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I was going through some of my old, not-yet-answered e-mails.  Sorry to be slow, but sometimes I get 300 to 500 e-mails a day, and I don't always get them answered.  I hope you understand that sometimes, I just don't get everything done.

Lynton said:

My take on anaerobic ct ( also act !;)
it is alive, just not necessarly aerobic;


Correct

   it depends on whether the organisms are benficial or pathogenic as to

whether the results would be good;


Correct; there are not-harmful anaerobic organisms

I'm completely guessing, but is it possible that much of it could be
ambidextrous ( I mean 'facultive aerobes'?): this latter would explain how
an anaerobic ct could be beneficial as a foliar spray in particular. 


One of the mechanisms for benefit is that the bacteria and fungi cover the leaf surface, and keep the pathogens from even getting to the leaf, physically.  If there's several layers between the disease and the leaf, there's no way the disease can cause the disease in the plant tissue.  So, simple physical distance is important, and this can be a function of aerobic or anaerobic organisms.  So, anaerobes might do the just, sometimes.  It's just that the critters that do better under reduced oxygen conditions are usually the pathogens......

   I'm
also guessing that if you spray leaves with true anaerobes that they will
die or go inactive due to the O2 environment.

Maybe, depends.  But the metabolites they produce CAN kill plant tissue.  Not the case under aerobic conditions.


Related to this subject, I am wondering what status the bio-dynamic
preparations have - o2 wise.


If they are made correctly, they tend to be highly fungal preps. 



I hope someone can clear up the murky water...
Lynton


Hope this has helped -


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