Create Your Own Booster Teas for Vigorous Growth!

Have you used booster teas for improved cannabis growth?

Before you jump to the wrong conclusions, here we are not talking about making cups of builders’ tea with a splash of milk and four sugars.

Nor are we talking about a delicate cup of Earl Grey tea with the mils added to the cup before the tea.

No, we’re talking about the type of ‘cuppa’ that cannabis plants love – lots of lovely microorganisms to help mineralise nutrients and make them easier for your plants to absorb.

We should tell you now that you’ll be needing an air pump, and air line, a bubble stone and a specific ‘tea bag’ that will retain the bulk of the sediment and simply allow the nutrients and microbes to filter through.

Making ‘tea’ involves using aerobic stimulation to activate microbes and catalyse the fermentation process, basically making the tea.

All you really have to do is pile all the ingredients for your tea into the special bag and immerse it in a bucket or tank in which you have set up your air pump.

The water temperature needs to be around the 21 to 24 degrees Celsius mark otherwise the tea won’t ‘brew’.

Ideally you want to leave your teabag in the water for 24-48 hours and you’ll know if everything is working as you will begin to see a scummy froth appearing on the surface.

The good news is this is the enzymes, amino acids, carbohydrates and signs of biological processes taking place.

You also need to be aware that there are usually two types of tea, one specifically for the vegetative state, and one when it’s time for the flowers to bloom, so you will also have to get your timings right.

You can use your veg tea every 2-3 weeks, while your bloom tea after week six if you are growing a plant that will be ready for cropping after 8 or 9 weeks.

Finally, it only remains to talk about the recipes for these two teas.

For a simple veg tea, in your strainer bag/sock add 100g earthworm castings and 100g of Bat Guano. (that’s bat shit to you and me).

Suspend it in 20 litres of dechlorinated water with 50ml of liquid seaweed and 3 tablespoons of molasses.

For a bloom tea, you can add 100g earthworm castings, 100g of Bat Guano, 50g Sulphate of Potash and then suspend it in 20 litres of dechlorinated water with 50ml of liquid seaweed and 5 tablespoons of molasses.

Once you’ve got the hang of making tea, you can create your own recipes – the research into what options are available should keep you busy for a month or two as there are over 1600 different types of protozoa and microbes that you can add to your booster tea, so do let us know how you go about making yours in the comment section below.

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[AlbisoJason-tvkc]

I use black tea and oatmeal for veg and banned and eggs shells for flowering

[anthonyromano]

I made my soil with worm castings in it so worm tea is not needed. But I use kelp extract, Insect frass, molasses, little dr earth, Plant success myccoryae. fish bone meal or sea bird guano. Maybe some azomite for good measure.

[toddburgess]

My lawn clippings in a can with water and a sprinkle of dirt, stirred daily without airstones and such, makes an anaerobic tea that is fuss free, easier than pie, and I haven't burned a single plant, cannabis, tomato, pepper, cucumbers, ...everything loves it. Strain it after it gets a grey skunge on top into containers. The remaining material goes into your regular compost pile.

[munkee]

Every other watering, I use bubbled worm tea with liquid seaweed, compost, worm castings, and molasses.

[KevinModz]

Dissolve the molasses in a cup of warm water first, then add it to your bucket. Or else it won’t dissolve correctly

[godron]

It may sound strange, but I put a banana peel and the rest of the coffee and one magnesium tablet in the water to ferment. It helped me.

[anthonyromano]

I feed my compost neem seed meal, fish bone meal and seabird quaano then feed that to the worm bin as half composted worm food then harvest those worm castings.

[RicoRodriguezGrows]

I bubble my tea using an oxygen concentrator pushing 95% oxygen for 24 hours. I wonder what exactly it’s doing to the microbes but my plants absolutely love tea time!

[raymondmead]

Here’s my organic tea for veg, 1 tablespoon back guano 1 tablespoon seabird guano 1 tablespoon fish bone meal, 2 tablespoons alfalfa meal 2 tablespoons kelp meal 1 tablespoon Epsom salts 2 tablespoons worm castings, I placed that in a 1 gallon container of water with 1 tablespoon black strap molasses I’ll let that route 48 hours…

For my flower I use micro boost flower bloom booster it has a teaspoon measuring cup with it for 1 gallon of water, must dissolve first…
and then I put ocean forest bloom 444 1 tablespoon per gallon of water, with 2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses… I put that in 1 gallon and I will let that 1 gallon brew for around 48 hours… that is for one plant… For my outside grow I just double the ingredients into a 5 gallon bucket… my plants are in the ground and I cannot reach the top of them they are taller than I am and I stand 5 foot 10… This year I have monster plants after getting down proper feeding…

[johnnoe]

I like this ol boys voice, the Brits sound so distinguished. I would like to have a cup of tea with them and talk about saving their asses in two world wars.

[thcbuds]

I boil sweet potatoes for 1 hour I use the same water after it cools down and add worm castings bat guano seabird guano with rock phosphate and unsulfer molasses with oats kelp alfalfa meal and pinch of recharge u let it brew for 3 days that my bloom tea 😊

[BusinessDays]

Best nz tea I've used for veg is sheep pallets + seaweed ( kina/sea urchin shells) + Crustacean shells particularly Cray fish gribded up mixed in with raw honey rain water left to ferment for 3-6 days for a solid microb concentrate with around 3N 2P 3K.

[ObscurusAnimus]

I recommend looking into fungal dominated teas and jadam solutions, which don't require an air pump at all :)

[Bongwell]

Don't forget seed sprouted teas, mung beans and corn oh my

[bigga]

Only used banana and molasses but want to try these types

[teriquemarillier]

U forgot the dried and ground up banana leaves for that sweet potassium for the terp profile

[tazsnoop]

I use banana skins and ash out of my fire, and comfy makes a great tea,

[tonyburns]

I use a grass tea and a worm casting and some molasses

[Houseofmycology]

Do I still have to add nutrients to the soil along with the tea and also do I put earthworm castings and stuff in my soil too?

[tedrowell]

Funny about the cup of tea part. We have a tree in our office. Like a big tree. The floor was left out for this thing when the building was built. It has only been fed coffee, tea or whatever was left from cans of pop. It has to be 50% cut back every year because it grows so much. It's unreal.
It's been like that for at least 20 years that I know of. I think it's more like 40 years. Same dirt, same vine thing growing around the base.

I'm gonna try growing a weed plant the same way next year. Give it coffee, tea and pop remnants. :)