Mike, As to oat flour and fungi - I assumned the spores were in the compost - in this case Alaska Humus that presumable was green stuff converted to compost by glacial activity thousands of eons ago. Being asleep that long and still alive baffes my imagination. After that long, adding moisture, heat and food, the spores wake up, yawn, snort and take off as fuzzy white stuff. I guess that the stuff of orginary compost have spores gallor in it. Given moisture, heat, food I expect the same reaction. Fuzzy white stuff. Kevin and I wondered if we were smart to 'hatch' the spores or should we leave than as spores since spores are more hardy than hyphai. Spores don't show up in ACT so, are they there? And Dr Elaine says spores don't offer disease suppresion on foliage. Spores may develop to hyphai in the soil if spores are applied by ACT You probably have lots of fungal spores in any compost. Probably show up a few inches down in your compost as hyphai if it sits warm f
or a f
ew days.
I read that an ass had a key role in an impotant event long ago at Christmas time. Bob
Mike Bosko <mjbosko_at_jmtsystems.com> wrote:
This brings up one of those questions that have been bouncing around in my mind while tending my several large compost heaps.
We hear a lot about using oat flour/meal, newspaper, cardboard to grow fungi and possibly other critters. Its my understanding that these are only the foods and surfaces to provide for a better growing environment. Is this correct? They don't actually harbor the microbs and/or their spores, right? Or do they? In other words, are adding these ingredients actually inoculating our composts?
The question, below, by mrmagoo303 has been touched a few times, and answered similar to how Bob just had. Magoo is looking for good fungal sources, and the reply was to pretreat compost with oat flour and kelp, add heat, walah. Makes me wonder then, does the oat flour have the fungi/spores in it?
Not picking on your answer Bob, in any way - its been a question of mine after reading similar responses to this question. As I've been adding a lot more corrugated cardboard, newspapers to many of my heaps - and a bit of baby oatmeal to others - Its been in my mind to ask.
(being that I made such an ass of myself in a prior post (grin), I'd like to add a legitamate question if I may... )
I know I've read the answer to this somewhere... archives, CTBmanual, ... but can't seem to find where.
thx
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Norsen [mailto:bnbrew_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:04 AM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Looking for good fungal sources for Tea
We pretreated compost with 1 lb oat flour to 5 lbs compost kept near 80F , moist for 3 days before brewng ACT. Resulted in high T Fungi in the ACT. Bob
mrmagoo303 <skmccue_at_msn.com> wrote: I have been brewing for a couple of years now,and i am looking for
other good fungal sources to add to my tea. My soils are bacterially
dominated and i am trying to change them to a more fungal dominated
one. Any recomendations would helpful.
Thank You
Sean McCue
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