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observations on growing actinomycetes
    #23508149 - 08/04/16 01:44 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

With fresh horse manure you can pile it 3' x 3' x 2 feet high in a pyramid shape, and expect perhaps 1 cubic foot in the center to
be covered with white actino (about 80 percent of the surface is white) in about 2 weeks.  This is assuming you water
the pile once in a while and keep it out of direct sun, which is the method I used.  Not soaking wet, but more like field
capacity.

If I lay out fresh horse manure in the baking sun, I get about 1 out of 30 to turn white, but it's only on the surface.

If I break up the manure after it is dry, then spread it out on a tarp and water it then let it bake in the sun, I get
no actino.  I think leaving it in nugget form is key so it doesn't dry out so fast.

I tried putting some nuggets in a solar oven at about 122F for a week, no luck, tried for about another week with
a focal lens to increase the amount of direct light and heat (130F or so) still no luck.

Dried manure laying out in the sun does not accumulate actino, I think ample rainfall in a cycle of wet, then
hot sun over and over again is the key to getting actino to accumulate in natures scheme of things.

So the compost pile is by far the best way so far, even the center of the nugget has white.


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Re: observations on growing actinomycetes [Re: invitro]
    #23509747 - 08/04/16 02:12 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

i get lots of actinomycetes on the pine tub grindings( not wood chips) which are much finer texture. i find that the areas that have them most go through a wet cycle( winter ) and then when summer comes the stuff gets real thick with it. almost solid in fact.

what are you using it for?


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