You were also right! Carbon char is just like army ration version of juicy Carbohydrates.. Enzymes and some sugar and you got ability for both to eat carbon technically. But yea, why work hard when the plants give you a buffet everyday! They'd start using the char like hotels vs feeding zones, per se, I imagine, tho in an apocalypse that could change.. Bio char riots perhaps..
I have a compost pile started and it is where I have been adding my biochar. I was hoping that I could get fungi colonization before I use the soil, like I said, I am still fairly new to this. From what I read, it takes about a month for Myco to form a colony.
Bang on.......I buzz off conversations like this, they make us all go do a little bit more research. After I read the paper Mustang posted earlier I found another great one..........but it was on my phone, I'll have to dig it out and attach a link. There isn't that much academic research been or being done into these things and I also think that we as a community are probably the best(most numerous using these methods) source of information in regards of yield results. I think it'd be a great idea for a University to try to pool info on the organic medicinal grows going on in the USA, there seems to be a load of you doing it.
All the biochar I use for my veg garden goes into my slow compost pile straight, as the compost breaks down it will charge the char with nutes, fungi and bacteria, but not mycorrhizal fungi. The myco fungi will not colonize biochar, they only germinate on living roots, they may hook on to biochar after colonizing a root, to extract the vast amounts of nutrients and water stored in it, but mycorrhizal fungi need a living root system to live. You may get myco spores in you compost, but they'd be likely to get devoured by other microbes/critters, before they get anywhere near your roots, where you actually want them.
Cool man!!! Its a nice bit of information... I am just trying to figure out how do do this without having to buy a bag of Myckos. I am spending less and less money on every harvest!
I've seen something on the net about growing bahai grass to propagate your own mykos for free, not sure where, may have been the tube, do a google on that, good info
@DonBrennon youre not talking about post #1965 from our thread are you? jk ..here buddy. i figured id find it for you since google searches always bring me right back to RIU, lol
Hahaha................it's very possible I am, it's definitely the same article
I am just feeling my way around in the dark by asking questions, I dont want people to take my questions as fact. I am still unsure of the usefulness of Biochar and Bokashi and I dont want to mislead anyone...
I don't doubt the usefulness of biochar as a soil amendment, the ancient amazonian's used it to turn infertile land into the most sought after organic soil you could imagine.......terra preta.............this is a fairly long documentary, but well worth watching, I love this kind of shit man
Bonjour
Oyster shells can even replace aeration depending on its form, granular vs powdered etc
...itis my cup of tea...lol!
Super cropping's a much bigger part of my Sativa game both during veg as well as some point in the first two weeks of flower.. Not that LST isn't an even BIGgER part of my game,
