Bobrown on making teas - Blaze's Journey Into Fire Organics - LOS Mix-Bag Seed-2016

bobrown14;3294585 said:

Blazinjones;3287510 said:

nice and ok thanx for all the info u cleared alot of things up for me and tht is what im guna do 2nite is start up a tea of kelp meal and ewc then water in n there neex feeding schedual i jus gave all the girls sum alfalfa tea to help biist the buds in the flower room and hopfully the veg tent will hurry up and start doing there thing lol but yea thanx brotha ill do the kelp and ewc tea and c how they like it should i also do a foiler spray with the kelp ewc tea??

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What I do with the Kelp Meal is rehydrate it say 1 cup of kelp meal to a quart jar of water.. let that sit in water over night. Next day put that into a blender and blend the kelp meal down ... pour that mix with the water back into the quart jar. Put that in the back of the fridge and let it sit over night. The water will come to the top and it will be a sorta brownish color. Strain that liquid into your sprayer and spray that as a foiler.. That liquid usually gives me several foilers .... don't forget to mix that with water.. I usually put say 1-2 tbs of that kelp water in with a 1/2 gal water and foiler with my normal IPM routine/ingredients.

Now the kelp meal that's in the jar, you can use that at 1-2 tbs into your water and water in with your normal watering routine. You can do that say every other watering... or mix it with some malted grains ground up and water in.

For flowers and getting the ladies to really shine thru with big flowers, malted grain teas are my go to. 1x a week, 1oz of ground up malted grain, malted barely, malted corn or malted Buckwheat or mix them together to make up 1 oz... doesn't have to be exact. I use a beater coffee grinder and 1oz of malted grains fills the coffee grinder and grind to a fine powder. Watch the ladies love you...

Timing on the teas is important. Like you've been doing, the Alfalfa teas are good in VEG and early flower since that tea is high in (N) nitrogen so we want the plant to store that up for later when she starts looking for nutrients in the big fan leaves later one say after 40 days in flower... and senescence starts picking up... amino acids and enzymes (why we are using malted grains) play a very important role with the N cycle within the plant. So taper off the N (alfalfa) teas and ramp up the enzyme teas (malted grains) going into mid and late flower. I've been adding in some ground malted grain to my soil mix as well, so its there to help with the N uptake with the younger plants.

Sometimes this promotes ugly plants with beautiful flowers... meaning those big leaves we are going to compost or make tea with, will loose green color, start to curl... look ugly ... sometimes if we are lucky, fall colors, then the leaves fall off. The plant is done with them. All of that is so the plant can produce flowers and seeds. We humans intervene with the seed part.




There's some serious science about this process... driven of course by the almighty dollar. Nitrogen fertilizer is the most expensive and the most damaging chemical fert for our environment so there's a bunch of scientific studies done on this whole process.

Here's an article that I found interesting:

Nitrogen uptake, assimilation and remobilization in plants: challenges for sustainable and productive agriculture | Annals of Botany | Oxford Academic

Thank me later for your brain freeze.. I got it too... hahahahaha Time to puff....

You may wonder ... why don't I just by the bottles and forget about all the (not)work?

First is quality first, quality 2nd... and quality 3rd.... and puff puff... pass

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