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Try molasses in your compost tea, one time
Just a small thing that shifted my whole brew game. Quarter cup of unsulfured blackstrap per five gallons of water. Let it aerate for 24 to 36 hours with a decent air pump. The bacterial population you get out of that is honestly wild compared to plain water teas.
The molasses feeds the heterotrophic bacteria already living in your compost or worm castings. You're not adding anything synthetic, you're just giving the existing colony a reason to multiply fast. By hour 20 that tea should smell sweet and earthy, like a forest floor after rain. If it smells sour or rotten, toss it and clean your bucket.
I pour it straight at the base, not as a foliar. About a liter per plant, once every two weeks during veg, tapering off as i get into late flower. My soil stays loose and alive between waterings. The plants in a healthy living system don't beg for inputs, they just grow steady and quiet.
That's really it. Cheap, simple, and the microbes do the rest.
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