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[Muddy]

You might also consider getting some House & Garden Roots Excelurator. http://www.house-garden.us/roots-excelurator. It's a bit expensive but the dosage is only 1 ml (1 ml = 0.0338 fl oz) per gallon so it goes a long way. It can be used in soil, coco or hydro. I started using it last year when I started my hydro grow and the results were so impressive I'm now using it in soil as well. The side hairs on the roots in my hydro are now over 1/4" long and as thick around as the main roots. It's not a sterile product so shouldn't be used in any hydro systems running sterile or using hydrogen peroxide.

 

[GodAmJT]

There ya go. If you have a grow even in full swing right now, it's not too late for a myco/trico/bacto root blast

From everything I've read, everyone SHOULD use bene-bacteria from seedling until chop. It's not like nutes where you would potentially need to flush or that it might burn smaller plants.. Using the tea adds such a small, trace amount of nutes that it should never affect the way your plant acts with regard to nute uptake.. Also keep in mind, you use the tea about once a week, maybe a little longer between treatments, but typically you only need between 8-12fl oz of the tea per plant, poured right at the base of the stalk.. Also, when you do add the tea, you do it in between waterings/feedings since some nutes can actually kill the bacteria before they do work, son!!!!

 

[Waximus]

Well, I am SURE that there'll be a proper use of myco/trico/bact in this grow. This is why I love AFN. All of your experiences are making me more aware, and prepared, to rock this grow! Thank you, All!

 

[Getgrowingson]

Dont forget carbs for them to munch on bro. Use carbs with bennies always. Just a little at first and as you hit flower up the dosage

 

[Waximus]

Thanks, G I continue to use blackstrap, with stump teas as well as for a carb loader in flower. Those micro buggers sure love their sugar!

 

[drgreen]

i use tea on my seeds for germing, and feed them for 1 week until i put them in final pots as they wil have alsmot rootbound the partycups after 5-7days, they love it liek omg its crazy

ive done an atricle on thctalk somwhere about bennie teas and followed up alot about aloe vera on breedbay,

aloe.. look up the plant benefits.. massive!! not to mension its a suffocant meaning no water droplts are left on the leaves, it causes an even spread lol so no light burning, means foilar feeding is made easy and safe

 

[Waximus]

Great info, AutoTeaser! Thank you. Question: do you dilute the tea for seedlings? Or, just brew it "weak"? Is there any worry about burning/stunting the little girls with a tea?

 

[GodAmJT]

From my perspective, I feed all of my plants the same concentration of tea, since there aren't any nutes in it really.. The one thing I will note though, is that for fuller grown plants, like I mentioned, 8-10oz each.. For seedlings, I'd use only a couple ounces..

 

[drgreen]

tea is weak, you aint adding anythign majoy exept somthign that wil protect the roots and enable them to work better,.

its basicly a soil u can pot with and a few extra bits.

all ya do is get ya bucket pumping and throw in a half hand of EWC soil and leave it for 8 hours, organic matter will seperate the chloramines to amonia and chrloine ,,, the chrloine wil bubble off in that time, (they kil bennies)

then add 2 hands of EWC mollasses spoon and 2 spoons of aloe vera, mix it all up and 1 hour later add ya microhiz shashet (around £5-8 online) to collenate other species into it (other than what the ewc adds)

now spin that shit for 24-48 hours, it will bubble like when ya make shash when its ready it will smell liek soil,
if u leave it too long it will start to smell liek a dirty pond

ull master the sweet spot fast,

strain it thru a siv a few times to remove most the soil, now u can store it in the fridge to keep it but it wil only last about a week they start to die fast without a food .

now ill pour a glass half full and il add half cup of warm water to germinate,

while they germ i wil use full strengh to soak their pots, so they dry out a little and settle under lights, then when germed ill put them in the soil,

the next day they will be out the soil and wil grow rapidly

just wish my supply was here on time

 

[Waximus]

Excellent instructions, AutoTeaser! I am going to brew a tea today Thank you!