LittleDabbie
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I'll chime in this thread since im making composting tea from worm castings.. 2 Cups 1 per bag so 2 bags and 2.5 gallons of water and 1 tbl spoon of unsulfured molasses..
Started it at 1Pm yesterday after noon its now 6:53am and about 4 hours ago i started to notice small bits of foam around the edges of the water now 4 hours later theres a decent bit of foam all over the top of the water everywhere.
I did a quick google search based on vermicomposting tea making and my similar recipies and i found the foam comes from bacteria feed off protiens in the water. Thats it.. Its a by product much like sugar water and yeast..
Reading that they also said to get a true idea of microbial content of your tea USE A MICROSCOPE, FOAM is NOT an adequate way of judging the microbial action of your tea, as they went onto say adding carbs or protiens to the water will significantly increase the foaming action..
So for me foam is just.. Foam... a by product of bacterias and microbes feeding off whatever and doing whatever..
Foam takes time it seems, bacteria take time to eat and fart and shit or whatever it is they do to release the shit that causes the bubbles.. and a big enough oxygen stone is a must.. Im running a 4" stone triangle in shape just Long. Producing some serious water action so im sure thats also helping cause the microbes and such to come alive eat shit fart whatever.. :D
My 2 worthless cents since this is the first batch of tea ive ever made :D
Started it at 1Pm yesterday after noon its now 6:53am and about 4 hours ago i started to notice small bits of foam around the edges of the water now 4 hours later theres a decent bit of foam all over the top of the water everywhere.
I did a quick google search based on vermicomposting tea making and my similar recipies and i found the foam comes from bacteria feed off protiens in the water. Thats it.. Its a by product much like sugar water and yeast..
Reading that they also said to get a true idea of microbial content of your tea USE A MICROSCOPE, FOAM is NOT an adequate way of judging the microbial action of your tea, as they went onto say adding carbs or protiens to the water will significantly increase the foaming action..
So for me foam is just.. Foam... a by product of bacterias and microbes feeding off whatever and doing whatever..
Foam takes time it seems, bacteria take time to eat and fart and shit or whatever it is they do to release the shit that causes the bubbles.. and a big enough oxygen stone is a must.. Im running a 4" stone triangle in shape just Long. Producing some serious water action so im sure thats also helping cause the microbes and such to come alive eat shit fart whatever.. :D
My 2 worthless cents since this is the first batch of tea ive ever made :D