[Compostteas] filtering compost tea

Soilculture at aol.com Soilculture at aol.com
Thu Feb 20 13:26:21 EST 2003


Hi,

Noticed the comment on Cannards compost tea injection....he is applying the 
tea thu a irrigation system with rain bird (overhead) sprinklers...not drip.

I have been running compost tea into drip systems....with very minimal 
screening and then we flush the drip system each time. Time consuming. Most 
any type of protein, high phosphate or dense microbial materials in the drip 
system will clog it, even after fine filtering, due to the growth of "slime" 
in the tubing. The tubing is dark, often warm from solar heat and grows 
microorganism very well.

So flushing has been our burden. 

What size of mesh can fungal compost tea be run tru, pre injection, to limit 
clogging but retain fungal hyphal health?

Bob
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