Re: [compost_tea] Re: Holding time for tea

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 03:10:38 EDT

You have 4 to 6 hours before the anaerobic conditions that might occur do a
total kill job on your fungi. So, go ahead and add the foliar nutrients to
the tea, as long as they are things like kelp and fish.

OK?

Elaine

> Maybe this is already clear to everyone else, but I'm still uncertain
> about adding foliar nutrients to a tea that is going to be
> immediately
> sprayed out.
>
> I would like to combine fish and kelp foliar feeding with the tea
> being applied. If I add fish at 1:100 in the tank, and kelp at
> 1:200,
> will the oxygen demand kill off a significant amount of my tea in the
> 30-60 minutes it takes me to expel that tea from my sprayer?
>
> A possible factor is that lately I've gone to spraying straight tea
> (other than a small % of water used to dilute the yucca that is added
> to the tea in the spray tank). Thus I have a very "concentrated"
> bunch
> of organisms in that spray tank, ready to consume the fish/kelp when
> it's added...
>
> It sure would be nice if we could eliminate the extra trip around to
> foliar the nutrients separately from the tea, but not if the tea gets
> murdered in the process--Glen
>






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