[compost_tea] Re: chelating minerals with ACT
-Hi David No I don't think I know better than you or any one else.
Yes the bugs are organic. My post was meant as a simplestic way of
exspressing my beleifs that it may be more practical to apply
minersals to the soil when lacking instesd of part of the tea. All of
the soil test I have that recomends applying one or more of the
cat-ions, generaly are in hundreds of pounds per acre. Do you think
minerals applid as part of ct would do this? I do think that applid
to plants(leavs) might be benificial. Like you I am new to ct. I been
involved in natural farming/ranching since the late 30s. And I think
ct for building the soil food web is the greatest thing since the
safety pin.
Jimmy Muse
-- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, David Anderson <danderson@b...> wrote:
> longbranchranch wrote:
> > brewing ct. I think we can agree minerals in order to be made
> > available to organic life must be chelated. So we need bugs.
>
> Aren't those bugs "organic life"?
>
> I am certainly no expert on this, as I just started looking into
compost
> tea and it's been 20+ years since I took biology, but it seems to me
> that you need to select for the organisms that you need, so they are
> able to process the minerals in the form that it is available in
your soil.
>
> So if the point is to select for that capability, wouldn't it make
sense
> to augment the process with those minerals at the start, i.e. when
first
> mixing your compost pile?
>
> This is similar to the idea of selecting for bacteria or fungi when
> making your compost AND making your tea. If you want to grow the
> critters that make calcium available through their metabolic processes,
> then you should make sure that they have calcium to grow on.
>
> And depending how the mineral is locked up in your soil, it may take
> several metabolic (and even mechanical) steps before it becomes
> available to the plants you are trying to feed. In that case, you are
> probably talking about years to make a significant amount available
even
> with the correct selection of microcritters.
>
> But like I said, I'm new at this, and if you know better, I would
> appreciate an explanation as to why my perception would be wrong.
>
> Dave
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