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HERE IS A LIST OF A TEN THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO WITH ORGANICALLY FED SOIL THAT CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITH CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL FEEDING:
- DECOMPOSE PLANT RESIDUES AND ORGANIC MATTER TO HUMUS.
- RETAIN NUTRIENTS IN THE FORM OF STABLE HUMUS.
- COMBINE NITROGEN AND CARBON TO PREVENT NUTRIENT LOSS.
- SUPPRESS FUNGUS AND BACTERIAL DISEASES.
- PRODUCE PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS.
- DEVELOP SOIL STRUCTURE, TILTH, AND WATER PENETRATION/RETENTION.
- SHIFT SOIL PH TO NEUTRAL AND KEEP IT THERE.
- SEARCH OUT AND RETRIEVE NUTRIENTS IN DISTANT PARTS OF THE SOIL.
- CONTROL NITROGEN SUPPLY TO THE PLANTS ACCORDING TO NEED.
- PULL MINERALS OUT OF INORGANIC SOIL COMPONENTS FOR PLANTS.
enjoy the knowledge!
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just to be clear chemical feeding can be organic, but its been created in a factory and its been processed. Chemical organic feeding is like eating processed food, the additives go right to the dome!
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I’m currently experimenting with the Jacks 321 with my grows, will it affect the biochar benefits?
Throw some recharge or great white on the pile. I like both of these because they have Trichoderma and not just Mycorrhizae. Any microbe boost that has trichoderma on the ingredients list will work great. Many have just mycorrhizae.
The trichoderma is one of the best at digesting down organic matter. Think of it as a compost booster on steroids. I find the pile breaks down in about half the time when I do a control pile. Then the mycorrhizae come along and use what they digest with the plant. And the char keeps it all there so it doesn’t wash away. The trichoderma just break shi• down.
Relevant tangent: I read that trichoderma was first identified during WW2 by pacific theater soldiers sleeping under canvas tents (hemp made?). When they set them up on islands with a lot of bird guano, the tents would fall apart. Like someone digested them in acid. Turns out the beach was loaded with trichoderma eating the bird guano and the canvas tents for dessert.
Honestly lately, I have been doing more of the KNF methods and harvesting IMO instead of using refined microbe boosters. But if had a pile of compost to break down I would bust out the old bag.
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No I don’t think so. Char will hold onto the chemical nutrients too. But remember the reason we use it to bind to nutes so they don’t flush out with water. I would expect that you would need less adding the char. If I wanted to compare I would run 2 sister clones. Both used soil. 1 char and 1/4 dose jacks. Do the other full strength. And (3rd sis why not) another with a single dose of jacks and no more. Compare & contrast.
Once the char is “loaded” the extra nutes would flush out just like normal w the run off.
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@Fieldofdreams i know that bio char has so much stuff in it that its life is like 1000 years.so maybe add some to a separate soil and compost it?
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It is because Carbon with 4 unpaired electrons can hold 4 different things at once. Or it can hold a long lipid chain or enzyme at one of the corners. Or a co2. The beauty is if something gets used up off of the carbon, the carbon will quickly rebined to another element or polyatomic molecule. That’s why it can strip CO2 out of the air, or remediate methane emissions as your compost breaks down from the microbes. Or a cows backend. It’s kind of mind-boggling to think about. Also, the most common way that elements or nutrients get moved out of the carbon bond, is through microbes. Microbes make all the magic happen between the plant roots and the nutrients sinks such as biochar. I can’t preach enough how much I like biochar. I think it is one of the most under utilized and overlooked aspects of all gardening. Cannabis or corn.
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Yea man. Charge em and they are good for a 1000 yrs. At least what I’ve been told. I contacted that guy from foop and got some news on it too. Very cool
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I am getting amazing results… I feed very heavy with foop and since the biochar my plants show zero signs of discomfort and grow extremely fast
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@Kozmoz if it was in your post for Larry the bio char dude. Thanks. I’m going to get the order placed soon.
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Ya , Larry said he wasn’t ready yet for char orders! Soon! I would highly recommend his nutes to start
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I agree
… It’s overlooked and not used by the masses yet! When they catch on… It’s all over for trying to source and buy it! That’s why , get it fast, because it’ll last you 1500 years!!!
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My insurance policy. I damp down the wood stove and the coals in the morning get doused. Best popcorn char ever. Only bad part is you got to sweep the chimney more letting it coal down instead of ash. It will clog the chimney like a bong.
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Charmaster
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Yeah I’ll email him back for some info on that. He got back to me saying he had some he could get me. Gave me a cost so I’ll get that and send a pic when I receive it. Like 2-3 weeks or so
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Next level!
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Yeah man can’t wait. I’m starting another few plants. Just dropped some seeds. Then 2 more next week. To keep a rotation going. And then when I do finally get it I’m starting up my 3x3 again and going to do some photoperiods, I think that would be a true test on what your soil is and could be.
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I rotate 18 autofloweres under 2 4x4 light, and harvest once a month. One light is veg other light is bloom. So I harvest 9 plants a month
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Wow. Not even close here. I grow 6 autos in my 4x4. But it’s mars. The light is weak so I’m getting the hlg Diablo refurb though. So maybe I’ll decide to do more. But going to put the other light from the 4x4 ( which is a sf2000 so 300watts ). I bought it because I got the whole setup for less the 400$.
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