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Transform your compost tea game with the all-natural garden elixir, organic molasses! With a deep, rich flavor, our organic food-grade molasses is the perfect addition to your compost tea, feeding the essential bacteria and fungus that drive your microbial extraction process. With its heat-resistant properties, our molasses guarantees consistent, flavorful results every time.

Sourced from the highest quality ingredients, our organic molasses is processed under strict sanitary conditions to ensure your garden is receiving the purest, most nourishing treatment possible. 

Embrace the power of nature and watch your garden flourish like never before. Treat yourself to the ultimate garden upgrade and brew better compost tea with our Organic Molasses.

How do I use molasses in a compost tea? 

Molasses can be used in compost teas as a food source for beneficial microbes, such as bacteria and fungus. The molasses provides a source of energy for the microbes, allowing them to multiply and thrive in the compost tea mixture.

To use molasses in compost tea, mix it with water and other ingredients, such as compost, vermicompost, or worm castings, to create a microbial extraction. 

Generally, the recommended amount of molasses is 1-2 tablespoons per 5-gallon of water. Stir the mixture well and allow it to aerate for 12-24 hours before using it to water your plants. The exact ratio of molasses to water will depend on the desired microbial composition and extraction method.

What do I need to make a compost tea? 

• 5 Gallon Bucket (lid optional)
• Air Pump + Air Tubing + Air Stones - Oxygenates the tea, keeps it from becoming stinky/anaerobic. Air pump large enough to circulate the water in addition to bubbling. 
• Compost Tea Bags - something to contain our compost/worm castings
• Compost / Worm Castings
• Tap Water Conditioner If you're using tap water and your local municipality uses Chloramine, you should probably get these. If not, you can skip it by bubbling, see recipe below. 

How to make compost tea

1. Clean a 5-gallon bucket
2. Fill bucket with room-temp (70F-80F) water leaving 3-4 inches of space at the top.
3. Treat water with Tap Water Conditioner or bubble for 8-24 hours before adding anything at all - this will get rid of Chlorine
4. Add the compost bag, with 2 cups of compost/castings or products unless otherwise specified 
5. Massage the tea bag to make sure it's all wet and the air is expelled. We want this to sink to the bottom.
6. Mix 2-3 tbsp molasses with a cup of hot water, this helps it mix better. Add the molasses mixture to the bucket, stir.
7. Add air stones into tea, connected to an air pump making sure there are no dead zones, bad bacteria will form in those places.
8. Turn the pump on and you're on your way to bubbling for 24-48 hours until you have useable tea. At 24 hours, bacteria and fungi have reproduced and between 36-48 it's in prime effectiveness. 
9. Your tea should small earthy, not rancid. If it smells rancid, like ammonia, something went wrong, bubble for a couple more days and if the smell doesn't resolve itself, discard and possibly consider a different source of compost. Upgrading the air pump or increasing the stones would ensure more oxygen which would help prevent the anaerobic (without oxygen) bacteria from thriving and creating this rancid type of tea. 

Using Compost Tea: 

Water plants directly with compost tea, from when they have their first true leaf at 50/50 ratio, of then they are 4-6 nodes apply tea at full strength. 

Repeat every 1-4 weeks with teas.

If you are foliar feeding with this tea, stop foliar feeding after week 4 of flower.

For Soil Drenches, consider adding fish hydrolysate, and if foliar feeding, plants love the addition of the increased micronutrients liquid kelp provides.