[compost_tea] Re: sugar locking up N

From: Titel Ryzhomer <thegoodjob_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:31:28 -0000
Hi AQ,

Just the blower costs more than $600 (CDN) and I built my whole 1300
gallon brewer for less than $450. I copied a system which produces
tea that tested better than a well known commercial supplier at the
SFI lab. The samples were submitted together as a comparison. I know
my brewer is not ideal but it works. I just need to adjust my foods.
The bacterial tea I made cured dieases which had been problematic
for years. The venturi cost me less than $5 in parts. A centrifugal
air pump big enough for my system costs mega. Unless you know
something I don't.

Regards,
Titel

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Quinlan" <boofq@w...>
wrote:
> 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_h...>
> 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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