Super Anti - Root Rot Tea

[densemob]

Nice thread man! Do you think I could use malted barley and bokashi in place of the oats? Like grind up the malted barley and bokashi together and mix in the castings?

 

[Shooting-4-The-Stars]

Grim Reefer, Does this work in any reservoir temperatures or do we still need to stick to under 22c in DWC? also is this a full plant food or is it only a juice to kill the nasty root rot?

Cheers Mate

 

[dankstyle J]

Great stuff I've been doing a variation of this but with a living soil an a rice feed instead of oats an enjoy the results in a greenhouse setting. Live mold will form on the top layer along with rice germination it's a beautiful thing and the cannabis is extremely potent an flavor full .

 

[Frunzl]

Great recipe! Especially the super-charging part is sthg I haven't seen before, thanks!

I personally use a slightly different recipe, namely:

30 g/L molasses
10 g/L collagen hydrolysate
1 g/L dried Bacillus product (BactorrS13).

Why so much sugar, won't this end up in the reservoir or soil and create a giant mess? No, because apparently, Bacillus species can eat through up to 150 g/L glucose in merely 12 hours, at least according to this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0717345815001517

I think this was done with B. subtilis, but there are similar publications for B. amyloliquefaciens. Actually all of them have a proliferative log phase of only 8 hours (although at optimum temp of 35°C or so), so it really doesn't make much sense to go longer than 24 h. With the minuscule amount of nutrients recommended by this recipe and most others (0.5% Molasses), the bacteria wont survive a lot longer.

Also, I add a Trichoderma-Product, but only at the time of watering and I don't put it into the tea.

Why? because Trichoderma/Bacillus co-cultures do not work if you inoculate them simultaneously. You can have a look here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01068/full.
Basically, you end up with a tea full of Bacillus sp. but killing all your precious Trichoderma spores (if you can pre-culture Trichoderma for 48h, it seems to work, but that's a whole other story). Also, Trichoderma doubles roughly every day, whereas Bacillus explodes with a doubling time of < 2 hours. This just doesnt work.

 

[zweibeir]

Introduction

This Tea will completely stop root rot and act as a preventative as long as its used on a weekly basis.
It will make the beneficial bacteria product last 100 times longer as we create over billions of beneficial bacteria working to help improve your crop.

Plant Benefits

Your plants will love this brew as it also give them a organic boost helping to create a healthy and highly nutritional environment for the roots, Increasing both plant size and yield.
The Tea is also packed with other natural substances to help promote strong and healthy growth – Humate (Humic acid), as well as cytokins, auxins and giberelins along with amino acids and trace elements.

Why?

The reason why I am doing this thread is because,
I have seen various different methods on how to brew a super charged compost tea, that kills root rot.

Unfortunately a lot of the recipes can be poorly constructed due a lack of precise research and understanding; for example amounts, ratios, temperatures etc.
Or they are made for massive grow operations and its just impossible to get all the ratios exactly right for a smaller scale grow.

In this recipe Il make sure to keep the dosages on the small side as not everyone is growing plants in a 12 or 24 pot plus systems or more.

This recipe is mostly used for hydroponic systems of any kind but can also bee used for soil grown plants too.

I will make sure to leave links to products that people might be unsure of so you can either buy them for that website or find something similar near you.

Here is what you will need:

List of Equipment:​

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• Grinder ( plastic grinder for grinding your herbs works just fine)
• Measuring Spoon or syringe
• Air Pump with Air stone and silicon air tubing
• Small bucket
• Fine strainer (ones for cooking with the wire mesh work great)
• Small plastic container
• Mist spray bottle
• Plastic jug

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List of Ingredients: ​

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• Worm Casting's​
• Organic Porridge Oats​
• Unsulphured Pure Black Strap Molasses​
• Bacillus Beneficial Bacteria ( Bactor )​
• Tap Water​

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The end product of this recipe will leave you with enough tea for 3-4 plants big plants, if you are only growing one plant, just use enough for that plant and either toss the rest of it or do what I do and feed it the plants in your house, garden etc.

Warning!!!! Do not mix with Hydrogen Peroxide Products.

Preparing the Worm Castings

First things first to get the most out of your ingredients before you brew the tea we need to give the worm casting a super charge. This packs the worm castings full of extra beneficial microbes which weren't there before and gives them a serious boost in vigor.
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1. Fist make some air holes in the lid of a plastic container and fill them in with some cotton so that the bacteria have a chance to breath.​
2. Get a fine mist 500ml spray bottle and fill with water.​
3. Add 1ml of Molasses to the water in the spray bottle, using a syringe is best.​
4. Next fill the small container with 25-30ml of worm castings.​
5. Finely grind 25-30ml of porridge oats and add to the worm casting container, mix well.​
6. Now spray the worm casting and porridge meal mix lightly with the molasses and water solution.​
7. Spray till the medium is moist but not wet, if you squeeze the medium and it leaks you have sprayed too much.​
8. Put the breathable lid on the container and keep it in a dark area for 4-5 days.​
9. Check the container regularly to see if the medium has dried up.​
10. If it has dried, give it another light spray with the same solution.​

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After 4 or 5 days you should be able to to clearly see lots of what looks like webs over the medium.
Congratulations you have successfully super charged the worm castings.


Method for Brewing Tea

Always remember to keep the water temperature between 18-22C as best you can as this is where the most oxygen is dissolved. You should never store this tea at all, always use it fresh. Never brew the tea for longer than 36 hours as this is the point where it can get anaerobic and unless you have a micro-scope you have no way of telling what other kinds of bacteria and microbes are now starting to form.

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1. Fill a small bucket with 1 L of water and let it bubble using an air pump. Keep at a temperature of 18-22C.​
2. Add 5ml of Molasses to the bucket of water and stir till dissolved. Let his bubble for an hour.​
3. Now add all your previously made super charged worm castings and give it a stir.​
4. Then its time to add 1ml, using a measuring spoon, of Bacillus Bacteria (Bactor).​
5. Let this bubble in the dark for up to 36 hours is best.​

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You should notice vast amounts of brown - white foam over the liquid.
It should smell sweet and earthy very much like clay or a well established soil.
It shouldn't smell like Farts or rotten eggs and if it does then you have done something wrong and be sure to toss it out.

Now that you have bubbled the solution for the 36 hours, strain it into a jug using a kitchen strainer.
Congratulations you have brewed a fantastic Compost Tea.


Directions, Dosages & Measurements

These directions are suited for world wide use and not just allocated to Europe or America, etc.
I have made sure that everything is in Litre/ Liters - L & Milliliters - ML so that we have universal measuring system and understanding.

Once you have brewed the Super Anti - Root Rot Tea it is time to administer it to the plant/plants.

If growing in soil/ soil-less medium then 30-50ml should be sufficient for one plant.
Just pour the tea over the medium like the way you would normally water your plant.
Or mix it in the above amounts into your feed but be sure to make PH adjustments before adding the tea as the PH up - down can kill the bacteria.
Make sure that this only done once weekly as too much of a good thing can be bad.

When growing in a Hydroponic System 25-30ml to 4 liters will be more than enough for one plant
It is important to administer the tea by top feeding it straight into net pot.
This ensure that the tea is combating the bad bacteria right at its source.
It also allows the remainder of the tea to slowly drip down through the net pot and into the resovior where any other bad bacteria will be taken care of.

For those of you who would like to do out a recipe for them self's please follow the these guidelines

Molasses: 0.5% of total water
Worm Castings: 2.4% of total water
Beneficial Bacteria: 0.7-1ml per L of water

So for this recipe its worked out like this:

Molasses: 0.5% of 1000ml = 5ml
Castings: 2.4% of 1000ml = 25ml
Bacteria: 1ml per 1000ml = 1ml


I hope this helps people who were struggling to find a precise method to brewing this fantastic tea.
It really does work wonders and you can instantly see how happy your plants will get once you start feeding it to them.

If anyone has any questions or query's please feel free to comment on this thread or hit me up with a P.M.
Il be glad to help you as best as I can.


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Thanks for providing this in ml/L formula!