{"id":2323,"date":"2015-07-17T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2018-01-04T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T18:41:45","slug":"using-the-microscope-to-grade-compost-and-compost-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/using-the-microscope-to-grade-compost-and-compost-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the microscope to grade compost and compost extract"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is using Elaine Ingham’s microscopy techniques to investigate thermal compost – some of what I saw. I am at an early stage of being able to do this, so any errors are mine and not Elaine Ingham’s \ud83d\ude09 The principle is to classify organisms by their morphology – aerobic fungi tend to have a colour, diameter wider than 2.5\u00b5m and\/or have uniform septa. Spiral structures are bad, indiciative of anaerobic conditions, and ciliates (hairs all over the body) also indicate anaerobic – bad- conditions. Apart form the spirochete most of these are good.<\/p>\n