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Re: [compost_tea] Re pre brew innoculatied :fungal compost test results!



Hi Laura - 

The correlation between AH organism numbers and what ends up in the tea is dependent on the machine.  Given good water, decent molasses, kelp, etc in your ercipe, the determining factor is the machine.

We just finished a run with the SoilSoup machine using AH.  NO FUNGI at all, neither active fungi nor total fungi - in the tea.  Our oxygen probe showed the SoilSoup machine went anaerobic within the first hour of starting the machine.  It smelled BAD by 48 hours (the recommended brew time for a SoilSoup machine).  

In our experience, to put this on plants would mean certain doom for the plant, if not immediately, then within a few weeks as pathogens started taking over on the root system.  However, let me point out that we did not put this brew on any plant, so I can't say for certain that THIS brew would have killed anything.  


Exactly the SAME batch of AH, in the KIS machine, or in the EPM machine gave GREAT fungal biomass, and great activity.  Ask either Bruce Elliott (bruce@fish-world.com),or Leon Hussey (leon@simplici-tea.com) for the results.  

We added increasing amounts of molasses to suceeding brews using the KIS machine, up to 5% molasses in the tea, and ABSOLUTELY NO E. COLI.   If E. coli could grow in tea, and if it had been present, believe me, the E. coli would have grown in that 5% molasses brew.  

So when someone says that molasses grows E. coli even if the compost had no detectable E. coli, you can pull out the data that you can get from Lean Hussy or from SFI.  

Then challenge the people trying to terrify folks with "E. coli is everywhere and you can never get rid of it or be safe from it" with some hard, solid facts.  We do get rid of E. coli, if you compost correctly.  If you make compost tea correctly.    

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

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