this channel deserves more credit. every time i watch your videos i learn something. tbh it can be a bit dry but if you actually want to learn something all you have to do is listen. keep up the good work
@@DiegoFooter I know you were not asking my opinion but giving it anyway... I love your thoughtful analytical style. I also appreciate how you demonstrate by experimenting with the ideas to make us reassess our assumptions. With the current podcast conversations, I'd like them to be longer. I want to know the ins and outs about when, how and quantities of soil amendments, not only how to make them. Be yourself. Check out Philosophy Tube Fandoms. Even if you do what the fans want, they won't be satisfied because people like to be challenged.
@@DiegoFooter I have just realised that one could listen to the whole interviews...I was just listening to the initial You Tube link... that's why I commented that the conversations seemed a bit short and I wanted more detail... it was mostly there all along. Great series.
very nice info.. we love making teas.. the foam is from using Organic method.. We will apply it in very early in am right before day light or in the Evening.. We will also use a Aloe or a Coconut in the Tea as well.. Its almost like being a Chef lol So many different things that we use in Teas... Thanks Big Guy..
I use the mushroom compost at Lowe’s a table spoon of fish emulsion, table spoon of borax, table spoon of Epson salt, table spoon of all organic molasses, table spoon of all organic apple cider vinegar brew for 24 hrs here in New Mexico with a fish tank bubbler
Thanks for bringing in-depth discussions on fashionable topics in gardening! With 5 years of gardening/growing knowledge of permaculture, and a past life in a lab growing bacteria to synthesize recombinant DNA, I found this informative. That said, my intuition tells me that no two teas will be the same due to changing inputs (compost), nutrients, environmental conditions, pH, etc., and that if it doesn’t hurt it’s good....dare I say, even anaerobic tea.
Love this podcast series. Found it really interesting that microbes need so little food by our generous eye method. I would have liked Troy Hinke to have mentioned the best way to apply the tea... is there a preferential time of day and a droplet size...?
I'm only three minutes in, and already learned something valuable - the small amount of food it really takes to get a bucket of compost tea going. I see an awful lot of folks claiming you have to dump in 5, 10 or more dollars worth of food in each bucket, and that just did not make any sense to me. Thanks!
I piled fall leaves four feet high and seven feet wide circled only by landscape fabric held together on the ends. Very little nitrogen in the pile but I seeded it on top a couple of times with decomposed wood chips which had previously warmed up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Its a lot of work to add sufficient water. Much of that water was chlorinated city water. But I did set some aside in five gallon buckets half full of leaves in order to dechlorinate the water for 24 hours. After about 4 days maybe 5 days, my compost thermometer says 130° F for this batch of leaves compost. Again there is no green material other than a little seeding of decomposed wood chips at the top. I believe this is because the decomposed wood chips had free living nitrogen fixing bacteria and that's what's heating up the leaves pile.
I am reading that the tea can go anaerobic if it is not aerated. Some say anaerobic conditions can suppress beneficial fungal populations. Is that true? Thank you, Diego for bringing us all this important information.
Diego, will you be making compost tea or extract from your bioreactors? Will you trial it? E.g. 1 plot with compost tea, 1 with compost extract, and 1 control plot/bed.
Diego, I am curious your opinion and this certainly doesn't apply to most people; I am a commercial mushroom hunter. I have excess 10 to 40 lbs of mushrooms at times and I have been composting them. Do you reckon I can throw the mushrooms in a paint strainer bag and make more fungi in the brew?
When my aerobic septic system breaks it takes about eight hours to get the 500 gallon tank back into aerobic conditions with 80LPM of air. Maybe some of that store-bought smelly liquid-fish fertilizer added to the tea could help determine when the tea is brewed & ready.
Compost teas can have their place for a home gardener, be it for potted plants or if you are limited on your access to compost and want to spread it out as far as you can (at a diluted rate). But if you don't have these special needs or limitations, using straight compost in the garden will provide equal benefit to your plants without the additional time and equipment that the brewing process requires. In regard to claims about nutritional benefits, the brewing process does not make the original inputs any more nutritious, it just speeds up the decomposition of those products a bit vs if you took those same inputs and applied them direct to the soil. So if you brew up A, B, & C.... you will be getting back some of A, B, & C diluted in large amounts of water with the rest still locked up in the screened material. In regard to the claims about the benefits of addition of soil life that compost teas bring to your soil.... all soils are constantly supporting the maximum level of life possible based on available food and the environment. If you dump a bunch of tea onto that soil without also adding more food or changing the environment, that additional life will quickly die off or go into a stasis. Again teas can have their limited place, but in comparison to just applying the compost to the soil, compost tea is just a time sink.
You asked the exact question I was wanting answered. You stayed silent while he passed his knowledge along, I appreciate that.
this channel deserves more credit. every time i watch your videos i learn something. tbh it can be a bit dry but if you actually want to learn something all you have to do is listen. keep up the good work
Nothing dry, just mycelia conversations with a cuppa tea
The subject matter or presentation is dry? I ask because I always looks to get better.
@@DiegoFooter I know you were not asking my opinion but giving it anyway... I love your thoughtful analytical style. I also appreciate how you demonstrate by experimenting with the ideas to make us reassess our assumptions. With the current podcast conversations, I'd like them to be longer. I want to know the ins and outs about when, how and quantities of soil amendments, not only how to make them. Be yourself. Check out Philosophy Tube Fandoms. Even if you do what the fans want, they won't be satisfied because people like to be challenged.
A lot of these podcasts are 2 hours long. You want them to be longer?
@@DiegoFooter I have just realised that one could listen to the whole interviews...I was just listening to the initial You Tube link... that's why I commented that the conversations seemed a bit short and I wanted more detail... it was mostly there all along. Great series.
Yes sir - watched a couple speeches with Troy - he's fantastic. Full of knowledge!
very nice info.. we love making teas.. the foam is from using Organic method.. We will apply it in very early in am right before day light or in the Evening.. We will also use a Aloe or a Coconut in the Tea as well.. Its almost like being a Chef lol So many different things that we use in Teas... Thanks Big Guy..
I use the mushroom compost at Lowe’s a table spoon of fish emulsion, table spoon of borax, table spoon of Epson salt, table spoon of all organic molasses, table spoon of all organic apple cider vinegar brew for 24 hrs here in New Mexico with a fish tank bubbler
Thanks for bringing in-depth discussions on fashionable topics in gardening! With 5 years of gardening/growing knowledge of permaculture, and a past life in a lab growing bacteria to synthesize recombinant DNA, I found this informative. That said, my intuition tells me that no two teas will be the same due to changing inputs (compost), nutrients, environmental conditions, pH, etc., and that if it doesn’t hurt it’s good....dare I say, even anaerobic tea.
Love this podcast series. Found it really interesting that microbes need so little food by our generous eye method. I would have liked Troy Hinke to have mentioned the best way to apply the tea... is there a preferential time of day and a droplet size...?
Apply in the evening.
I'm only three minutes in, and already learned something valuable - the small amount of food it really takes to get a bucket of compost tea going.
I see an awful lot of folks claiming you have to dump in 5, 10 or more dollars worth of food in each bucket, and that just did not make any sense to me. Thanks!
I piled fall leaves four feet high and seven feet wide circled only by landscape fabric held together on the ends. Very little nitrogen in the pile but I seeded it on top a couple of times with decomposed wood chips which had previously warmed up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Its a lot of work to add sufficient water. Much of that water was chlorinated city water. But I did set some aside in five gallon buckets half full of leaves in order to dechlorinate the water for 24 hours.
After about 4 days maybe 5 days, my compost thermometer says 130° F for this batch of leaves compost. Again there is no green material other than a little seeding of decomposed wood chips at the top.
I believe this is because the decomposed wood chips had free living nitrogen fixing bacteria and that's what's heating up the leaves pile.
Question, if I want to spray my compost what size mesh should I use to strain and what pump should I use?
I am reading that the tea can go anaerobic if it is not aerated. Some say anaerobic conditions can suppress beneficial fungal populations. Is that true? Thank you, Diego for bringing us all this important information.
Diego, will you be making compost tea or extract from your bioreactors? Will you trial it? E.g. 1 plot with compost tea, 1 with compost extract, and 1 control plot/bed.
Diego, I am curious your opinion and this certainly doesn't apply to most people; I am a commercial mushroom hunter. I have excess 10 to 40 lbs of mushrooms at times and I have been composting them. Do you reckon I can throw the mushrooms in a paint strainer bag and make more fungi in the brew?
At this ratio mention are we diluting the tea with water? Or using it as is?
When my aerobic septic system breaks it takes about eight hours to get the 500 gallon tank back into aerobic conditions with 80LPM of air. Maybe some of that store-bought smelly liquid-fish fertilizer added to the tea could help determine when the tea is brewed & ready.
Always great to hear comedy legends Bill Burr and Bill Hicks. Jokes aside, great info, thanks!
Bill hicks ia alex jones... no, seriously. Look it up 😮
So for three cups of compost how much humic acid and how much molasses?
No molasses. Humid acid - not much - like a tablespoon per 5 gallons.
How does aerating too long INCREASE anerobic microbes??
Compost teas can have their place for a home gardener, be it for potted plants or if you are limited on your access to compost and want to spread it out as far as you can (at a diluted rate). But if you don't have these special needs or limitations, using straight compost in the garden will provide equal benefit to your plants without the additional time and equipment that the brewing process requires.
In regard to claims about nutritional benefits, the brewing process does not make the original inputs any more nutritious, it just speeds up the decomposition of those products a bit vs if you took those same inputs and applied them direct to the soil. So if you brew up A, B, & C.... you will be getting back some of A, B, & C diluted in large amounts of water with the rest still locked up in the screened material.
In regard to the claims about the benefits of addition of soil life that compost teas bring to your soil.... all soils are constantly supporting the maximum level of life possible based on available food and the environment. If you dump a bunch of tea onto that soil without also adding more food or changing the environment, that additional life will quickly die off or go into a stasis.
Again teas can have their limited place, but in comparison to just applying the compost to the soil, compost tea is just a time sink.
Where do you get your information?
FOUR ADS! 5? In a 4+ min video? Ridiculous. Diego, yt is making your content unwatchable with so many ads. It’s really annoying.