<snip> Good idea on the protozoa. We do need to think about how to make th=
e tea brewing process better for them so they will reproduce. But they wil=
l only reproduce once, maximum, during a 24 hour tea brew. Have to have ae=
robic conditions in order to keep the good guys alive and happy.
Sun Jan 18, 2004 Message #7019
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/compost_tea/message/7019
Is this about right or did I somehow take it out of context
and it's really not this drastic.
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<snip> When I brew a compost tea it may have 5,000 to 10,000 bacteria/archa=
ea and
5 flagellates per field and a hyphae complex every 10 fields at
18 hours or it may take 36 hours.
With a microscope it is not a guessing game.
Tue Jun 28, 2011 Message #26632
Tim Wilson
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/compost_tea/message/26632
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In the past Dr. Ingham said bacteria was about 20% N.
Lately I read where some people were talking calcium.
"Composition of bacteria harvested from the liquid and
solid fractions of the rumen of sheep
as influenced by feed intake"
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FBJN%2FBJN84_03%2FS0007=
114500001653a.pdf&code=8865e47c30a360360e528452fc6608c7
A little amino acids music please ;-)
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<snip> Nutrient storage structures
Most bacteria do not live in environments that contain large amounts of nut=
rients at all times. To accommodate these transient levels of nutrients bac=
teria contain several different methods of nutrient storage in times of ple=
nty for use in times of want. For example, many bacteria store excess carbo=
n in the form of polyhydroxyalkanoates or glycogen. Some microbes store sol=
uble nutrients such as nitrate in vacuoles. Sulfur is most often stored as =
elemental (S0) granules which can be deposited either intra- or extracellul=
arly. Sulfur granules are especially common in bacteria that use hydrogen s=
ulfide as an electron source. Most of the above mentioned examples can be v=
iewed using a microscope and are surrounded by a thin nonunit membrane to s=
eparate them from
the cytoplasm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_cell_structure
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A person could go on but I won't. Yes it is very interesting
but when LeRoy arrives in early spring the bacteria should be able
to eat till they burst.
If they don't watch themselves they might get
a little help bursting.
A nice fairly dry Lab Sample of Bacteria getting tested as compost
will tell me enough.
There are other things to study more important right now.
Whether a hollow fiber membrane filter is going to work remains
to be seen. The majority of everything else should be pre-filtered
out as long as they are new filters.
Otherwise many filters will increase in efficiency as they fill up and migh=
t not give the bacteria the ticket to get past to
the final filter pass.
It's being able to back-flush the bacteria back out
that I'm worried about - not catch it.
I'm looking into other ways to catch it.
Also concerned with harvesting the bacteria booty
without having the time and the forgiveness that soil affords dem.
Bill
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