Alex - There is a poll on this compost tea site on
addition of molasses, have a look. Right, 2oz. is not much in 25 gals but
the tea was analysed and had good numbers for both active and total
bacteria. Active bacteria at 200ppm is only about 0.67 ounces of bacteria
in 25 gals. It's not hard to imagine that 2 oz. of sugar can grow way
more than 0.67 ounces of total bacteria. It goes something like this for
25 gals of tea:
25gals x 8.35pounds/gal x 16oz/pound = 3,340 ounces
of tea x 0.000200 (200ppm recommended active bacteria) =
0.668oz. AB
I'm not sure why the basic recipe in the Compost
Tea Brewing Manual calls for 16 ounces of molasses/50 gal brew. It will
certainly grow a lot of bacteia at just 0.2 percent of 50 gals. I
understand that the 5% rate is meant to actually inhibit the bacteria for a
fungal brew.
Dave
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