From scratch only! No premixed bottles of "stuff"

bizfactory said:

Aggressive! Sounds like there is a lot of wiggle room.

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Yea, it's good to find your niche based on your soil.

I don't have spare income to spend on guanos, as great as they are, so i can get away with updosing liquids or using heavier handmade composts in the soil.

I certainly have burned my share of plants with fermented plant extracts. Nothing horrific but will have left spots on the leaves of cannabis, tomatos, squashes, and many others.

And then not all plants feed the same, of course.

This scoby and kombucha is ready for garden use. It's been brewed for two weeks and I'll add it to compost teas and foliar sprays. It's really hot out this time of year so i'm focusing on undersides of leaves and the soil line, but not skipping the leaves because I'm using a brewed insect repellent as well.

But first i need to save my SCOBY and grow a new quart of kombucha for using and sharing with friends. A buddy is looking for a SCOBY, so, I'll give him the mother SCOBY and i use the one on the surface for future propogation. I could also cut slices of pizza out of it to propagate many jars from. But it grows so dang fast that id soon be in iver my head with kombucha and SCOBYs.

This is two bags of black tea in a quart of water with a 1/4cup of white sugar disolved. I imagine it would be better to use agricultural grade molasses but i haven't tried that yet. I kinda devote my molasses to compost teas, EMe, and FPE.

Once, the tea is cooled to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, i will add the surface scoby and 1/4 cup of the kombucha from the ripe batch.

This will start the liquid cultures lactobacilli, pediococcus, brettanomyces, and saccharonyces

and the gelatinous cultures actobacter, gluconacetobacto, and zygoaccharmyces

You may or may not find all of these cultures to be existent, i'm not going to add any EMe because i don't care about the lactobacilli in this case. I have plenty lacto brewed seperately that will be added to compost teas when the time comes.

I diluted the cultured kombucha 1:32 and poured it over these lophophora to see if it burns the skin at that ratio. The lights are going out in 30minutes and I doubt it will cause any harm. I imagine that i can dilute it less because of i compare this to the drink version, i drank some of this and it was pretty sweet and tastey btw, you're told to drink an emtire bottle as a serving. Now, EM1 doesn't recommend drinking a whole bottle but rather a tsp at a time. I'd bet that i can use 100% kombucha as the liquid in a compost tea with great results.

I'll gradually try:

-a 1:5 or 1:1 ratio into water and THEN aerated as a tea
- a 1:5 or 1:1 ratio into already aerated tea
- a gallon undiluted and aerated as the entire tea
-sprayed directly and undiluted as a foliar spray on PM tainted plant after dark

Any other combinations worth a shot?

No burns whatsoever from the kombucha. I'll bump it to 1:1 or 1:0 dilution as foliar application and see what it does to an OG clone.

5v stir plate. I threw this together with a 9v dc motor, a 25ohm potentiometer, epoxy, wood, screws, two magnets, and a PTFE coated bar magnet.

I realized i was missing feeding aerated compost tea to some seedinglings. This is because i only have a commercial air pump. So, for small plants and seedlings or the occasional indoor foliar spray, this will do the trick. To finish it up, i ought to find a spare usb plug to take advantage of the 5v universal supply.

My dog or I farted moments ago and it's wretched.

It's 9:45pm, dark, and I just sprayed a clone and other parts of my garden with 100% kombucha. I'll share results throughout the following week to see if that's an appropriate option. Ooo a snake

day and a half after foliar spraying 100% kombucha. This is an OG Kush clone about a month past rooting. i topped it back a fair amount and it's got a bit of over watering from the automatic misting everyday. (my outdoor rooting spot) yea, next to it looks like it's got root rot. but anyway theyve been moved a few feet from the sprayer heads two or three days ago. i hope that little guy on the right pulls through. but it's looking like 100% is fine to spray. i have a cucumber vine with PM. ill get a photo after work of before i try and turn it around with kombucha.... actually i sprayed a gallon over some of.the rest if the.yard... EM it is then.. i wonder if i should just make a 5 gallon pail of kombucha and refrigeratr it in gallon jugs.

nice pm/infection blotch m8
plant is dessicatin the infection area surroundings. Currently setting a physical barrier [just one of the many defense mechanisms] ...& just waiting for the random notill rookie next step.. But you already know that

i like your toys man !!

platt said:

nice pm/infection blotch m8
plant is dessicatin the infection area surroundings. Currently setting a physical barrier [just one of the many defense mechanisms] ...& just waiting for the random notill rookie next step.. But you already know that

i like your toys man !!

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lol you're doing no till? you practicing legume usage? that's a legit concept. im doing no till pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, peppers, potatos and some companions like creeping rose, hibiscus, n other stuff. i planted those after a crop of crimson clover and applied bokashi, ash, and bone meal to the top few inches of soil. all the plants are looking fantastic. they probably need some pk again though.

4:20! cheers east coast

hex vortex brewer


the tea bag kinda adds resistance to the vortex. nonetheless

i vut a 2" hole in the bottom using a dremel with the disc blade then the grinder to.smooth it into a nice circle. Then i used a 2" drain fitting with a rubber washer to seal the gap but i don't intend on making the seal permanent. i used a 2"-3/3" reducer coupling fed into a cross. the cross feeds into two more crosses and a ball valve to drain. all pvc used was 3/4" except the 2" fitting. right now its just resting on top a second pail to drain but i should bu lild it to have removable legs and stand on its own.

after i make it to a scope to measure the signal out of my diy pulse width modulated DC/AC inverter ill wire the motor up to be an isolated unit. it'll run off a solar charged battery and sit in the garden, but patience.

I'm building one once my pvc parts show up from amazon , i got my air pump Eco5
I need bigger than 5 gal but smaller than 55 gal bbl
looking at 30 that can be flexed into 55 if needed
me growin trees

Fastslappy said:

I'm building one once my pvc parts show up from amazon , i got my air pump Eco5
I need bigger than 5 gal but smaller than 55 gal bbl
looking at 30 that can be flexed into 55 if needed
me growin trees

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30 gal brewer? i used to usr a 55 gal with a gas power sprayer. I'd put the wand's nozzle back into the drum of tea. the sprayer would suck the tea in through a 10ft hose segment and squirt back into the drum..... super heavy duty but that was only good for foliar sprayed ACT.. unless we tapped the drum with a valve but yea that was for commercial level sustainable agriculture.

iHearAll said:

30 gal brewer? i used to usr a 55 gal with a gas power sprayer. I'd put the wand's nozzle back into the drum of tea. the sprayer would suck the tea in through a 10ft hose segment and squirt back into the drum..... super heavy duty but that was only good for foliar sprayed ACT.. unless we tapped the drum with a valve but yea that was for commercial level sustainable agriculture.

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summer gros i use 5+ gallons just for a wake up drink
I watered last summer 2 to 3 times a day & i'm using bigger pots this year

vortex brewer ... btdubs...

my design is slightly flawed. the six vertical return pipes should go above the rim of the pail, but rather, should go through the pail and be below the surface of the water. this will cause less splashing and be a more efficient means of returning the water with less lift restance and less sputtering of water. ... update later

Better return pipes. No epoxy.

"psh that looks qwonky^ " i fixed the motor hang on that last post, one last tube.

anyone use opuntia in teas? high in antioxidants, some sugars and other carbohydrates for the microbes, Ca, Fe, N


4-5 palm sized padels. a padel is about a serving when used in culinary ; salads, pan seered, whatever not that appetizing.

i also tossed in 1/3C of these:
-BLOODMEAL
-salty fish aminos
-FPE carrot
-calcium phosphate/vinegar
-wood ash
ph 6-7 wood ash is a bit basic and making KOH molecules in my tea unfortunately. no worries it'll nelkow out as the microbes acidify the water

my only reason for considering this cactus flesh was that it is so abundant here and it bushes up nicely when cut horizontally. so, easy patio pot. many people swear by aloe, and i'm not quite equiped with a sustainable supply of aloe.. next best thing is just some other cactus with antioxidant properties.

anyway, its easy to find outdoors and will root to the ground if. You just toss it and leave it. Don't watter it. Even better, cut a wedge and plant halfway into a small pot, don't water it untill you see new growth. it'll grow padels and roots from the wedge in less than a month, shade helps.

its free

getting ready for another BD type experiment. this one is getting more tlc.in preparation. I'm collecting dandelion heads and fleabane heads. im mixing in 1/4tsp of humic acid into each while they dry out. they'll fall apart while drying and mix with the humic acid.

I'm not aware of any medicinal properties to fleabane but it resembles chamomile enough for me to consider it a safe replacement for the chamomile in bd503.

i might use a deer intestine for these but separately packaged. or, i will use fresh cut bamboo in a cup shaped tube. anyway I'm still collecting and my stinging nettle is still runty.

any tips on stinging nettle? i companioned it to tomatos but it seems getting attacked but i never see the pest.

http://www.biodynamics.in/BD501.htm

Why would i use nice pretty quartz and plain old clay. Why not just dirty river quartz, performed twice a year, and applied once during mid veg and once during early flower?

ill give this a go as well. i have a few red quartz-filled river stones. I'll pulverize them shortly and prep it into a fresh bamboo tube and sealed with peat, clay, or just cloth.

i might just stuff it in a pail of Bokashi for the time being until i move. i can't really do anything permanent until then.

idk if anyone has had any luck making biochar from peat, it works, but has to be done in thinner layers than hulls.

iHearAll said:

vortex brewer ... btdubs...

my design is slightly flawed. the six vertical return pipes should go above the rim of the pail, but rather, should go through the pail and be below the surface of the water. this will cause less splashing and be a more efficient means of returning the water with less lift restance and less sputtering of water. ... update later

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Everything I've read you want splashing ,as that breaks the surface tension allowing more O to enter the water