Comfrey and Alfalfa Tea

How much water did you make the tea with?

 

To give you an idea of what I do when I make my (LD recommended) Alfalfa/Kelp Meal tea, I make the tea itself as follows:

- 5 Gal. RO Water
- 1 Cup Alfalfa Meal
- 1/4 Cup Kelp Meal
- Toss in the fully submersible aquarium heater @ 67-68F

I let that bubble with some air stones, stirring it up (to move around anything that has settled at the bottom) a couple of times in a 24-36 hour brew period. It will really start to foam up when you've extracted all the goodness.

Strain it through a 5 Gal. paint strainer bag strapped onto another 5 Gal. bucket.
Feed the strained alfalfa/kelp to your worms.

Then after I have made the tea brew, I can go one of two ways:

#1 (If feeling not so ambitious):
Spray & Drench:
- Add BioAg Fulvic Acid (recommended amount on bottle)
- Add Pro Tekt (1.75ml/Gal?)
- Add 1/4 cup Aloe Vera Juice per gallon (if you have it)

#2 (For those feeling ambitious/anal):

For a Spray:
- Add BioAg Fulvic acid (recommended amount on bottle)
- Add Pro Tekt (1.75ml/Gal?)
- Add 1/4 cup Aloe Vera Juice per gallon (if you have it)

For a Drench:
- Add BioAg HumiSolv or TM-7 (recommended amount on bag)
- Add Pro Tekt (1.75ml/Gal?)
- Add 1/4 cup Aloe Vera Juice per gallon (if you have it)

 

I would use it at a rate of 1-2 cups of any combo of each per five gallon bucket. Stir it well or bubble it over a day or two then use as a drench. If your comfrey is powder lower the amounts by half. I would consider 2 cups per 5 gallons of water as pretty strong, and one per 5 more normal.


For foliar I like a 1/4 cup of alfalfa meal in one gallon of water. I let it sit for one or two days then strain off the alfalfa (and top dress it) and spray. I get new growth in one or two days, helpful after a topping, scrogging, lsting, or any stress in veg or early flower. Works like a charm.....MIW

 

CIR

Instead of all that straining and extra buckets, I just get Queen size trouser socks at the $ store and make a tea bag to suspend in the bucket.

Much easier on the back.

Wet

 

it looks like an ACT without the vermicompost. Are you making a botanical tea or an ACT?

 

The air stones are only for turbulence, not for their oxygenating value.

 

I've been using non-bleached coffee filters to hold the ingredients in my tea. I only run 2gal or less at a time, so this seems to work good for me.

Any reasons why I shouldn't use coffee filters?

Also when making an AACT how hot is too hot for the water to be? I have a aquarium heater that you can't adjust, works great in my 2gal but heats the water up to around 85f or so in smaller brews.