[compost_tea] Re: Continuing Aerated Compost Tea, CACT cycle

From: Steve Diver <steved_at_ncat.org>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:03:17 -0000

Bob -

The CACT notes you provided were helpful
and give people plenty to think about.

They will very likely spurr on developments
in compost teas.

It should be apparent to readers that
compost tea developments come from all
sectors.

Suppliers and labs and farmers and
researchers and specialists are all
contributing to the advancement of
this technology. 

Steve Diver


--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Robert Norsen <bnbrew@y...> wrote:

> Preface: More testing is needed to prove the assumptions that are
made here-in.  Testing was done but  restricted to one test.
Financial, situation and time limitations prevail.  Proving
repeatability involves hundreds of tests for a single CACT brew cycle
and involves thousands of gallons. Test of multiple intermittent CACT
draws, full size? Done  And in miniature?  Done. Is a 10 gallon brew
the same as a 500 and 1,000 gallon brew? Probably. Close  field
observation during actual use, using microscopic observation will
help. Microscopic evaluation had not been recognized at the time of
this work.  I hope to join some farmer to make these tests in 2005. I
hope those of the List who have any reason to do so will test and
report here. 

> The ACT Cycle: Aaerated Compost Tea
> In the normal ACT cycle multiplication of the "herd" in the brew
starts out with dormant slowly.  awakening microbes. When conditions
are right the numbers of bacteria build and as the fungi "wake up" to
good conditions they grow. Let me guess that protozoa wake up, come
out of dormant stage to grow or multiply but only after more hours
than the usual 24 of an ACT cycle.  Along about 12 to 16 hours the
rate of bacteria reproduction is high.  As food is used up the
microbes return to dormancy so the incubation slows down  fungi have
started to grow.  Protozoa are awake but (still celibate? grin )

> For just a few of the 24 hour ACT cycle, the incubation rate is very
high.

> The CACT Cycle   Continuing Aerated Compost Tea
> If we could catch that high rate and hold production at that high
the brewer would produce far more life per hour than is the average
rate for a normal ACT cycle. Longer cycles may also bring more
diversity.  Longer cycles reduce total output unless the longer cycle
can produce in a productive repeating continuity.  A nearly constant
flow and fill.  This is the object of CACT.

..... etc .....







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