My compost tea recipe....opinions are welcome!

Fairly new to the compost tea biz. Built my own brewer out of a 5 gal bucket. Been brewing for a couple months now and the combination ive been using has been working really well for me.

2 tsp voodoo juice
2 capfuls Foxfarm big bloom
1 tsp cytoplus humic acid concentrate
1 small handful ancient forest alaskan humus compost (loose, not in a sock or bag)
1 small scoop of zho
3 tbsp unsulphured blackstrap molasses

brewed for 48-72 hours til its nice and frothy

When i start from scratch, i add a capful of saponin to aid with fungi production.

Plants go apeshit over it.

I kinda keep a perpetual brew going on. 1/2 strength on all the ingredients when youve got the perpetual brew going on and full strength on molasses. Remember to keep feeding the bacteria in the brew, otherwise they go anaerobic, stink like hell, and are not beneficial for your plants. You can always tailor the ingredients to your liking, you really dont need much to get the brew started. Remember, you just need a population of bacteria to start brewing with, youre going to be breeding them. Too many people just want to dump a large quantities of ingredients in and its totally unnecessary. Ive had the same container of voodoo juice for almost 3 months and its only 1/4 of the way down. This is an excellent method of extending the amounts of alot of bacterial additives such as voodoo juice. I also used to propogate fungi by mixing some ancient forest, oats, and water and letting them sit for a couple days in a dark place until you get a little fungi brewing in there, then I would add it to my bucket. However, the brewing fungi gets a little icky, so i discontinued this part.

I also keep a seperate 5 gallon bucket full of water and aerating to remove the chlorine. If youre in a pinch as well, i also use tetra pond dechlorinator. Remember though, with dechlorinators, alot of them will inhibit bacterial growth due to the fact they have sodium thiosulfate as an ingredient. Tetra products, namely the dechlorinators, do not use this additive, so they are safe for your brewing needs.

When I treat with the compost tea, I replace what i use with aerated water from the bucket, then replace the water in the bucket. Ive cleaned the bucket out once a month using just chlorinated water and elbow grease.

When applied, i usually apply at half strength.

All opinions are welcome. Know of an additive that would work better for me or something I havent mentioned using. Share it!

saponin?
Do tell.

I know nothing about Sapponin....but i founds this on the net and though i'd share this

Role in plant ecology and impact on animal foraging
In plants, saponins may serve as anti-feedants,[2][4] and to protect the plant against microbes and fungi.[citation needed] Some plant saponins (e.g. from oat and spinach) may enhance nutrient absorption and aid in animal digestion. However, saponins are often bitter to taste, and so can reduce plant palatability (e.g., in livestock feeds), or even imbue them with life-threatening animal toxicity.[4] Data make clear that some saponins are toxic to cold-blooded organisms and insects at particular concentrations.[4] There is a need for further research to define the roles of these natural products in their host organisms, which have been described as "poorly understood" to date.[4]
[edit] Saponins in Ethnobotany

Most saponins, which readily dissolve in water, are poisonous to fish.[8] Therefore, in ethnobotany, saponins are primarily known for their use by indigenous people in obtaining aquatic food sources.
Since prehistoric times, cultures throughout the world have used piscicidal plants, mostly those containing saponins, for fishing.[9][10]
Although prohibited by law, fish poison plants are still widely used by indigenous tribes in Guyana.[11]
On the Indian sub-continent, the Gond tribes are known for their use of plant extracts in poison fishing.[12]
Many of California's Native American tribes traditionally used soaproot, (genus Chlorogalum), which contains saponin, as a fish poison. They would pulverize the roots, mixing in water to create a foam, and then add the suds to a stream. This would kill or incapacitate the fish, which could be gathered easily from the surface of the water. Among the tribes using this technique were the Lassik, the Luiseño, the Yuki, the Yokut, the Chilula, the Wailaki, the Miwok, the Kato, the Mattole, the Nomlaki and the Nishinam.[13]

I use a capful of saponin (sledgehammer) in some of my brews because ive been told it aids in fungi production. Its been part of my brews before and did very well.

Anerobic means without oxygen. So not feeding them will not cause that. The bacteria will not be awake as much and not multiplying if not fed. Not runnin air will cause anerobic

Let me rephrase what i said. Not feeding them will not cause them to go anaerobic. It WILL cause the beneficial aerobic bacteria to die and at that point the anaerobic bacteria begin to flourish.