Best DIY Compost Tea Brewer made with a Garbage Can & PVC Pipe
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- John from www.growingyour... and Josh Cunnings from Boogie Brew share with you the best DIY Open Source 25-gallon compost tea brewer you can make out of a garbage can, PVC pipe and fittings from a hardware store near you.
In this episode, John and Josh will show you the 25 Gallon Open Source Compost Tea Brewer that you can build yourself with many locally available parts. You will learn John and Josh's opinions of this compost tea brewer and why they believe it is the one you should build if you want to build your own.
You will also discover the importance of cleaning your compost tea brewer properly, and why using a good high-quality brew bag is important.
During this episode, John and Josh will also brew a batch of compost tea and share with you the specific air pump you should purchase for optimal aeration of your compost tea.
You will learn how long to brew compost tea, as well as how to make your tea more fungally dominated after brewing.
You will discover why this homemade compost tea brewer that makes activated aerated compost tea (AACT) is one of the best out there for the lowest price for Do It Yourself Gardeners.
After watching this episode, you will learn more about the Oregon State Open Source compost tea brewer and why you should make one for yourself and brew compost tea to fertilize your organic (or non-organic) garden.
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My big pump quit working over last winter, so I had not compost tea brewing equipment this year. I decided to just dump my compost in my watering buckets and use it immediately. And, was I surprised! My garden is enjoying its best year in years. I have too much food for the first time since the 1980s. Obviously, there must be other factors, but my plants are thriving on just feeding with compost in my buckets. Best of all, I can water any time I want without having to wait a couple days to brew.
wi54725 how long to let your compost tea brew and do you stir it at all?
Good question no answer..
Like how much, a handful in your watering buckets.
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I'd say 1-2 days with a couple stirs and you're good to go
I used boogie brew this past growing season for the first time I purchased the starter kit form your website ( I live in south central pa ) I started a little late , my small vegetable garden was so productive. I had yield after yield of fresh tomatoes and peppers . I had four tomato and four pepper plants that produced well into the middle of November. Being that I only prepped the soil a month prior to planting I decided to use boogie to help the soil and feed my plants. I wanted organic vegetables and WOW I had so many great vegetables. I plan on doing a second raised bed next year and exclusively using boogie brew compost tea. Thanks for a great product
I like how he breaks everything down. Gotta be one of my favorite new channels I found. God bless you brother.
Josh is knowledgeable, practical in his advice and excitable. I enjoy your Josh-John collaboration videos.
They have such a weird chemistry it’s great
I thought John was about to smack the shit out Josh there a few times.
Tip: If you are using city/chlorinated water for compost tea brewing, off-gassing will remove the chlorine, but will not remove chloramines (nor will most filtration). Add 1 drop of humic acid per gallon of water to bind the chloramines before starting the brewing process. Humic acid can be purchased or made from your own good finished compost. Add an additional 1/8 cup per gallon of humic acid and 1/8 cup per gallon of fish hydrolysate if you want your compost tea to be more fungal dominated.
I wonder if plants can absorb Flouride?
@@cryptolittle8854 yes they can . Certain plant species dont like fluoride ( ex : dracaena ) , and fluoride is more assimilated with low ph .
@@lesavoirestunearme-7z527 thanks for the response
Are you stating that by adding humic acid the Chloramines bind to the water molecules then when the big bubbles push them up and out both chlorine and chloramines off gas? Or does the chemical reaction from the humic obsolete the Chloramines? Thanks for your insight
so if you know the boggie brew formula from one of their previous videos they use 2 different kinds of humic acids in their mix. However i doubt it really does that. No the only way to get around the chloramides is to use a chemical additive or to just use rainwater
I had not laughed so much in a long time.....the comments on the junk had the tears rolling.....I missed the whole bloody conversation....now I need to watch it again with a sticker on the screen...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video. I might make my own. Hilarious that he references the wrong college but squeezes in a reference to their problems. Got a good laugh out of that one!
It blows my mind that only 2% of the viewers hit 👍.....I hit 👍 before the video starts that's how sure I am of john.
I haven't seen Wayne and Garth in a long time. Great to see that they're doing well.
It is a perfect tandem with Josh, because he is so knowledgeable about the topic, and practically showing the advantages of making this project. Thank you for sharing this very useful information to improve my garden. Make more videos together.
Took this and ran with it in Byron Bay Australia. Thanks guys . About to infuse and use before I lose!
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoy your videos with Josh. God bless you both :)
Didn't see it in any of the replies so I thought I'd add this. I have a programmable fish tank heater set to 73° for the initial warm up and to keep my brew at temp. Nights are ~55° here in the PNW so keeping it warm is my issue. I use a 10gal insulated Gatorade cooler with a new 'flip to stay open' pour spout (instead of the stock pour spout that you have to hold the button down to pour). It's been working great. Lots of sexy bubbles when I add fish hydrolysate.
Awesome program, especially your temperature control system - simply brilliant to use an insulated cooler like that!
Good to see Josh on here again! My lawn and garden thank both of you for the knowledge and wonderful boogie brew tea...never brewed tea in my life, but after seeing the plants respond this year, I am a convert!
u 2 work well together and make intelligent vids with a touch of comedy. keep up the gr8 work
Thanks Bruce for the open SOURCE tea Brewer. BRUCE'S "BRUTE" BOOGIE BREWER. COOL
For EVE growing I can certainly see a way to use this brewer with the aquaponic aspect of my EVE growing. If the barrels top was air tight, and you added another 1/2" hole on the top section of the barrel same level as other two as a dedicated exit hole then that air could be used to aerate your fish tank while your brewing tea. Great video guys!
I love how excited Josh gets that he forgets the mission and John has to remind him 😂
Garden Like a Viking has a video called how I apply liquid fertilisers. He rigged up a pump, and hand held hose, from a 55 gal bucket to water his garden. Its a simple setup, and you can modify and tweek it to your own creativie needs. edit: forgot, in combination with this youd save a move, so I didnt want to appear to discredit this device. I like this rig.
Love your titanium frame bike Josh!
"STONERPROOF" that cracked me up 😂😂😂😂
I'm growing/playing around with 2 marijuana plants outside, havnt even tried growing in over 15 years. I'm a green thumb since young. The plants were started on miracle grow, by my roommate, could have shot him cause I dont like cems ran into big problems with that crap! Caught it early 3 days later removed soil around plant flushed it know I'm 90% organic growing here on in. Making tea and wormcastings to replace cems. After finding one of your videos on UA-cam so thanks. Pulled the proper green thumb back from the dead🎯
The Pdf is no longer available on the page you shared, but thank you for sharing this video.
True, but you can still find it in other places just search in duckduckgo instead of the censored masonic google.
Hi
ive got that same pump been running almost 24hr a day for over 3 years still going strong
I love this! Did you ever get a list of parts and directions. The link does not work. I would be so grateful!
Hey Josh,
It's Tom 🧊 the guy you helped via text last weekend. I watched a few of your videos with John. And I'm learning more about your Boogie Brew. My first tea came out great.
Thanks again for all your help
Tom 🧊
Im building one of these thanks for the video
Mathemagician analysis: how far do you need to turn to return to a negative parallel vector (parallel side of the polygon, in this case the octagon) - 180degrees. Divided by the no, of steps in which you are revolving (in this case pvc parts) gives the outer angle of the pvc part. So 180/4 = 45. so to get the inner angle of one pvc piece subtract 45 from your initial 180 (which would be the second angle of a staight line. The first angle of a straight line is 0, then 180, 360, 540 etc
My Hydroponics professor in college at university of arizona mentioned compost tea as an organic alternative to defined nutrient solution and that was in 2005ish. However we never actually learned about it in the coursework...
I would love to see more videos with you and Josh
Highly informative, stoner dudes!
Dude, where's my car!
When I was a kid these were the type dudes who taught me how to grow weed and Bubble Up the feed... The way back then we were using 300 and even 600 gallon tanks and we had the bubble action mastered.. making 100% organic probiotic drinks for all the ladies something you can't buy in the store... serious what homie said about the stones so true best to make your setup Stoner proof , I never messed with any stones but I've heard enough horror stories from other people cut them out at the mix.. but for the home consumer something like this is quite novel.. I really got a feeling of nostalgia of listening to these two homies I felt like I was on the back porch with them, maybe some non-toxic glue oh no no maybe some clamps or... it's better like this just slip it together oh, that way we can take it apart and clean it even when it says non-toxic you know that glue is not good for the ladies.. math magician sexy bubbles... what time did we start, at 4:20 yesterday
What a great and informative video. Just today I got my very first batch of compost tea going with the setup you use although the slightly smaller (71l) air pump. Going with a fungal dominant recipe (i.e., Troy Hinke's recipe) and very excited to see the final results. Thanks for all the info here. You folks are the best!
Great video. I would glue the pvc connectors, that have threads on them, then screw the pieces together so there is no chance of the pvc coming apart and it is easy to unscrew the connectors for cleaning etc . Thanks for all your great videos.
I respect this channel, and homies experience that brought him to the Organics... but this clip is so reminiscent of hanging out in the backyard with two homeboys not everything they say or do is perfect clearly not rehearsed but it's a good time and we all learn something
Any old (or new) vacuum cleaner that has a "blower" connection will work fine and add ozone from the brushes which adds O2. That is what they use on large Jacuzzi tubs after all for the bubble action so the pressure should be fine. Just need to reduce it to 1/2". Easy to do. So much cheaper than those very noisy pumps. Love that design. BTW that size tea bag would work fine in a 275g IBC and that design is easy to enlarge for an IBC. Farm size! A vac motor might not handle 24hrs non stop but I'll give it a try and get back.
Thank you so much, this is going to change everything. 😍
Man O' Man. I miss living in Santa Rosa. And I miss going or Tea Tuesday at Biologic. Thanks for the video. How long did you cut the pieces for the octagon?
Amazing information, thanks for sharing
I just Use the 8 inch bubble stone that’s on his website in the same trashcan and I was surprised how good that bubble Stone works
Asap greens You are very correct, the 8" disc rocks!
Is the bag a small,med, or large? Also if you put a drain at the bottom on the side and put a filter and on-demand pump to pump the mixture through a hose or upper irrigation system.
Great Video thank you both
I useA 50 gallon barrel and a half inch air hose coming off my air compressor to brew my compost brew tea any suggestions on what time of day is best water thanks keep up the good work
This is great I am going to go make one right now!
What was the name of the air pump?
The key to air stone never stop the bubble!
There is a lotta college kids out there who are really great builders of anything you can think of 😊😊😊😊😊
Excellent. I started my 5 acre ornic farm about one half years ago. I was nowhere bcz in sri lanka i could not find a person for advice. Thanks
Loving the pop ups John. You are just trying to help, lol.
Are you using Imperial gallons or US gallons? I thought I heard Josh say 4.2L to the gallon, but that is the British measure. A US gallon is less - 3.78L
"I can guaran-damn-tea" 😂😂😂😂
GREAT IDEA THANKS FOR SHARING : )
Garth is LOADED
Excellent video
Awesome sauce!
Josh have a show? cause damn his commentary was lengthy! loved the advice and cool tea maker plan. keep growing green John!
Thats 3/4" PVC (or mabe CPVC, whichever is correct for potable water) with 45° angle connectors.
quick way to get the angle. it makes a full "circle" so its 360 degrees total, Since we have 8 side and 8 angle connectors we have an octagon. We just do 360/8 which gives us 45 degrees as the angel of each corner :) quick check of the algorithm, square has 4 side and we know a square is exactly 90 degrees each corner so we try 360/4 and we indeed get 90
Been looking for an informative and hilarious compost tea video for years. Is there issues with using rain water or water from fresh water aquarium instead of fresh water.
I scaled this down to a 7 gallon brewer last year, about 2 batches a week, dominating neighborhood.
Just joined thanks for the info
Started using your compost tea here on Kauai... happy!
Thanks john!!
I have an oxygen concentrator that gets intermittent use for EWOT. The output is 8L/M at 15PSI. Given the O2 in atmosphere is 21% and the concentrated output is 87% pure O2, that should be more than enough for a 5 to 10 gallon batch, right?
I love your information
John, in one of your videos, that are recommended here, you mention using a different hose besides a vinyl hose. Can you please tell us what you use instead of a vinyl hose?
Thanks for all the great info! Is the air stone really necessary? Could I just use a quarter inch tube?
You guys should use the threaded screw PVC on the T at the side of the containers
Matthew Byrd Another AWESOME tip, see, right there shows the brilliance of the GYG tribe, yet again. A simple yet powerful improvement.
Loved this video. Thanks John.
What's the best temperature cold warm hot there has to be a sweet zone for temperature?
And I've been looking for Boogie Brew I live in Canada the only place I can find it as Amazon and it comes with the filter for 170 dollars I don't need the filter. I use r/o water. Do you know were I can get it in canada? 🇨🇦
add add enough couplers so you can break down all the pvc parts to fit in the dishwasher for very easy every use cleaning
This josh guy feels like a cartoon character 😂 😂 😂
39:02 "How can you beat that?" = Like a sore dick, you can't beat it. Hope I didn't piss off the Pope, Josh is hysterical.
I think I saw you a few times at Russian River Brewery. Good Work Growing.
I know homie look so familiar right
30:05 John introduces the topic of temperature the tea should be brewed at.
I live in Vegas; I have the same growing conditions as john! I have placed the
compost temp prob into the water here in Vegas in a 5 gallon bucket on 110 and 110+ days and the water temp in that 5 gallon bucket is 90 - 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
I am unable to make the accommodations that bring the temperature of the brew down to the suggested 70 - 75 degrees.
What should I expect out of the performance of Boogie Brew?
Add ice or a frozen bottle of water that should do the trick for you.
I wish there was a compost tea competition.
Cool! Great to see detailed directions on setting up a system to aerate compost tea, and where to get the components. But wouldn't a used whisky or wine barrel be better? Or at least a used food grade barrel.
Not sure what synthetic chemical-free alternatives could be swapped for some of the other parts, but the plastic garbage cans both outgas and transfer via direct contact a bunch of synthetic chemicals and heavy metals, as does PVC.
Some info about the hidden dangers of plastics used for food included below. Keep in mind that this info is for 'food grade' plastics. Non-food grade plastics are less regulated.
:What About BPA-Free and Other "Safe" Plastics?
Given that certain plastics risks are becoming well-known, you've
probably seen plastic products that tout they are "BPA-free,"
"PVC-free," or "Phthalate-free." This is a step in the right direction,
but it does not mean the plastic is safe.
For instance, one study found that tests on plastics using a BPA-free label
have not been conducted under real-world conditions like running the
plastics through a dishwasher or heating them in a microwave. In the
"real-world," 95 percent of all plastic products in the study tested positive for estrogenic activity,
meaning they can still disrupt your hormones even if they carry a
BPA-free label. Even more disconcerting, the study found that BPA-free
plastics in some cases leached more BPA than the non-BPA free plastics.
Further, just because a plastic claims to not have one or two toxic
chemicals, it again does not make it safe. Remember, there are many
chemicals in plastics that you are better off avoiding, and many of
them are still largely unknown to consumers. The Ecology Center in
Berkeley, California has put together an excellent list that exposes
just what kinds of plastic toxins are in the products you use. I think
everyone should read the entire list, but here are some highlights:
Salad dressing and cooking oil bottles: This
plastic container is made from PVC (polyvinyl chloride), which leaches
plasticizers (lead, cadmium, mercury, phthalates and the carcinogen,
diethyl hexyphosphate) into your food. Soda bottles, water bottles, peanut butter jars and cooking oil bottles:
Made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), they leach acetaldehyde -- a
probable human carcinogen, according to the EPA -- into your food and
drinks. Meat trays, foam take-out food containers and cups, foam packing materials: Made from polystyrene (PS), these materials leach styrene, which can damage your nervous system, into your food.
Sadly, the end result of breathing, eating, drinking and absorbing
all of this plastic includes obesity, declining fertility rates and
other reproductive problems, and cancer, just to name a few."- Excerpt from the website of Dr. Mercola.
Thanks for typing this out. Its weird how things ive always thought in the back of my head without any proof are now being proven and nobody really cares either. The average person secretes approximately 5 grams of plastic per week thats a whole credit card.
And to think that plastic was invented during my lifetime (yes I'm old) and how quickly it has destroyed the natural world and our health.
Lol -I'll put 10 cups of soil in the mesh bag-all in all great cast guys, thanks for the prototype brewery
anyone notice how many times john rubs his nose i think he's hinting...lol
Hook a water pump up to the pvc and run it with disinfectant, that's what I do. I have a similar one I built.
ThisIs Slammin BRILLIANT tip!
Boogie Brew thank you! I've been experimenting with organics for years. One of my better strengths, is experimenting and inventing new ways to garden. Like you, my love of organics came with growing cannabis. I have a very unique cannabis growing method and I'm trying working the same method into vegetables. Love this stuff! Keeps my wheels turning!
where can I see any of you grows? I'm trying to initiate an organic indoor and I'm trying to reach for help from people who knows this stuff. Thanks m8
The link to the pvc instructions is no longer good. Is there anyway to repost a good link? Would love to build this.
at my old house the neighbors where Vietnamese and they grew a lot of food, the older man had a big plastic container that he would put all his grass clippings in and they kept if full of water and would use that water on their plants. there garden always looked really nice and they grew a loofah gourd vine that covered almost the whole fence between our houses and would usually cover half of my back fence and half of the fence between the houses behind us by the end of the summer. i guess the grass clippings in the water is a type of compost tea, im guessing they would have had to stir it every once in a while but i never really payed attention to it back then
Matt my mother was just an instinctive gardener. her mother was also. it was a necessity she was born in the 1800s and had 10 kids so she got permission to use the lot next door hand remove the blackberries and grow food for her whole family including my mama. number nine of the 10. she(my mamma) just passed at 90 my heart still just aches. But the point of it is my mom always made tea out of neighbors rabbit manure my sisters would have rabbit sometimes grass like you just said. fish with my dad to go fishing should use parts of it which smelled, I'm vegan but you know I know fish grows things. so I grew up watching the tea get used and even sprayed on the leaves before people really knew that that was something to do too 50 something years ago.
Hi Matt,
That is very similar to weed tea. You can take grass and weeds and drown them for 1-2 weeks.
You then take weed/grass tea and dilute it. I don't recommend pouring it on your plants full strength. All you have to do is search youtube for weed tea.
Matt I use that method to jump start compoat piles that i dont want to mess with. Just put the slop on top and put a brick or heavy board to push everything down. I have a straining method since stuff stinks on your skin.
visiting Lee Amazing stories. Thanks for sharing and I'm sorry to hear of your loss.
wonderlucha another great part of the story is my mother had the old cooking pan with a handle that she would use to dip out the tea that belong to her mom and dad. I think she gave it to me and it may be in storage but if not it's been thrown away by my nephew who took everything. Including my stuff. very sad not my parents wishes but I think I'm going to do about it I'm pretty sick. I just figure he'll pay for it somewhere. it's sad when people have everything and they're not even sentimental. my mom wanted me to have everything because I am.
So if the temp is too high if it is over 70 degrees, how do you make compost tea like this in Florida where the lows at night are 85 degrees.
k may Try to WATER temps below 78 degrees, warm AIR is fine though.
How can I keep water temps under 78? Around here in Florida the gulf temp stays in mid 80s. Basically the environment the bacteria would be living in would be higher than 78 degrees so that cant be ideal, right?
I live in TX and grow red wigglers outside, it gets hard to keep them alive above 90 degrees, what I do is put a couple of milk jubs in the frezzer overnight to put in the soil to keep it at around 70 to 75 over all. You could try that.
milk jugs or other sturdy container that will hold water and not break when frozen
curious if a compost tea and top dressing can be used in a hydroponic system? I am interested in expanding in that direction and use compost and occasionally bat guano and/or kelp to amend my soil. I am wondering if a similar system could be used as the hydroponic nutrient solution? I also haven't been using compost *tea* in the soil garden but may do that as well.
it MUST BE 4:30 HAHHHH
LOVE YOU TWO
AND THANKS THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO WATER TWELVE POTTED TOMATOE PLANTS !!!!!!!
Hi John big fan. Can you please make a video for cleaning a compost brewer with grape seed extract or colloidal silver
Thank you very much!
Elaine Ingham is adamant that air stones are not used because she says that after one use they can go anaerobic and can destroy all future brews. She recommends using pipe and 1/32 holes drilled in the pipe like in the open-source brewer you show. She recommends pulling apart and pulling a cleaning patch through the inside. You certainly have a lot of hands-on experience. What have been your experiences?
Always good to see you guys playing together like vegan kids!
Hi phyto-nutrient vibing J.K. as always!!! Raw green energy!
As I live in town that's all we have is a chlorinated water. So your saying to put a RV style water filter as they have the garden hose ends???
I will go to lowes to pick up ....thank you.
John I keep tropical fish and planted aquarium but I want to grow more water plants, can I use Rock dust in my tank
Killer love both these guts videos
I heard you guys mention the size of the pump matters, what would y'all suggest for a 5 gal bucket?
How long do you need to run the air pump? Where do you buy the parts like the pump and compost tea bag?
k ma Run air pump 24 hours for the actual Brew process. Then if using air stones, run the pump a couple more hours to "bleed" the stone(s) dry. Tea bags are available from places like Monster Gardens (www.monstergardens.com) or just use a paint strainer bag from hardware store.
With the 25 gal brewer, which bag size did you use (large/small)? Thanks!
Could somehow using magnets enhance your brew?
Are you guys available for hire to set up a Legal NY garden.. TD Style
Would the angular connectors be 360 divided by 8 = 45 degrees?
Looks more like 120
Whatever it is that's cool... Years ago we always had fun doing things and when somebody would try a different way it was always special... if it wasn't perfectly straight if it wasn't perfectly round it didn't matter being functionals what's important
22.5
@@seanieizcool No, it is 45 degrees elbows. PVC elbows come in 22.5, 45, and 90 degrees.
If I brew my teas with air stones I typically keep in my water reservoir what would be the recommended cleaning process before inserting my air stones back into my normal water reservoir?
Great video. But I seriously wish you would publish the name of the pump and the size that you actually suggest we use for that size setup
I watched the video and he mentioned it to be an Active Aqua air pump 110L/min,
The link for Build Your Own 25 Gallon Compost Tea Brewer is broken. Is there another source for the PDF?
I got a 50 gal drum used previously for orange juice.
What about unwanted biofilm that may build up in the pvc pipes? Is it necessary to flush the system periodically and clean it out or is this of no issue?
Whoops… never mind. Guess Josh covered this later in the video 🤷🏼♂️ - great stuff guys, thank you! 👏🏻
I couldn't stop staring at this guys junk through the whole video. 😂😂
he sure was man-spreading hard.
Lupusk9 Entertainment He sure was! 😂 🍆
Valerie Elfering
Some like man junk bulge , some like camel toe bulge. Some even prefer the Barbie and Ken doll non bulge. Bulge watching is normal. Do not be alarmed.
Valerie Elfering too gross the way he is displaying himself👎
Its the horrid shorts