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Greetings:
I'm new to the forum, and have decided after a 20 some year hiatus since I last attempted to grow (hydro flood and drain) that I would like to try my hand at an organic soil grow. Anyway I have a question. I have googled this topic in multiple ways and really haven't seen anything at all on it. I was wondering if you can make your nutrient teas on a stir plate. I was a dedicated homebrewer for a decade and have a couple quality stir plates that were used to grow up yeast cultures for brewing. Same concept as nutrient tea really. You feed the yeast a nutrient slurry and they use the food and oxygen to reproduce. You grow a small culture up to the size required for good fermentation of your brew. I'd like to know if I can use one to make nutrient/compost teas. As I have said I haven't really found any information online about this.
Basically my larger stir plates could spin a bar in a 3 gallon carboy if I wanted to go that big. The rotational speed can be controlled to determine how far down you draw the vortex. Just the act of circulating the water with a small vortex causes oxygen in the air to be exchanged into the liquid. Homebrewers doing cell counts have also found that you can spin crazy fast drawing the vortex all the way down to the stir bar and introduce fairly significant levels of oxygen from the air.
The benefit I see would be cleanup. I have multiple sizes of glass graduated flasks which would be easy to measure the tea volume, clean, and the stir bars all all silicone coated so they would be easy to clean as well. It would be nice to put the flasks and stir plates to good use again. Does anyone have any thoughts?
I'm new to the forum, and have decided after a 20 some year hiatus since I last attempted to grow (hydro flood and drain) that I would like to try my hand at an organic soil grow. Anyway I have a question. I have googled this topic in multiple ways and really haven't seen anything at all on it. I was wondering if you can make your nutrient teas on a stir plate. I was a dedicated homebrewer for a decade and have a couple quality stir plates that were used to grow up yeast cultures for brewing. Same concept as nutrient tea really. You feed the yeast a nutrient slurry and they use the food and oxygen to reproduce. You grow a small culture up to the size required for good fermentation of your brew. I'd like to know if I can use one to make nutrient/compost teas. As I have said I haven't really found any information online about this.
Basically my larger stir plates could spin a bar in a 3 gallon carboy if I wanted to go that big. The rotational speed can be controlled to determine how far down you draw the vortex. Just the act of circulating the water with a small vortex causes oxygen in the air to be exchanged into the liquid. Homebrewers doing cell counts have also found that you can spin crazy fast drawing the vortex all the way down to the stir bar and introduce fairly significant levels of oxygen from the air.
The benefit I see would be cleanup. I have multiple sizes of glass graduated flasks which would be easy to measure the tea volume, clean, and the stir bars all all silicone coated so they would be easy to clean as well. It would be nice to put the flasks and stir plates to good use again. Does anyone have any thoughts?