[compost_tea] Re: chelating minerals with ACT

From: longbranchranch <longbranchranch_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:16:05 -0000
Tim gave some very good points. Recently there has been a number of
post on adding minerals to the tea. Not only would that probably  not
add anything to the tea. I think It misses the whole purpose for
brewing ct. I think we can agree minerals in order to be made
available to organic life must be  chelated. So we need bugs. They can
be increased by turning under vegatation or applying compost. These I
will call feeding. But the terific abilities of ct allow us skip the
feeding stage.  Instead we create our own bug hatchery. This can make
the minerals available in months instead of years. This may have been
over simplyfied. But if the minerals are there you probably only need
ct and if not apply the needed ones directly to the soil. Note on
dolomite lime: Best not to use it. The Mg is out of porportion to calcium.
Jimmy Muse  

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Tim Kiphart" <kiphart@e...> wrote:
> Inoculating the compost pile is probably a better, long-term solution to
> mineral balancing.  Rock powders could be added to ACT as a
fertility fix,
> but I question how much chelation would occur during the 24 hour
process.
> Your minerals would be right there for the biology "once you hit the
> ground".  The quantity of powders being added to the ACT might also be
> difficult to put into solution. How bout using a liquid formulation?
>
> Have you done an Albrecht CEC or Reams soil test?  You mention adding Mg
> (dolomite).  Are you sure those sticky, red tropical clays need Mg?
> Usually, if it sticks to your boot, there is too much Mg present.
>
> Pura vida.
>
> Tim
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: vanilla_at_r... [mailto:vanilla@r...]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 10:36 PM
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [compost_tea] Re: chelating minerals with ACT
>
>
>   My exposure to and understanding of the principles of anaerobic manure
>   tea is to chelate specific minerals  for deficienct soils.  The
>   methodology  I have seen is; the practitioner combines rock minerals
>   like NPK, calcium, magnesium etc with manure in a sealed drum that is
>   left alone for a period of several weeks and then applied to the soil.
>   This is something along the line that Will Brinton is promoting.  My
>   question is anyone experimenting/investigating with this approach in
>   compost tea.
>   In other words if I wanted to improve my  magnesium and calcium
balance
>   can I put these minerals in rock powder form in my tea and have the
>   microbiology digest the minerals, ala earthworms style, and have the
>   minerals available in colloidal form, de una vez,  for my plants and
>   soil?  Dr. Ingham insists that we need to get our minerals balanced
>   first for the microbiology to be fully effective.  Following up on the
>   rock powder additive practice of many ACT users my query is - has
>   anybody researched the results of mineral additives.  I am
experimenting
>   with bentonite ( a montmorenilite sp? clay, which BYW has disease
>   suppression properties of its own) to my teas and the clay blends very
>   well into the tea, unlike the results of mixing calcium carbonate with
>   water which tends to clump.  I also apply the bentonite as a skin
to my
>   compost piles, a biodynamic practice.  Or should we be
innoculating our
>   compost with dolomite and let the critters digest the minerals
first for
>   use later in the compost tea?
>
>   Hank
>   Costa Rica.
>
>
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