Re: [compost_tea] Re: Alaska compost tea
Elaine,
Could you expand upon this comment re "....fine air bubbles chew up the org=
anisms in the tea..."
I have not been aware of this till now, how fine are these air bubbles you =
are refering to?
Regards
Mike Harvey.
New Life Soils
You need a decent air pump, and a way to get reasonably coarse air bubble=
s into the tea brew. Please be aware that fine air bubbles chew up the org=
anisms in the tea.
The measure of oxygen you want to use is oxygen concentration, not percen=
t dissolve oxygen. You need above 6 ppm, or 6 mg O2 per L. At sea level, =
at 72 F, the typical oxygen concentration is around 9 to 9.5 mg oxygen per =
L.
If you are reading dissolved oxygen versus dissolved carbon dioxide, you =
should have around 80 to 95% DO.
If you are reading percent oxygen, as part of atmospheric oxygen, oxygen =
should be in the 16 to 21% range.
Depends on how you are measuring, so let me know what scale you are using=
.
Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
.
Received on Sat Jan 25 2003 - 02:20:20 EST
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