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  • From: "Soil Foodweb, Inc." <info AT soilfoodweb.com>
  • To: compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Compostteas] Re: Can you over aerate compost tea
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:35:44 -0500

Can one over aerate compost tea?

Yes, you can over-aerate. The method of over-aeration is important. You can
force super-saturation of oxygen if you use ozone, or peroxide, for example.

But, it is very difficult to over-aerate using air bubblers, because when
water
is saturated with oxygen, movement of oxygen from the bubbles into the water
doesn't really happen. The equilibrium pressure is the "wrong way".

E-mail Leon Hussey at www.simplici-tea.com and talk to him about the system he
is using to get the 12 hour extraction. Leon is one of the world's most kind
people, and even though you might be building a competing tea maker, I don't
think he'll be at all offended to talk to you about what he's been doing.

Elaine Ingham


> From: "Jeff Lowenfels" <jeff AT gardener.com>
> To: <compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:43:49 -0700
> Subject: [Compostteas] can you over aerate
>
> I ask because I am making increasingly larger size bucket bubblers using
> either 1/4 inch soaker hose. I recently purchased an air pump about 50
> times more power than the best aquarium pumps. I want to make a bubbler out
> of a garbage can size container. Either that or be able to make tea in 12
> hours using a smaller container.
>
> Any words of wisdom?
>
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  • [Compostteas] Re: Can you over aerate compost tea, Soil Foodweb, Inc., 05/16/2002

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