What happens if you put tea dominated with bacteria
on cane fruit?
I was told (I can't remember by who) not to spray
CT when plants are in the flowering stage because it could interfere with
pollination. By the time I had some tea together the berries
were flowering and I really wanted to get some tea out there so I sprayed.
I ended up with a bunch of misshapen fruit (not all, but a good amount). I
don't know if it was the tea, but I had been warned.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 10:41
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Subject: Re: [compost_tea] cane
fruit
Cane fruit requires fungal dominance in the soil.
The CT should have at least adequate fungal biomass.
Any chance
you can come to an SFI workshop to learn the basics? I'm doing one at
ACRES next week, and while there are 60 people signed up so far, I think the
room holds more.
More seminars in January and Feb in Corvallis,
a couple seminars in Holland in Feb, one in New Zealand in March, a couple in
Australia (Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Sydney, Perth) in late March, a couple in
India in early April, a couple in South Africa, Chile perhaps, in
April.
Check the SFI website (www.soilfoodweb.com) for info
Yes,
I like travelling. We need to get the information on how to get soil
healthy again out there to everyone.
The December E-zine will
have a HERD of examples of where tea has worked.
You know, no
one writes to me to say their tea didn't work. Which may just mean
people figure I'll go ballistic, but I don't go ballistic, unless the
information is put to me in a nasty way. I am human, you know.
If the information is given to me in a true "let's figure this one
out" attitude, I usually ask back, what were the details on production, what
was done? Did you test it? Did you do the
"put-it-in-a-sealed-container" and then open it and smell it the next
day? Stink? Not enough aeration. Too much food? Nozzle
opening on the sprayer? Water source? Chlorine? pH?
Cleaning the brewer? Ah, yeah, folks, you have to CLEAN the
insides. Get rid of ALL bio-films after each run! Usually just
using a hose to re-circulate tea down the insides to the tank as you remove
the tea works well. Try not to screen your tea once it is
finished. The fungi get lost in any sediment that builds up on the
screen.
Bruce Elliott at EPM is also great at helping people figure
out if the water, the sprayer, etc isn't right. He just solved the
mystery of why the folks in eastern Washington have a hard time making good
tea. It's your water.... but you really have to think, observe and pay
attention to figure it out. It's a detective story all right. I
hope Bruce will write it up for the E-zine.
If you have been doing
just foliar sprays, and you want to know why you don't have improvement in
soil structure, I'll ask you why you would think there will be huge
improvements if you have been applying to foliage and not the soil.
So do soil drenches. Fall is the best time, spring the next best
time. Both if you have poor soil structure.
Still no
improvement? Then think of the other things you do that might be harming
the organisms. I had that happen - the person was getting pretty mouthy
with me about why wasn't the soil improving when they were out there spraying
every week. I asked him to think about why the organisms might not be
doing better. He gave me a list of about 10 things, including herbicide
use, sulfur applications, copper sprays, tillage, bare soil, etc. My
response was, well, and which one of all of those things would be most
detrimental?
And a month later he got angry at me and claimed I had
never responded to his question why his soil organisms hadn't improved.
Go figure! I try to remember that I get fuzzy headed on occasion too, so
I just can't get angry and upset when other people are human.
Anyway, I want to hear the "it didn't work" stories. We learn
from them too, so I'll put negative stories in the e-zine as well.
Of course, I'll want to work with you on why the tea, or compost, or
applications to improve soil didn't work, so don't tell me things if you don't
want me to work on making them better.
Elaine
Ingham President, Soil Foodweb Inc. www.soilfoodweb.com
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