Compost Tea Concentrate

This brown concentrate carries stabilized bacteria, fungal food, and trace minerals brewed from certified galley waste. Open it cold and the smell is forest soil over a backed-up drain; open it warm and everybody on the watch will know. Dilute to weak tea, shake gently, and pour into moist coir or clay substrate before the lamps rise. Never dose dry roots. Family freighters and cooperative gardens use it because imported salts eat payroll; Spire conservatories buy sealed, odorless cartridges containing much the same biology. The vented cap must stay clear and the batch number belongs in the crop log. Used properly, it wakes exhausted beds. Poured straight, it strips oxygen from the root zone, burns seedlings, and breeds drain flies. A contaminated jug can carry wilt through an entire shared hydro loop before breakfast.