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

["Scott Alexander" <daylily AT bigpond.com>]

> First, what has worked to increase fungi in your teas?

Jeff - I will be producing a new batch next week and i'll be scratching
around in the litter in the forest beside me for fungal threads, plus
I'll be collecting up a bag of old wood chips that has some threads in it
and springtails (I scored a 18.8 Total fungi when I used it last time), plus
I now have liquid aloe vera and some saponin powder to add to this brew plus
my bio-dynamic contacts sent me this info. "yes you can make a tea of
casuarina instead of equisetum. It's very good for developing big fat fungal
hyphae in the soil! or compost!" So I boiled up some casuarina leaves (its a
sheoak) to extract the silica but I have no idea if this will help increase
the fungi count.
As usual, I'll have a bag of compost and I'll add humic acid, molasses, fish
and kelp and have the CT tested after 24 hours and then after 48 hours.
Fingers crossed for a Total Fungi count of 30 and Total bacteria of 1000 :-)

Scott