jayr1787
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Add 10% of charged biochar to that mix and you'll be gravy
4x4 tent led grow. 4x8 led hid grow. Organic living soil.
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Thanks Jay.. will do, would a FAA (whole fish decomposed in a bucket with fungal bacteria)be ok to charge the bio charcoal?
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And a couple cups of worm castings
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I've never charged bio char before and have maybe a gallon (bag) of the stuff, the FAA was given to me and it's really thick. I'm thinking maybe a teaspoon of that to a quart of water and let the char sit in that for a day?And a couple cups of worm castings
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I'm not sure what faa is.. I would soak the biochar in a big bin with compost, worm castings and maybe some organic flour such as malted barley flour or alfalfa meal ground finely. Soak that for 24 hours and mix it in your soil and you'll be happy as a clam. You could also add fish hydrosolate and lactobacillus serum
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The reason we charge it is so it doesn't charge in our soil while we are growing and rob our plants of nutrients. You could mix it in your soil a few weeks ahead of time and water the soil with alfalfa compost tea with a fish hydrosolate and hydrated kelp meal worm casting slurry. All will be enough to charge the biochar. Don't forget a good high brix basalt rock dust.
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Fish Amino Acid. Basically fish hydrosolate. In KNF Korean Natural Farming that process is called Fish Amino Acids. Whole fish decomposed in a bucket with indigenous microbes and some molasses.
Sounds like we're marinating the biochar in a dry rub?
jayr1787
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Add some water to hydrate it as well I like to add as much compost tea water to it as possible
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What you explained above is funny because that's exactly what I did..lol, dumped some biochar in the soil without pre charging it. So I'm thinking this 2nd run of the soil will be even better. I'm still gonna pre charge this new bag of bio char I have for the next batch of soil here in the near future. Thanks for the help.
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Hell yeah! Keep an eye on them the first 48 hours
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I took a shortcut on the moisture monitoring, hope it doesn't bite me in the ass but it's endorsed by some experienced growers. Ecowitts. They recommend to keep the percentage on these wifi soil moisture meters at 35%. If I can dial my blumats to this I think I'll be golden. The cool thing I like about the Ecowitts is the instant monitoring off my cell phone anywhere I'm at.
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I'm home sick for another week, got bored and ordered that Blumat Moisture Meter. Gets here Wednesday. I take it you can leave it in the soil like the carrots?
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Yep I leave mine in with the cap on. It's not waterproof so don't get the digital part wet.
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Hope you are resting and getting better.
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Thanks, feeling a lot better. They won't let me come back to work for another week..lol, fine with me.
You pop them in party cups or straight into the bed? I had a problem a few years back with my seedlings dying planting them straight into the soil. Something about the soil didn't want anything to do with seeds. So I started the party cup routine. Been working out for me since.
