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I bought the book Compost Tea Making by Marc Remillard. He states on page 69 that in order to pre-activate your compost for fungal growth, to:
"Mix 4 spoonfulls of fine oatmeal (oat flour), powdered baby oatmeal, soybean meal, or oat bran with each cup of slightly moist compost. Put it in a container and keep it at 80deg F for 5 days. Do not stir, mix, or disturb. You should see visible fungal mycelia in 3-5 days, at which point you can use it to make a strong fungal dominated tea"
So I did this, and after 4 days, I have what "looks" like visible mycelia growing all over the compost. BUT, after looking under a microscope at 400x, I'm not convinced that this is the healthy fungus that I want. I don't see many segmented joints. There are lots of little balls inside the strands. Wanted everyone's opinion though: Would you use this in your AACT brew?
Thx.
"Mix 4 spoonfulls of fine oatmeal (oat flour), powdered baby oatmeal, soybean meal, or oat bran with each cup of slightly moist compost. Put it in a container and keep it at 80deg F for 5 days. Do not stir, mix, or disturb. You should see visible fungal mycelia in 3-5 days, at which point you can use it to make a strong fungal dominated tea"
So I did this, and after 4 days, I have what "looks" like visible mycelia growing all over the compost. BUT, after looking under a microscope at 400x, I'm not convinced that this is the healthy fungus that I want. I don't see many segmented joints. There are lots of little balls inside the strands. Wanted everyone's opinion though: Would you use this in your AACT brew?
Thx.
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