How to Grow Amazing Plants with Compost Tea - Masterclass with Dr. Elaine Ingham (Part 2 of 5)

Dr. Elaine Ingham presents her compost tea and extracts masterclass. She covers why to use compost tea, key compost tea ingredients, how to make compost tea, and how to apply compost tea for the most benefit.
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[@cannaflex420]

Smartest out there no questions about it she is amazing. I learned more from her then everyone on you tube put together. This style of organic is simply amazing and microscope is next on my list.

[@jeremyhula931]

This is for me to go back to easily find an area. 6:00 mins she starts talking about compost leche, compost tea, and compost extract. Temperature in length of time to brew.

[@Shortfoot84]

I have an MPhil in Soil Science and have been working in a Soil Chemistry dominant lab. We produce all this analytical data and it really hit me last year that something was missing. I was looking for my next step and found your content. I am truly inspired. Thank you for introducing and sharing the amazing Dr. Elaine Ingham with me.

[@victorb5]

Thank you for sharing!

[@dertythegrower]

Thank you 👍

[@AbidAli-bv2gl]

Excellent video

[@blahblahlaboratory9381]

Makes sense, thank you.

[@Jtsfarm]

Thank you!!!

[@thenlnlkn]

Truthfully, even if I have a good amount of compost, and I don’t have 10,000 acres, it still takes a lot of compost just to make beds and maintain them. Compost tea also seems far easier to spread than straight compost in place. Also there’s no risk of sticks and other debris (which Is a pain to strain out) shading out the grass or whatever.

[@saintmaxmedia2423]

how to clean the air stone after brewing compost tea? Eva

[@krzysztofrudnicki5841]

Diego how are your vegetables in permanent ground cover?

[@DiegoFooter]

Peppers are still going.

[@organiccleanfoodconnection]

What is your opinion on jadam Korean farming plant juice. He has you use leaf mold along with other plant matter like grass or weeds?

[@B01]

she speaks of anaerobic being bad because 95% of the disease causers are anaerobic. but she does say it's not always bad, and needs to be used with a much, much higher level of caution than most realize. I forget which video exactly that she said it, or I'd link it. Spoke about it because of being asked about KNF/JADAM since they're both anaerobic focused

[@eleanoraddy4683]

It was no till pod cast 21 I think

[@varunsoni326]

​@@B01what about the "liquid manure" that comes out of a bio digester?

[@B01]

@@varunsoni326 haven't heard of the specific system but will look into it! Sounds like it might be designed with that purpose in mind, if it's using heat last 160° for set time period then many of the baddies will be gone!

[@raticallife1320]

hi thank u so much for all this valuable information. may i ask u, what do u think of the bokashi compost bin system?

[@carolinebarley]

I'm so curious about this too! Seems so great! Also expensive from the places I see it easy to get up and running 🙄

[@raticallife1320]

@@carolinebarley well, doesn't look like we're going to get an answer by this person. i bought one, but i am having trouble with mold, so i must be doing it wrong (?)

[@rickylee5126]

Do I use this compost Tea full strength, If I make 5 gallons at a time.

[@DV-ol7vt]

It would be ok, but it depends on the strength of mixture. There is not a to much mixture. I mix about 5 to 6 cups worm poop to 5 gal brew and run through drip irrigation. If I didn’t use a drip irrigation then I would dilute this at a 1gal tea to 10 gal water solution. Example 5 gal tea can make 50 to 55 gallons, I would then use a sump pump to pull from 55 gallon barrels to water plants. If using compost I would use about the same amount. Adding molasses increases bacteria and adding fish emulsion, kelp increase fungi. There are many other things to add but increasing fungal activity is great. It’s always a benefit to put organic matter into the soil but you really don’t know what you actually need or got until you put it under a microscope.

[@harrellt1405]

Im so confused about the whole anaerobic and aerobic thing…why do we care if its not aerated. I mean once the tea is put in the soil it becomes anaerobic anyways. Does it mean all the aerobic bacteria you just cultivated from a pump dies? I heard from some comment that its the same for feeding the bacteria with molasses. It seems like were cultivating bacteria with foods not normally is seen in soil. So if they run out of food(molasses) in the soil do they just die out? Is compost tea even helpful if theres already microbes in the soil? I heard also heard its only good for poor soil.

[@peace4peaceful]

Wish i found this a while ago. I put manure in my water bins and plant CT bins. Pretty sure this has killed a few of my veg. Ill keep manure in the compost now. Ill use worm leachate and plant tea.

[@zedmeinhardt3404]

They often spray "graze on" if I remember the name. Herbicide to keep weeds out of hay fields. Some say it passes into manure and can kill plants if not composted.

[@harrellt1405]

Maybe your manure was too hot. Was it composted? Was it too concentrated?

[@chriseverest4380]

That air pump shown was massive. Can anybody tell me the type of air pump to work with a 5 gallon bucket. It must be able to be cleaned. It must not damage the life in the brew. It must not be a stone bubbler. I am in the UK. and I am technologically incompetent without VERY clear instructions. Help!

[@trophypages]

I love videos that are basically titled "How To" and I finish video not knowing "How to". I pick up pieces of the puzzle.

[@JamesBrown-fd1nv]

You got the "how" and the "why" so why post this?

[@MechaNick03]

Digestate is also a very good fertiliser much better than cow manure, its completely free of smell and worms love it, but i am wondering why because its made within a anaerobic environment

[@varunsoni326]

Exactly what I'm thinking about ! Bio digester

[@ftoftheX]

Coundnt a person just water down their worm bin and let the compost "juice" wash in the garden?

[@godlesschannel7730]

you can,if you dont care about the wellbeing of the worms :D

[@ftoftheX]

@@godlesschannel7730 they'll survive :)

[@melissab8500]

Geoff Lawton does it that way

[@sislertx]

I let my plant.water ait.for three days...i thought it was loosing the chemicals...it does go a bit sour...maybe because dogs are always swimming in it...i guess its better than what comes outta the tap

[@Cucumber-red]

Process of aerating the compost to rip the organisms off the compost: is it 1 day?

[@ShtelmakhHenri]

Yes. But there are a lot of ways to implement it. i prefer johnson&su bioreactor - the laziest and easiest. But i’d like to do as farmer jesse with air pump. So with our ucrainian strong frosts at winter i decided to replace it under a tunnel for a whole winter and cover it by landscape cotto

[@ShtelmakhHenri]

Yes. But there are a lot of ways to implement it. i prefer johnson&su bioreactor - the laziest and easiest. But i’d like to do as farmer jesse with air pump. So with our ucrainian strong frosts at winter i decided to replace it under a tunnel for a whole winter and cover it by landscaper

[@debra4047]

Diego Footer She’s talking about the drop size from the sprayer and says bigger than this. With no visual of her in this presentation how are we to know what not bigger than this is?

[@that_garden_gnome]

she said bigger than 1 millimeter

[@Ultimatefitness360]

We indians using manure tea from centuries but we never face any issues it works great for us

[@PoochDoobie]

So the entire country of india has used manure teas for centuries with absoloutely no issues, is your claim? Any data on that?

[@carolinebarley]

@@PoochDoobie yes I'm sure this person is speaking for the entire country 🤣 obviously they are saying it's a common practice in India. Sources lol they're giving some anecdotal helpful tips 🤦‍♀️

[@Ultimatefitness360]

@@PoochDoobie yes entire country till 1970 but now only organic farmers used manure tea and for data u can check jivamrit prepration and its lab report on google and its benefits .... Its made from cow dung

[@Ultimatefitness360]

@@carolinebarley all sources and data with lab report avilable on google so insted of showing teeths go and check.. Indian mathods are much simpler and very cost effective .. we dont make farming complicated like u thats why we are kings in farming world

[@carolinebarley]

@@Ultimatefitness360 yes I was responding to the guy attacking your response. I loved reading what you had to say. Actually about half of the videos I watch on plants are from Indians in India. I have much respect for what I see from there. ❣

[@Chris-bx4vk]

The story of her getting forgotten in a tank sounds fabricated.. how much else is just her imagination being projected? I've watched folks use far less effort and fewer restrictions to grow great results. David the good is a channel I watch sometimes but he's the only one on KZbin I see trying to simplify this stuff..

[@humicrobe4507]

JADAM has been doing this since 1991 and korean Natural Farming since the 60s. Anaerobic fermentation farming has been used for over 4000 years in the orients.

[@B01]

​​@@humicrobe4507 you mean before we had microscopy and DNA? Knowledge of the soil food web and rhizophagy cycle? lol there's a reason after 4,000 years everyone doesn't do it, it just doesn't work for everyone because 95% of ppl have no clue what they are doing regarding the biology aspect.

[@Ultimatefitness360]

Moral of this video is u cant do farming without compost tea but we farmers doing organic farming without compost tea from centuries without any problam विठोठ3 any knowledge of these bactiria fungai blaa blaa ... Thanks for this video but they just making complicated to farming because this technique is not effected for large scale farming

[@Littleking1985]

Is type of growing requires a microscope as well. Your right farmers for thousands of years have done just fine with many other practices. Always do what works for you.

[@Ultimatefitness360]

@@Littleking1985 thats the key .. always do what is best for u 👍👍👍

[@TheEmbrio]

Yes, real life experience is very good. If someone has been doing good practices for years, their land has great biology. I think these researchers are for 1) proving scientifically that common rural practices work, are not backwards or inefficient, on the contrary and 2) even on degraded landscape, one can bring back hiology pretty fast through compodt, and multiply it with compost tea many fold.

[@B01]

Farming complicated? It takes 21 days to make biologically complete thermo compost...takes 1-3 days for tea to brew and you use a gallon per acre... With compost and compost tea you can end up not needing a single other item to use on a farm. That is quite frankly the simplest, easiest and most successful method of farming on the planet. Due to focusing on the biology, the correct ratio of microbes, they pull the required nutrients for us. We don't need to apply gross smelling manures from methane factory cows, or other various products. Just one product, sustainable and regenerative: good ol compost. that's it! Only learning the microscopy aspect is challenging, but once you do everything else is ez pz.

[@Ultimatefitness360]

@@B01 haaha u really think that just 5 gallon liquid is enough to transform farming ? What about minerals , carbon, npks from where u will get all these for a healthy crop

[@jeffclarke5497]

I guess, if you have never Googled compost tea, this series is an ok, long winded, pre-school lecture that randomly offers info. You just have to try and follow the hit and miss approach to presenting a topic. Just search for compost tea, read a few paragraphs, buy a pump and enjoy.😓