Bokashi juice is very low Ph which in even organic can be a bit of a shock to the system. I prefer taking the juice and adding to an ACT to culture microbes further from there. I am very careful with anaerobic compost it is strong stuff.
lease forgive me if this has been answered, 7pages is my limit for sifting thru threads lol. So, I read on icmag that waiting for the foam on compost tea is not the way to identify wen it's done brewing and ready for use. Is there a way to better identify when the tea is ready? I'm talking about without a microscope and excluding sending samples to a lab. My tea process is as follows: day 1, cold tap (well water, cold is untreated, non softened) in the bucket with 1/4 cup organic unsulpherated molasses. 1cup of my composted soil with a teaspoon each of ewc,Jamaica and Mexican bat guano in a cheesecloth bundle. After a day of my water bubbling with just molasses in it it's now room temp and suspend the bundle above the airstone. I also add a chunk of mosquito dunk in there too. The dunk is because I picked up fungus gnats in some topsoil from (s)Lowe's. So I bubble that until it foams good because I assumed that was the way to know it's done. So, what u think rrog? It's been a long road from dirt soup to 8months composted organics soil but I'm happy. Now I just want to improve until I die.
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I can't take credit for the soup style, the rev used that analogy in tlo. Bottles on soil being like a nutrient packed soup and living soil being more like a full steak dinner. I used to use Fox farms whole line and i get soil cook for a month. I was wasting a lot of stuff, money being high on that list. It's better now.
Yes, the EWC have the microbes that you're looking to multiply. What shredder was saying is that the guano (and other nutrients) when added to a compost tea can actually hinder the microbial multiplication.
Probably so. Just make one kind of tea or another. In this case 1 + 1 = 1, but both teas are still beneficial.
Hey man! I woke up and it's january. Far out.
Tough to say Cory. Without a high powered microscope there is really no way of knowing what helps and what doesn't. We do know that Tim Wilson aka Microbeman has looked at slides and has advised that other ingredients be left out. Remember, the sole purpose of a compost tea is to multiply and extract beneficial microbes. The only thing beyond water, EWC, and plenty of oxygen that you need is a food stock for the microbes.... which is the blackstrap molasses.
thanx, i should have mentioned watering it down and its useless after a day or so. but makes for a good cleaner
You actually want to get rid of foam. Is screws up your teas' air exchange with atmosphere. A drop of cooking oil is usually enough to destroy foam heads. Jusy one drop maybe two.
