Remove the liquid and use it as fertilizer.Stir when the urge triggers you to do so – this is a precise process!

The warmth of the sun should speed up the process and make a better tea.

Some people keep the pail in the shade, others in sun.

I doubt mosquitoes will lay their eggs in this stuff?

Some people cover it to keep out flies, but I think added fly eggs and larvae can only improve the quality of the tea.

Place the material in a bucket and fill it mostly with water.

You can also use other plant parts like deadheaded flowers and even grass clippings.

Collect weeds and chop them up – smaller pieces decompose faster.

Here are some simple instructions for making it. Weed tea fertilizer is made by adding weeds to water and letting them ferment/decompose for a while. Had that entire process been done without the tea, the results would have been identical.Weed Tea, Fertilizer Tea, No Matter the Name It Stinks, source: permaculture news What they might do (stressing the 'might') however, is suppress microorganisms that lead to rot.Īs far as the rehydration process, Ricardo nailed it. There is some evidence that some tannins can induce rooting, but there is no scientific evidence that those derived from Camellia sinensis (tea) do so. Tannins are acids of complex polyphenols. Had that spike still been green, the living tissue - nodes or not - can certainly harbor and transfer pathogens - that's why we use sterile tools. In the case of that video, no infection will be spread because the tissue is dead.

That business about cutting spikes above a node, as it blocks progression of a possible infection, needs to be scraped up off the barn floor. Even in a flaccid leaf, that may cause cellular damage that won't show up for a long time. There are several things wrong in that video, starting with bending the leaves.

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