Troubleshooting
1. You must always wear saftey goggles and gloves when dealing with any
chemicals
2. Be very careful not to spill chemcials but if you do this notify a
supervisor and follow saftey directions
3. Clean up all spills immediately
4. Wear long pants and long sleeve shirts to aviod bug bites
5. Use bug spray
6. Check the weather and prepare accordingly
7. If it rains you have to super saturate your plots
8. Preform the fungal density test, serial dilution and sulfate
test simultaneously
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9. Water all plots at the same time
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10. Pour the water in
slowly so that the soil can absorb all the water
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12. For our
chemical test kit we used
the
LaMotte Combination Soil model STH-14 test kit. |
13. Whenever working with micro organism
remember to follow sterile proticol
a. Put pipet tips in bleach solution
b. The serological pipet must not touch anything and be
put back in its casing until its ready for use
c.The 1cc scoops must be washed after every scoop of
soil is taken
d. Be sure to wipe down any work surfaces exposed to
possible microbes with 70% alcohol
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