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



Given that the compost has decent levels of fungi, you use good water, use a balanced, not-too-much-food recipe, then yes, we can predict what the machine will routinely give.

We are starting to get that information, given that many people are running the same machines over and over, using very similar kinds of composts, recipes, etc.

The EPM machines ALWAYS extract and grow about - hum, doing this from memory here so I could be low - 50% to 75% of the fungi in the compost.  The exception to this is if you add fungal spores which germinate and begin to grow in the tea.  There is teh rare exception where for some reason, the fungal community just takes off, and the fungi grow gangbusters in the tea.

The KIS machines do a bit lower than this, maybe 45 to 65% of the fungi in the compost get into the tea and grow. 

Alaska Giant gets about 10% to 25%

Earthworks machines are a bit more variable, again, depending on the exact recipe used.  They have grown amazingly high fungal biomass, and sometimes not really great.  Well, part of the reason is that I don't know their recipes all the time.

Who am I forgetting?  The Bob Norsen bitty-o-later, Charlie Clarke machine, the Nutra-tech brewer, the Hroneck extractor, the Prew Brewer - I don't have enough data on these to make a statement.

The bacterial tea machines?  Oh, maybe 0 to 1% extraction, survival and growth of fungi.

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

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