Re: [compost_tea] Re: Effect of sulfates on fungi in tea and soil

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:47:55 EST

Ronnie asked how to drop soil pH, if you don't do it with sulfate.

Grow fungi. Filamentous fungi, growing in aerobic conditions, produce
organism acids as waste materials, which buffer pH between 5.5 and 7.0.

Add fungal foods and make sure you have a good diversity of fungi present to
grow and use the food. They drop pH from strong alkaline, and then maintain
pH in the proper range. You just have to feed the fungi, with litter
material from the plants you are growing. Careful of any disturbances you perform,
to make sure you don't kill the beneficial fungi you are developing.


Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa







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