Storing compost tea?

[Wienerwoods]

Okay so my FPE started to form bubbles last night. That's two days after adding the banana and a few hours after adding pineapple and brown sugar. Do I count today as day one of seven?

I also added a few drops of milk because I don't have any Lactobacillus serum (started making some yesterday). So far it has neutralized the odor slightly so I guess it works somewhat.

 

[Duggy]

I'd call it day 1 following sugar addition...:Sharing One:

 

[Eyes on Fire]

so i gotta ask ya something if your going to store a pre brewed or steeped tea in this case are you blending the myco species to facilitate cannabis of in general with the facultative mycos being bred for general purposes?:Sharing One:

 

[medi]

To answer the question about yeast, there is yeast everywhere including the surface of fruit, in fact the only reason people add yeast to wine is consistency. I'm curious how this all turns out, when dealing with AACTs anaerobes are the enemy and we do everything in our power to create a favorable environment for aerobic organisms. Speaking of which, that's the answer to your question about compost teas, they don't last because once the anaerobes win the population war what you have is basically poison goop.

 

[Wienerwoods]

so i gotta ask ya something if your going to store a pre brewed or steeped tea in this case are you blending the myco species to facilitate cannabis of in general with the facultative mycos being bred for general purposes?:Sharing One:

To answer the question about yeast, there is yeast everywhere including the surface of fruit, in fact the only reason people add yeast to wine is consistency. I'm curious how this all turns out, when dealing with AACTs anaerobes are the enemy and we do everything in our power to create a favorable environment for aerobic organisms. Speaking of which, that's the answer to your question about compost teas, they don't last because once the anaerobes win the population war what you have is basically poison goop.

When I started this thread a few days ago I couldn't really tell a compost tea from lemonade lol

The title of the thread remains misleading because what I'm making here is not AACT/compost tea at all but fermented plant juice. I know now what the main differences are and it's like day and night. However, my goal from the beginning has been a concentrated fruit extract that is stable enough to be stored for long periods of time.

It makes me really happy to see so many people out to help a newb! "AFN smoke out"

 

[medi]

I was pretty sure you didn't mean compost tea, but figured the information might be helpful all the same ;-) Best of luck with your extract, I really am interested so I'll be back!

 

[Vas Deferens]

I'm trying to make some liquid fermented banana extract stuff (lol) for the final couple of weeks to enhance flavor and aroma of the buds. The idea here is to basically just extract all the good stuff from the banana but other than that keeping the nutritional values to minimum. So far I have added approx. 1 liter of water, a small banana (also scraped the inside of the peel), a little bit of organic molasses and a few drops of organic seaweed extract. Anything I should add? I expect the process to take about 2-4 weeks. I'm probably going to bubble it now and then with an air stone. Does that sound about right?

If I happen to come up with something usable, how do I store it? I was thinking perhaps filtering the mush out after brewing (paper coffee filters?) and storing the filtered stuff in an opaque bottle and maybe even with a few drops of hydrogen peroxide might help me preserve the stuff for a few months. Or do I have to make a new batch for every grow?

Hey WW,

A work mate of mine , years ago, used to do a final water with food flavouring, e.g. "essence of vanilla" , strawberry (whatever) and he reckons that used to put a flavour in the buds. Can't confirm or deny I never tried any of his "flavoured" weed. Anyone else heard of this ?

As for compost tea, I do a fresh brew each time and use it all immediately. Once the aeration stops, it turn anaerobic pretty quickly. I like to put it on the plants when it smells "clean" and has foamed up on top. Good luck man

 

[Eyes on Fire]

well what your describing i think is two types of long term hard storing of bokashi like substance for various purposes.the first is a short brewed acid compound that'll literally give you the building blocks from ground zero in your acid compounds to build soil from dirt n so forth.where as the rind application is essentially juicing the sweetness n oils from them and applying them to curve flavor which works really well actually in many forms but if left they compost n turn to acids..Sugar is the mainstay for all of these compounds.a lotta ppl dont either know or realize that sugar or hard molasses as well IS your compost starter essentially. but you might want to look into bokashi and that you can store for looong periods of time then make a short steeped flavor tea for rinsing with yucca and apply the bokshi stuffs to teas,soil,top coats n pretty much everything.my pleasure man yeah Ive done that a time er five myself lmfao start doing something then have to switch midstream too reading somethig that said uuhhhh ya cant do it that way lmfao ive had more DOH moments than id caare to admit lol:Sharing One:

edit:yeah food based additives are what you want only to enhace natural flavors.blueberry,straw..whatever can be used.especially if its a strawberry pheno n the oils lack in some of them pretty good so you can boost them with treatments in the 2-3 week pre cutting prep n rinse..works nicely i used to do that a little myself.but with living organic its not really needed even if the oils lack a little,

 

[Wienerwoods]

The fermented plant juice is now ready!

After 6 days of fermentation at approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit I decided to bottle up the good stuff. Here's a few pics of the end result:

For those interested in the effects, I will be using it for my current grow and a few grows after that so keep an eye out for smoke reports!