RE: [compost_tea] Re: Dennis' 24-hour tea

From: Judi Stewart <js_at_olympus.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:01:07 -0700

Dennis, it's very hard to describe to someone what something smells like
without having them smell the smell, or to just say it smells like such
and
such. Until we have developed a tea scratch and sniff test, we have to
use our own judgment. There are also variables when it comes to smell.
It doesn't go from no smell to stinky without passing through stages. I
can only write of my own brewing
experiences as I haven't been up to smelling too many other teas. So if
you think the smell was off, that it didn't smell as nice as it did when
it first came out of your brewer, then it might have been starting on
its way south.
I don't know the point at which you call an aerobic tea an anaerobic
tea.
And I don't know what an anaerobic tea looks like under the scope.
But I think this is something we eventually should all learn to
recognize, if it
wasn't so awful to get close to.

Judi


-----Original Message-----
From: dkemnitz2000 [mailto:dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:32 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] Re: Dennis' 24-hour tea

---
Hello Judi,
Several possibilities I'm sure. It passed the "smell" test. It had
none of the "strong" odors which Elaine describes in the compost tea
manual. I'm calling it anaerobic simply cause it sat in a bucket at
ambient temp (approx 70F)without any movement for approx 24 hours.
This is after it had been in the extractor approx 48 hours (with
aeration)and very little molasses in the batch brewed at, I'm
guessing, 70-75F..It did develop "a more definitive aroma" at the
end of the next 24 hours BUT,not the strong anaerobic by-products
mentioned in the compost tea manual.I did not use a DO meter. IT's
obvious to me I gotta get using the scope(need more data). And learn
more about what I'm looking at on the slide. I had a lot of short
fat motile rods which looked much like B. subtilus I've seen before
(although it's been 29 years). Gotta get eyecups too. And get a
scope for personal use. Volatile stuff this ACT. Dennis Kemnitz





 In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "Judi Stewart" <js_at_o...> wrote:
> Dennis, how do you know or why do you think your tea became
anaerobic?
> Did it smell bad? Sounds like it was in an open bucket and might
not
> be 100% but maybe 50% according to what you saw under the scope.
>
> Judi
>
> ---I been thinking about all those critters I saw on the sample I
> spoke about in the message below and it (finally) occured to me I
> didn't have an ACT sample at all. What I had was ACT which had
been
> in a bucket roughly 24 hours. So it had obviously gone anaerobic.
> It sure was a neat slide though watching all those short fat rods
> cruisin' all around and the protozoa (I'm thinkin' again) cruisin'
> around gobblin' up something. Sorry for the false info. regarding
> ACT. That explains to some extent why I responded regarding the
> handling of ACT.
> Dennis Kemnitz




 
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