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

["Tom Jaszewski" <tomj AT lvcm.com>]

mea culpa.....default spiel chekor will be enabled!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Jaszewski" <tomj AT lvcm.com>
To: <Compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Compostteas] Re: Compostteas pump


> This is the same pump used on Bruce Elliot's 500 gallon brewer. His brewer
> places 4ea. -
> 12 or 18" stones in the tank and an aeration hose in the basket. Bruce's
> machines are getting good fungal extraction. The basket also has a spray
> nozzle flowing into the basket and one circulating water in the tank.
These
> nozzles are powered by a pool pump/filter assembly. If I remember
correctly,
> the basket has a 400 mesh bag, Again the results he has gotten have shown
> the filter bag to not hinder fungal extraction. Our fungal extraction
> continues to be low, but we are certain its a problem with our methodology
> or source material rather than the system.
> http://www.composttea.com/500gallon.htm
>
> We are purchasing a "compost tumbler" to culture our source material.
> We have ordered the "original". http://www.compostumbler.com/sizes.html
>
> We will be innoculating the material and experimenting with developing a
> consistent "compost". I remain convinced that a combination of APC and
> vermicompost will provide us with the ideal material. I am reluctant to
> change source materials since we have gotten fantastic partial inhibition
> assays with the APC. This entire adventure began looking for a method of
> suppressing Fusarium oxysporum "cannariensis, a fatal disease idetified in
> out palm population. Inhibition assays have NOT been as consistent with
> other products. As usual I have more questions than answers, but the
results
> here speak for themselves. I am still suspicious of the claims made by
> others since those results continue to be largely anecdotal and don't
appear
> to be supported by testing.
>
> So far we have had 100% partial inhibition with Rhizoctonia, 83% with
> Alternaria, and 92% with Fusarium oxysporum. Inhibition assays have seemed
> to have confirmed what we are seeing in our field work.
>
> The inhibition assays are done with BBC Labs. In our case we have BBC
> identify and test using disease samples collected from our landscape.
> http://www.bbclabs.com/serv02.htm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Teuton" <fteuton AT sympatico.ca>
> To: <compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org>; "Dave Robison"
<drobison AT teleport.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 8:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Compostteas] Re: Compostteas pump
>
>
> > The place I went with (as it was known to my partner) was Aquatic
> > Eco-Systems, www.aquaticeco.com
> >
> > Sweetwater is their house brand, I believe.
> >
> > The pump we got was the SL88, which delivers 5+ cubic feet of air per
> minute
> > at depths up to 48", runs 446$ US. We are currently using this pump on
two
> > tubs totalling 240 + gallons of water with six 6" stones in each.
> >
> > Their catalog is an education in and of itself, eh? You will certainly
get
> > some ideas from it.
> >
> > Frank Teuton
>
>
>
>
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