Re: [compost_tea] Puzzled!!!

From: Scott Alexander (daylily@bigpond.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 07:34:11 EST


  Hopefully, you did not seal the bottles. But if they were sealed, and th=
ey didn't start stinking, then you didn't have bad guys in the tea to foul =
things up, and everything was asleep enough to not be a problem.
  Yes - they were sealed up and only opened to allow a sniff @ 24, 48, & 72=
 hours.
  Didn't read your instructions properly I guess.
  SO . . . could the tea "go off" faster with the lids off?


  If the organisms are still rapidly growing, they should use up the oxygen=
 and make things smelly. But, if they use up all the food while you are st=
ill aerating, and the organisms start to slow down because they have no foo=
d, then they may be high in number, but not in activity.
  Is a CT which is high in organism numbers but low in activity very effect=
ive ?

  Jeff wrote:-
  Add nutrient to your compost/humus to wake up the fungi and get them grow=
ing BEFORE you add it to tea. It is easy. Well, it is easy to do if you u=
se ALASKA HUMUS.
  I made up the grain fungi foods as described by Jose and mixed it with my=
 vermi-compost. After two days i saw something that looked like a mold on t=
he surface and no fungal hyphae. Now I'll mix it with my compost and see wh=
at happens.

  Scott







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