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Can you have too much worm tea in an aquaponics system? Also is worm tea okay for a DWC system, or does worm tea contain solids?

if you are refering to the liquid from the drain from the worm bed then i reckon its harmless. if you brew it like compost tes then i would strain out most of the solids first.
cheers
byron

Recommended levels are 1 part concentrate from worm farm to 9 parts water applied to plants. It should the appear the colour of tea.

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The leachate that drains form the bottom of the worm bed... isn't worm tea...

Make your worm tea from the castings... and dilute to 1:10 as Faye said...

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Then what is it?
And is it any good?
Because I have been diluting it 1:10 and putting it on the garden for the last 5 years.

Granted It has to trickle through 3 layers of worm castings and whatever else resides in the lower levels, I have only emptied the worm farm once in the last 5 years.

Cheers

EDIT to add: If I need to make tea out of the castings, I take it I just steep the worm castings in water, keeping it strong for ease of storage and then diluting it 1:10 when needed. So there must be a ratio of castings to water, weight:weight or volume:volume?

And also I often wondered about adding sugar to the stored worm tea as a way of keeping the bacteria alive and vigorous if it is going to be stored for any length of time, never got around to it though as I just use the leachate straight away

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