Hello all!

I load my indoor compost pile with nitrogen rich goodies like coffee grinds, tea, plant cuttings, veggie and fruit bits, etc. It makes a great tea which drips down and I dilute it for my baby figs. My question is this- if these babies are in small plastic containers, how often should I apply this liquid compost tea to them?

Thank you! Hope everyone is staying warm :)

Actually, that is not compost tea, it is called leachate, and it may not be so healthy for any plant, much less figs. Compost tea is made from compost and aerated water and the filtered. You can easily look it all up on the internet. Leachate is controversial-it may have some toxicity and bad microbes. I don't use it, I dump it. Try a nutrient additive like cornucopia plus diluted in water. Or real compost tea.

 Lelsa, If you dont mind I'd like to tack onto your question and ask, when do you start giving nutrients to babies in cups?

Thank you,  Soni

Figs are mostly disease free and don't need a lot of fertilizer when they are starting.
To your question I would say don't use on fig plants. 

Ah thank you rafaelissimmo! I always wondered the proper term for it because I knew it wasn't compost tea technically but didn't know it by any other name, happy I now know... I will just pour it over my outside heap then... which is near my azaleas, which LOVE IT! Great insight, thank you all. And soni, great add-on, looks like we don't have to do much for the little guys, woohoo

my cuttings in the cups are getting fertilizer mainly because i use MG products. their seedling soil and perlite come with fertilizer already in them. when the cups are very light and require water, i have been bottom feedling them with very weak fertilizer this winter.

question on fertilizer is rather up to the individuals. some won't fertilize until the cuttings are well grown and settled nicely in 1 gal.