Re: [compost_tea] Systemic bacteria..

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:20:52 -0500

Frank -

Check the growth conditions of the plants in those fields where the E. coli entrance into the plant tissue was found.

The plants were not healthy, in anyone's estimation. Root surfaces, or leaf surfaces, absolutely devoid of any microbial growth is not normal. The plants were undefended.

If you were left without any protection, no clothes, no coat or boots, stressed for water, in the hot sun during the day, but chilly temperatures once the sun went down, the only thing to eat basically potato chips (that would be your C, N, and P, and salt inputs), routinely doused with chemical cocktails, how long would you remain un-colonized by pathogens?

Now that you are in that condition, someone applies water contaiminated with ten to 100 times the normal levels of pathogens.

This is a normal situation?

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com

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