http://www.advancednutrients.com/hydroponics/products/mother_earth_sup er_tea/mother_earth_super_tea_faq_nutrient_facts.php

And second, I just bought this stuff yesterday (from my local hydro store) to supplement for micros, well see how it goes. Its all organic also. Not too expensive either:-)

http://www.planetnatural.com/site/earth-juice-microblast.html

Kimmsr, your coming from a place of perfect soil. Not everyone has what you have. If you noticed I said I was going to "supplement" my original program with the tea. And how could something so nutrient rich be bad? Not everyone uses strictly OM in their grow regiments because if I did, all the ingredients in this "tea" would be ALOT of OM to keep on hand and IMHO be hard to accumulate. Some people, myself included, use a mix of layered OM combined with a tea for convenience. Yes we all know that nutrients are in the ground when you add OM. But my soil is CHERNOBYL and I have only begun this year to use an organic approach. Also, how could a tea hurt? I dont think it can. Regardless of how much OM you have in your soil, you dont always have EXACTLY every nutrient you need. If you do, great, because I dont and I have found that supplementing my OM "layered" regiment with a good tea provides great results and I know exactly what NPK I am delivering to my plants. As I have said before, I respect your wisdom but for some reason I dont know why you dont like teas? Or other supplements?

But back to the point, how can you argue against the ingredients in this product? For people like me who dont have the greatest organic soil, how can this be bad?

Im using all this stuff now because my soil has not seen anything organic in almost 7 years but if things go well, and my soil finally becomes "perfect", I wont need to add anything else. It will be self generating. All I would need to do is throw my kitchen waste out my window and watch it dissolve into my black soil ;-) hehehe

The compost teas tried (multiple) provided very little nutrients for growing. Also they didn't provide squat unless the entire solution was applied (don't strain the tea before applying).

Lastly, I have seen multiple commercial hort growers experimentations with tea and it didn't provide any kind of noticeable improvements either (zero statistical differences also).

What does work - depending on the soil it is applied to - are the microbe ammendements (like mycorrhizae and actinomycetes). However the results are much better when they are added to a soil which has an available carbon supply (soil must contain organic matter).

We recommend Bloodmeal (source of nitrogen) when combining with nutrient rich materials like dairy manure (possesses a lot of Ca, P, K, Mg, etc.).

The only benefits we saw with tea was that it was good excercise :)

Although - other things like grape growing - or maybe using as an organic fungicide to prevent mold on the leaves seemed to bear results for tea application.

Also, Daniels 3-1-1 (balanced feed of organic nutrients).

Or even something like a 8-3-4 made by Sustain (derived from Turkey Manure/Bedding).

http://www.finegardening.com/how-to/articles/jury-still-out-on-compost -tea.aspx

I can probably give you at least 5 different positive reviews of this exact product from people I know and another 5 or more from people that I talk to online that use this product in their line up and have been for at least 3 years. They love it and from what I can see, so does the crop.

The tea I was referring to in the original post is pre-brewed and has a ton of great nutrients (If anyone bothered looking) and was going to be used as a supplement(bloom) to an already compost/organic diet.

From the research Ive seen with my own eyes, when done properly, brewed teas can offer plenty of good benefits. When done at home you better start with good ingredients and use proper methods or just forget it. Might as well just use the solid ingredients and forget the brew. But Mojo is right, the brew has alot of nice little critters in it. Organic Teas are just liquid organic fertilizers minus the OM (compared to their organic granule/compost counterpart) such as miracle grow synthetic liquid is liquid form synthetic granule. Same principal but different genres or whatever.

Sometimes I think people read the topic and a couple of lines of a thread and then assume the rest while typing a response:)

And Im not talking about "compost tea"! Does compost have sea bird guano in it? How about bat guano? Fulvic acid? Humic acid? Fish emulsion? Alfalfa meal? Seaweed extract? Thats why I wouldnt buy compost and make tea. Number one because I make my own compost and number two because none of the ingredients I want (as a SUPPLEMENT) are in my compost. And Im not knocking compost so dont start with that. I can guarantee you that I will get better results using this tea as a supplement than by just using compost alone. Is that so hard to grasp? Enough with this snake oil crap.

Also, guano is just another word for manure, and you seem to indicate that you already have access to that. Thile it's true that manures from different animals have different proportions of nutrients, they certainly do have a lot in common, and for myself, when I'm given the choice of "my dream manure" and "the manure that's pretty good, and which I can get easily and for free," I go for easy & free every time.

I'm wondering whether you are pushing these products for some ulterior motive. I'm not calling those amendments snake oil, in fact I haven't looked at the links. I've just come to the opinion over 60+ years of gardening that expensive fertilizers and amendments are usually overpriced for what they are and there are usually less expensive ways to obtain the same results.

Anyhow, here's my 2 cents, which is more than anyone is paying me for it!

I don't get all hung up on whether my soil has every nutrient imaginable. IMO if one adds organic matter regularly, uses a good quality mulch, and perhaps uses an appropriate fertilizer/amendment for certain plants that may need that, the soil will be healthy and the plants will do well.

I've found making teas and applying them a lot of work. I used to have up to ten 5-10 gallon buckets of alfalfa tea brewing at any given time and constantly applied it to my large garden as well as the lawn. Way too much work for me altho I did it for years. I now make one bucket and apply small amounts to various plants that may need more nutrients because they are heavy feeders. I mostly depend on the worms to fertilize my soil which requires me to *only* provide a healthy environment for the worms. As another poster mentioned organic molasses is a good amendment which is probably under-utilized.

Every gardener has to find what works best for them but I know that expensive and/or extremely labor intensive methods are not self-sustaining. Gardening is a lot of work and it's worthwhile to find the easiest and cheapest methods or you'll soon give up.

Best of luck to you blazeaglory with whatever you decide to do.