Like most, i started with an aquarium pump in a five gal bucket which worked well enough. Didnt kill anything but being a left brained man, i wanted to "conquer it" to make the best tea in the whole world, tea that was better n everyone elses. Silly grasshopper!
Along the way i learned about the importance of having enough air and begin to see that the aquarium pump was marginal at best. More reading brought me to an outfit called synergy ag products who sold me the blower. This is the smallest one they sell and rated to handle anything up to a 300 gal ibc.
While still playing with the little pump i tried numerous recipies discovering about anything will work, no real secrets here. So ive settled in on a very roughly measured (some of this and some of that) group of ingredients.
I'll fill the bopper with water and begin aerating for a day to warm the water some, well waters cold.then ill add about 2 cups each of alfalfa meal, fish bome meal, kelp meal and about half a shovel full of undisturbed woods dirt.
Aerate an hour or so and add a table spoon of humic acid and a cup of blackstrap and a big scoop out of the worm bin, worms and all!
Teas come in many forms and i soon realised that even with out microbes my tea was valuable to the plants but with out being able to see what i was growing in there i could only assume "it was good stuff". Well' the conqueror in me couldnt rest till he saw bugs so i bought a scope and yep they're in there, lots of them, good thing i didnt have this set up when i was an acid eating kid!
Amazon sells bulkhead fittings and banjo quick connect fittings as well as the dump valve, the 1 1/2 inch abs came from home depot. There are more elaborate contraptions out there but my left brains desire to conquor something was satiated with the bopper. Oh, yea this blower is very quiet unlike the littler pumps. If you are interested in "more" i can take close up pictures of the connections once this batch is done and i clean everything up.
Thanks for the interest.
