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Tom Von Deck
Keywords: alternative fertilizer, natural alternative fertilizer, alternative organic fertilizer.
[Meta Description: Feed your crops with a natural alternative fertilizer. Seed sprout tea is rich in nutrients like phytohormones, minerals, enzymes, and amino acids. 2 recipes.]
Making seed sprout tea is an ingenious way to supply your plants – cannabis, veggies, or whatever – with growth-stimulating nutrients. Some call it enzyme tea. This is a natural alternative fertilizer and growth stimulant that you add to the water you use to hydrate your crops. It works well for indoor and outdoor growing operations.
Here, we’ll provide you with two recipes:
Nutrients from seed sprout tea include vitamins, minerals, phytohormones, enzymes, antioxidants, and amino acids, and they are highly abundant.
The main difference between seeds and sprouted seeds is that the sprouts will increase the bioavailability of the nutrients. This means a greater percentage of each nutrient will be available for your crops to absorb and use.
You can use this natural nutrient-infused water along with other natural fertilizers and/or growth stimulants. For best results, think of it as an enhancer rather than a substitute. You still want to prep your soil and maintain proper pH and nutrient levels.
The seeds in the list below are normally recommended for seed sprout enzyme tea because they provide a lot of the above nutrients.
You can research each plant individually to drill down on the specific nutrients their sprouts and/or seeds provide. All of them should work well, but their nutrient ratios might vary a bit.
Tip: Try to use organic seeds to ensure there are no synthetic contaminants.
Seeds for making seed sprout tea:
For best results, just make as much as you need from the above recipe and use it immediately. If you want a batch of seed sprout tea you can use later, try fermentation.
Here’s how you do it:
1 Follow steps 1-7 in the previous recipe.
2 Weigh your sprouted seeds.
3 Add sugar or molasses to your sprouts. How much? If your sprouts weigh 90g (3.2oz), for example, add somewhere between 30g (1oz) and 45g (1.6oz) of sugar to your sprouts. That’s about 1/3 to ½ of the weight of the sprouts. If you use molasses, which is measured by volume, change grams to milliliters. This means you can add 30mL to 45mL of molasses.
4 Throw your mixture into a blender and liquify it as much as possible. Add some water if needed. It will help break down the sprouts while helping the sugar dissolve. Alternatively, you can dissolve the sugar or molasses in warm water separately before adding it in step 3.
5 Add a probiotic that makes lactic acid. The probiotic bacteria will eat sugar and create lactic acid with it. Lactic acid is a powerful natural preservative. Lactobacillus strains are good for this. Some people use sourdough starter culture. Others use kefir starter culture. Some will even break open a few probiotic capsules and add the contents to the mix. Some of these cultures may contain bifidobacteria as well. That’s fine. They produce lactic acid, too.
6 Store the mixture in an airtight container for three to six weeks. Keep it in a dark place away from sunlight.
7. While your new natural fertilizer is fermenting, open the container at least once daily to get the gases to escape. Probiotics produce a lot of gas.
8. After Fermentation, add up to two tablespoons to a gallon of water.
9. Water your plants with it.
Let us know how it goes. If you have any questions about your seed sprout enzyme tea or your indoor or outdoor garden, drop us a line at support@growsupplyshop.com.
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Danny
November 19, 2020
Hey would Pumpkin Seeds be for Flower ? Right now im trying out Lentils during veg.