Jeff, On the pH
question, it is advantageous to lower pH and then follow up with high pH makeup
water Tom Jaszewski www.livesoil.com 702-595-7012 -----Original
Message----- JD
asked about feather meal. I
assume you are going to try and grow fungi in your compost, something I urge
you all to try so you don't bang your head against the wall trying to grow fungi
in a tea using compost that isn't fungally dominated. The
point is to grow the fungi, the right ones and as far as I can tell there
is no "perfect" or "better way." I have
not noticed much of a difference between the "blooms" I get using
"the meals" and malt individually or in combinations. Some grow
faster, but once they establish, there is little difference. So if you
can't find feather meal, don't despair and surely don't spend lots of money
trying to get some. Incidentally,
there are several organic fertilizers out there that contain feather, bone,
blood and alfalfa meal. Since I believe in promoting our own, meaning folks on
this list, check out Hendrikus Schraven's site" http://gardenshoponline.com/blendfert/hsocomplete.html,
this stuff looks like a veritable three course meal with all the
trimmings for the fungi in compost. If it won't grow fungi, nothing wil
and you need a different compost. John
Evans used vinegar to alter the pH in his AH and got very fast growth. I
worry that this may have a deleterious effect on some of the
microbes. John really knows what he is doing, so I think this is
worth looking into. I have not done much testing on the pH
side of things....there is just so much she who is in charge will allow by way
of experimenting. Hope
this is useful. Cheers, Jeff Ask us
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