Very Acidic compost Tea

calliandra · Nov 25, 2016

DankTankerous said:
For sure I will let you know. Thank you for all the info. I never was or have been a fan of math but since I need to graduate with a few credits in math I better get reacquainted with it.

As far as the amount of tea- 1gal that's actually what I need for the plants.

I'm guessing temperatures will also play a role in microbial growth? I have the tea in my garage but the temps are dropping where I'm at

You're very welcome to my stellar early morning math skills :mrgreen:

lol
What are you fixing to graduate in?!

Yeah temperatures, good thinking!
Your AACT is going to be most effective when it's bubbbled around the temperatures the soil/plant is in, because then you'll get the set of microbes that do best at those temperatures.

In my understanding. the purpose of the AACT is not primarily to establish a well-rounded microherd (as is the case with worm/compost), but to boost activity in a somewhat established one - so we want those players in the tea that can perform well immediately in their destined environment.
Adding microbes that are active at your garage temperatures won't harm anyone, but all those lovelies you just bubbled up will just go to sleep, since the environmental conditions will be outside their activity range.

That's why I have the noise issues with my pump lol
I grow in a closet in my apartment, so the tea gets brewed indoors too. Otherwise, I could just bubble the stuff in the cellar and have my peace and quiet :blsmoke:

DankTankerous · Nov 26, 2016

calliandra said:
You're very welcome to my stellar early morning math skills lol
What are you fixing to graduate in?!

Yeah temperatures, good thinking!
Your AACT is going to be most effective when it's bubbbled around the temperatures the soil/plant is in, because then you'll get the set of microbes that do best at those temperatures.

In my understanding. the purpose of the AACT is not primarily to establish a well-rounded microherd (as is the case with worm/compost), but to boost activity in a somewhat established one - so we want those players in the tea that can perform well immediately in their destined environment.
Adding microbes that are active at your garage temperatures won't harm anyone, but all those lovelies you just bubbled up will just go to sleep, since the environmental conditions will be outside their activity range.

That's why I have the noise issues with my pump lol
I grow in a closet in my apartment, so the tea gets brewed indoors too. Otherwise, I could just bubble the stuff in the cellar and have my peace and quiet

Yep that is the plan too. I'm living with my parents right now but about to move in a month. Although I'm not growing cannabis right now I do have a strawberry plant that I am quite fond of.

I am majoring in History, but I'm doing my basics right now.

calliandra · Nov 26, 2016

DankTankerous said:
Yep that is the plan too. I'm living with my parents right now but about to move in a month. Although I'm not growing cannabis right now I do have a strawberry plant that I am quite fond of.

I am majoring in History, but I'm doing my basics right now.

Ah cool!
What's your favorite thing about history that made you choose it as major?

And of course all this applies to all plants, with variations :bigjoint:

DankTankerous · Nov 26, 2016

calliandra said:
Ah cool!
What's your favorite thing about history that made you choose it as major?

And of course all this applies to all plants, with variations

Thank you for asking that question, rather than "what is your favorite time period." I originally wanted a degree in Humanities but it doesn't come out as specific degree. Instead you are given an interdisciplinary degree. Fuck that. So I chose history because Humanities is basically a history degree, and I love the critical thinking that comes with it. I'm not a person that gets wholly into dates and times or events. I love learning the reasons behind them and just learning more about the history we were given at face value. Plus it's really really easy for me to remember history because it's like a book for me.

Did you study anything?

Here is my Strawberry plant, a long with fungus that grew on the top from the tea. This is what made me wonder, "is this working?"

platt · Nov 26, 2016

As far as i can recall It's called overexpression, the `opposite of balance, we dont want It indoors & definetly could be working like a truck outdoors, yup. :shock:

Nuts!

DankTankerous said:
Here is my Strawberry plant, a long with fungus that grew on the top from the tea

Yeah the chances are great BUT It's not necessarily true fella, it could be other yeast, mold, whatever..

calliandra · Nov 26, 2016

DankTankerous said:
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Thank you for asking that question, rather than "what is your favorite time period." I originally wanted a degree in Humanities but it doesn't come out as specific degree. Instead you are given an interdisciplinary degree. Fuck that. So I chose history because Humanities is basically a history degree, and I love the critical thinking that comes with it. I'm not a person that gets wholly into dates and times or events. I love learning the reasons behind them and just learning more about the history we were given at face value. Plus it's really really easy for me to remember history because it's like a book for me.

Did you study anything?

Here is my Strawberry plant, a long with fungus that grew on the top from the tea. This is what made me wonder, "is this working?"

Ah yes, I find that the motives behind events and recognizing the waves of mindsets arising and breaking apart over the course of time to be the true purpose of looking at history at all

Lots of mind adventure in there!

And yes, I've studied lots of stuff, but in terms of getting a degree, I majored in English literature - so I totally understand what you're getting at with Humanities and history. My thesis was, basically, about the rise and fall of the age of reason and anthropocentrism, which I saw like an arc, reflected in English language literature. The beginning marked by the times of Laurence Sterne, whose Life and Times of Tristram Shandy flies in the face of the newly arising conventions of storytelling, and specifically, the novel. At the other end, the postmoderns, deconstructing everything, dismantling convention by distributing their writings single-leafed and boxed, to be read in random order. So, history? or literary criticism? or a bit philosophy? :razz:

haha!

Well that sure is a lovely, vital plant!
Not sure actually whether that fungus is anything to worry about, though it is a bit grey, and goes straight up to the stem.... your plant doesn't seem to be bothered by it though?
Strawberries do tend to like a more fungal-heavy soil so it may be a friendly buddy too

Actually I have real mushrooms sprouting directly next to the stem of my chili plant - they smell good too, maybe edible companion plant?! No worries, not trying them without knowing what they are

DankTankerous · Nov 26, 2016

calliandra said:
Ah yes, I find that the motives behind events and recognizing the waves of mindsets arising and breaking apart over the course of time to be the true purpose of looking at history at all Lots of mind adventure in there!

And yes, I've studied lots of stuff, but in terms of getting a degree, I majored in English literature - so I totally understand what you're getting at with Humanities and history. My thesis was, basically, about the rise and fall of the age of reason and anthropocentrism, which I saw like an arc, reflected in English language literature. The beginning marked by the times of Laurence Sterne, whose Life and Times of Tristram Shandy flies in the face of the newly arising conventions of storytelling, and specifically, the novel. At the other end, the postmoderns, deconstructing everything, dismantling convention by distributing their writings single-leafed and boxed, to be read in random order. So, history? or literary criticism? or a bit philosophy? haha!

Well that sure is a lovely, vital plant!
Not sure actually whether that fungus is anything to worry about, though it is a bit grey, and goes straight up to the stem.... your plant doesn't seem to be bothered by it though?
Strawberries do tend to like a more fungal-heavy soil so it may be a friendly buddy too
Actually I have real mushrooms sprouting directly next to the stem of my chili plant - they smell good too, maybe edible companion plant?! No worries, not trying them without knowing what they are

Dude exactly. I love literature but an English Degree just didn't have what I wanted. I'm glad you can relate. Right out of high school i went to a bible school that wasn't accredited and went there for three years and graduated. However, they can't transfer to colleges just private christian universities. I didn't learn much theology (go figure :lol:

) though, but i don't really have a desire now to nor go to an extremely expensive, private christian university. So i'm starting all over again over 10 yrs later. :dunce:

Your thesis sounds really interesting, I bet it was a doosy to write.

But no, the fungus is gone by the way. I threw away those air stones and the hoses and bought some new ones. I have been away from my place for the past 5 days so I haven't gotten to try out the new recipe.

calliandra · Nov 28, 2016

DankTankerous said:
Dude exactly. I love literature but an English Degree just didn't have what I wanted. I'm glad you can relate. Right out of high school i went to a bible school that wasn't accredited and went there for three years and graduated. However, they can't transfer to colleges just private christian universities. I didn't learn much theology (go figure) though, but i don't really have a desire now to nor go to an extremely expensive, private christian university. So i'm starting all over again over 10 yrs later.
Your thesis sounds really interesting, I bet it was a doosy to write.

But no, the fungus is gone by the way. I threw away those air stones and the hoses and bought some new ones. I have been away from my place for the past 5 days so I haven't gotten to try out the new recipe.

Haha in fact that thesis was impossible to write! Had to cut it in half in the end and focus on the 18th century part only, it got way too complex for a mere master's paper. Could've made a PHD out of it (and actually had the plans laid out for it), but as I was sick and tired of Uni and it was the last place I wanted to work at the time anyway, that never happened.

So your previous studies are not credited in any way towards the degree you're doing now? Not even on a course credits level? :shock:

DankTankerous · Nov 28, 2016

calliandra said:
Haha in fact that thesis was impossible to write! Had to cut it in half in the end and focus on the 18th century part only, it got way too complex for a mere master's paper. Could've made a PHD out of it (and actually had the plans laid out for it), but as I was sick and tired of Uni and it was the last place I wanted to work at the time anyway, that never happened.

So your previous studies are not credited in any way towards the degree you're doing now? Not even on a course credits level?

They are at a few christian colleges around here, except the tuition is upwards to $35,000+ a year and it would still take me at least 3 years. As well I am concerned about the education that I will receive there along with the nuances and having to attend chapel everyday. I have been raised very very religious so i'd rather not continue that in education.

calliandra · Nov 28, 2016

DankTankerous said:
They are at a few christian colleges around here, except the tuition is upwards to $35,000+ a year and it would still take me at least 3 years. As well I am concerned about the education that I will receive there along with the nuances and having to attend chapel everyday. I have been raised very very religious so i'd rather not continue that in education.

Ah, sounds like the "christian education system" is kind of apart from the rest, and there is no exchange with the outside world lol
Yeah may be a good idea to stay out of there :eyesmoke:

So to begin anew it is! On the upside, the stuff that's a repeat is easy and quick to get through, so you have more time to give the things that interest you most more attention.
And that sounds like fun, so, way to go!

DankTankerous · Nov 29, 2016

calliandra said:
Ah, sounds like the "christian education system" is kind of apart from the rest, and there is no exchange with the outside world lol
Yeah may be a good idea to stay out of there
So to begin anew it is! On the upside, the stuff that's a repeat is easy and quick to get through, so you have more time to give the things that interest you most more attention.
And that sounds like fun, so, way to go!

Well I never took any basics there because they didn't have them. It's just a bible school where you take classes on ministry. So those ministry classes still transfer, but they count as like electives. Dude some of the teachers at the Bible school do not have bachelors, and if they have a degree it's just a bachelors from the school that only takes the Bible school's credit that I went to

CheGueVapo · Mar 2, 2019

I know this thread is little old,but i found it regarding compost teas turning acid.

When you have ro-water or tap water at ph7 when you start brewing and it turns very acid at a certain point, could it mean the MOs run out of fuel (perfahps some micronutrient or the sugar) and died?

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