Re: [compost_tea] smell while brewing
The smell like a friut wine and my bio-films are of
Bacillus and P. fluorescens principaly.......obiously
I put samples in non specific growth media and
specific media.....for indentification...non E.coli
presente...some E. cloacae finded...
Leo
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> Fermenting tea? What do you mean by that, exactly?
>
>
> Any clues on what kind of smell. I know describing
> a smell is hard, but a
> clue or two would be good.
>
> But it means, most likely, that you have some
> particular organisms that make
> a unique secondary metabolite. It could be
> anaerobic, if you have a
> bio-film forming someplace in the tea brewer. Can
> you check any pipes, hidden
> surfaces, corners, etc for bio-film development?
>
> Have you done a look-see of the organisms using a
> qualitative test?
>
> Can you contact your closest SFI advisor to get some
> help?
>
> Elaine
>
>
>
>
>
> When we brew ACT we have at about T+24H a smell
> that is not as
> pleasant as the smell of good fermenting ACT. It
> lasts for about 10
> to 12 hours and is then replaced by a pleasant
> "neutral" smell. The
> brew is well aerated during the whole process and
> we are probably ok
> for nutrients (ie we don't feed the brew too much).
> What should we
> understand about the process from that smell?
>
>
>
>
> 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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