Where do you get your science from? She is a doctor in soil microbiology. Your statement has little to nothing to do with my statement. If you start to study this, you will find that a properly brewed tea needs little to no speeding up. Understanding what microbes eat what sugar sources and tailoring that to what you need is the way to go. Is your soil constantly short on bacteria but rich in fungus and nematodes? Are you using a microscope to determine this? If you aren't studying the science and just making statements based on anecdotal evidence, please keep it away from the science or at least frame it as "in my experience". Carbs and sugars ARE THE SAME THING, there is however a difference between simple and complex carbohydrates. Making statemens with out 90% of the information on the subject can truly lead the new farmers down the wrong path and even lead some to never grow again. If you want to have a conversation about when one MIGHT need to use sugars like molasses, beet juice and the like, we can do that, but for most farmers, molasses in their tea is not only not needed, but will most likely breed more of the things you already have and less of the things you need.
With microbiology being really new in the scientific community we all should take everthing with a grain of salt
Question what good is a tea when your soil is deleted of its organic content
If you think about it a tea spoon has billions of different types of microbes many even today with no name yet ..
TBH with people going crazy over making cultures and teas to increase micro life is only part of the whole cycle
its not just adding molasses to a tea for only sugar contents there are also other benifits right like micro nutrients etc
and remember in science its not fact its a guess what she may think is not needed compared to other studies and science findings can be opposite
we only can guess and hope what were doing is good for instance
Did you know that the different plants in your garden, may need different types of compost tea?
That's right, annual plants, such as vegetables, prefer a more bacterial-dominated soil, whereas, trees prefer a more fungal-dominated soil. Therefore, you would want to brew compost tea that is more bacterial-dominated for your vegetables, and tea that is more fungal-dominated for your trees.
Where does this leave us ??? in the middle although mother nature is rather forgiving if were to make a tea mistake
To complicate things a little further, the type of tea you make, may also depend on the type of soil in your garden; so you must consider two variables: plant type and soil But again were taking teas now or what were doing is implementing fungi and bacteria into our soils .. with out any true data because this science is rather new and its always changing i think of it as mechanisms of action
And on closing note is a tea really needed in a perfect rich soil ??? i tend to think not teas used as activators when starting out a carbon cycle again i think its to speed up
i rather let colonies establish as per mother natures rule having or making a tea and having a dominant microbe may or i think can do more harm then good
anyways here a well balanced living soil no need for a tea and i will post a picture harvesting when plant is still alive @ - 6 - 10 degrees and a foot of snow on the ground
Guarantee there is lots of life in soil athough soil temps have slowed the process
Have made teas a very long time TBH was laughed at when i posted my tea / plant food i grew my plants with 10 plus years ago
like i said i use teas for green house is it necessary hell no living soil is living soil microbes establish , die and new colonies establish its natural
here a plant that germinated may 8th only rain water and top dressing of mulches no teas you know what the finny thing is this plant is healthier then tea fed plants
i am guessing its mostly due to one being left alone and mother nature taking care of her with least human interference
i prefer to make a strong herd and i think its leaving them alone to do there thing instead of feeding them teas and making them lazy
also what i noticed with having a soil figured out is that there much more immune to insect attack
Anyways were moving away from real organic growing in a sense and why the tea craze cause soils are depleted well before harvest