help with AACT for bloom!

oakley1984

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so this will be my 2nd round running organics and id like to try supplementing with a blooming tea as well

so far this is what i have come up with and would love some input on what i should add or remove
since my soil mix is kind of strong in N... the tea needs to highly P/K oriented

to be brewed per 5 gallons of water (this will later be watered down to a 20-25 gallon mix)
1 cup worm castings (~1-1-1)
1 cup Rubicon Flowering Bat Guano (2-17-0)
10 Grams Reindeers Natural Plant Foods Seaweed Extract (2-2-16)
20ml General Hydroponics Floralicious Plus (2-0.8-0.02)
100ml General Hydroponics Floranectar (0-0-1)
125ml General Hydroponics CaliMG+
150ml General Hydroponics FloraNova Bloom (4-8-7)
300ml Advanced Nutrients Mother Earth Bloom Tea (0.50-1.50-2.0)

planned on watering with this 2-3x a week!
thoughts are appreciated
 

farmerjoe420

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1 cup worm castings (~1-1-1)
1 cup Rubicon Flowering Bat Guano (2-17-0)
10 Grams Reindeers Natural Plant Foods Seaweed Extract (2-2-16)




i think these 3 will be all you need. i would up the amount of castings and not dilute the finished tea as much if at all. also, molasses 1/2 - 1 tbsp per gallon.
 

1337hacker

Active Member
It might be worth diluting honestly... sometimes less is a little better... either way, whatever you do it should be awesome if you get the proper aeration.
 

blueJ

Active Member
Yeah ditch all that bottled stuff, all the high nutrients will inhibit bacterial growth & defeat the purpose of the AACT. Instead of the seaweed extract, add a cup of dry kelp meal. Before processing/manufacturing seaweed extract simply started out as kelp meal, but it's been processed to hell and back and you lose a lot of goodies, do yourself, and the plants, a favor and try a scoop of kelp meal in your tea. Up 'till and through the first week of flower add a scoop of alfalfa as well.

castings, guano, kelp, molasses - sounds good to me (personally i would have mixed the guano into the soil mix and leave it out of the teas)

Oh and if you need the camg, just add it right before you water, it really shouldn't be part of the tea.

I use RO water and haven't used liquid camg in months, mix lime/gypsum/langbeinite/azomite/rock dusts/clays etc. in your soil and be liquid camg free :D
 

oakley1984

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before you guys go making presumptions

my soil consists of
1x107L bag of sunshine mix #4
20L worm castings
80L fish/peat compost (approx 2-1-1)
3lbs rubicon high p bat guano 2-17-0
3lbs bone meal 2-14-0
3lbs gaia green greensand 0-0-3
3lbs pyrophyllitic clay (gen hydro rare earth)
3lbs gaia green power bloom 2-8-4 (Fishbone meal, steamed bone meal, glacial rock dust, mined potassium sulphate, natural humate complex, rock phosphate, greensand, kelp meal, gypsum, and bat guano.)
1/2 cup gh subculture-m (myco/fungi supplement)
1/2 cup gh subculture-b (bacteria supplement)
2 cups dolomite lime
1 cup epsons salt

some of the nutrients you guys list i cant really get in my area unless i order a 50kg bag and have it shipped to me... makes hunting for nutes a prob!


as for the molasses i opted against it due to me using subculture-b and it recommends limiting high sugars as they ferment (this is why i opted for the floranectar as its a combination of a few basic sugars and i get it the same price as a bottle of molasses)


the last time i ran this soil mix the only difference was the powerbloom stuff, wasnt in there and it was bloodmeal instead (12-0-0)
i ran the the whole crop with just calmg in water (And yes i use ro water no choice where i am) and found i had to much N in my mix which was the basis for the swapout of nutes in mix and going for a very heavy p&k mix

when i mixed the last batch of soil i didnt have the npk value on the fish/peat compost... ended up hunting down the owner of the company to get the info

when it comes to this tea im not neccisarly trying to get the bacteria from it rather as the immediately available high P&K ratios my soil as is is Very much teaming with microbial life!
 

charface

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If one was to use malasses would it be put in the tea and brewed alnog side the other ingredients or added later at watering time.
I`m guessing you put it in with the tea but would like to be sure
 
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