Re: [compost_tea] Puzzled!!! Wow Numbers

From: Scott Alexander (daylily@bigpond.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 19:28:41 EST


Oops - those results were from Ross Orner's vermi-compost -- not from his =
CT (I thought everyone read all the postings to this group and would have r=
emembered those great results :-) )

Jeff replied:- " It seems logical that the answer would depend on a few thi=
ngs: Temperature, the amount of o2 in the bottle, the amount of nutrients l=
eft and the amount of o2 your machine put into the tea."

OK - so you can't get numbers like that in CT? But what if you could make a=
 tea with great numbers and had 7ppm of dissolved oxygen at the finish. T=
hen you half fill a 2 litre container and store it for two days @ 75 F, how=
 long before it goes off if there are no nutrients left?
My last two batches didn't go off after two days in a bottle and only sligh=
tly off after 3 days, so logically (??) I reckon my CT wasn't a very good b=
rew. Don't ask me to test my teas again and again . . . during the past 12=
 months I've spent more on testing CT's than on fertilisers.

Jeff asked:- "O.K. Scott... now what were the tea numbers you made out of t=
hat fantastic compost?"
Could Ross answer that question if he has made CT using this form of compos=
t?

Scott







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