Re: [compost_tea] oxygen readings

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:06:20 -0500

Thank you for the great data on your teas! That's fascinating!

The organisms are indeed growing quite rapidly, and they are using up the oxygen that fast.

Plants transmit carbon fixed from carbon dioxide from the leaves to the roots within seconds. Nutrient cycling can process N from nitrate, into plant material, and back into microbial biomass in minutes.

Why can't the organisms be growing so rapidly in your tea that they use up oxygen that rapidly?

You might want to reduce the food resources so the microbes aren't growing quite that fast. You have to aerate the tea in your spray tank.

I am looking forward to having the lab functional in Cambridge any day now.

I'll be there soon! Please stop by and chat!


Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com

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