Tea Time - part deux!
The seedlings will soon be cuttings going to the cloner, so we need to prepare the tea that we will need soon.
Here’s the ingredients:
Disclaimer First: This is what I use. Your mileage may vary. You can harm your plants if made, used, or dosed incorrectly.
Tea Recipe 2: als Awesome Aero Tea
Into a 5 gallon bucket of reverse osmosis water, with a large vigorous airstone add:
1 tspn Great White
1 tblspn Ancient Forest
4 tblspn Worm Castings
4 tspn Molasses
When you brew the teas together, you can see the difference in them. Here’s a pic of Dirt(bottom) and Aero(top) tea together after 2 days brew:
So What Does This Do?
Aero Tea is the result of many years of development to create living systems in aeroponic environments. Aeroponics have always before required a sterile system.
I found that the dreaded brown and pink slimes will attack roots and cuttings eventually, even if you are growing in bleach water. The solution is to have your own biological army to defend and assist your plants.
That sounds great until you consider we are working with spray lines or nozzles that will instaclog. And when that happens, you have hours to fix the problem before your plants die. So high particulates and living goo must be avoided.
This recipe maximizes the number and strains of beneficials, while keeping food and particulate levels low. It makes your root zone a hostile place for interlopers, and boosts your plants with commensalent organisms along with micro and macro nutrients.
How Do You Use It?
First give it a good stir, then strain with a regular tea strainer in to a quart cup.
For cuttings in aerocloners: 1 tsp/5 gallons
For vegging rooted plants in aerocloners: 1 tblspn/5 gallons
For bloom in aero machines: 2 Cups/40 gallons
Apply no more than once per week. Excessive application will affect your Nitrogen balance and screw up your plants.
Plants just love getting the bio available partially digested nutes from the tea. They respond with more intense, complex aromas and flavors, along with greater vigor and overall health.
This is how you get organic results with synthetic base nutes while also protecting and boosting your plants.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al