In adding the seaweed, you are adding just enough
to feed the microbes to get the growing (Goldilocks theory!). You are not adding
enough seaweed to give all the benefits of seaweed as you would if you sprayed
seaweed at the recommended amount per acre.
Seaweed has 60 trace minerals and is a natural
source of Vitamin B1, a rooting stimulator. These trace minerals are multiplied
in the tea? Don't think so. Is the Vitaming B1? Don't know.
Do the seaweed and then do the tea. The excess of
seaweed that the microbes or the plant does not use right away will just be food
for the microbes that you inoculate later. Just makes sense.
Steve Bridges
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] microbial
food
Thanks Dan. I worded my second question poorly.
My question was, if we have a lot of nutrients (like liquid kelp or an
alfafa tea) that we want to spray in quantity, perhaps there will be times
where it may be easier (better?) to spray them on their own, either
before or after spraying the CT ?
Jason
lmvine1@cs.com
wrote:
In a
message dated 5/16/2003 12:18:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jason.austin@shaw.ca writes:
Dan - what is SP-85? What is the benefit of
it?
It is Terra Vita's brand of soluble HA. Organism
food and organic matter. See here http://www.teravita.com/Products/Products.htm
Recommended
rate 2 Tsp per 15 gallons for foliar and 1-2# per acre for soil
applications. BIG difference between foliar & soil applications as
with most nutrients.
I am adding foods to tea just before topping
off sprayer and spraying. My only concern is if I cause the tea to
go anerobic. Of course I could put the foods on in a
separate spray but that is more labor and passes in vineyard.
Agreed, but could it not be beneficial in some
circumstances to have a nutrient based tea (kelp etc) in quantity,
instead of just adding small quantities to the CT tea? I was
thinking that if we are already set up with the spraying equipment, then
why not spray the nutrients in quantity in a second pass (or first
pass).
Too many nutrients in the tea would make it go anerobic
unless you had huge air
supply. It's like Elaine has said before the Goldilocks principle not
too much, not too little. Dan
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