The Benefits Of Feeding Ground Grains And Oats To Your Soil

[Organikz]

Feed your soil. Not your plant.
I just wanted to share all the wonderful benefits of a weekly top dress of malted barley powder among other grains and oats. I buy a 50lb bag of pilsner malt grain and grind it right before I apply it.

• Contains easily available chitin [chitin is found between layers of carbonate. As it is broken down it is converted to chitinase which breaks down exoskeleton of larvae and eggs.]
• Contains urease, phosphatase, and potasase.
• Increases fungal activity in soil
• Contains naturally occuring growth regulating hormones and defense triggering hormones
• Contains enzymes that increase decomposition
• Growers have reported up to a 20% faster finish in bloom (I have seen it)
• Increases worm reproduction

Diastatic MBP is ideal for fungal growth while rye is higher in phosphatase. Any grain ground as fine as possible works, even oatmeal. Always water into soil surface with fulvic acid/aloe/silica using a sprayer. Try to wash it into the soil.

"Enzymes are the catalyst, fulvic acid is the catalyst to the catalyst."

 

[TRK]

nice post fella

I started using malted barley I grind myself too a while back, pretty impressed with it, and at like 1.30 a kilo where I am it's hard to beat on price LOL that's probably expensive compared to many parts of the world even

I haven't fed oats directly to the pots before; some to my worm bins from time to time, they sure like it, and malted barley they really go nuts for it seems too

So a quick couple of questions if I might

Have you ever used malted oats and would there be any added benefit to using them over plain old oatmeal? I saw them the other day at the online brew shop but didn't wanna throw down there and then, thinking maybe I should have now... Saw an interview with Cootz recently where he mentioned oats as well, never said if they were malted or not

Pretty sure I saw malted rye while looking at that brew shop too, and wouldn't a malted grain of any type always contain more enzymatic activity than it's unmalted twin? Is that what you are using as the rye then, or just ground up grain unsprouted?

Thanks

TRK

 

[tinderthumbs]

so much learning so lil time

 

[TRK]

Coot says there are higher levels of phosphatase in malted rye. Search KiS coot interview in YouTube. 3 awesome podcasts.

I don't know if this will be covered. I use malted barley powder. The grain works better when it's malted which means sprouted. You can see little tails. This is when the seed releases mass amounts of enzymes. That is why you see guys making seed sprout teas. Too much work. Coot laughs about his buddy asking him why he's doing all that when they sell premalted grain. And he was like whaaaaat?

Regular oats works fine. Its kind of like Ferrari, Porsche, Honda when going down the line of Malted barley, malted rye, oats. However they are all effective. All will get you to your destination

Thanks for taking the time to share some knowledge MM

Much appreciated

 

[Organikz]

Malted Barley / Sprouted Seed Tea Explained:

Enzymes are catalysts the effect specific biological functions in humans, animals and plants. You can toss in fungi, bacteria, et al. in this discussion. For example vermicompost is a function of the enzymes in composting worms. The bacterial slime that worms ingest are converted to worm castings in the worm's digestive tract. Worms also exude specific enzymes into the food stock to trigger specific responses from microbes. A partnership if you will.

Almost every seed contains a range of shared enzymes - Amylase, Urease, Phosphatase, Chitinase, Protease, et al. Seed germination is 100% a function of enzymes having absolutely nothing to do with NPK or any other element. Seeds are encoded with these enzymes from the mother plant.

When we germinate a seed these enzymes are activated and other enzymes are altered by the seed itself from germination-inhibitors to ones that will insure the viability of the seedlings.

Where the differences come are the levels of specific enzymes and I'll use barley seeds as an example because there is a plethora of information from beer brewers, distillers (barley is what makes Scotch whiskey for example). Barley seeds contain a-amylase and b-amalyse which are enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of starch into sugars.

Enzymes are specific to a given function, in other words Urease has no effect on Chitin, Protein or Phosphorus which need Chitinase, Protease and Phosphatase for that function.

Corn is a good example as well because what you get from this grass seed are cytokinins. See if this helps answer your question about corn specifically...

Nature of Cytokinins

Cytokinins are compounds with a structure resembling adenine which promote cell division and have other similar functions to kinetin. Kinetin was the first cytokinin discovered and so named because of the compounds ability to promote cytokinesis (cell division). Though it is a natural compound, It is not made in plants, and is therefore usually considered a "synthetic" cytokinin (meaning that the hormone is synthesized somewhere other than in a plant). The most common form of naturally occurring cytokinin in plants today is called zeatin which was isolated from corn (Zea mays).

Cytokinins have been found in almost all higher plants as well as mosses, fungi, bacteria, and also in tRNA of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Today there are more than 200 natural and synthetic cytokinins combined. Cytokinin concentrations are highest in meristematic regions and areas of continuous growth potential such as roots, young leaves, developing fruits, and seeds (Arteca, 1996; Mauseth, 1991; Raven, 1992; Salisbury and Ross, 1992).

History of Cytokinins

In 1913, Gottlieb Haberlandt discovered that a compound found in phloem had the ability to stimulate cell division (Haberlandt, 1913). In 1941, Johannes van Overbeek discovered that the milky endosperm from coconut also had this ability. He also showed that various other plant species had compounds which stimulated cell division (van Overbeek, 1941). In 1954, Jablonski and Skoog extended the work of Haberlandt showing that vascular tissues contained compounds which promote cell division (Jablonski and Skoog, 1954).

The first cytokinin was isolated from herring sperm in 1955 by Miller and his associates (Miller et al., 1955). This compound was named kinetin because of its ability to promote cytokinesis. Hall and deRopp reported that kinetin could be formed from DNA degradation products in 1955 (Hall and deRopp, 1955). The first naturally occurring cytokinin was isolated from corn in 1961 by Miller (Miller, 1961). It was later called zeatin. Almost simultaneous with Miller Letham published a report on zeatin as a factor inducing cell division and later described its chemical properties (Letham, 1963). It is Miller and Letham that are credited with the simultaneous discovery of zeatin. Since that time, many more naturally occurring cytokinins have been isolated and the compound is ubiquitous to all plant species in one form or another (Arteca, 1996; Salisbury and Ross, 1992).

Biosynthesis and Metabolism of Cytokinins

Cytokinin is generally found in higher concentrations in meristematic regions and growing tissues. They are believed to be synthesized in the roots and translocated via the xylem to shoots. Cytokinin biosynthesis happens through the biochemical modification of adenine. The process by which they are synthesized is as follows (McGaw, 1995; Salisbury and Ross, 1992):
A product of the mevalonate pathway called isopentyl pyrophosphate is isomerized.

This isomer can then react with adenosine monophosphate with the aid of an enzyme called isopentenyl AMP synthase.

The result is isopentenyl adenosine-5'-phosphate (isopentenyl AMP).

This product can then be converted to isopentenyl adenosine by removal of the phosphate by a phosphatase and further converted to isopentenyl adenine by removal of the ribose group.

Isopentenyl adenine can be converted to the three major forms of naturally occurring cytokinins.
Other pathways or slight alterations of this one probably lead to the other forms.

Degradation of cytokinins occurs largely due to the enzyme cytokinin oxidase. This enzyme removes the side chain and releases adenine. Derivitives can also be made but the pathways are more complex and poorly understood.

Cytokinin Functions

A list of some of the known physiological effects caused by cytokinins are listed below. The response will vary depending on the type of cytokinin and plant species (Davies, 1995; Mauseth, 1991; Raven, 1992; Salisbury and Ross, 1992).
Stimulates cell division.

• Stimulates morphogenesis (shoot initiation/bud formation) in tissue culture.

• Stimulates the growth of lateral buds-release of apical dominance.

• Stimulates leaf expansion resulting from cell enlargement.

• May enhance stomatal opening in some species.

• Promotes the conversion of etioplasts into chloroplasts via stimulation of chlorophyll synthesis.

That's a start anyway...at least now you can understand that a bottle of 'enzymes' from Hydro-Heaven is absolutely and completely useless without knowing what enzymes are used - if any.

CC

 

[Juicyjonaswiththebonus]

Feed your soil. Not your plant.
I just wanted to share all the wonderful benefits of a weekly top dress of malted barley powder among other grains and oats. I buy a 50lb bag of pilsner malt grain and grind it right before I apply it.

• Contains easily available chitin [chitin is found between layers of carbonate. As it is broken down it is converted to chitinase which breaks down exoskeleton of larvae and eggs.]
• Contains urease, phosphatase, and potasase.
• Increases fungal activity in soil
• Contains naturally occuring growth regulating hormones and defense triggering hormones
• Contains enzymes that increase decomposition
• Growers have reported up to a 20% faster finish in bloom (I have seen it)
• Increases worm reproduction

Diastatic MBP is ideal for fungal growth while rye is higher in phosphatase. Any grain ground as fine as possible works, even oatmeal. Always water into soil surface with fulvic acid/aloe/silica using a sprayer. Try to wash it into the soil.

"Enzymes are the catalyst, fulvic acid is the catalyst to the catalyst."

Can these same methods be applied to coco?

 

[Dope.Usernamed]

Hi all. Can powdered barley seed be used in place of malted barley? Or is the sprouting process key? What problems might come from using ground barley seed as a top dress in place of malted barley?

 

[Flexnerb]

Hi all. Can powdered barley seed be used in place of malted barley? Or is the sprouting process key? What problems might come from using ground barley seed as a top dress in place of malted barley?

It has to be malted for the enzymes to be activated.