pointer80
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Hello all, I have access to spent brewers grains used to brew beer, Is there any other use in growing other that for a nitrogen source in compost? Mix in soil? Vermiculture? Thanks all.
Any use for spent brewers grains other than compost?
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It's more than a nitrogen source.
Try scratching in some in your soil. Start out with a few tbs and see what happens.
You can do this weekly thru out the life of your plant.
VERY good for composting for sure.
The very things the brewmasters want from the malted barley we also want for the soil microbes. Its a catalyst, its like putting the soil microbes on steroids.
I use malted barley and grind it down to a fine powder in a coffee grinder and add a cup per sq ft (7.5gal) of soil in my mix and always add several tbs @ up-pot.
It's GREAT stuff. Will help with shortening your flowering times as well. Some have found about a 10-15% less time to harvest as well as increased resin on the flowers.
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Barley Enzymes - amylase, arylsulphatase, β-glucosidase, cellulase, chitinase, dehydrogenase, phosphatase, protease and urease.
Try scratching in some in your soil. Start out with a few tbs and see what happens.
You can do this weekly thru out the life of your plant.
VERY good for composting for sure.
The very things the brewmasters want from the malted barley we also want for the soil microbes. Its a catalyst, its like putting the soil microbes on steroids.
I use malted barley and grind it down to a fine powder in a coffee grinder and add a cup per sq ft (7.5gal) of soil in my mix and always add several tbs @ up-pot.
It's GREAT stuff. Will help with shortening your flowering times as well. Some have found about a 10-15% less time to harvest as well as increased resin on the flowers.
Edit:
Barley Enzymes - amylase, arylsulphatase, β-glucosidase, cellulase, chitinase, dehydrogenase, phosphatase, protease and urease.
Feed it to worms and it will become magical....like unicorn poop
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pointer80
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I want to be clear that these have already been fermented and went through the brewing process
Yup mighty fine.. can feed them to your dog in small qtys too. Fine line to diarrhea tho.
Spent good - malted barley ground fine also good to best.
Spent good - malted barley ground fine also good to best.
SmokeLake
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Brewers grain wet or dried from actual brewery or ethenol plants is often used in cattle feed fed directly or as a top dressing. Any wet brewers grain ive seen piled up or fed while working on various farms was very ripe smelling not sure id want it in my grow tent. But there must be a way to compost it to a more plant and user friendly form definitely a dense source of energy with much potential.
Good stuff - it composts pretty quickly - reason for using it in the soil mix.
It gets soil microbes going full steam ahead.
The soil microbes create soluble nutrients that get taken up with water thru the plants roots.
It's a beautiful thing.
It gets soil microbes going full steam ahead.
The soil microbes create soluble nutrients that get taken up with water thru the plants roots.
It's a beautiful thing.
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pointer80
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very nice, love organic amendmentsGood stuff - it composts pretty quickly - reason for using it in the soil mix.
It gets soil microbes going full steam ahead.
The soil microbes create soluble nutrients that get taken up with water thru the plants roots.
It's a beautiful thing.
Nunyabiz
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I just fed my soil a sprouted seed tea made from multicolored organic corn.
Out of the vitamix it's very milky and the corn is just like cornmeal so I don't strain the tea I just pour it all in there and let the worms make some Unicorn poop from the corn meal.
All kinds of grains are good, fermented or not.
Out of the vitamix it's very milky and the corn is just like cornmeal so I don't strain the tea I just pour it all in there and let the worms make some Unicorn poop from the corn meal.
All kinds of grains are good, fermented or not.
Enzymes on steroids makes the soil microbes SUPER happy. Almost as good as feeding them fan leaves. lol
Conradino23
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I top dress with fan leaves, but try not to overdo it. You can check your microbial activity this way though. As far as seed soaks you can actually get a very nice mix of minerals from these, the same with sprouts. The malted barley could be a nice source of lactobacilli and such, which are really good addition to your soil, so soak it up and use the water for watering.
