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Re: [compost_tea] Re: Simple CT maker and CT recipe
The only way you know for certain that a new ingredient is beneficial or detrimental to the organisms in the brew is to test it, looking for ACTIVE organism impacts.
Plate count methods do not normally have the ability to detect these changes.
I have not seen problems with honey negatively impacting beneficial organisms in the tea. There is impact on neutral bacterial species, and on pathogenic bacteria, but not on the "good guys". That's the other thing to recognize - it is a good thing if the "bad" bacteria are harmed. So you cannot reply to total bacterial counts, or plate count bacterial counts alone. Some assessment of beneficial organisms is a good idea.
That's why we have started doing the Beneficial Organism Assay.
Elaine Ingham
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