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Re: RES: [compost_tea] Giant vegetables



Hi Tom -

You suggested it was merely long day length that resulted in giant vegetables.  I countered that.  It isn't just long day length that results in giant vegetables.

If you want to say it wasn't CT, when John gets his large vegies and his neighbors don't, when Jose has giant vegies and the growers around him do not, and when Scott gets giant daylillies, and other growers in similar soil and climate do not, then you need to explain what you think it could be instead of the CT. 

I think what you are doing is saying that because ALL people don't get giant vegies with CT, that therefore CT cannot be the cause of the giant vegies.  This is not correct logic. 

The correct thing to ask is, what might be in combination with CT in these areas that result in giant vegies. 

Or is it the way these folks make their CT?  The machine they use? 

You must look for the common thread that allows these people to get giant vegies, and things that other people do not do, so that they do not get giant vegies. 

When making observations, you have to be a detective.  Why do these people in such different places manage giant plants?  What is the same?  What is different?

Why don't you get giant vegies?  What is different about your soil, your climate, your conditions? 

Maybe lack of constant water? 

Instead of implying that these folks are, ah, well, ah, less than clear-sighted about the causes of their large vegie syndrome   :-)   that's a grin there - you might try to determine why they get large vegies and you don't. 

So, Scott, John, Jose - are you in high rainfall areas, or low?  If they are all in high rainfall, then we can search for folks in high rainfall areas that don't get giant vegies. 

What is different between high rainfall giant vegie producers and the high rainfall non-giant vegie producers?  And if there seems to be a common factor, and we remedy that in the non-giant vegie producers, could the non-giants get giants? 

Tom, I know you like to poke at people and make them think.  Poking is a good way to do make people think, but it sometimes also makes for hard feelings. 

So, as long as everyone understands how Tom works, and no one gets ruffled feelings, we'll think and not react.  Right?  

And maybe not all of us want giant vegies. 

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com

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