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[compost_tea] Re: Is Cattle Feed a Bacterial or Fungal Food?



Another point of interest.  I use a lot of composted fresh fish that 
I collect from a local fish market.  I usually compost the fish in 5 
gallon closed buckets using little water, fresh sawdust, dried 
leaves, and dry molasses powder. After several days, I use a little 
of this fish paste in my aerated compost tea recipes. 

After 24 hours, I can see some fish oil scum on top of the tea. 
Plenty smelling, and some foaming.

Is this a strong fungal tea?



--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "William Edward Cureton, II" 
<curetonw@v...> wrote:
> I make about my aerated teas in a cheap 20 gallon plastic tub with 
a 
> cheap aquarium air pump with one bubbler. 
> 
> I use about 1/3 tub container or less, of mature compost made from 
> 75% horse manure/sawust, 25% leaves, grass clippings, and produce 
> food scraps from a local grocery store. 
> 
> I use about 1/4 cup of dry molasses as my biostimulant in the tea.
> I also use old alfalfa hay and cattle feeds as optional bacterial 
and 
> fungal foods for my tea.
> 
> The cattle or horse grain feed I use is basically salt-free (0.5% 
to 
> 0.7% salt per volume), it is usually pelletized, but sometimes I 
use 
> the whole grain feed types. It contains lots of corn, oats, wheat, 
> millet, and molasses.
> 
> I know after just 12-24 hours, the tea turns light brown, with a 
> yeasty smell and some foam or bubbles on top. 
> 
> If the grain feeds acting as a fungal food for mycorhizza fungi?
> Is the alfalfa hay a fungal food too?


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