1.Aerobic active compost tea can be applied once or twice a month in fully mature plants as an overall nutrients and microbial booster, by using compost as a main ingredient with a brown sugar or molasses as a food for microbes in the compost and lastly, the aquarium air pump to make sure that there’s enough oxygen in the brewing bucket at all times.
Making Compost Tea (200 liters recipe)
- Prepare 100 liters of clean water.
- Add 2.5 kg compost with 2 cups brown sugar or molasses.
- Brew with an oxygen pump for 24-48 hours.
- Add 100 liters of water before use.
- Make sure that pH and ppm are in the optimal range.
- Must be used all at once.
2.SST or Sprouted Seeds Tea also can be used once or twice a month in fully mature plants, SST is a utilization of natural enzymes present in the seeds of a wide variety of plants including barley, corn and legumes. All of these enzymes help plants thrive happily with enhancing immunity and more resistance to plant diseases.
Alfalfa is our choice for SST, they are from legume family which beside of there nitrogen fixation potential, Alfalfa is also is rich in enzymes, vitamins, proteins and especially Triacontanol, a plant hormone that is highly effective in stimulating natural growth by increasing chlorophyll levels for better photosynthesis and increase more root mass.
How to Make SST from Alfalfa Seeds (20L Recipe)
- Soak 1 ounce or 28 grams of seeds in clean water for about 8 hours.
- Washup with clean water then wrap seeds in a cloth loosely to maintain moisture.
- Spray on cloth twice a day, be careful not to over wet them.
- After 24-72 hours, the roots should sprout.
- When the root is the same length as the seed, they are good to go.
- Put these seeds in a blender.
- Blend!
- Then mix with 20 liters of clean water before use and should be used immediately all at once.
