How often can/should you use compost tea?

rodenya01 · July 8, 2021, 9:20pm

Is it a once a week thing? Bi-weekly? Monthly?

I just brewed some compost tea with worm castings and black strap molasses.

Just curious.

Mrb53004 · July 8, 2021, 9:48pm

I use my tea with every watering (watering and feeding are 2 different things…I am usually 3 watering and 1 feed, repeat). I do not use the molasses as it can affect the PH long term. I do that separately when feeding

rodenya01 · July 8, 2021, 10:12pm

What constitutes “feeding” and “watering”?

Mrb53004 · July 8, 2021, 11:28pm

Out of 4 times I water the plants, one is nutrients…I include the molasses then. The other 3 times is TEA only

CkNugz · July 9, 2021, 12:09am

@rodenya01 I would personally only feed with “Teas” once every month. Usually 3-4 times per cycle of plant.

Monk · July 9, 2021, 4:34pm

I brew and dilute with water 4:1 and applied to the entire garden weekly.
No Molasses in the brew. I use molasses (powder) in late flower only.

Cruncher · July 9, 2021, 6:35pm

Hey how you doing? I have been planting for a lot of yrs . This is going to be the first time using molasses. You use only powder form or can you use blackstrap and it is unsulfered

Cruncher · July 9, 2021, 6:38pm

Can someone explain the use of molasses with me and I have not the powder . The true form the blackstrap

MDBuds · July 9, 2021, 7:22pm

@rodenya01 the frequency of feeding with molasses depends on how much molasses you use.

2 tbsp every 4 weeks, 1 tbsp every 2 weeks, or 1 tsp every watering and feeding are the rates I use.

It varies with the needs of the plant or what other feedings or top dressing I am doing.

CkNugz · July 9, 2021, 7:30pm

@Cruncher add @ a rate of 2 tsp. per gallon it’s truly only needed to be used once in the Beginning of making living soil to catalyze the microbial event.

Jram_13 · July 9, 2021, 9:00pm

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Monk · July 10, 2021, 5:36pm

I got the idea from @Rye who used m. powder in his tea brew. I tried it but since I apply the the entire garden I didn’t want to tempt ants which is why I didn’t use the real stuff in the 1st place. I was in full flower on my ‘Volunteers’ so I started using the powder dissolved in water in between feeding and tea. The last few weeks I used @Mrb53004 Ice cube trick to lower soil temp and made Molasses cubes.
Started out at 1T per gal then went to 2 when it seemed to be effective.
Now I am using another idea from @Rye for drying and curing because of the heat.
This is what I love about this forum!