[compost_tea] The Dangers of Anaerobic Tea

From: Scott Alexander <daylily_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:58:56 +1000

Elaine wrote: "The point is to make tea that has the organisms in it.
Aerobic organisms, because we have even less data on anaerobic organism tea
than aerobic tea, and with certain conditions in anaerobic tea, we can make
some really horrible brews. I've killed quite a few plants with anaerobic
tea"

I can vouch for anaerobes killing plants. When two trials using 6% molasses
failed I let the anaerobic tea run out through a garden hose onto the kikuyu
pasture nearby. In each case the D O was down to 1.5ppm in both teas. I
marked each spot with stones so that i would be able to observe any
differences in growth. The first lot DIDNT kill the kikuyu grass and its
still growing OK but the second lot DID kill a patch of grass nearby. A bit
puzzling!

Scott Alexander



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