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Re: RES: [compost_tea] Don't use MOLD and a RANT
The fungi can be damaged by pumps, so you need to test to see if a pump will slice and dice all the fungi up. Most tea machine makers have checked that, although a couple have not. That's why you want to ask the people who make machines, or their reps who sell them, for DATA documenting the tea that their machine produces.
If they can show you that their machine routinely produces tea with good bacteria, fungi and protozoa, then you can rest assured that you can do the same thing.
But if they do not have data to show you, or if they use plate counts to try to convince you that their machine makes tea, just walk away. They are trying to pull a fast one on you. Trust the data, not salepeople promises.
Filtering tea can remove the orgnaisms if the filter is too small opening size in the filter, or if the filter gets clogged. That's why it is better to keep the compost in a bag and not have it free in the brewer. When you filter the big chunks out, the fungi go with the big chunks.
OK? Make sense?
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand
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