also, dams are known to increase water tables up to 50km from source, they can therefore add to salinity of the soils and so make planting tricky, adding biochar will help you remove unwanted salts from the system. They can then act as long term stores for future crops
I love to visit there. We go at least once a year it seems. We had one day that rained on and off where the temps stayed in the high 80's. My wife went to the marina and bought a sweater lol.
Looks good, I'll have make me some.
yes its pretty easy buddy, can in a can, few holes. Its just cooking the wood like in an oven rather than direct flame. Add the gypsum to your ordering online, big sacks of it are cheap on ebay, 50G per 1m2 is enough and you will be free of remembering to use calmag too :-)
lower salts and most are fine, microbes are ph dependent as well as food source focused. Fungus will help you lower overall system ph through the release of Oxaltes and organic acids, this will allow you to access forms of P that are tied, eg Calphos, ferrous and or Al forms of phosphates. beauty with fungus, they will strip the Al and release it back as mineral non ionic, so buffering your plants from Al uptake
Yeah, I saw a video where a guy was making it to use in his black powder recipe. You super heat the wood without letting it actually flame. You can burn the gasses that come out of the wood and you're left with great biochar. There are a lot of uses for it. Do you think it would be ok to add some to my compost?
yes sir i do. Try adding it at 5% and moving up. If you use your biological product to pre soak the char you make ahead of putting in the ground, air dry it then shove it in man. Non inoculated char can take away nutrients from your plant, so treat it, then use it
not, these will likely be direct burn, but the ash will reduce the need for both the magnesium and the Potassium, so now you just need a source of P and you wont need the Calmag or PK either
by the way, EWC has enough P for most plants I ever grew. if not then soft rock phosphate SRP works a treat or even some seabird poo but use this no later than week3 or you might get a follow on taste some people hate it. SRP is a better option imo but use it carefully and with biology to reduce its potential to leach, the char will help prevent leaching, while retaining safe levels on demand.
yeah and some i reckon bro, If i told you what i run you might think wtf. I run only organics, so i run a base Protein and fatty acid based NPK which is 8-7-7 (it also has 60 trace elements and multiple Vitamins and Minerals, Growth Hormones (plant extracted and natural), Organic acids, Bio Stimulants, I use an amino acid based additive which is 1-0-6 but this is primarily a biological inoculate, in Bloom I use a 3-0-8 which is complex sugars, carbohydrates and protein. I feed my plants like I feed myself, with diversity and biology
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