Compost tea question.

Ya tell me about it, every time i get interested in something new i always end up needing a PhD to understand it correctly....i turned farming into a 50 000$ trip back to school

 

If ever you feel the need to go down the rabbit hole and learn all about microorganisms i would be glad to help and point you in the right direction. I would suggest to start with cell identification (plant and animal) because it's the base of everything, then bacteria, phages and viruses, then start going up in size. Hell if you speak french i can send you some textbook screenshots. It seems like a lot of information at first but it eventually sinks in. Don't be a stranger.

 

Here's a 50 gallon one designed by microbe man, i believe he explains how to build one on his site, i would really suggest something similar to this. 50 gallon Microbulator (Compost Tea Brewer) - FREE SHIPPING

 

Dont buy it, DIY.

 

sorry, I was at work all night, just got home.
for a 100 gal tank I don't think ANY air pump would work good, and they are obnoxiously loud!. One of the greatest pleasures I got from stop growing in DWC was no air pumps and the noise and vibrations!

The pond pump is a bit overkill i'd think.... BUT it is a step in the right direction. I'd recommend a submergible pump which is the style that one is.

I see Dreadhed linksed to a brewer unit. That's exactly what I was thinking of. Forget the expensive price and look at how it works with the pump in the tank under the pic pipe coming up and than u-bends to drop the pumped water back into the tank.
It's a very efficient and much more effective way of aerating the water for dissolved oxygen than any air pump and air stones could possibly give you.
Since you already ordered the large 100 gal tank all you need to recreate a similar brewer for a lot less than $600 is a pump, some pic pipe and bends, and if you really want to get fancy you can also build into the pvc system a venturi to add even more oxygen in. As Dreadhed mentioned, you can DIY the whole thing for a LOT less. since you have the tank, without checking prices on anything I bet you could do it for less than $100, definitely less than $200

search search aact brewers on utube and there are a lots of diy videos showing and explaining how and why.

BTW, I'm curious why you need to brew 100 gallons of compost tea at a time? Most compost teas you can dilute down like 10x or so and it's still very effective so only 10 gallons of actual brewed tea can still give you 100 gallons of tea to use on plants.

 

With high quality soil mixes and humus you're not going to see long term benefits from aplying ACT. Simply keeping the soil moist a compost tea is 'brewing' right there in your soil, all the time.
Compost tea, or ACT/AACT are more beneficial in large outdoor swats of land where you have a limited amount of humus you want to spread to the entire area but when growing in containers indoors its rather redundant, especially if you have access to enough material just top dress compost right into the pots.

BTW, that bag of "compost tea" from BU is just compost in a fancy little bag (read the ingredients on the back label). You will get the exact same benefits from top dressing the compost and watering it in, minus the hassle, time spent and risk of screwing up a batch of tea.

If you still want to brew for some reason I think @jerry111165 has a vortex brewer he is trying to get rid of.

 

Well might as well just prepare to do the same amount of research on making compost tea as we all did learning how to grow weed, have the right environmental conditions and the infinite time we continue to put into our lighting. Lol

 

Don't be too hard on yourself. There is tons of conflicting and also misinformation, myth on the web regarding growing cannabis. It's not easy sifting through it all to find what is legitimate and what is "broscience" but thankfully these days are numbered as cannabis research gains traction as more and more countries are going legal and the industry finally can invest money in some real research and science that will eventually serve us all to better understand this wonderful plant we love so much.

I recently found this podcast I just started listening to, they host actual scientists and try to stick to facts about growing. I find this episode particularly interesting but you should check out the other ones for tons of great info


www.cannabiscultivationandscience.libsyn.com/

 

I used to make teas. However the same results can be had with top dressing with the added bonus of not dealing with the mess of teas.

 

Hey man its what we are here for just ask away

 

Shit dude i hope i did'nt blow the wind out of your sail. You really don't need to go to college to grow weed, i know people who grow way better weed than i do and don't give a shit about chemistry or physics...it just so happens that i do, but what really made me into a good gardener, and scientist i may add, is trial and error...especially error. Don't worry YOU GOT THIS.

 

That is a hell of a lot of light for a veg room!
For sure the two extra 280's can go into your flower tent