Re: [compost_tea] Re: sugar locking up N

From: Anthony Quinlan <boofq_at_wn.com.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:34:13 +0800
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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