How do the food sources get
mixed with the tea in the desired proportions?
Simple solution to this concern of teas going anaerobic when adding
xtra food!
Depending on your scale of operation cost would obviously be
a factor, but if your taking this road least traveled- personally I think it
is no cost at all.
If you are using a tractor or 4 wheel motorbike to
spray the CT, simply add saddle tanks or a 'dolly' tank separate to the tank
holding the CT. use these auxiliary tanks to hold the food sources, which can
be concentrated as to reduce weight problems. this gets the job done in one
pass! Most broad acre 'biological' farmers have been doing this for years as
they saw similar problems when putting out similar food sources when they
applied herbicides (sorry to mention a contraband). Simple fact is that your
paying someone X amount to sit in the tractor regardless, so you might
as well get 2 things done at once!
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 11:24
PM
Subject: [compost_tea] Re: microbial
food
Dan and all--I also asked about adding foods to the spray
tank before spraying, and Elaine did comment about it.
Altho the
tank seems to go anaerobic in a matter of minutes, she mentioned you
still have a few hours before your aerobic fungi all die off--I guess
they can hold their breath for awhile!
So I am planning on adding
hydrolyzed fish (neutralized with baking soda--this stuff is very acid
as it is sold)and liquid kelp. I would also like to add humic
acid, but not sure of the rate for foliars...note that % humic really
varies. I know the humic will precipitate if the pH goes below
about 6, thus the importance of neutralizing the fish at least some
before all the mixing.
Oh, I always put in a yucca product at label
rates as a wetting agent. I'm sure this does some good for both
foliage and soil as it works thru the system.
Results so
far--just starting to see some good flushes of growth, but that happens
in May anyway.
Also seem to get some leaf burn when I'm
careless--spray early morning, on cloudy days preferably
(?)
Glen
--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, Lmvine1@c...
wrote: > In a message dated 5/16/2003 10:34:50 AM Eastern Daylight
Time, > Good point Ron. I used CT on my soil last year and improved
it some BUT I > believe (and Elaine also mentioned) long term
food resources for the > organisms were not in the soil in
sufficient quantity. My OM is less than > 1.5% and is not
sufficient to feed the herd after innoculation with CT. > >
This year I am adding foods to my CT just before applying such as HA,
> molasses, Saponyn and Kelp. Upon advice of Erik Morgan of
Terra Vita I am > using a pound of SP-85 per acre per application
of CT, much more than I added > previously. I am adding
foods to tea just before topping off sprayer and >
spraying. My only concern is if I cause the tea to go
anerobic. Of course > I could put the foods on in a
separate spray but that is more labor and > passes in
vineyard. > > I mentioned this issue before but got no
response. Hope this does better. > What are
experiences with adding organism food and what do you use?? > >
Dan Lynch > Long Mountain Vineyard
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