So first off is it possible to just feed your plants from start to finish teas and nothing else and get great end results?
And if so anyone care to share their recipes with the class
Hi man, I brew my own with the compost I produce, so not sure if it's going to be of help, but here it goes:
2.5% of my own compost I enclose in a cloth bag, and 0.5% molasses in recovered rain water. Brewed with a small aquarium pump in a 5 L bucket (I know they're not very pro.. but maybe ok for a small container). So that would be 125 grs of compost and 25 mL of molasses. Sometimes I add some 1.5 grs of trichoderma harzianum (funghi that are good for root health and competes with harmful fungal infections). The smell should be earthy and fungal after 24-36 hs brewing. The temps while you brew are important, should be around 20-25C, if higher it can rot easily and your pH will go down pretty quick and it will smell acid and pungent
I never know what stuff my compost really has and what it doesn't! I can tell you it surely has a lot of goodies, I make it out of all the organic garbage, vegetables, cheese, egg shells, coffee, tea, etc. except animal leftovers, plus all the pruning from the garden and orchard, and some wood ashes every now and them, so I know there's plenty of Nitrogen, Carbon, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium, not very sure about Phosphorus or other oligoelements, but I can tell you the flowering of my orchard is superb, so I'm confident it should have pretty much in it. It takes around 2-3 months to produce nice compost, that I then sieve and cure in a smart pot, where a lot of worms do their work, and after a few more weeks I sieve it again and end up with a very fine humus that goes into the bucket to bubble for a day or so.
Lately I have added horse manure (2.5%) to make a super N+ compost for vegging and on the other hand, volcanic ashes (rich in phosphate, sulphur) plus wood ashes (rich in K) for flowering.
Here are the pictures (those Nespresso bags come handy haha):
