Make Organic Liquid Fertilizer in 10 Days! All You Need Is 4 Pails and a bag of Alfalfa Pellets

So this is a little bit more detailed explanation about what I'm doing when I make organic liquid fertilizer. I like alfalfa pellets. I would encourage you to use a glyphosate free, GMO free glyphosate so you can be sure that they haven't sprayed glyphosates on your biomass. Nonetheless, this is a pelletized alfalfa and they use it for horse feed. Very nice, very rich. Make sure it's green, it's got the nitrogen in it. So I'll take about a one to three ratio of pounds to gallons and what that means is I'll take a pound of biomass, dry biomass, and I'll put it in three gallons of water. So this is about one and a half pounds, five gallons. Now I let that soak. That soaks for about 10 days and with a lid on it as such and that creates an anaerobic environment and that's ideal for extracting nutrients out of the biomass. It'll completely decompose, the solution will go acidic, you get about a four and a half pH and you create an anaerobic leachate. It's odorous. You know you've got something there that's got a lot of odor. I'll show a video in the near future about processing that differently than this. This is just primarily for adding it to your garden or using a small amount in your soilless grow system. I say a small amount because the leachate is high in carbon and it'll muck up your system. If you put too much in there it's still got a lot of nutrients. I use it to feed the fish and I use it to nourish the plants but I have to keep it balanced because if there are fish in your tank then it's going to deprive the the water of oxygen because bacteria start decomposing the carbon and they consume all the oxygen and stress the fish. You can do a little but just keep in mind you really should filter it which is what I'm going to show you next time. A biofiltration process that I use to finish this off for using it in a soilless system. But for the garden for using it in soil you can go direct. It may be a little strong, maybe a little bit high in ammonia, nitrogen. Just don't overdo it. Just dilute it in water like we do here. This step is very useful because of a couple things. One, it's hard once you once you remove this liquid. I'll add water a couple of times. I'll add biomass a couple of times and before I'm done with it. Before I feel like it's spent. Or there's too much solids in there to mess with. You keep trying to do this. I want more water ratio. If you pour it off into here and you catch all the solids that are going to they're going to come out of there you've got a solution that's a little bit that's a lot more useful to you. The solids in here can be used to make a soil. They can be used to decompose but they're very it's very strong very rich in ammonia as is and unless you want to get into manually handling the turning it into a soil and turning it regularly and managing carbon to nitrogen ratio and dealing with the odor and the mess of this. This is a very quick and easy method so you just pour the liquid off when you're when you're done. You pour the solids off and you pour them into a bucket like this. Let it dry and as it dries it'll the odor will dissipate and you've got a solid you know taking you back closer to this form of alfalfa pellets and it's just going to have a lot less nutrients in it. Then you can you know then you can you know mix it in with your soil and or do something else without having to mess with a strong nitrogen rich sludge essentially that's hard to handle. But nonetheless I'll take this liquid after it's been drained through there and by the way you can add you can add water to this too because it's still decomposing in there. This liquid and the solids that are in that alfalfa meal they go into this leaf matter and and there's further decomposition that takes place so if you just keep adding water in between you know taking this and pouring it off into there into that bucket draining into here you'll still get more decomposition and more extraction of nutrients that get that'll get collected in this in this bucket. This then gets transferred to here I'll take about a fourth of this and put it in about three-fourths of water and mix it up and then add it to the plant beds. And these plants really love it you'll see you know you can you can watch your plants grow very quickly with an organic liquid fertilizer because it doesn't take so long to decompose as do your solid fertilizers that you end up tilling into the soil. And I also say this people ask about manure people ask about you know other forms of nutrients it's really not much more nutrient rich than plant matter you can take a whole variety of different organic matters that have nitrogen in them and and if you try to put those directly into the soil it's gonna it's gonna take days and weeks. I mean things like blood meal take months bone meal takes months to decompose in the soil. You will have a faster process if you use the right mix to get the you know some of these higher harder to crack nitrogen sources of biomass if you mix them in with a blend that has the you know the proper balance that can turn that pH into an acid can break those those strong bonds those nutrient organic bonds then your liquid fertilizer is going to work a lot better than a dry fertilizer in your soil you'll see immediate results. Then you can fertigate you can add this every time you water every every month or so when you're doing your your watering or if you just want to you know give it a shot every every two to four weeks two to six weeks it's it's not going to stay in the soil so long but then you don't necessarily need it to it's going to feed the new to the microbes that's why we have that's why it's it's ideal because it's loaded with carbon I mean it's almost as if you have the solids from the alfalfa in the liquid solution and you do to a large part just in a carbon form. So that's what I'm going to do I'm going to take this liquid I'm going to add it to the water and mix it up a little bit and then I'll do that two or three times and I'll use it to to fertilize all my little garden plants and I'll put probably you know this is a hundred gallon tank I just added some little goldfish wouldn't want to stress them so I'll say the equivalent of maybe you know a gallon of that that leachate I'll put in here and that'll get decomposed in the beds since I'm using an aggregate based bed that'll add a lot of nutrients and biomass to the bed carbon in the beds is good because you build up bacteria and while you don't want so much that it's creating a biofilm in your pipes and on your roots you do want enough to where it's it's creating a very potent microbial action to continuously release the nutrients from the whatever organic matter is fed to the plants that happens to have some carbon attached to it and so there we have it this is a really nice system and I'm happy to share it with you and next time we do this we're going to we're going to show you a nice little filtration system with a little vortex and a biofilter all with buckets so thanks for watching please share me your thoughts I'd love to hear yeah if you guys have any other requests let me know and I'll I'll see what I can do if I if I have some answers for you I'll I'll make a video