Ted to make this test valid you need more plots, by more people, under more conditions.
21 0f each type CT might be a real test. Can you involve that many beween you and others? In reality it might have to go for 3 seasons to establish soil conditions - and include soil tests of course. Bob
Ted Peterson <ted.peterson_at_tcsn.net> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Kiphart
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:05 PM
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] Re: Re: Re: Re: non-aerated teas?
I can't be 100%, but I believe Bob Cannard, the King of Anerobic Teas, uses them both as a foliar and a drench....grows lots o bitchin edibles to boot.
Tim
Folks:
I posted before about the vinyard manager who has been making this type of tea for quite a while and gets good results. I called him yesterday in relation to something else and it's his opinion that aerated and hyper-bacterial/fungal growth in a brewer doesn't, in the long run, add much to the soil and the plants. I mentioned a couple of things I had done and why I thought it was better and he suggested I try to repeat what I had done using his method. We now have a nice bet that the results will be different so this spring, we are going to do a controlled A/B test using his 'drip' method and one of my brewers. We will have a series of soil tests as well as plant assays before and after spraying and soil soaking. We plan to do everything exactly the same except for the type of tea. We plan, grape applicaton, turf application with two 10 x 10 plots of turf, rose application, seedlings (grape) and herbs. So finally we will have some data.
I think Elaine described it correctly from a testing and and lab point of view. So now we will see what happens in the field. My suspicion is that Elaine has it right and we will get far better results with the aerated tea than the 'drip' tea but that's just my suspicion. I think the aerated tea will test biologically far more active. So we will see if it gets transferred to the soil and actually provides the mildew protection in a significantly greater amount than 'drip' tea.
Ted Peterson
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Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 17:15:48 EST