PickleRick
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Why do you assume they die? just because a lack of oxygen or the freezing temps? There is still oxygen in frozen ice. Thats why It floats in water, so it has more oxygen in the expanded pores than water. As far as freezing temps, this simply slows down microbial activity to the point of essentially a standstill. Thats why we freeze food! And when we thaw that food, it will get bad just as quick as if it had not been frozen.
If all the microbes died from freezing temps, then the entire surface of earth would completely die off in winter. That massive pile of compost out back, yeah its all dead in -30C, nothing good left come spring. Not sure why people are so quick to think freezing kills. High temps Kill, freezeing just (well freezes the process)
I think when you thaw that compost tea, get it to nice warm temps and aerate it for a day, its pretty close to where it was before frozen.
prove me wrong, I just want to know the truth, and all I see is people assuming, I expect better from the organic growing community.
If all the microbes died from freezing temps, then the entire surface of earth would completely die off in winter. That massive pile of compost out back, yeah its all dead in -30C, nothing good left come spring. Not sure why people are so quick to think freezing kills. High temps Kill, freezeing just (well freezes the process)
I think when you thaw that compost tea, get it to nice warm temps and aerate it for a day, its pretty close to where it was before frozen.
prove me wrong, I just want to know the truth, and all I see is people assuming, I expect better from the organic growing community.