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RE: [compost_tea] Fungal coverage on Potato leaves



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Elaine: When you say 5% molasses concentration, do you mean to use 5 Kg of molasses with 95 litters of water. It is a lot of molasses. The solution will get really thick.
 
 

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TaChung Huang (黃大忠)

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From: soilfoodweb@aol.com [mailto:soilfoodweb@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:29 PM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.cH] molasses for  
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Fungal coverage on Potato leaves

Fungal foods need to be used to help the fungi get established. 

You might also look at the pesticide load in the air.  Do you have residues of copper sulfate on the leaves? 

A good spreader-sticker might help.  Which one?  Can we please get some folks trying high concentrations of molasses again? 

Now that the silliness about molasses, or "sweetners" causing E. coli to grow has been put to rest, we need to get back to using molasses to help stick our organisms to the plant surface again.  When you use blackstrap, non-sulfured molasses at concentration above 3 to 5%, we enhance fungal growth, reduce anaerobic bacterial growth, and improve the stick of the organisms to the leaf surfaces. 

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


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