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Re: [compost_tea] Q's: Applying Compost Tea



I looked at the archives and someone mentioned using
the floodjet nozzles. Anyone else have any luck with
these or any other? Kinda embarrasing when a farmer is
all psyched up to take off and gets a few yards and
stops. haha, oh well
--- soilfoodweb@aol.com wrote:
> Precisely correct on the relative pressures.  It's
> having live organisms 
> hitting a surface that is the critical factor.
> 
> Take the human example.  You can shoot people out of
> cannons at amazing 
> pressures, and as long as you lose that potential
> energy BEFORE you hit a solid 
> surface, there's no problem.
> 
> Just don't put a brick wall 10 feet from the mouth
> of the cannon.  
> 
> Don't put a leaf 4 feet from the sprayer if you are
> using serious pressures 
> and want your living organisms to survive.  
> 
> But with people you could put the person in a
> "shell", and that would allow 
> them to survive the impact.  Same for bacteria and
> fungi.  IF they are sound 
> asleep and in dormant stages, they will survive
> hitting surfaces at 600 psi.  
> 
> It's just that the critters with dormant stages are
> more likely to 
> be.....pathogens.  A relative thing, you understand,
> but as we put compost tea to sleep, 
> we lose alot of the beneficials, and IF the compost
> wasn't wonderful, then 
> the relative percentage of good to bad guys is
> weighted on the side of the bad 
> guys.    
> 
> Did I confuse everyone completely?  Or is this
> clear? 
> 
> Elaine
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand
> 
> "Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that
> things will turn out well, 
> but the conviction that what we are doing makes
> sense, no matter how things 
> turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of
> the Czech Republic
> 
> 


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