[compost_tea] Re: pH

From: growest2002 <g.w.thomson_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:49:17 -0000

Laura and all-

I also "brushed off" the pH meter, hadn't bothered in a long time!

Finished AACT 6.4
450 ml fish hydr and 150 ml. liquid kelp in a kitchen bucket of water
3.4
Add 3 spoons of baking soda to fish/kelp soln 5.8
Add pH adjusted fish/kelp/water to 80 liters AACT 5.9

Done this way, the baking soda didn't touch the organisms in the CT,
just made the added microbial foods more friendly to them when dumped
in the spray tank. There would be a certain amount of Na+ in that
"fish water", would prefer not to have that but hoping the amount of
"salt" in nearly 90 liters of liquid is less problem for my
bacteria/fungi than a pH under 4...no?

Glen

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, laura_s_at_v... wrote:
> this post made me brush off the pH meter and check
>
>
> starting rain water 6.7
> finished AACT 6.85
> add 1% fish hydr 3.43
> adjusted tea 4.7 !
>
> so pH adjustment would definetly be required if fish and humate
were
to be
> added.
>
>
>
> What is the optimal pH for foliar absorption ?
> I usually aim for just under 7.
> Laura Sabourin
> EcoVit Ecologically Sound Horticultural Products
> Tea-riffic Aerobic Compost Tea and Acadian Seaplant Products
> RR # 1
> St Catharines, Ontario L2R 6P7
> http://www.ecovit.ca
> http://www.compost-tea.ca


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