Re: [compost_tea] Drip irrigation
Greetings Clay
Q 1. Dilution is here perhaps not quite accurate, lets me toss in
"carrier" for the AACT as most do not want to use straight AACT do too
the expense. It would be difficult to over use AACT as the organisms
would go to sleep/die. Caution here is moisture logging the root zone
as in over watering any plant too the soil(s) condition as presenting
at the time of watering or applying AACT. One other aspect to remind
the readers of this opinion is that we are pushing "live cultures" into
a pipe/tubing and unless we flush that same pipe/tubing we may leave a
culture to go anaerobic and the next time we use those same
pipes/tubing we may contaminate unintentionally, so a flush with plain
or (gasp) chlorinated water is too be considered.
Q 2. Fertigation? Is the biology present to take up the materials in
the dilution? That is a test or observation question, you would not
want to mix the fertigation materials unless you had a way to calibrate
the micro biology to additives so as to avoid osmotic shock to the
microbes in question. It would I think be a local (your experience,
your materials, the water pH knowledge) observation, any comments from
the rest...
Q 3. No real time experience here. Shep Smith has provide AACT to a
farmer using a pipe irrigation in the Corvallis Oregon area and perhaps
if he reads this he could chime in.
On 2004, Oct 2, , at 5:53 PM, clay wrote:
>
> My main interest is......
>
> 1. the dilution rate you may be using for compost tea-do you dilute it
> because you are using it everyday?
>
> 2. other additives you may be using in fertigation (what dilution)-
> for
> improved soil health as opposed to just feeding plants
>
> 3. the type of drip system used
>
> Thanks
>
> Clay.
>
>
>
Terence Dodge
Soil Husbandman
Certified Soil Food Web Advisor
Mycoremediationist
www.desperateAg.net
503.516.4794
Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 00:48:34 EDT
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