Re: [compost_tea] The Dangers of Anaerobic Tea

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:09:20 -0400

We have some work to do to understand when anaerobic teas will result in killing plants, versus just not having much affect.

Clearly it isn't just dissolved oxygen levels that are important. The difference probably has to do with just how much alcohol, phenols and other metabolic products were made by the particular set of microbes that grew in the specific conditions. The first anaerobic brew probably helped set the stage for the nastier organisms being ready to take off faster in brew number two.

With the two brews, which one smelled bad? Color? Foam? What differences?

You'll probably say neither, so the brews weren't growing the stinky anaerobic bacteria all that rapidly. But the second brew was bad news, and the first wasn't. What difference?


Elaine Ingham
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