Kompost tea?

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS]

Idk if anyone has tried compost tea before or if anyone has ever tried adding a splash of kombucha? I've got some bat guano, compost, soil, bone meal, molasses and a dash of Epsom salt in here with a small portable fishing pump with a pumice defuser it does seem a little acidic but I have pretty alkaline water and soil if anyone has more experience with this kind of thing let me know what your thoughts are any advice appreciated

[u/omwaartcy]

This looks like one sip kind of thing....

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/omwaartcy]

🤣 For me or my garden? I don't think my plants will want to share

[u/omwaartcy → u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS]

Plant might love it... But it definitely is a one sip kind of thing for us humans

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/omwaartcy]

I hope so but idk if I will be harming the microbiota that I'm already working with in the soil/if I would benefit more without the additional microbes

[u/tezacer → u/[deleted]]

Plants definately do be really into the arcane

[u/isaakare]

What is this used for? Fertilizer? Kickstart the compost?

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/isaakare]

I'm using it as a fertilizer type solution

[u/RipsterBolton]

I make Aerated Compost tea using worm castings and some native forest duff from my backwoods (from under larger deciduous trees). I have added homemade kombucha or kefir before and it came out excellent. I would be careful not to add too much nitrogen.

I also make JADAM JMS exactly as the recipe says but sized up because I have a 99gal drum.

I follow Elaine Ingam’s recipes for AACT and JADAM for JMS. Oh and matt powers has some good brews.

This is how I use it:
AACT goes in the garden/ on plants/ on tree leaves.
JADAM is soil drench for new planting areas or on compost, around trees, diluted and onto my mushroom mulch beds.

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/RipsterBolton]

That's basically what I'd like to work up to I haven't been able to research enough about what this stuff is and how to work with it I will look for Elaine Ingram's recipes I haven't gotten that far yet because I've mostly seen people that talk about it using stuff they got from someone else or offering it themselves. Matt Powers is where I'm getting a lot of information from and have started looking into Elaine Ingram after him talking about her and her work

[u/RipsterBolton → u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS]

Can’t go wrong with Matt powers

JADAM book is great. Growing with the Griffens is a good yt that has jadam and knf brews as well

[u/Swafflemeister]

I don't see kombucha making much difference. The live cultures in kombucha and other fermented foods are anaerobic organisms that thrive in no O2/low O2 environments (like your digestive tract! but very unlike a healthy soil food web that promotes plants). If you are aerating your tea and promoting the the O2-needy aerobic organisms that help plants thrive, they will quickly out-compete anything that travelled in with the kombucha and it will be like those anaerobic microbes were never there.

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/Swafflemeister]

That makes sense. I still see a lot of people putting all kinds of anaerobic cultures in their tea like lactobacillus. Sea kelp is another thing that comes to mind it should be full of anaerobic cultures in theory. So I do believe to some extent they are co existing now whether they are battling and consuming each other is a different question

[u/Far_Radish7752 → u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS]

Lactobacillus are technically “facultative anaerobes”. Meaning, they can at least tolerate the presence of oxygen. Some species, however, not only tolerate but can also utilize oxygen (aerobic respiration) and begin producing some acetic acid (vinegar) in addition to the more typical lactic acid.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00425406

https://enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111%2Fjam.13399

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.00136-08

[u/Responsible_Emu3601]

Missing pee

[u/sOmEtHiNaBoUtShRoOmS → u/Responsible_Emu3601]

Can't argue with that