[compost_tea] Re: Cornell Tests

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:48:57 -0800 (PST)



 
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Cornell Tests


Thanks for the report Paul. Good that the dollar spot was suppressed by orgaic means. While the chemicals did better during the test will Cornell follow up to see what happens during the following months? Some experrience has been that the organic solution resulted in healthier grass with better suppression over TIME. That is how organic stuff is suppposed to perform? A great series of tests by Paul and SFI NY reports for the Bob's brewers is at www.norganics.com .
 Paul Sachs <pds_at_norganics.com> wrote:
Hi Bob,
 
I went to the New York State Turfgrass Association's conference in Rochester this week (just got back late last night) and saw Cornell's (Frank Rossi's) test data at one of the sessions. He tested about a dozen different products for dollar spot suppression on bent grass growing in sand. Three of the products were chemical fungicides which gave 100% suppression but most of the rest were bio-fungicides and two were compost teas (one made with the Earth Works brewer and one made with the Bitti- Of ALL the non-chemical treatments, tea from the Bitti- resulted in the HIGHEST level of dollar spot suppression (65%). Congratulations.
 
What was interesting to me is that the tea he made was relatively inferior (as tested by SFNY) compared with the numbers I and others had been getting using the Bitti-Bobolator. But, who's to say whether the superior numbers would have resulted in better dollar spot suppression. Feel free to post this with the group if you like.
 
By the way, Frank told me he'd like to continue the study next year and asked if we were still "in," which means (I think), are we willing to cough up more $$$.
 
Paul Sachs
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