How to make LIQUID ORGANIC FERTILIZER for CHEAP with this COMPOST TEA BREWER!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video we show you how we created a compost tea brewer out of a 55 gallon barrel to produce organic liquid fertilizer for our raised bed garden. Thanks for watching and enjoy!
Things in this video (affiliate):
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Fish Fertilizer: amzn.to/3wcN1QD
Blackstrap Molasses (Unsulfured): amzn.to/3sjwc5v
Compost Tea Recipe (50 gallons):
- 16 cups of worm castings
- 1 cup of fish fertilizer (or kelp)
- 1 cup of blackstrap molasses
Build Materials:
- 2 10' 1/2" PVC Pipe
- 8 45° 1/2" PVC Unions
- 1 90° 1/2" PVC Union (one side threaded)
- 1 1/2" to barb fitting (size depends on aerator pump)
- 3 1/2" tees
- 2 1/2" caps
Chapters:
0:00 - Why We Need Compost Tea
2:04 - How We are Aerating
2:56 - Food Safe 55 Gallon Barrel
4:26 - Step 1: Making the Base
6:59 - Step 2: Supply Line & Top Bar
9:26 - Step 3: Putting it all Together
12:01 - Step 4: Air Supply Line
13:06 - Step 5: Drilling Holes
13:50 - Testing the System
14:49 - Making the Compost Tea
18:14 - Final Result & Common Questions
19:35 - Outro
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Check out part 2 of this video on how we dispense the fertilizer from the barrel onto our plants!
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Just a thought, make sure your molasse un-sulfered. Cheers, good stuff.
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I don't know how much molasses you go through, but you can probably get feed grade molasses at your local feed mill or farm supply for a tiny fraction of what you pay for that black strap cooking molasses. You can get a five gallon pail for a couple of bucks. Farmers toss that on cattle feed as a supplement, and while you might not want to put it in your bread, it is completely safe for what you are doing. Make some phone calls and save yourself some money.
I use the "farmer" molasses too. Along with the worm castings and fish poo. From what I can tell the diluted fish poo, as a drench, has great results all by itself. What ever you do, don't get the undiluted fish poo on your clothes. If you do you might as well throw them away.
Feed molasses tends to have sulfur added to it as a preservative, which is deadly to microbes
The molasses at your produce store is likely to contain sulphur which will kill microbes so not a good idea unless you verify it is unsulphurated molasses
Just like anything else in life, for better results it takes time. Normally the entire barrel is stuffed with vegetation and water added, after sitting in the barrel for about 3 months youll have your tea and it will be glorious. You can add weeds and any type of plant material even mowed grass and it will be beneficial.
Use 1/2" black poly irrigation tubing with stainless clamps on the fittings. You'll save a lot of fittings and it will withstand some pressure- no glue necessary. Much faster too, you just bend it into the loop you want and connect your tee. Lol that thing is bubbling like a jacuzzi! ❤
Good build. I made something very similar a few years back, put a tap at the bottom of mine & raised it off the ground. Makes for easy dispensing.
Much cheaper and easier method. Punch a bunch of holes in the garden hose, and place that in a circle at the bottom.
it can be even simpler, chuck bio waste in barrel full of water, put lid on, wait 3-6 months, strain and boom you've got jadam JLF, dilute 1:200 (yes 1:200, so 20 gallon barrel produces 4,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer)
That's right. 🤗JADAM is a very efficient and inexpensive way to build healthy soil in your local area with local resources. Most people don't understand that once you go more than an inch deep in the soil the majority of your indigenous microorganisms are anaerobic, or in a oxygen deprived system. Which is what you should be trying to increase, the anaerobic indigenous microorganisms to increase the long-term health of your soil. Any aerobic microorganisms added, created from outsourced substances will live very short lives and will have to be continuously replaced.
Mother nature does not have bubbling systems strategically placed all over the place LOL.
This guy is working against himself and mother nature.
Easy to follow. Works great. I appreciate the video you made.
Absolutely amazing video. Very knowledgeable. Super helpful. I believe this will work well, and look forward to future video’s
Looking forward to the positive changes!!
Looks awesome but way more complicated and costly than needs to be to get air into the bottom of the barrel. One line in and to the bottom and one line going across the bottom.
Good project. You should also be adding kelp meal and soluble, a Calcium source and humic and or fulvic acid. Really makes the tea pop. Remember the more diverse the foods, the more diverse the biology, within reason.
I suggest buying some Recharge from Real Growers (comes in a yellow bag) and adding a scoop of that to your compost tea when you brew it then feeding to your plants. Recharge has all kinds of beneficial bacteria plus it has humic acid, fulvic acid, amino acid, kelp and molasses. It would supercharge your compost tea and this stuff is not too pricey for how long it lasts.
your videos are great, thank you
Great Content My Brother Farmer! I will Be Following Your Set Up In My Backyard Garden. Thanks! 👍
Before I got my rain barrels, I used to let the chlorinated water sit for a week in my shed before using it. Fill up the barrel and leave the lid off. No need for vitamin c. Keeping it in the shed Keeps the bugs and creatures out for me but you may want to use a screen if you have mosquitoes.
Nice build
great video! i'm gonna build it! Just starting out, Cheers!
Thank 💯 you for perfect video and gr from Antalya
Amen brother i love it
I love you for this
Nice channel name, hello from a Christian fellow from Australia...
Thank you
Nice job 🍀🙏
Great project. Thanks. Havagudun bud.
Awesome project! If you do end up gluing the pvc, you'll need a union in the middle of the threaded pieces since each ends theads are opposite.
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Nice video.
Awesome.
Can we use this recipie with green house canabis growing
Nice going to make ond
That barrel set up like that would make a nice live bait well for my fish bites
Yeah great idea
That's pretty much a deep water culture setup. You could easily make something a bit smaller and plant stuff directly into it.
I love that You keep saying, “yeah, something like that”, and You cut it…and it fits freakin’ Perfectly!..😂👍🏻
So glad I saw this video! You make this look so Easy!..
Last year I bought a 5gal Food Grade bucket, a Gal of Black Strap Mol off Amazon, & planned to buy some Straw, + Use a Whole Fish and throw it all together, then allow it to Ferment and produce my long term Fertilizer, bcuz Fertilizer, especially organic and/or fish Fert is so expensive!..(Ida stopped all those plans+they’re still on hold while displaced for repairs)..
Anyways, saw Your little jar of Molasses & had to Laugh at Myself (since I ordered a whole stinking gallon & all I’m doing is container gardening w/far, far, far less space than Y’all!..*smiles* thought to myself, Man, we should trade molasses containers..😂🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️)… Now going to do some more research into the Vit C (thought you could allow rain water or tap to evaporate the chlorine open over time, but now not so sure🤷🏻♀️so will research)…Thanks for sharing Your ideas, experiences & expertise…it’s been educational & inspiring, as Always..& btw, Happy Mother’s Day to Your Wife..🙂..I hope she had a Restful, Relaxing, and Enjoyable Mother’s Day in which she felt Loved and Appreciated for all She has done and does as a Mother..& as a Mother, on Mother’s Day, I SALUTE HER! 🫡..😁👍🏻
The chlorine is a gas, so letting it sit out in the open sun/air for 24 hours will release/eliminate the chlorine( even faster when adding the use of an air bubbler). My water municipality adds chloramine( a liquid ) to the city water, so I use humic/fulvic acid to neutralize to this. If your city water supply uses chlorine to disinfect the water, let your water sit out for about 24 hours. If they use chloramine to disinfect, use humic/fulvic acid. Or...skip all of this and use rainwater, well water or springwater. Hope this helps! Cheers!
For a 5 gallon bucket you might just make an X or a square with the bottom
PVC pipes rather than a heptagon
Can I use this as aeroponics or hydroponics system?
How often do you change out the castings? And how long are you aerating per batch ?
Interesting idea. I have always been fascinated by the concept of "garden teas", but I hate doing things in my garden if I'm not convinced they work.
I have 6 four foot square raised beds and the only thing I add is about 3 inches of compost on the surface and then cover with a thick layer of leaves at the end of each season.
Starting 6 years ago I reserved 3 of my beds for some "garden tea" trials. Each season I tried a different form of compost tea - aeroboic and anaerobic, worm tea, compost tea and several other formulations, one of which was composed of dead fish (stunk like hell) and another that included molasses.
I'm not very scientific so I don't accurately measure my comparisons ... I'm just looking for something that makes me go "wow" in comparison to my traditional beds. I have to admit that I haven't found any significant difference. But I'm still searching.
Cheers and thanks for posting.
It works, we have never bought fertilizer. My grandpa showed me this 30 years ago and I use it today. Except we fill the entire barrel with vegetation then add water, it becomes a stinky potent monster plant booster.
If you are comparing using compost directly on the surface vs taking that compost and brewing it up and applying the tea... and the remnants from the brewing process to the same beds... there will not be a difference.
Brewing teas does not create additional nutrition, it just speeds up the process of making the nutrients plant available. Maybe this is good or bad for your situation. Compost on the surface will break down over some time, releasing nutrients at a slow pace. Compost teas will have the very same nutrients, just available sooner. Making note that they then can be leached out from your soil if you plants are needing them at that time.
@@mattde4606 That makes sense. My idea is that if your soil is reasonably healthy (as mine is with only the addition of compost), the plants are already getting the nutrients they need. Adding more nutrients doesn't do anything for the plants at all.
Perhaps compost teas will work in a deficient soil - possibly more quickly than adding compost. I don't know, for sure.
@@priayief At the end of the day if you have a five gallon bucket of compost... you can either
A: spread it around your garden.
or
B: fill a bunch of buckets with that compost, add water, add bubblers, wait X amount of days, filter the water, fill up and spray your garden down until all the water is gone, then go back and take the material you filter out and apply it to the same garden.
In either scenario, once the compost is completely decomposed, you will have the exact same plant available nutrients added to you garden soil. One just seems like a lot more work, But if you need to spread out your compost's nutrients because you don't have enough, teas can do that... though at a highly diluted ratio. Or if you have a bunch of potted plants where compost wouldn't work to well... teas are good for that.
how the air pump was installed?
I want to see the sprayer. Very interested in that. I’ve already built what your video showcased.
I’ve got a sprayer video coming soon. I implemented it this week, works great. Thanks for watching Bill!
@@GoshenFarmandGardens hopefully very soon. I grow and sell super hot peppers and this tea method along with other things I’ve learned works great. Check out my TH-cam channel. And I’m on fb as well.
For treating chlorinated water, there's lots of stuff in the aquarium industry that can pretty instantly make it fish safe. If you live in the US, I just use that API tap water conditioner. You can order it in quarter gallon jugs too if you need the quantity. Only takes a few milliliters to treat 5 gallons.
or just let the water stand for a day or two and the chlorine will gas off
Did you ever make Comfrey tea?
Nice video. One important note, make sure you use sulfur-free molasses, or the sulfur will kill all the bacteria.
Conor you DEFINITELY either grow weed or have before. Nice catch on the sulfur-free and not killing off your microbes 💯
What would be the NPK value of this? Seems very little.
How much and how often do one treat a small garden.
Why worm castings? Could you use your own compost from a compost bin?
awesome idea for me, i have a retention pond access and have pumped water from it to a large garbage bin, approx 100 feet run of power cord to pump in pond along with hose to fill garbage barrel , then a small pump in the garbage barrel to pump water thru drip system too raised beds, i was worried at first about the harm this retention pond water could have, ie. chemicals from surrounding neighbors yards drain into the pond, the pond has no inlet other than rain, no fish would survive but its loaded with frogs so i thought it might be a good source of water and used it, my plants did not die, they seemed to love the water, i am curious if a made a tea barrel if they would love it more ? , excellent video thank you
Awesome! I’m sure they will. One quick tip. Try to pump as much water as you can right after or during a big rain, that way most of what you’re getting is rain water.
@@GoshenFarmandGardens that makes sense, thank you, and i forgot to compliment you on your garden, its beautiful, , i am very jealous
will it burn if not diluted?
What is the name of the song at the beginning of the video , starting at 0:14 seconds ?
one solution instead of gluing with PVC glue is using silicone for aquariums
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Do you have to keep it aerating constantly or just for the "brew"?
We aerate constantly and use all of it within 24-48hrs. We will apply it to the entire garden once or twice a month depending on need.
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Great video on setting up a tea barrel.
If you are wanting to compare compost teas vs just using the compost directly in the garden.......
Teas are great if you have a limited amount of compost input and you want to spread it out over a large area. Teas are good to use on potted plants or places where adding compost wouldn't be the best idea. The idea being, compost teas are just an alternate application method.
Brewing does not make the original input ingredients any more nutritious then they were at the start. Brewing just speeds up the decomposition of those ingredients to make them plant available sooner vs letting the material decompose normally in the garden. So saying that brewing tea makes your compost go ten times as far... is true.... but you need to add that teas are also ten times as weak in comparison to using the compost directly in the garden.
I believe you are only looking at nutrient level of the compost solid versus liquid. The tea brewing is growing the bacteria and fungal microbes and multiplying them exponentially. This added to the soil then increases the soil biology and creates the nutrients from the poop of the soil organisms that the plants can then absorb. investigate the soil food web. It is amazing.
@@brianb.6282 Every type of soil is already supporting the maximum amount of soil life possible based on the levels of food availability and the environment of the soil. So if you brew up all this life and dump it onto that soil.... it will quickly die off or go into stasis because you aren't adding more food or changing the environment of the soil.
It would be like going to a frat house on a weekend that has a large party going on, loads of food and drink, life is happening... then gathering up all the people onto a bus and dropping them off at kid's birthday party going on a park. A few might stay for the cake... but most will call an uber and go home... and some of the parents will take their kids home because there are some college guys hanging around the cake. At the end of the day, you aren't making the birthday party any better.
@@mattde4606 poo
@@mattde4606this is what always concerned me about applying all these biological amendments.
One very important factor is that brewing increases the beneficial microbes exponentially. If this spray is applied to the soil it should benefit soil health and thus produce healthier plants - provided there is sufficient organic matter in the soil for the applied microbes to feed on.
How often do you add the tea to your raised beds?
We will apply this to our entire raised bed garden area once or twice a month.
pretty good bro i learnt from you im going to try it here in australia on my homestead
How much do you add to each? Like if we did it with a hand pump sprayer would we just wet each plant, and not like *deeply* water? I'm wondering how far the barrel will go. Maybe water it in after you spray the fertilizer.
The best way to use it is a foliar spray. This must be done in early evening as the fungi and bacteria would be damaged by sunlight if done during the day. I made worm compost tea for 20 yrs. Never had tomato worms, blight, or any other pathogenic diseases and very large and productive plants.
@@carolynoconnor8567 foliar can certainly help with plant health and pathogen reduction, but the plant primary gets it's foot from the root zone, and certainly beyond the occasional regular foliar application, most people will have fewer foliar diseases by fertigating to the root zone and avoiding water on the leaves.
Compost tea is not damaged by sunlight. Studies have been done and no bad consequence from sunlight.
Could this idea or process be used as organic fertilizer for hydroponics?
As long as it is a re circulating system of course, I would think kratky style would go aerobic and not be good.
Thanks for the video
hydro does not like organic stuff. Too much water that makes the organic stuff rot/go bad. You're better off using a high quality fertilizer such as Masterblend along with calcium nitrate and magnesium sulphate.
@@kenshinhimura9387 most hydro does use mineral salt fertilizer, but this would absolutely work for hydro, you just need to ensure your particulate matter does not clog your emitter setup.
Ricirculation would be problematic for hydro systems, as it would require UV sterilization to avoid pathogen build up and spread, which would be antithematic to the bio activity of the tea. Many people wanting to grow organically will want to promote the biological activity in the root zone, so a modified hydro set up using coco coir may work. Watch you emitters don't get clogged, and use the leachate in a spilhbased garden, rather than recirculating.
@@elibennett3034 Roots in a hydro system grow MUCH better than organic ever could. My tomato roots are 3-4 feet long and filling my hydro reservoir. Once in awhile I use recharge and either toss a scoop into my rez or I mix it in a watering can and pour it directly over the roots of the plants. I am growing outdoors in Florida using hydro under a greenhouse and I don't have any problem with pathogens.
@@kenshinhimura9387Deep water can be quite impressive when done right. I have only rarely seen it done at scale though, and never yet with long term success. The industry standard is rockwool or similar inert media, biological colonization of the root zone, establishment of beneficial insects, and a few highly targeted sprays if needed. I imagine you are doing similar, but adapted to deep water. Recirculation becomes problematic at scale primarily due to the to potential loss from pathogen spread, the mechanical problems from biofilm, and maintaining desired nutrient levels (replacement and accumulation).
If you are doing deep water tomatoes commercially, I would be EXTREMELY INTERESTED in hearing more about it.
Would this work on fruit trees as well??
Absolutely
Want to make sure nothing comes apart but can still be taken apart again get some stainless steel screws put them in each joint and it'll never come apart but if you need to change it just remove the screws and it comes apart easy
No need for screws. It's just to supply air, so tight fitting the pipes should be adequate. His pipe setup is overkill, though, in my opinion.
What is the function of the pvc pipe system? What is it for?
It's just to mix the contents, bit overdone lol
Missing something... How did you get the barrel to a rolling boil?
It’s hooked up to an aerator, just air no heat 👍
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Why do you put the lid on the barrel?
Show me how make caffinsin
I don’t understand the screw ins?
you must have an engineering back ground you made that more difficult than it should of been.
You could have spent $26 on a 1/2” blue pex 100’ hose from Amazon
Weldon pls can you just list out the ingredients thanks
I clicked on this because I was like, why is this dudes tea look yellow? then after watching the video I realized they photoshopped actual gold in the title photo. Normally I would say not cool/ clickbait nonsense, but that's kind of funny.
"100% liquid gold" standing next to a 50 gallon container. What has he been drinking. In the UK the term Liquid Gold, when applied to gardening and grow your own, generally refers to urine and its use as a fertiliser or compost activator.
So, for 50 gallons of liquid gold what have you been drinking?
Yes. Don't pee on the fresh lettuce, but don't flush it away either. If you use wood ash, you can balance the acidity with urine.
I pee on my homemade biochar, sometimes if a plant's leaves look a little too light (not veggies) I'll be around it but not directly on the roots. Working with humanure too for fertilizing trees.
You need to mulch homie
U look like vsauce
you are multiplying the bacteria by doing this. you can do fungi but only with fungi-dominated compost like woodchips compost and you add it at the end of the brew - an hour or so. bacteria likes simple carbs - sugar, molasses, potatoes being more complex but still promoting bacteria. fish, if with the oil intact and also the bones gr0und, will promote both fungi and bacteria.. if you have crab/shrimp shell, grind these - great fungi food...blessings to all
Your design is pretty, but super over complicated. For an aerobic system, you just need to add oxygen. A simple pipe pumping air to the bottom would have done the job perfectly fine. All you need to do is make sure there is sufficient oxygen to feed the bacteria. No need to get over complicated. Something like a fish tank bubbler would have been more than adequate.
You don't need any of this... Grow Comfrey... Harvest 3 times, chop up leaves and stems. Throw it all in a plastic barrel, fill it with water. It's going to take a year to get your first fertiliser. Keep it going every year. It's the best liquid fertilizer you'll ever make. It has one problem problem... It stinks
You can get 20 times more nutrition by adding
1. Gaukripa Amrutam
OR
2. Waste Decomposer - OWDC made by Dr. Kishan Chandra.
Both are almost free, but you have to culture them at your farm site itself.
Not only fertiliser you can make compost, growth promoter but also top class insecticide, virucide.
You talk too much, get to the point