Former DWC'ers beware! Large bubbles for Tea!

**dirt clean** · 04-27-2009, 05:59 PM

For making Tea. Yes, I just found this out. Bubble size does matter. It seems the small bubbles will kill our bacteria and fungi and micro beaties. The sharp little bubbles will cut those organisms up and smash them.

Larger bubbles are needed. I have taken off my airstones. I am just using naked hoses.

Be aware that some professional tea systems are being graded as worthless for killing all the beasties in the mix! Some however did not. Large bubbles = safe creatures. Good soil!

**brokeandwise** · 09-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Great! I'll be able to sleep tonight with this information now.

**Scravagor** · 09-23-2009, 01:27 AM

care to elaborate?

**Jerry Garcia** · 09-23-2009, 06:58 AM

Is this really true? Can you provide a citation for where you heard this info?

**andyk187** · 09-23-2009, 07:39 AM

EVERY compost tea website i just visited uses airstones, can you give us some literature explaning this theory? i can kinda see where it's coming from, but i'd think atleast ONE of them would have known about this since it's their business.

**tea tree** · 09-23-2009, 06:43 PM

no, they all use large air bubbles. The better ones onlyuse a huge hose. I swear. Read "teeming wiht microbes" or any compost tea site. I use four small airpumps and no stones and I get bubbles and froth in 12 hours sometimes. The small bubbles vut upo the fungi strands. While mj likes bacteria more it is on a one to one level really and no readon to kill them. The plant will decide. It is out there dudes. Just look into the right sites of knowledge and not the ads. Look closer at the makers products thingies or whatevers. They have big bubbles.