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Re: [compost_tea] microbial food



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
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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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