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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 ARrOoster Little Rock, Arkansas

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18 DAP and swelling

Brewed a nice compost tea and applied it evenly to the patch this morning. It’s been 2 weeks since the last brew so I am slacking there. I use a Wow compost tea bag + starter but then add 4 cups of worm castings, 1 cup each liquid Fish and then Kelp, 1.5 cups unsulfered blackstrap molasses, seabird guano, azomite, and 1/3 cup humic acid concentrate. With 25 gallons of water allowed to de-chlorinate for 24hrs, then brewed for 12 hrs at a 86F water temp. I add RAW amino acids and vitamin B right before serving. Smells freshly fishy and earthy with a good medium dark tea color.

This afternoon we got 8/10” rain so that was amazing because everything is absolutely parched. Also a rare break from the heat wave comming up: will have 3 days of rain as a cold front works its way through this weekend. Then its back to 100s late next week!

I’ve got foliar fert and a Daconil/Seven mix loaded up in the sprayers, seeing her grow is very modivating.

Ill take my first measurements at 20 DAP.
 



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