hello everybody... This is my first question i have for the experienced growers out there who is familiar with using compost tea as foliar spray. After making the batch of tea, am i supposed to fill the whole spray bottle with tea, or just a little bit and the rest dilute with water.??? I was thinking maybe just 20percent and the rest water...iono, cause thats what i just did.... I've been searching around the web, but could never get a solid answer.... The tea contains worm castings, bat guano, mollases.......oh yea, and HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU SPRAY? i was thinking every two days...
Using Guano tea as Foliar Spray.....
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Sounds like a good tea and you could use it quite often ... in the soil.
Just about every watering, I use a tea, but never as a foliar spray, especially with the added molasses.
I don't foliar spray at all any more (except to apply pesticides or for a specific deficiency). 1 good bout with PM cured me of any foliar applications that weren't necessary.
DD
Just about every watering, I use a tea, but never as a foliar spray, especially with the added molasses.
I don't foliar spray at all any more (except to apply pesticides or for a specific deficiency). 1 good bout with PM cured me of any foliar applications that weren't necessary.
DD
Im pretty sure you're getting great results using tea. So do you switch it up when it comes to vegging/flowering??? When it comes close to flowering, im about to add less bat guano, and MORE fish bone meal for flowering stage. oh yea, and how much molasses you put in per gallon???? I've been using just a little bit, but im thinkin i can use some more......
I use between 1tsp and 1tbl/gallon. Don't really measure, just give the bottle a good squeeze or 2 into some (de-chlorinated), hot water to dissolve it.
This is dumped into 4-5 gallons of de-chlorinated water and then the other stuff added. Don't really measure that either, just tossing in a handful of what looks good that day. Always WC and then it could be alfalfa meal, kelp meal, bone or blood meal. Sometimes it's just straight WC, sometimes it's just the molasses.
I use a tea for every watering and the amounts of what I add are kept on the small side.
Nutes are Earth Juice and those are kept on the low side also, since the plants are getting something with every watering. Nutes are once/week, watering only when the plants are dry, no schedule there, so it may be water, water, nute, or water, nute, water. Just depends on how fast they dry out.
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This is dumped into 4-5 gallons of de-chlorinated water and then the other stuff added. Don't really measure that either, just tossing in a handful of what looks good that day. Always WC and then it could be alfalfa meal, kelp meal, bone or blood meal. Sometimes it's just straight WC, sometimes it's just the molasses.
I use a tea for every watering and the amounts of what I add are kept on the small side.
Nutes are Earth Juice and those are kept on the low side also, since the plants are getting something with every watering. Nutes are once/week, watering only when the plants are dry, no schedule there, so it may be water, water, nute, or water, nute, water. Just depends on how fast they dry out.
Wet