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- From: "Lloyd Charles" <lcharles AT webfront.net.au>
- To: "compostteas" <Compostteas AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Compostteas] Feeding tea
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:37:29 +1000
Hello to all
I need some nutritional advice from anyone willing to help. Started a brew
sunday night thinking with the cold weather and all plus my past history of slow
brewing results that it would take several days to a week to get going properly.
36 hours on and I have a nice brew - good head of foam - smells OK - pH holding
nice - by 48 hours I think it will be finished - trouble is I am not ready to
spray for at least another two days - how do I feed this to keep it going for
another couple of days?? Any help would certainly be appreciated!
Thanks all
Lloyd Charles
ps
For the technically minded here are the details
1200 litres of clean rainwater + 40 litres of good screened
(1/4 ") fungal compost which included a couple of shovelsful each of good
active garden topsoil and eucalyptus leaf mulch with obvious fungal
activity.
Fed with: 3 litres of black molasses, 1.5 litres fish
emulsion, 1.5 litres kelp, about 600 grams of "Gumat" humate, one small handful
citric acid.
Starting temperature 30 degreeC Starting
pH 6.8
Temperature has been maintained between 26 - 29
degreesC
Equipment 1800 litre rectangular milk tank with stirrer
paddle operating
Submersible sump pump with one and a quarter inch outlet
squirting through a one inch nozzle back into the tank for aeration. No
basket - all of the compost is circulating in the mix. Dont know what I
have got here but it looks good, smells healthy, and I will do some
refractometer tests today.
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[Compostteas] Feeding tea,
Lloyd Charles, 07/15/2002
- Re: [Compostteas] Feeding tea, Jeff Lowenfels, 07/15/2002
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Re: [Compostteas] Feeding tea,
Lloyd Charles, 07/16/2002
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Re: [Compostteas] Feeding tea,
Jeff Lowenfels, 07/16/2002
- [Compostteas] (no subject), Brett Kacalek, 07/17/2002
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Re: [Compostteas] Feeding tea,
Jeff Lowenfels, 07/16/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [Compostteas] feeding tea, John A. Perazzo, 07/17/2002
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