Compost Teas: 24 hour, EM, IM, BD & fermented plant extracts

["Frank Teuton" <fteuton AT sympatico.ca>]

Hmmm.

 

Well we are going by, what clogs the sprayer and what doesn't, eh? Such pragmatism.....

 

GSI recommends 20 mesh, see

 

http://growingsolutions.com/faq.html

 

That equals about 850 microns, so maybe the filter bags I listed are too small. But the principle of filtering through a lot of surface area so as not to clog or force particles through the filter by pressure is a good one, I am thinking, so just find the bigger sizes and make big filters out of them, sounds like the ticket. So my next quest is to get a big 20 mesh filter rig for my pump intake, since that is where the bottleneck is, and hope we don't get nozzle clogging, which would be an annoyance...:-)

 

Frank Teuton----doing his clog dancing routine.....the pump sings, when it needs attention

----- Original Message -----

From: Lmvine1 AT cs.com

To: compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:45 PM

Subject: Re: [Compostteas] Strainers - was Teamaker basics

In a message dated 5/31/02 12:44:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fteuton AT sympatico.ca writes:

Similar filter bags with lots of surface area are available from Aquatic
Ecosystems, www.aquaticeco.com , in sizes from 1 to 800 microns, 7" in
diameter x 32 " long, order numbers BAG1 through BAG800.

The paint bags seem to be the right size for us, but someone more into fine
tuning could look for the 'perfect' Goldilocks 'just right' filtration size.

Frank

Nylon 75 mesh, 5 gallon paint strainers are available below for cheap BUT are they too restrictive, especially for fungi?  The package is labeled medium.  Don't know if a more porous version exists.
http://doityourself.com/store/6770689.htm

In my most recent tea batch I used mosquito netting (not impregnated w/ insecticide!). Not as convenient as the paint strainer bag but probably about 20 mesh in effort to make sure I wasn't restricting the organisms.

Dan