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Tree Dude



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 262
Location: Saginaw,TX

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:39 pm    Post subject: Anaerobic Tea  

Is there any place for anaerobics teas?

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Dchall_San_Antonio



Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Posts: 2001
Location: San Antonio,TEXAS

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:08 am    Post subject:  

Do you mean any place to use them or any place to buy them?
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CaptainCompostAL



Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 870
Location: Irondale,Alabama

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:53 am    Post subject:  

Far as using anaerobic teas, I have several uses for them:

1. They make great compost stockpile activators. Large compost piles can easily digest stinky and anaerobic materials very fast by large aerobic microbial colonies.

2. If your compost pile is low on "greens", and abundant on "browns", these teas work great for that purpose too.

3. They are great for feeding winter cover crops or as winter soil drenches. In the winter seasaon, soil microbial activity is slow anyway.

4. They are great for all my diluted homemade pesticide recipes.

5. Used in full strength and in abundant frequent amounts, (and using lots of stinky, high nitrogen, "greens" in it), they make great natural herbicides.

6. They are great for use in warm seasons as soil drenches if diluted big time (at least 1:10 to 1:20 dilution ratio) in order to guarantee no plant foliage or root burns. I never use straight anaerobic teas as foliar applications!

I mostly use my pleasant smelling aerobic tea recipes for everything else in all my soil building or plant fertilzation or plant health or plant protection needs.

Happy New Year!
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Tree Dude



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:16 pm    Post subject:  

Dchall_San_Antonio wrote: Do you mean any place to use them or any place to buy them?

Use them.

Thanks Capt.
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