C. 3d. Not-Aerobic Compost Tea

This is compost tea made with so much food resource in the tea, and so little aeration that it will become anaerobic (below 5.5 ppm or mg oxygen per L) quite rapidly. Typically this results in production of toxic materials that can be useful for preventing the growth of particular organisms. But there is no documentation of conditions that result in any particular end product. In addition, there are no consistent production parameters for any particular toxic material (presumably anti-biotics), or particular organisms.

A great deal more work is needed here before anyone would chose to use this approach on a commercial basis. Again, plant teas and manure teas have been made using this approach, but most likely the reason these teas did not catch on as useful practices is because the results are so variable.

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