How can i stall my tea?

[FlaDankster]

Is there any thing i can do to stall or prolong my teas?I have had a few incidents where my soil wasn't as dry as i would like but have had tea brewin for close to 48 hrs already and tossed it for fear of bad or spoiled tea.

So any tips on what i may be able to do if i won't be needing it for another day or even two would be great!

FD

 

[forty]

brew a day or 2 later?

 

[FlaDankster]

brew a day or 2 later?

Thanks dad

 

[Rednick]

Uh, sugars help most teas eat.
In fact the only reason to brew a new colony would be 'cause of a res change or genocide. Bacteria multiply exponentially, remember.

Search the organic forums for EWC teas. You should learn a lot.

 

[lost in a sea]

the major point of brewing the tea is to get the microorganisms to flourish to a peak point at which you administer, depending on how you brew your tea and how much variety you want in there,, the benefits are obviously huge of a good tea but its one of the tougher ways to provide microorganisms to the soil, though the best imo,,, if i had time i would do it these days,,,now for soil fauna i just use tarantula and inocculate plants at week four transplant with trichoderma,,,, teas are great though

 

[SOTF420]

Fridge

 

[forty]

Thanks dad

any time sweet tits... you honkey tonk? lets meet baby.

 

[FlaDankster]

any time sweet tits... you honkey tonk? lets meet baby.

Atleast this post was better than your first one.

 

[B. Friendly]

i put mine in plastic milk jugs and then threw it in the freezer, will bring it out when I need it.

but the thicker the container the better the freezer burn, or icing...

i made it and froze it.

 

[mad librettist]

it can't be done. the stronger organisms will wind up eating the rest, until you have protozoa soup, followed by a crash. Luckily, tea is very cheap! Give your houseplants a good treatment.

freezing will kill anything that can't form a protective coating and go dormant fast enough, and when you thaw all your microbes are asleep. You'd be better off drying it and using the powder. Which might give you rotifer powder.

Here is a little poem to go by:

Get that tea to your plants
fresh from out your brewer,
don't delay.

If your soil's a little too damp
give them a foliar,
and call it a day.

 

[spurr]

Fridge

That does not help, the issue is mainly one of oxygen; the oxygen levels need to stay high for aerobic microbes to flourish. As well as issues of lack of feedstocks and predation (e.g., decrease in numbers of bacteria/archaea, etc.).

 

[SOTF420]

Fridge

 

[CT Guy]

Really hard to do without a microscope. The proper amounts of foods and addition of more compost could extend the brew, but it's really hard to get it right without a microscope and a way to check it.

Fridge and freezer are not your best options....sorry.

Best bet would be to use it on your houseplants and start a new batch. Mad and Spurr are right, because what you've created is essentially maxed out at around 24-36 hours and is literally unsustainable due to the amount of respiration going on in the brewer (aerobic organisms require a lot of oxygen!).

 

[SOTF420]

A cold fridge right above freezing will certainly slow down the biological processes and extend the life of your tea by at least an extra day or so like the OP asked for that is if you don't wait too long before chilling it. (after say 12 hours max) I'm basing this entirely on having done it myself and it worked great, thanks.

 

[spurr]

A cold fridge right above freezing will certainly slow down the biological processes and extend the life of your tea by at least an extra day or so like the OP asked for that is ... I'm basing this entirely on having done it myself and it worked great, thanks.

And I assume you assayed the ACT with a microscope?

Sorry to say, but you are not correct, what you claim has been disproved by many people, not least of whom are CTguy and microbeman. I myself have also assayed ACT every 6 hours after brewing stopped; and I assume similar from Mad.

Putting it in a fridge will slow some biological process of some of the micobes, but not all, even so, that does not extend the life of the ACT; it alters the diversity and activity of the biota in the ACT. Oxygen levels are critical for teas with high populations of aerobic microbes...

You are making claims you cannot backup with proof (e.g., microscopic enumeration) and you are disgreeing (yet again) with people who know more than you do about CT (i.e., CTguy, and to a lessor degree, myself and Mad, all three of us have microscopes and look at our tea often).

if you don't wait too long before chilling it. (after say 12 hours max)

After about 4 hours or so, after stopping aeration, the ACT has much lower levels of DO; and that reduces the activity and diversity of aerobic microbes a lot. It has been found that applying ACT at most, about 4 hours after stopping aeration, certainly less than 12 hours, is the cut-off point; that is, unless the ACT is verified as still 'good' via microscope.

 

[FlaDankster]

This sucks!!!!!!

Been typin for 15 minutes and i lost the damn thing!My computer sucks so bad!

Thanks all for the input.

 

[guest2012y]

When I've had ACT that's gone beyond the best "use by" date and I don't want to waste it,I'll remove at least 50% of the tea and use it on houseplants and trees in the yard. The other half gets fresh water,more food,and more oxygen. I've done this a few times with no disaster and positive results......wish I had a microscope so I could really anal-ize it.

 

[FlaDankster]

When I've had ACT that's gone beyond the best "use by" date and I don't want to waste it,I'll remove at least 50% of the tea and use it on houseplants and trees in the yard. The other half gets fresh water,more food,and more oxygen. I've done this a few times with no disaster and positive results......wish I had a microscope so I could really anal-ize it.

Good advice Capt.

How about this.I split my gl milk jug of brewed tea with another gl of water sometimes a bit more.I wonder if i could do my split and just continue to bubble with maybe a bit more molasses and fish hydroslate as food and get an xtra day out of it like that.I feel ya on the scope bro....me wants one too!

 

[mad librettist]

if the tea has crashed, all diluting will give you is bad diluted tea. If it's protozoa soup it will be half strength protozoa soup. If it hasn't crashed, or become monoculture, it's still good!

please follow the advice of those who know! please?

 

[heady blunts]

start a new brew.

it's like $1 worth of materials.

when this happens to me, i water my flowering ornamentals with the excess.