A company called Natures Technology has a link to a 5-part article on using aerated compost teas in a hydroponic growing environment - here
Look to the menu on the left under 'Articles' for links to the various pages.
DISCLAIMER: This company, Natures Technology, is a manufacturer of compost tea brewers. They also manufacture and distribute a 'ready to go tea' of which I know absolutely nothing about. So the 'buyer beware' paradigm is important to remember.
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Jack,
How do you know the tea is "shelf stable" for four days? Do you have any data or microscope data to support that?
I've bubbled teas for 4 days and they never became "stable." I don't think Florablend would have even a fraction of the organisms in a freshly made ACT. They must have another process for making the organisms go dormant. They're highly aerobic, they have high oxygen needs. The length of the brewing time does not negate this principle.
I'm not trying to come across negative, but let's just say I'm highly skeptical.
The point isn't to have living organisms, it's to have the stuff that benes make available to plants after digesting. The stuff works great and you don't have to worry about pH swings from ebb and flows of bacterial and mycorrhizal blooms.
This is not very likely. Nutrients are provided to plants via the excretions from LIVE protozoa, bacterial feeding nematodes and rotifers [others?] after ingesting LIVE bacteria or archaea
OR
LIVE mycorrhizal fungi species deliver nutrients to the roots of plants symbiotically, provided that the roots are 'infected' by the fungi.
I am first and foremost a hydro farmer before I am an organic farmer. Florablend, which is stabilized compost tea works wonders. It doesn't cause pH swings from live bacterial and mycorrhizal colony ebb and flow. I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree.