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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Brilliant, rare wisdom. LL

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From: Elaine Ingham soilfoodweb@aol.com [compost_tea] <
compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Compost Tea in Israel
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com




The answer is, both!

Most of the fungal foods added to a tea should be used by the fungi growing
in the tea during the brew cycle.

Excess food addition means the organisms will keep growing --- with the
concomitant use of oxygen --- during the time the tea is being sprayed
out.  Once the tea is put in the sprayer tank (irrigation tank or whatever
equipment is being used), the tea must be aerated well enough to maintain
aeration adequately, and if excess food was added to the tea at the
beginning of the brew, then that excess food may cause trouble in the
sprayer if the organisms keep growing, using up oxygen, without adequate
aeration in the sprayer.

So just be careful to use a small amount with your tea brew, maybe double
that amount in the second brew, triple that amount with the third brew, and
so on, carefully observing the brews for indicators that the tea goes
anaerobic at some particular concentration of the fungal food.  Ciliate
appearance is an indicator of oxygen dropping into anaerobic conditions, if
protozoa are present in your compost.  Alternatively, if fungi are present
in the compost, but disappear abruptly at some point, that is the point at
which oxygen dropped into anaerobic concentrations.

Make sense?

Elaine R. Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.       Soil Life Consultant
Since I travel a great deal, so if I don't answer within 3 days, please
send
again.


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Ormes Court ormus23@gmail.com [compost_tea] <
compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
To: compost_tea <compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 3:30 pm
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Compost Tea in Israel


To ask a question that has no doubt been asked many times before here, are
compost tea brewers capable of multiplying fungi of any description, or is
the idea that there will be spores and fungal foods in the tea that once
applied onto the soil will then give the fungi an opportunity to grow?

--
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change the problematic model /* *You create a new model and make the old
one obsolete /* *That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are
all being called. //* Buckminster Fuller

On 27 September 2016 at 22:37, Elaine Ingham soilfoodweb@aol.com
[compost_tea] <compost_tea@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
> The amount of humic material to add into compost, extract or tea, or just
> straight to your soil depends on how much additional beneficial fungal
> growth you need.
>
> Typical rates are between one teaspoon (about 4 grams) to 1 cup (100
> grams) per gallon or kg depending on your decision about how much fyungal
> improvement you need.
>
> Please note, however, that if you don't have any fungi in the soil that it
> won't do much good to add food for fungi.  use your microscope to assess
> how much, and what general types of fungi you have before determining how
> much fungal food to add.
>
> And remember, different fungal species like different types of foods ---
> complex fungal foods are best as there are so many different types of food
> chains in a complex molecule.  Bacteria are best at growing on simple food
> resources, while fungi are better at using the complex materials.
>
> Elaine R. Ingham
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.       Soil Life Consultant
> Since I travel a great deal, so if I don't answer within 3 days, please
> send
> again.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ido Aviani writeido@yahoo.com [compost_tea] <
> compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
> To: compost_tea <compost_tea@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, Sep 26, 2016 12:55 am
> Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Compost Tea in Israel
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> Another simple question:
> We need to add humic acid as funga l food with the CT applications.
> What is the recommended application rate of humic acid as fungal food? How
> many times should it be applied?
> All the best,
> Ido
>
>
>
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