That was the finished tea. It had a pretty solid top on it prior to the pic but I hear you. How do you manage to get your brew to froth etc?
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Did it finish looking like this? The foam is a good indication that your tea is alive
There is only 2.5 gallons of water in that 5 gallon pale
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Lots of air… how big are your air stones and pump?
That brew was boogie brew tea with a couple extra tablespoons of worm castings.
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Oh woah, no it didn’t look like that. Maybe I needed less water in the bucket. It was a 2.5Gal bucket and I propped a 5gal lid on top to help w/ spillage.
That looks great. My pump has four air ports so I use 3 smaller 1” spheres and a 3” cylinder on max.
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It should look like mine in the picture after 24 hours… That is the sign of a good tea…
I don’t have a data to support this but I was told it isn’t good to have a lid on top of the bucket you want the tea to be able to gas off… As you see in my picture that is way my bucket is in my flood tray. contains the mess…
With your air pump running do you have a hard bubble action happening?
Maybe compare the specs of your pump see if it has the power
This is my pump
model HGC728455 (728455)
This is my airstone… I have 2 of them for tea
Model HGC728410 (728410)
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Sheesh 
ur gonna have to show me how to make that does not look 
easy 
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Honestly looks harder than it is. For me making it is easy. Cleaning up when done is the work for me with tea
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So a quick lesson on making it what exactly do u have to do to make it an this is there food 
correct
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considerate Tea as super food… It does feed the plant but so many more benefits besides just food…
Fast run down
Tea goes into tea bag
Ro water in bucket
1 airstone in tea bag (with food)
1 airstone in bucket
let it brew for 24 hours
Feed to plants as soon as you turn the air pump off
Left over material in Tea bag you top dress the plants with…
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Thanks for the info, here’s a shot from last night, just a quick one. They’ve looked better…
Question for you, mark, in the previous post with the compost tea. Where did you get that tray and what size is it?
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I bought it at my local hydro store but this is the same flood floor tray…
It’s 3 by 3… but I think I would go 4 by 4 for making tea if I were to buy again.
This model has a thicker plastic than most which I like… I had one before than cracked because the plastic was to thin
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Ok 
for 24hrs this mix has to be super thick an how many times a week do I do this 
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One more thing we didn’t chat about…
In Veg and early flower Tea as Foliar spray Dilute 1:7… So many benefits something else to think about for the future
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Thanks a lot Mark, that sounds like a great way to use all of it. For a foliar spray I’ve been using HS’s Flower Shield but if I can make a tea w/ bennies and organic insecticides that’s even better
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Tea has been the best results for me with foliar spray… It also aids to keep the bugs away like Flower shield…
When compost tea is applied as a foliar spray the nematodes within can even attack and defend against insect pests on leaves and stems, such as leaf miners…
I can find you some data on it if you want.
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That makes complete sense I will begin doing so weekly. I still have to order the boogie brew… so maybe next week I will use the tea as a spray. It can only benefit as long as I make it right.
I found a local grower who makes his own worm castings w/ great success & the quality and freshness alone is benefitting my plants greatly as an amendment. Upon his next harvest I will make my next tea.
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That is true you need a nice brew for sure.
Same here I buy my worm casting of a local worm farm. Quality is better and half the price
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How are the plants looking? Did they green up again?
Just a FYI I stop spraying when the flowers are out
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Also have you ever looked into “Fish Shit”
If you wanting to boost your bacteria and microorganism production this product as a stand alone has amazing results…
Now you can also add this to the END of your tea brew for a extra bonus…
or this works great also like this
example
1 gallon of RO water
10 ml of fish shit
5 tablespoons of worm cast
Brew for 5 to 6 hours and feed… Just watch your plants dance the next day
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So, they haven’t been greening up as much as I’d like and I can’t be sure why. I have to do a ppm check in the soil and find out where it is at. The buds are densing up and frosted very nicely but the leaves seem curled like a nitrogen toxicity. I am going to order the fish shit but I wanted to find it locally and I was unable to do so 
so i’ll order it. My phone has been dead every time I have gone into the grow tent recently but I brewed a tea with fish bone meal, alfalfa meal, and castings for 24 hours and then mixed with water 1:1 but the plants look worse for wear since… I’ll try and test the pH of the runoff when they dry up and we’ll go from there. Pics to come tonight.
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