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RE: [compost_tea] recipes, procedure & perfomance



Bob,

 

I’m using good well water.

 

This is such a great idea.  If I monitor the tea and start adding water and nutrients gradually, I’d be able to accommodate more members and hopefully not run out of tea.  All I’d have to do is spread the compost tea pickup over a longer period of time and monitor the oxygen levels.

 

I see it’s time we bought a DO meter.  Now that everyone has had time to experiment with their meters, I’d like to ask

those who have and use it, which ones you’re using, how effective are they, and what did they cost?

 

Thanks,

 

Judi

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Norsen [mailto:bnbrew@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:17 PM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] recipes, procedure & perfomance

 

Hi Judy, mind if I cut in?  Please go lighter on the molasses and fish until you get the added air.  I think you will find the foam whther you put the molasses in the tank of in the chamber.  Unless the molasses just sinks to the bottom and stays there.  to avoid both problems mix molasses in hot water, pour in about 1/4th the total  at a time, an hour more or less apart., do this early in the brew.  then add the fish late in the brew.  even up to 3 - 3 hours bfore you want to use the brew.  

 

2)  different subject.  If you have chlorine free water you can add water as TEA is removed if ou add molasses and fish to the remaining brew.  give the new wate and new food some time to grow microbes.  You can even add some - 1/4 the original total + -  if the removal will be over a period of some hours.   Will the TEA be exactly the same every time?  No.  It will not e exactly the same from time to time anyhow.  But it will be useful and may even be better.   this is better done by feeding the compost days ahead and adding a little of the combined compost/ nutrient.  to the new/ water/ brew mix when a part of the tea is taken.  that way your 250g brew could be 350 by the end of a day.  Bob . 

 



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