Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Alfalfa pellets works wonders!!!, 0 by JLD_II

JLD_II wrote:
WOW!!! This is the best brug thread ever. I can't wait to try the AP concoction. I noticed many of you had problems with it stinking if allowed to stew. There is a super simple fix for that and it allows you to let the mix sit for days on end. The best part of it all is your increasing the numbers of beneficial bacteria by the millions. Take a aquarium air pump and airstone and let it bubble away as long as you wish. You can add more molassis to help feed the bacteria and help it multiply too. The stink you guys speak of is from anerobic bacteria growing, that makes everything smell stagnant. By adding air to the mixture, you are feeding the aerobic bacteria(thats the good stuff we all want and need in our soil) and helping it multiply bigtime. By adding more molassis, your just feeding and helping it all out more.
I've made a very similar concoction except I was using fresh compost in panyhose rather than alphalpha pellets. You have to add molassis to the compost tea for the bacteria that is already present in the ap. I can't wait to try this method!!!

This has been a very odd year gardening wise for us, everything is ahead of schedule. My brugs I have potted are doing so much better than the brugs in the ground sadly. I had a big pest problem too, something was eating away at the leaves bigtime. My wife just happened to be mulching our flower beds again for the 1st time this year. We were so amazed by the results of using cypress mulch around the base of the brugs!!! The leaves didn't have any new holes eaten in them at all! They also began to turn darker green but I also fertilized a little so that maybe why they greened up. We've always used cedar/cypress combo or just cypress mulch to help control the flying pests like mosquito's etc. that picked on us!LOLOL I had no idea what it was doing for the plants! This is my first year with brugs and I'm so happy you folks turned me onto them. The brugs are teaching me a lot about gardening in return with there huge green leaves. They tell me if I'm over watering, if I have pests and on and on.
Sadly we leave for vacation this weekend and I'll be missing out on tons more blooms just like I missed over our week long Memorial day weekend. They showed me how much over watering I was doing when I automated the sprinklers with timers. They started getting pale and My CG went from 6 blooms to none. They all still have tons of buds though!
Here is a pic of Charles Grimaldi on the deck.