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IIRC basalt is very high in Mg.
I just transplanted some testers of the same pheno with varying amounts of rock dust and aeration. 100% basalt, 100% glacial rock dust, and 50/50.
No till for the win! I have been growing in the same soil for over 3 years.
Mutiple harvests each year. I remove the stumps..leave the roots to compost.
Its like growing in compost :) and it seems to be working
How are you liking the malted barley? I've got ONE quart left now, that's it. I've been using dry molasses instead because it's so cheap and I thought I'd run out of the MBE. Shit's tasty, too.
Dr. you list silica and fulvic in liquid measurements, what concentrations are those? And do you source the aloe locally?
FYI, Clackamas and "company" didn't know about or use malted barley extract (or powder) until they learned it from me. :eek: Yeah. Like that.
"Stepped on," you just dated yourself. :D
Coot has not passed away. He is still alive and posting.I live in Cootz area so it's easy to shop where he does/did. That's why I followed that thread so close. Did he really expire as in pass away? Sure hope not. I never interacted with him. Just studied that thread and the links provided for months.
I'm going to stand up for Coot here and say I find him witty and knowledgeable. Far more so then any other person I've read on any canna forum. Your personal qualms with Coot make his information no less relevant.I have no idea, haven't heard anything about that. If he did, I'd offer a "may he rest in peace" but the guy is (was?) too curmudgeonly for that.
BULLSHIT. They are sprouting barley and using it for enzyme teas.FYI, Clackamas and "company" didn't know about or use malted barley extract (or powder) until they learned it from me. :eek: Yeah. Like that.
"Stepped on," you just dated yourself. :D
BULLSHIT. They are sprouting barley and using it for enzyme teas.
You use it as a food source like people do with molasses.
Coot has not passed away. He is still alive and posting.
I'm going to stand up for Coot here and say I find him witty and knowledgeable. Far more so then any other person I've read on any canna forum. Your personal qualms with Coot make his information no less relevant.
I think your curmudgeonly comment is very unprofessional, and I take offense to it.
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I thought it depended on the source/originating volcano. I do believe that there are no richer soils than volcanic soils.
So what about Blue, Coot and the rest that are running 10-15+ cycles in their current notills? They are not adding back everything each round?I think a tissue test would tell us exactly what we're removing, but since I don't know, I add back everything, including something for micronutrients, annually. I think everything you listed for your teas could be used, with the exception of the Epsom salt (I'm assuming that because it's so readily soluble it would only take a few waterings for it to be literally washed out of the soil). Once I saw what adding Sea-90 to my tomatoes and peppers did for stopping blossom end rot, after spending SO MUCH time, effort and money dumping calcium into the beds, I never leave it out anymore, but always use the lower, hydroponic dosing rate. I do still add Azomite as well.
But my main focus, when adding back fertilizers/nutrition, are as usual NPK, but also the immobile stuff like Ca, Fe, S, Si... now I'm drawing a blank.
Gotta love that red dirt, yeah? I can't believe how it stains clothes!
So right now your conclusion is tilling ain't such a bad thing. Right now I'm not finding a huge difference between tilling my beds or not, but I DO see a MASSIVE difference in my soil sources. The upcountry guy's soil is KILLING it, the outfit in Rancho Cordova is definitely not. Those beds are getting ripped out, if possible for next season.