[compost_tea] Re: sugar locking up N

From: Titel Ryzhomer <thegoodjob_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:05:04 -0000
Hi Kirk,

They were not overwatered but were watered each time they needed
watering with tea diluted 50%. I either robbed them of N or just
over-did the tea. (Which I thought was not possible) I don't view
tea really so much as food but rather a soil conditioning which
makes food available.

I don't believe that the tea was anaerobic. There are beneficial
facultative anaerobes but they are grown through fermentation with
5% molasses. There was no residual molasses odor.

Our machine is homemade using a venturi which appears to inject lots
of air into the system.

Regards,
Titel

--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Kirk Leonard" <kirk@o...> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:24:21 -0000
> > From: "Titel Ryzhomer" <thegoodjob_at_h...>
> > Subject: sugar locking up N
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I recently may have over-applied tea which wasn't suitable. The
> > result was some yellowing of some young plants in transplant
pots.
> > They recovered when I stopped watering them with tea and gave
them
> > some diluted fish hydrolisate. ... snip <
>
> Your tea recipe sounds good, but lots of plants yellow when
they've simply
> had too much water.  And why did they need so much food?
>
> Just curious.  Your friend might be right and Doc E has pointed
out that 1%
> molasses can be a problem, even though that doesn't seem like a
lot.  Did
> the tea have any molasses smell when you used it?
>
> Molasses in tea can cause anaerobes and facultative nasties to
rise - both
> human and plant, I believe - but that should be detectable to a
wise nose at
> some point.  Molasses can boost fungi at 5% with massive air, as I
recall.
> Not with every tea machine.
>
> Kirk


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