Live Soil Microscopy! Compost Tea, lets see what Biology we Brewed!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- Checking out some Compost Tea I brewed under the Microscope! Tossed all sorts of stuff in this one and brewed for 36 hours. 15 gallons of water, 1 9x6 bag of my compost, 1 bag Oly Mountain Fish Compost, 6oz worm castings, 1oz Fish Brew Bold, 2oz crushed oyster shell, 1oz crushed dried kelp, 1oz WCA, 2oz slow juiced bamboo and prickly lettuce, 1oz kombucha and 3oz crushed dried seed sprouts. Lets dive in and see what kind of biology we find!
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I put some of my vermicompost liquid from my worm bin, it was unbelievably busy, if it hadn't been for my microscope lens steaming up I'd still be staring at it, massive collection of biology of all kinds. Thanks for your videos they're amazing.
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Oyster shell is regarded as one of the predominant bacterial foods just fyi, loved the vid! Interestingly enough we tend to be able to know the preferred method of breakdown by the amendments pH value. Higher the pH more likely to be preferred by bacteria than fungi. Oyster shell is alkaline and therefore bacteria love it. In fact, oyster shell can even be a fungicide in high concentrations!
Apparently it affects the membrane permeability in *some* fungus! Interesting to note, and it's certainly possible oyster shell feeds both (as I'm sure there's always some that prefer different foods!). Just always heard of it as *predominantly* a bacterial food. It also has pH adjusting properties due to the heavy increase in bacterial activity, will then subsequently raise the pH! I feel like that's generally how it's used as an amendment. The glues and other exudates from the bacteria is alkaline so that's what will actually make that pH increase is what I've heard from Ingham and a few others
Makes sense, bacteria cell walls are mostly calcium I have heard. So would be a good food for them. Glad you like the content! Thanks for sharing some info!
@@ShootingtheSoil interesting! Def makes sense
U had a question, which compost is most fungal/ most fungal diversity, and I would say millipede poop compost. I think it’s called millipoop it’s two specific species of them that have great poop for plants
Best one yet, Matt! Care to help? Ideal Compost additive list. Updated sep 3.
I’m working to build an ideal additive recipe, for biodiverse compost.
Having fully acknowledged this recipe is impossible to create from everyone’s personal perspective and location. Knowing that numerous ingredients, that are free and local are on the highest level could be excluded:
1 Static aerated composting methods
2 Biochar
3 Rock dust
4 Wood chips with leaves, mostly branches from many trees. Preferred in the mix White trees, see notes.
5 Fresh Black frass
6 Fresh Worm castings with Redworms.
7 Local diverse green wastes.
8 Clean Local dirt.
9 Rain water and or pollution free, seawater
10 local clean, manure or humanure.
11 Sea weed
12 Fish hydroxylate
13 Biodiverse compost
14 Living soil
15 spent coffee, as most popular party food, comment.
Note: Every ingredient on this Ideal Additive Lists is up for your scrutiny.
Noted: Each version or type adds variables for further biodiversity on many of these ingredients.
Notes: White trees, but avoid gum species. Eucalyptus globulus (Tasmanian blue gum) is a tree (family Myrtaceae) found throughout California. Common whites: aspen, birch, poplar, sycamore, and gum
Proper proportions are a major note for this list. Please include %’s if able.
One vote 10% max biochar one vote 15%. ?
4 dark comments about fresh tree blood.
4 votes for massive simplify.
Single votes noted but not included unless otherwise supported.
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I have put all that besides the frass in my compost! I have only sprinkled in a handful here and there of bio char.
find myself questioning the Black frass, for a start. with its known anti bacterial properties. Yet, it’s inoculation like quality’s and chitin value makes me think twice.
The fastest way to get the most bacteria with compost:
-Make a compost tea
-Drink few cup of that brew
-Let digest it for few hours
-Pressure spray the compost bin with your explosive diarrhea
-Repeat until the compost pile can move by its own
Thanks me later
lol could be superb, but no no... don't drink your compost tea! So much E. Coli in compost. 95% of them are non pathogens but do one little thing wrong in the tea that creates a pathogenic environment and the E. Coli will take on the pathogenic genes and become pathogens!
What was this compost made out of? Mostly leaf and wood chips?
There was some Oly Mountain Fish Compost I purchased. And my compost was made from a bit of everything, I would say 20% wood chips, 30% leaves, 10% straw, 20% greens(grass and green leaves from property/garden. A little bit of sea weed and rest kitchen scraps. (no meat)
The only success I’ve been able to make from my tea is lots of bacteria. I’ve been unsuccessful in seeing fungi, aggregates, or organisms. I’m using certified organic compost with molasses. I’m also using fungi additive and fungi activator. I’ve tried using seaweed and kelp but no success. I do a 24 hour brew. Any suggestions?
How does the compost look under the scope? Any spores or hyphae? Might not be much fungi in there, most compost even organic is made hot and quick so there won't be much fungi in there.
Molasses is a bacteria food, and I have never seen an increase in fungi from brewing/bubbling. I have only increased fungi amounts by feeding crush oats, ground seed and or kelp directly to the compost in a bin (no water, just slightly moist compost) and covering with a cloth. Let that sit for a few days and then can do an compost extract to get it into water. I usually bubble water for a few hours, then add compost and use right away for my extracts.
For fungal compost I would recommend making your own Johnson-Su style compost with high ratio of wood and leaves. Other than that I have tested and seen good amounts of fungi in purchasing Catalyst Bio-Amendments and Crescive Soil Compost.
@@ShootingtheSoil thank you. I was hoping to make some nematodes and bigger food chain organisms. I do have success making fungi
So a dry dark field?
Not sure what you mean? The objectives are dry, I rarely use emersion oil.
@@ShootingtheSoil Sure he probably talk about a regular dark field + regular dry objectives.
Regular dark field is dry, so we don't usually specify it. You can also get an oil filled dark field condenser (expensive and not common).
2:13 It look like the remaining of some arthropod.
Good call, maybe a piece of a myriapod and those were all its little legs squished in a bunch.
@@ShootingtheSoil Myriapod would be my guess as well.
Finger licking good!
Do you not zoom in to see if there is some more life about, seemed quite empty
At 8:40 I go to 400x and you can see a few bacteria wiggling around. Was mostly scanning at 100x for larger organisms. I added the water amount to the description cause yeah this would be low for a brew that was being scaled up and diluted with water for large applications. But this is the diluted form that will go right on the garden.
@@ShootingtheSoil ok, i will hopefully do a couple of samples over the long weekend to compare how my two batches are developing