Evan, upon rereading I noticed your statement:
"We're all humans, and one of us may be the most accomplished
> soccer player (N cycler) on the planet, but we cannot tell that through a
> conversation or by looking at the individual."
I think what you are referring to is perhaps types of N fixing or mineraliz=
ing bacteria or archaea rather than the microbial nutrient loop accomplishe=
d through compost tea, liquid compost extracts and most compost application=
s.
Please correct me if I am mistaken.
For the microbial nutrient loop it is not so important what the bacteria/ar=
chaea species is.
Tim
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Evan Folds" <evan_at_...> wrote:
>
> May I ask what evidence there is for not adding food sources to "finished=
"
> tea? And may I also ask what defines "finished"?
>
>
>
> I understand people to have a wealth of experience looking at microscopes=
,
> and I respect that, we do as well. But very rarely do I see anyone connec=
t
> this microscope reality with their effects on growing plants. That's the
> point in the end, right? How are we so sure we know when something is
> "finished" when we have no biological baseline of what it "should" be?
>
>
>
> For instance, I just got off the phone with a humic acid distributor who
> works globally from Germany. We had a very interesting conversation about
> humic acids in regards to having no baseline. There is no objective way t=
o
> say one is better than the other except results considering it depends on
> oxidization, rate of oxidization, source material, binding sites (COOH, O=
H),
> fulvic:humic ratio, etc. And all humic molecules are not the same, even t=
he
> one structured similarly.
>
>
>
> This is even more complicated and true with microbes. One cannot measure
> true diversity, or more importantly strength or ability, of microbes unde=
r a
> microscope. We're all humans, and one of us may be the most accomplished
> soccer player (N cycler) on the planet, but we cannot tell that through a
> conversation or by looking at the individual. This ability is discounted
> when we look materialistically through a microscope. This "strength and
> ability" is one of the factors that defines BioDynamic composts and the
> organisms associated.
>
>
> We have used compost tea brewed for over 4 months perpetually by adding
> humus, catalysts, and food sources daily with spectacular results. Grante=
d,
> it may not be perfect, but, again, what does "perfect" mean if we are not
> attaching what we are telling ourselves to the results of growing plants?
>
>
>
> Be a farmer, start a garden.
>
>
>
> Evan Folds
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