Worm Tea Vs Leachate | What's the Difference? One might be TOXIC!
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Worm Tea and Leachate are two terms that are confused with one another frequently in the gardening community. In todays video I will be talking about the difference between these two substances, showing you which one you should be using in the garden and giving caution when using the other!
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i have been using leachate since a couple of years now. I dilute it 1:10 ratio and apply immediately to the plant, not even waiting for 24 hours. The results have been very very encouraging. Inside a week the improvement is visible in plants. Greener leaves and increased flowering
I have several plants in my rooftop garden, and one in the ground. My experience has been that any ratio of worm leechate between 1:7 and 1:10 works and anything below that leads to nitrogen burn, or other bad effects. Whenever i do use it in the correct raito, plants that have lost even ALL of their leaves and are on the verge of dying, POP UP. It increases marigold flower sizes and gave a boost to onion plant growth. My lemon plant was only giving small lemons, for a long long time. But as I started giving it worm juice, the lemons became the size of small tomatoes even! It has really good effects
Leachate is more concentrated and has much more usable mycos. And minerals that work together! Tea if left unattended it would become useless. Leachate can be stored because it has its own eco system, just that it looses nutrients over time but very slowly since a whole lot of it is minerals and biomes that recycle their energy. Etc.
I've used leachate for my garden and house plants for over a year and only seen positive effects. Always have diluted but never used an airstone. Good to know about this. I think its time to buy an aerator for this and other compost teas
Very helpful video. I'm going to try diluting out the leachate and using in my garden
My leachate has been beneficial thus far...3 years of consistent use from a worm factory 360. I do aerate it and dilute at varying rates. I also live in WI.
At one time I had approximately 10 million or so black soldier fly larvae, I used to breed them, and I had large amounts of leachate. Anyone that pours pure undiluted leachate on a plant will most likely burn the plant not unlike peeing on a plant. If you don't dilute the leachate, just like pure urine at least 1:7 - 1:10, then you have a really good chance that you will be annihilating your garden. All leachate is is a concentrated form of compost tea. It works great if you learn how to use it properly as many of the previous commentators have posted. Happy gardening! :)
I used to use leachate which a friend gave me from their compost bin, I used it for nearly 2years and had great effect (although I diluted it more than the recommended amount and just used it sparingly but often (every month or so). I then ran out so have had 1-2years just using a multi fert-okay results but markedly less green growth than before. I have just bought some worm castings with the hope that these will improve my orchids and other houseplants-will wait and see!
very well put video, right to the point, thanks for the info
Glad it was helpful!
I live in Sydney Australia and used Leachate and worm tea. I used Leachate on some potted plants finding a slight salted crust on a number of them, I stopped using it on them. The ones with the more crust grew stunted and miserable. I also used it on my garden of mainley native plants again seeing damage to some of the plants. An ornamental ginger area really looks deceased, disappointing.
I made the mistake of perhaps not diluting it enough.
Worm tea I made up and it went really well. I used worm casting suspended in muslin cloth with molasses and an airaiter. Excellent results. The water after 24 hours looked active and rich, it's something you can see. You often learn from your mistakes....
Don’t spray it on the leaves,dilute and soil drench,the bacteria are soil bacteria and don’t do anything for leaves
I add molasses to the worm tea when making it. Great stuff
Yes! Molasses gives it a good strong boost!
@@ExpeditionHomestead I swear my tomatos grew 3/4 an inch the day after I gave them worm tea.
@@ExpeditionHomestead Always used nothing but leachate, never had any ill effects from veg it was put on (always the veg is washed by the watering system for some days/weeks before harvest though. I have always broken mine down between 10:1 and 20:1 with water, mostly just to make it go a bit further.
I guess if you did make tea from the castings there is going to be an amount of lecahate held in those castings, like a sponge so its probably 6 of 1 and half dozen of the other.
The bottom bin has a lot of fine castings in it that have washed through the holes during the whole processes so I would imagine the leachate has made an amount of tea hybrid stuff in there before it finally comes out the drain and into my collection bucket.
On a side note my bin never has a bad smell nor does the leachate, just smells like.. a forest after a heavy rain.
I've been using undiluted leachate on seedlings as a replacement for water.
I've had brilliant results without aeration or dilution
Yes i have. I put half water half leachate in 5gallon bucket and stir the crap out of it bringing air bubbles all in it to the top looking like foam. And then i water my hemp pkants with it. I have video up of before and after
Ok, so I watched a video earlier today about a worm farm in puerto rico. He sells his leachate. But he doesn't feed his worms food scraps like that. He grows most if not all of the stuff that he feeds them. But he dries it out and shreds it. When he feeds them, he wets the bins down w collected rain water that has fish and water plants in it. It's extremely concentrated, and has to b seriously diluted. He does 2-3 oz to a gallon of water. The farmers down there all buy his elixir.
But he doesn't have all that nasty stuff collecting in the bottom.
I would like to view this video
great info. i started compost bin...but i also have about 20 plants of comfrey herbs. soo ill cut those a couple times a year and add it to the compost. great fertilizer. replicates skin cells on wounds fast. I make my own salves mixed with plantain. left a like
Well I just learned a great life skill🤙 thank you!
I have tried about all homemade fertilizers out there. Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia diversifolia) (N-P-K 1.76 - 0.82 - 3.92) Human Urine (NPK 11-1-2) Worm Tea and Leachate (NPK 1-0-0 ) it’s all about the microbes. It all works good, but you need to dilute it all 10 to 1 or more. But I never thought about brewing Leachate with an airstone. Something I need to try. I'm a true believer in permaculture gardening methods. PS adding Blackstrap molasses is a must for any these natural soil amendments.
I set up an old large cooler with a drain on the bottom as my worm factory.. sand smothering the hole for a filter when I go to remove excess liquid. I love it, although I must say that I only add coffee grounds, seaweed and sugar maple leaves to my red wigglers.. wow! Results are smokin' lol but perhaps if I added rotting kitchen scraps would give differing results 🤷♂️..
I dilute the leachate with water and apply it to the gardens, never had any issues. Not sure about your statement about the leachate being toxic as you are only using food scraps, leachates may not have the bacteria we are after but will still have some nutrients.
I add our Leachate to our compost bins outside. I use the worm castings to make our own tea. Potential video idea is a question i've always had. How many batches can you run using the same worm castings. Some say one and done and others say you can re-use the same worm castings for multiple batches of tea.
So if leachate contains toxins and runs through the bottom, so does the castings.
That is a brilliant statement. If everything is worm castings than the poor worms got nothing to eat . I’ve used leach tea on my tamarilo plant and it went nuts . Even in pure clay soil with not much sun. It grows much better than the other plants
I have a large worm bin, made from a bathtub, and I will take the leachate in the bucket and wash it over the bin a couple of times before use. This helps with aeration and making it more potent. I then will use an auto siphon to mix it when watering my garden. Works great.
That’s a great technique!! Thanks for the comment.
I stopped at the 1:13 mark to tell you what I did, before seeing anything. I planted 4 strawberry starts in 4 locations around my house (testing where they grow best) last week here in Tucson, AZ. After a few days, only 1 was looking somewhat poorly. It was, of course, one of 2 planted in a long bed along the driveway. Worst place you could imagine, but the woodchips seem to be doing the job!
Well, I took some leachate from my new bin (got my first wigglers on Valentine's Day!), smelled it, and not detecting any bad odor at all, but actually a decent one, I poured it on my bad strawberry plant, and it was looking great the very next day. What I've heard is that it is a boost that will not last, but that gives me time to get a compost extract done up.
Now, to un pause ya!
UPDATE: Ultimately Leachate positivity or negativity in the garden depends on the contents of the worm colony. How often you add water to create the leachate is also key to understanding what will work.
When Gardening we are all scientist trying to produce the best.
I've personally used worm leechate and it makes my plants POP with growth. If it smells bad though I throw it out. I will experiment further
There’s definitely mixed reviews about its use, if it works for you just keep doing what you’re doing and I hope your plants continue to flourish! 🪴 thanks for watching
What a great video. I am using my wormery only second year and I didn't know that difference. I thought that black muddy liquid is a worm tea. I was applying it deluted in my garden last year and blossom of my first rose bloom was incredible. However in the middle of the summer my roses got rust disease and I am not sure what caused it..I never used airstone.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
Thank you!! a few trials will occur but i hope you can nail down your method very soon! Happy Gardening
How much liters can you make with 1 pound of worm castings. thank you for your time.
I did not dilute my leachate. Oops! I knew about diluting it, but, I also did not remember what dilution. I have lots of woodchips around the plants, and watered them, mainly. I'll be diluting ten to one next time.
i liquid use from my bokashi compost in 1:30 ration or more diluted form for soil drenching and result are good if i use it along other source of fertiliser
Hi champ.... I live on the eastern coast of Australia just north of Sydney.. I have had worm farms before and was not aware of the different products of Leachate and Worm Tea that go down through the composting produce that the worms are enjoying and finally ending up in the bottom reservoir. I used to use the ‘Leachate’ on my gardens (veggie etc) as I thought that it was in fact Worm Tea then, as needed, I would use the ‘castings’ as a fertiliser, which worked quite well.
Several months ago I moved into a Retirement Village and decided once again to start up another Worm Farm (one of the small ones from Bunnings) and decided to look up people like you whom have ‘more’ knowledge than me. At the start I was using the Leachate and breaking it down between 30 and 50% and was also giving some to other people here and we ‘all’ had noticeable good results but recently I have been following ‘your’ guidelines, along with others on RUclips, and actually ‘making’ Worm Tea using an air stone for approximately 24 hours as suggested and using Sulphate free Molasses, but this last time I actually forgot the Molasses, but what I would like to know is Raw Sugar just as good....!?!?!? 🤔 Larry
Molasses will feed bacteria and not fungi but humic acid and kelp will feed both bacteria and fungi. Perennials generally prefer fungal dominant soil where as annuals will tolerate fungal dominant but prefer bacterial.
To answer your question, yes sugar will be OK to use instead of molasses
Have any of you tried to make a receipt using worm castings mixed with a 1:10 ratio leachate and water aerated during 36 hours?!
is the question not about whether either have gone anaerobic? a tea brewed with an air pump is potentially continuously aerated, I can see the leachate stagnating/pooling and quickly going anaerobic at the bottom of a bin or container.
If you bottle it how long is the shell life
I found in the past that instead of just adding water to my Worm Tea I have added the leachate instead and found that there was no ‘unforeseen’ problems to be concerned about….!?! 🤔🥴
Leachate looks mild but is highly concentrated, dilute, dilute, dilute!
I have been adding undiluted leachate to my bananas only with no issues at all!!
Thank you, one of the best video about this topic, i've subscribed
Yes for me the principal problem it's the anaerobic Bacteria that proliferate in the water and create a lot of smell, if you areate in the good quantity create a good enviroment for aerobic Bacteria (the good)
i will try some experiment for both method if some plant get sick or not
Thank you!! Good luck with the experiment 🌿
Well how'd it turn out? very interested
Never had any issues with leachate I collected from my friends worm bins but I used 10 to 1 ratio rain used and had no negative effects
Thank you! I’ve been thinking of doing some more retesting and experiments with this one actually
Question on Bokashi not worm lechate. How to determine if Bokashi leachate is actualy doing anything for the garden and is safe to use. You are getting liquids that aren't being composted and or broken down. I suspect the leachate from Bokashi has had little lab analsys and mostly will get anecdotal rather lab analysis with comments like use 1:10 it works great
From my personal experience I would be very reluctant to use leachate again. I diluted the leachate at least 10 to one (but I was not aware of the requirement to aerate it). In my single use everything it touched was affected. The plants immediately dropped, several stopped flowering, and many just started a terminal decline. The effect appears long lasting in that after one plant gradually died and I replaced it (at the same location) with another, exactly the same thing happened, even though the leachate had been applied maybe a month earlier. Even diluted, leachate seems to be a powerful herbicide. Perhaps aerating will help.
Dilute....
When you say "air stone" do you mean the bubbler things that go in fish tanks? Just want to be sure.
Exactly
leachate could have the liquid exracted to make some chemical powder
I diluted leachate 10 to 1 mixed with rainwater. The plants which got the concentrated mixture aerate
Sorry the above became distorted. The plants that got the more concentrated mixture did not seem to like it. I did not aerate the mixture, but next time I will. Also next time I will try and avoid the leaves.
You called it worm tea?!? LOL You are looking much better, now! I assume they tore into ya!
lol... worms are naturally in soil if leachate is bad then the soil would be bad.. worms improve soils... that said if there are nitrates such as urine you want to dilute the mixture... concentrated fertalizers are toxic to plants... but if they can uptake at different growth stages they benefit from nitrogen. The fertilizer / leachate composition is best applied at specific growth periods of some plants.. learn about how to apply fertalizers in growth stages.
Your answer is brilliant. If leach tea is bad our soil would be bad . I see the whole debate different. If I’m a worm farmer .., I want you to buy my worm castings. I don’t want you to use leach tea . I want to make money . That’s why I would tell everybody leach tea is bad and give presents to people who promote my Idea .
What do you use the middle bucket for?
Middle bucket is where I take the finished compost from and then rotate the top two buckets
Name 1 toxin
I have used leachate, undiluted, on my plants for many years. Totally fine, good, organic fertiliser. Just poured onto the soil around the plants.
Probably really acidic like run off
If you have proper moisture levels in your worm bin you should not have moisture coming out the bottom. As with everything in your worm bin, what comes out depends on what goes in. If you adding rotting and diseased produce there is a chance that disease will be passed on.
If possible food matter should be dried and shredded prior to being added to the bin. Moisture should come from rain water or other non chlorinated sources. Do this and you will have a healthier ecosystem in the bin and a low likelihood of passing on any diseases.
Wow you’re so cute
So you missed the mark again, what you described as worm tea is actually vermicast extract. I appreciate your efforts though, but maybe gain a bit more experience on a technique before posting content on that subject.