guano tea

Hello fellow growers, i am looking to make a tea to mix in water for my outdoor plants.

would it be okay if i take 2 tbls of Peruvian seabird guano put into 12fl oz of water an heat just below boiling...

after the pellets are dissovled, should i dilute the tea into a gallon of water/...


I would appreciate any advice, you can even call me an idiot, i just dont wanna hurt my plants..

I always take a tsp full or so and dissolve it into a cup of fairly hot water, once I get the pellets all mixed in with that cup of water, then I add that water to a gallon of cold water then I feed the plants...
Or you can put some pellets down in the top of the soil and then everytime you water a little is released...both ways work.

Don't know if I personally would use 2 Tbsp though...more like 2 tsp..

Wait wait wait...outdoor plants you say?

Then just take a handful of the pellets and fling them at the base of the plant...nothing else required, unless you are somewhere where it rarely rains...then fling a handful and water them in...

That is all I have fed my veggie garden...I just have gone out and as I said, flung handfuls of pellets and then nothing...walk back inside and wait...everything looks awesome!

ha thanks for the advice!

about a week an ahalf ago i went out and flung some guano ... like a monkey.

a few plants were burned i think. so i just replaced the soil with better quiality stuff.


as for the tea i mixed 2 tbsp in 12-14fl oz ... maybe ill just add half of that to a gal of osmosis water..
think that will do the trick?

btw im using peruvian seabird... so i heard its hotter than other guanos...

i may just end up putting a few pellets on the ground... when i say a few i mean under 10 pellets a pot

as ive been reading about teas... they can get pretty complex compared to mine... but they let the tea sit for 48 hours.. do u know why?

To build up all the microbes in the mix...and the tea doesn't just sit...it is aerated with bubbles so it doesn't ferment or the water go stagnant

I would just give several pellets per plant...but you should only do it once or twice the whole time...it isn't something you can use even once a week...too much nitrogen...a plant will yield more given no nutes at all, than a plant given too much...

Everytime I try to make a tea something goes wrong and it ends up burning the crap out of the plant I try it on...so I just quit...I reuse my soil and use only organic amendments and the microbes will be there without the tea...

noted.. thanks again.. iwill put only a few pellets down.

careful with that seabird guano if you plan on using your dissolving method, that shit is rather hot. I make teas with the puruvian, but i also use jamaican or mexican depending what stage my plants are in. I stick 2/3 cup puruvian, 2/3 either mexican or jamaican into a sock or hair net or anything i can find on hand at that moment and i suspend it at the top of my 5gallon bucket filled with caught rainwater. I then throw in a cheapo fish tank heater and then i ad massive amounts of bubbles with a lil piston air compressor intended for airbrush paint guns. that pump really throws out some mad bubbles. anyways after a day or two ...... never longer...... I take the sock or hairnet out and throw the waste into my "outside veggy garden bucket" ... now i am killing two birds with one stone. havent put anything on my outside veggy garden except homemade compost and the guano tea leftovers and the garden is the healthiest looking garden in the land. i just wait for the guano to dry out in the bucket then i crush it down to a wonderful powder that gets broadcasted by my hands as if i was a monkey flinging shit lol. i take the 5 gallons of tea and water my jane with it without diluting. I think if you are using hot water at first to dissolve the PSG then your mix may be quite hotter than mine and i would be very careful. I have never had any burns or anything doing it this way and i was taught this way by some awesome person right here on RIU. NOTE; i have tried a few pots with just mixing some some into the soil and planting. what i have found out is that if you do it that way it seems to be a lot more smelly that using the guano tea. so i now stick with the tea. it's so crazy how much the plants love it

top-dressing with the guano, and watering through it is the lazy man's method. that would be me