Re: [compost_tea] Re: sugar locking up N
Titel,
Get rid of the Venturi and put an air blower into the system instead.
Much more gentle on the organisms and there is no pump (impeller) involved
cheers
AQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Titel Ryzhomer" <thegoodjob_at_hotmail.com>
To: <compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:05 AM
Subject: [compost_tea] Re: sugar locking up N
>
> Hi Kirk,
>
> They were not overwatered but were watered each time they needed
> watering with tea diluted 50%. I either robbed them of N or just
> over-did the tea. (Which I thought was not possible) I don't view
> tea really so much as food but rather a soil conditioning which
> makes food available.
>
> I don't believe that the tea was anaerobic. There are beneficial
> facultative anaerobes but they are grown through fermentation with
> 5% molasses. There was no residual molasses odor.
>
> Our machine is homemade using a venturi which appears to inject lots
> of air into the system.
>
> Regards,
> Titel
>
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Kirk Leonard" <kirk@o...> wrote:
>> > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:24:21 -0000
>> > From: "Titel Ryzhomer" <thegoodjob_at_h...>
>> > Subject: sugar locking up N
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I recently may have over-applied tea which wasn't suitable. The
>> > result was some yellowing of some young plants in transplant
> pots.
>> > They recovered when I stopped watering them with tea and gave
> them
>> > some diluted fish hydrolisate. ... snip <
>>
>> Your tea recipe sounds good, but lots of plants yellow when
> they've simply
>> had too much water. And why did they need so much food?
>>
>> Just curious. Your friend might be right and Doc E has pointed
> out that 1%
>> molasses can be a problem, even though that doesn't seem like a
> lot. Did
>> the tea have any molasses smell when you used it?
>>
>> Molasses in tea can cause anaerobes and facultative nasties to
> rise - both
>> human and plant, I believe - but that should be detectable to a
> wise nose at
>> some point. Molasses can boost fungi at 5% with massive air, as I
> recall.
>> Not with every tea machine.
>>
>> Kirk
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