Secret Recipe of Making Powerful Compost Tea Liquid at Home!

Yellow leaves, weak growth, less or no flowering often happen due to a lack of nutrients in the soil. Without proper nutrition, plants simply cannot grow at their full potential.

And this is where compost tea liquid fertilizer can help a lot. In this Post, I’ll show you exactly how to make compost tea at home, the correct way to use it, and also a secret ingredient that can boost plant growth even more.

What is Compost Tea?

Many people understand the role of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus for plant growth. They are macro elements required at different stages of growth.

But the one thing that is most important, and often missed by beginners, is the role of trace elements. These trace elements are the key to successful growth, flowering, and fruiting.

And do you know which is the most powerful source of these trace elements? It’s compost tea liquid. It contains a lot of these trace elements.

With the use of compost tea, our plants grow much better and produce more leaves, branches, flowers, etc.

Compost tea is a liquid extract of compost. It is enriched with microelements. And the important part is that these trace elements present in compost are already in absorbable form, which is why we get so many good results from this.

Benefits of Compost Tea Liquid?

There are a lot of benefits of compost tea. It includes better and faster plant growth, enhanced immunity, better soil structure, improved microbial activity, healthy and shinier leaf growth, and vibrant, fuller flowering.

One special thing about compost tea that most fertilizers don’t have is its slightly acidic nature. By using compost tea, our soil pH reduces slightly, and this creates much better absorption of nutrients by the roots.

Instead of just talking about the benefits of compost tea, let me show you the actual results. Last year, I started using compost tea fertilizer on my pothos plants.

Over time, the growth became much better, the leaf size increased, and the yellow leaves and black patches on my money plant were also cured.

This is how powerful compost tea fertilizer is, but only if you use it correctly. More on that in a moment.

Overall, compost tea liquid is very beneficial for most of our plants, as it contains the key trace elements required especially by vegetable plants.

How to Make Compost Tea Liquid at Home?

But most beginners don’t achieve such good results with compost tea. That’s because they don’t make it correctly.

Compost tea is not just a mix of compost and water. We have to ferment it correctly so all the nutrients locked inside the compost get released into the water and eventually reach the roots. For that, we will be using a simple yet very powerful ingredient.

While making kitchen waste compost, you can leave some drainage holes in the composting bin and collect the water draining out of it.

This thick dark liquid is compost tea. It contains a lot of trace elements in available form. You can dilute it and use it for your plants.

But can we make it without making kitchen waste compost? Yes, indeed.

Even if you have never made compost tea liquid before, just follow this simple method step by step. The liquid collected from a composting bin is much more powerful, but if you use a small piece of jaggery or molasses while making compost tea, the liquid becomes almost as powerful as the other one.

For making it, take a one-liter water bottle. Add around 100 to 150 grams of compost into it. Mix really well and add some jaggery to it.

Any kind of sugar in water increases fermentation by enhancing microbial activity. The dormant microbes become active and use this sugar for multiplication, which eventually turns the compost into a highly concentrated fertilizer.

The best time to make compost tea is in a warm environment, and also keep the bottle in a dark spot. This helps increase microbial activity.

Within one week, you will see the compost settling down into the water, and the water color will turn dark brownish-black.

Don’t use it without dilution. Concentrated compost tea does not mean faster growth. I remember when I was a beginner, I used it once without dilution, and the leaves started falling off within a few days, maybe due to over-fertilization.

Now you can take one part of this liquid and dilute it with 10 parts water. Mix really well, and our compost liquid fertilizer is ready to use.

How to Use Compost Tea Liquid Fertilizer for Plants?

For correctly using compost liquid on our plants, let the soil dry out a bit first. Never apply compost tea on moist soil.

By the way, I am also going to tell you why people don’t get good growth even after using compost tea, and a secret method that nobody tells you, in just a bit.

Take up to 100 ml of this compost tea liquid and use it for a 5 to 7-inch pot every two weeks, or at least once a month.

This small dose of compost tea will keep all kinds of leaf problems like yellowing leaves, curling leaves, and weak growth away from your plants. You’ll also see much better flowering and fruiting on your plants, but only if you follow this secret detail.

You cannot use compost liquid whenever you like. There is a specific time when you’ll see the plant responding much faster and better.

Let me show you this with an example. These are my radish plants growing in a grow bag. Their roots are already developing.

The plants are healthy and actively growing, and this is the perfect time to provide them nutrition so they can absorb most of it and make the radishes bigger and more flavorful.

I used compost tea, and within a few more weeks, they were ready to harvest. You can see the results yourself.

The lesson is very simple: use compost liquid when you see your plant is already producing new leaves. This way, you will get much better results.

You can buy good-quality compost from Here. And do you know, you can also prepare compost tea using cow dung, which is very high in nitrogen? It is highly beneficial for leaf-producing plants and vegetables.

Here is a Guide on this if you would like to follow it.