RE: [compost_tea] Q's: Applying Compost Tea

From: George and Paulette Mouchet <geomouchet_at_QNET.COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:33:58 -0700

How much pressure is involved with a 2-4 gallon Hudson-type sprayer?

Paulette

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Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Q's: Applying Compost Tea

Precisely correct on the relative pressures. It's having live organisms
hitting a surface that is the critical factor.

Take the human example. You can shoot people out of cannons at amazing
pressures, and as long as you lose that potential energy BEFORE you hit a solid
surface, there's no problem.

Just don't put a brick wall 10 feet from the mouth of the cannon.

Don't put a leaf 4 feet from the sprayer if you are using serious pressures
and want your living organisms to survive.

But with people you could put the person in a "shell", and that would allow
them to survive the impact. Same for bacteria and fungi. IF they are sound
asleep and in dormant stages, they will survive hitting surfaces at 600 psi.

It's just that the critters with dormant stages are more likely to
be.....pathogens. A relative thing, you understand, but as we put compost tea to sleep,
we lose alot of the beneficials, and IF the compost wasn't wonderful, then
the relative percentage of good to bad guys is weighted on the side of the bad
guys.

Did I confuse everyone completely? Or is this clear?

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
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SFI New Zealand

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