Been a wet year already. More rain this afternoon/ evening. My plants are doing great outside in the ground but i wanted to give them some compost tea today. What the best time to do it? Before, during or after the rain?
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After the rain.. if given any other time it will dilute and wash away.
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@ChittyChittyBangin so I’m not going to be able to wait up until after the rain. So do i wait until tomorrow to feed the tea it has air stones in it so it’s getting oxygen but it has been brewing about 24 hours right now. If i wait until tomorrow the tea will have brewed for about 52 hours total before i get to it
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The max ive ever gone with brewing tea is 48 hrs. If you can shut it off at 48 hours it will keep for until you can use it.
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Use it or loose it.
It would go anaerobic after 48hrs. Microbial would max by 36ish and start to decline. It doesn’t keep. If it smells bad, then it is bad (full of anerobes).
Anecdotally, be careful where you dump it out. I killed an orange tree dumping a bad tea on it. It was outside, so I was thinking nature would cope. I use the toilet now.
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I think I would use it, just do a slow watering while it’s raining… you’ll probably lose it if you wait. Anything that goes anaerobic like that stinks really, really bad… as me how I know LOL
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I used it at 27 hours before the rain to be safe.
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Sounds great, and glad to hear this. It’s not like the life in the tea is gonna be washed away by the rain. They move readily in water and are able to hold themselves in the rhizosphere.
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