg nutes. Well I desided I want to try compost tea. Made it from unpasterized compost, worm castings, mycorrhizal powder, about equal parts. Then added molasses and some hygrozyme. And bubbled for 24 hours. Added 1 cup tea to 1 gallon of RO water. PHed the water. Checked ppm and it was 49. I understand that it's now a living mixture but when useing nutes I normaly run about 800 ppm. This is my first time useing tea and will be leaving for work for a week. Someone will be here to check the water levels but that's about all they know. So I just want to know if the ppms are right? If not I will go back to the nutes and try agine next week. If anyone uses teas can let me know if this is rite or can tell me I Fed up and try later I'd would appreciate it. Thanks . Oh almost for got. Momma is 4 week out of the cloner and about 9" tall.

Well I just checked ppms. After she has been in the tea for 6 hours its at 186 ppm.

that tea isn't a standalone base nutrient, its just for the bacteria and fungi mainly, it does have some N but not much. To make a standalone base nutrient you'd use other things too. Things you wouldn't want to add to your hydro system I'd say. Just assuming you're running hydro since you talked about water levels.

oh it says right there in the title dwc, sorry I spaced it off. what is it you're trying to accomplish with this tea? other than preventing root rot I don't know of any other advantage of using it in hydro.

sounds like you're trying your hand at (or wanting to ) organic hydro which many many people scoff at. personally I've never tried it and never will. on the other hand if you're doing soil its a good call.

Well I was trying to prevent root rot. And feed her organically. So am I just wasting my time with the teas? I use h2o2 in my other systems and mixing up 4 extra gallons of nutes isn't a big deal. Was thinking of organic clones. But if I still need to add nutes I'll stay with my mix. Not going to buy organic nutes just for a mother.

If you're having high temps and trying to prevent root rot that just what that tea is meant to do in hydro from what I hear ( I haven't used it in hydro since I got the chiller). organic hydro is just asking for trouble, Do you keep the mother in soil?( that's what I do since I find it hard to keep one small enough hydro)

if you haven't already you may wanna take a look at this thread.... https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-dwc-root-slime-cure-aka.html
It pretty much covers everything.

No soil here. Mom is in DWC. And my others are all flood and drain. I'm not on the organic kick so guess I'll go back to my nutes in the morning. Give her 24 hours in the tea. Guess if I have any problems it's the h2o2. And my water is at 68 so not a heat problem. Just trying to prevent a problem.

dbkick said:

if you haven't already you may wanna take a look at this thread.... https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-dwc-root-slime-cure-aka.html
It pretty much covers everything.

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Yup I read it. But for some reason I was under the impression you could use the tea as a food source as well. Guess I better go read some more. Lol. Thanks for the info

that would have been a terrible thing to do to your plant sitter! they would have all slowly died while you were gone.
molasses and hygrozyme will cause way more problems in DWC than they will ever solve, and the tea offers no help to the plants other than preventing root rot.

burrr said:

that would have been a terrible thing to do to your plant sitter! they would have all slowly died while you were gone.
molasses and hygrozyme will cause way more problems in DWC than they will ever solve, and the tea offers no help to the plants other than preventing root rot.

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I was gonna question the use of hygrozyme but don't really know anything about it.

The hygrozyme and molases was realy little and only used to liven up the tea. Something like 1 tsp in 1 gallon. But I'm going to get them off the tea and back on the old coffee. Lol.

if you want an excellent alternative to actually mixing your own ingredients and putting them in a filter bag, look at xtreme gardening tea brews. I got a sample of two tea bags the other day at my fave hydro store(thanks J!) and find them real pleasant to use and the tea is some of the strongest looking shit I've seen. foams like mad while brewing so don't top off the bucket.

I love xtreme gardening. Use there whole line at different stages. But if teas don't feed I'm not going to brew for 24 hours and still add nutes.

Warlock1369 said:

I love xtreme gardening. Use there whole line at different stages. But if teas don't feed I'm not going to brew for 24 hours and still add nutes.

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but you said yourself you use the tea to prevent root rot. synthetic base nutrients are a dime a dozen (as long as they don't say Advanced somewhere on them), the tea is a cheap form of insurance IF you can't control your temps and maintain a sterile res.

and back to the xtreme tea, man I can't see that not having any NPK value the way it brewed, I should have dropped the ppm probe in it but didn't.
I don't know what they put in it but its def more than ewc.

I was going to use it to feed and prevent root rot organically. But sence I already mix 20 gallons with veg nutes and once a mounth run h2o2 in my other system. It's not worth the 24 hours and extra nutes. I misunderstood about the teas feeding. Well in hydro anyways. That is why I asked befor I left. And thank you all for the responses.

Hey np, I'm bored to fuck atm anyway. about to go join some folks . about the h2o2, to really maintain a sterile res you have to add a pretty good amount at least twice a week but I don't bother with details much either.

I'm more of a preventive person. I don't have rot but don't want it ether so that's why I use it once a month. Do the same with my mite spray. For a few bucks more and a little extra work. I get peace of mind.