Dear Mr. Ron,
Apologies for slow responses. We are very busy with the Strawberry
growers out here in California. As you may know, they have to reduce
Methyl Bromide by half each year until Year 2005 when they have to
eliminate it completely.
You are very observant. Base saturation is the amount of that
element that a particular soil will hold. The Cation Exchange Capacity
(CEC) is the measure of the number of negative soil sites which a
particular soil has. These will harbor Cations (nutrients). The
balance of minerals on these sites will determine pH. This is the
digestive system of a soil.
We are actually using a modified Albrecht combined with a little
Kervran, some others and some of our own.
We have found that a soil with a CEC of, say 10, can hold 4,000 lbs.
of Calcium or it could hold 2,120 lbs. of Magnesium. In this manner, it
would then be 100% saturated with that element. After studying nature
we have found that ideal situations are usually around 68% Calcium, i.e.
68% x 4,000 = 2,720 and 13.6% Magnesium, i.e. 13.6% x 2,120 = 288. If
you divide the 68% by 13.6% you get 5. In actual pounds per acre, 4,000
divided by 288 = 9.44. We rounded this off to 9 in the Santa Barbara
article.
The website you listed is quite interesting. Green is the color
usually associated with health in the physical, violet is the color of
health of the spiritual combined with the physical, and gold or white or
crystal is health in the spiritual.
Something comes to mind right now. And that is that every person is
made in the image of the Creator. We only give where we have received
and have achieved a certain level of results. Someone reading this may
take what we are discussing into new breakthrough levels. This is the
beauty of Creation. It eternally unfolds...
Timothy Hollingsworth
ron poitras wrote:
Did you mean 5:1 ? The numbers you gave for calcium to magnesium would
seem
to have that proportion. Anyway, I hadn't thought of soil mineral
relationships in the context of sacred geometry before - makes sense
that
resonant patterns would extend to that level as well. Thank you! In
that
context excellent bibliography & article on sacred geometry at
www.vesica.org
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From: Green Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Albrecht System and plant brix testing
Dear Mr. Ron Poitras,
Here is an excerpt from an article which we wrote for the Santa
Barbara
Independent that I think you might like:
Soil mineral balance. Recently we tested the soil of a local
medicinal
herb project. Previously someone had grown Christmas trees on the
land,
which, as the story goes, started dying from some kind of disease.
The
soil has some really good properties, namely, high organic content,
high
Cation Exchange Capacity, and a generally good mineral balance. Its
only
problem is high phosphate levels. Well, it is obvious what happened.
The
soil needed calcium, which is the main electrolytic mineral. The
previous
owners, instead of addressing the mineral balance, poured
high-phosphate
fertilizers into the soil. This locked up the trace minerals, and
the
plants starved to death. When plants or creatures lack sufficient
nutrient
levels, the intelligences in Nature send insects and bacteria to
eliminate
the unfit. This never happened when Nature evolved naturally, and
only
plants, animals and humans grew who were balanced and powerful. And
this
is today, what the ancient prophesies foretold, and what we presently
call
disease.
Modern day science is learning to understand this, and that it
must
consider all the great interconnections of Creation. It works
marvelously
with the details within part boundaries, and must always see �the big
picture� by maintaining a comprehensive overview. And when doing
gardening
we must avoid limiting ourselves to a materialistic worldview which
cannot
acknowledge the physically invisible power that streams through
everything
and gives it meaning and existence.
Delve into science and physics, and you will find divine ratios
and
proportions. Our children in school are taught about pi, the ratio
between
the radius of a circle and its circumference and area. And the speed
of
light, approx. 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum Go to a good
encyclopedia and look up the Golden Section, Avogadro�s number,
Fibonacci
series, V=IR, E=MC2. And the list goes on and on. There is an order
to
our universe and Creation, which through growing and gardening we can
intuitively learn to recognize, to understand, and to work with.
Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes dubbed the Father of the European
Renaissance,
worked with ratios and numbers referred to as Divine Proportions.
These
have been used for milleniums by, among others, Chinese and French
Royal
Garden Designers, by Frank Lloyd Wright, and within the music of all
great
classic composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Johannes Kepler
in
his Harmonies of the World shows how even the planets in our solar
system
oscillate within the notes of the natural octave in which middle
C=256
megahertz. Frank Lloyd Wright designed his works of art with a
certain
intention. He noted that if a person�s environment exhibits these
Divine
Proportions, that these would naturally elicit and unlock the latent
genius
within. And Nature is formed through this Sacred Geometry.
The human brain has two major divisions, the intuitive and the
intellectual. Originally these worked in balanced harmony and were
of
equal proportion. The brain opened itself not only to the five
physical
senses, but was connected with whole other sets of high-frequency
senses,
which today are all lumped together and called Extra Sensory
Perception
(ESP). Over the past milleniums through neglect and wrong education,
we
have allowed that part of the brain, the intuitive part, to atrophy.
This
part of the brain would have opened us for all those answers which
now
elusively evade us and which nowadays merely degenerate into groping
intellectual theories.
Think back to a time when you were grappling with some problem.
It
probably seemed like the harder you tried, the more elusive became
the
answer. You decided to do a little light work in your garden, go out
for a
walk in nature, or just relax and �smell the roses� for a spell.
Then,
boom, the answer to your problem jumped into your head.
This is one reason why it is so important to break away from our
offices, our televisions, our computers, that is, away from our world
of
virtual reality and go to our gardens and Nature. Nature allows us
to
connect with reality, to enhance the intuitive side of our brains and
our
life, and to teach us how to re-balance our lives and nurture the
spirit
within.
Natural soils have Divine Geometric Proportions. In a virgin
soil
untouched by man, Nature will bring in whatever plants, insects,
microbes,
animals, etcetera that it needs to create a perfect balance. Nothing
will
grow that does not belong there, and nothing belongs there that will
not
grow. When we pull a plant out of its natural ecosystem and mono-crop
it,
we must ask, �What would the intelligences in Nature do here to create
the
proper balance?� And foremost among the answers to this question is
the
proper mineral balance. The minerals exist in Divine Geometric
Proportions
and, if we learn those proportions and recreate them in our gardens,
we can
take our gardening into a whole new performance realm.
William Albrecht in his Albrecht Papers addresses the mineral
ratios
and needs of soils. The most predominant mineral proportion in soil
is the
Calcium to Magnesium ratio. This should be about 9 to 1. If you test
your
soil through a reputable lab, make sure they give you the Calcium and
Magnesium base saturation levels. Calcium should be about 68% and
Magnesium should be about 13.5%. If they are not, then enlist a
seasoned
professional to advise you on how to correct this deficiency. If you
do,
you will solve about 90% of your growing problems.
(Resources: The Notebooks of Leonardo De Vinci by Leonardo. Epitome
of
Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler. A
Frank
Lloyd Wright Companion by William Alin Storrer. Asimov on Physics by
Isaac
Asimov. The Albrecht Papers by William Albrecht. In the Light of
Truth:
The Grail Message by Abd-ru-shin.)
ron poitras wrote:
Timothy Hollingsworth wrote:
>Nutrients absorbed from the soil are dependent on the life force
of
the
soil, ....., one being the sacred
geometric ratios between minerals, cation exchange capacity, and
companion minerals.>
I wondered if you could elaborate on this, Timothy?
Thanks
Ron Poitras
-----Original Message-----
From: Green Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Albrecht System and plant brix testing
>Hi,
>
>One can use plant sap analysis mainly to determine what nutrients
to use
in
>foliar spray applications. This can be especially important in
>transition while building the soil to higher energy levels, but
not
>always necessary.
>
>A Brix meter can be an indicator. And plant sugar is just one
thing
>that we are after. The thickness of the interface line between the
>refracted and not refracted liquid is an indicator of minerals.
Another
>concern besides just having materials present, is also what
energies are
>stored in the materials, structure of the molecules, and cosmic
strength
>of constituent components, etc.
>
>Nutrients absorbed from the soil are dependent on the life force of
the
>soil, which may be indicated by several parameters, one being the
sacred
>geometric ratios between minerals, cation exchange capacity, and
>companion minerals. Earthworms, microbes, myccorhizae and all
natural
>entities "naturally" implement their primordial design to bring
about
>these ratios.
>
>One does not necessarily have to do soil testing, the report of
which is
>a dynamic, changing photograph. It may speed up the transition
>progress, however, where monetary considerations are important.
The
>most important factor in Agriculture from our perspective is the
>realization and bringing about the energies needed, and also, the
>Spiritual transformation of those involved.
>
>Timothy Hollingsworth
>Green Gold International
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Lloyd Charles wrote:
>
>> Allan wrote
>>
>> ". Brix can readily be affected by foliar applications can't
it?
>-Allan "
>>
>> Above is the most important little snippet of information thats
been
>on this
>> list for ages
>>
>> I know that (but dont understand why) a lot of organic and BD
>certified
>> producers are philosophicaly opposed to foliar nutrient
applications.
>When
>> farmers are in the situation where we dont have our soils in
balance
>yet, or
>> something else is wrong that has put our system off the track for
a
>while
>> and we are suffering insect or disease attack, or poor plant
growth
>due to
>> some nutritional disorder then is when we can make a major
improvement
>in
>> quality of produce by using the brix meter to monitor the crops
>response to
>> a range of available foliar nutrients. And there are plenty of
nice
>things
>> to use this includes the BD preps, fish emulsion, kelp, worm
juice,
>compost
>> teas, manure teas, molasses, sugar, vinegar, etc etc as well as
the
>host of
>> proprietary brand stuff, and the so called nasties from the
chemical
>> companies ( we often use small quantities of say calcium nitrate
-1/2
>to 1
>> kg per hectare -combined with molasses and fish emulsion or 300
to 500
>ml of
>> food grade phosphoric acid with a molasses - kelp - fish -
homebrew
>tea )
>>
>> I use four small pump spray bottles from the supermarket to test
for
>crop
>> response - mix the different brews in the exact proportion that
will
>be put
>> out with the field sprayer, spray a meter square plot of each
and
>measure
>> the brix response half an hour later, you will often get a down
>response
>> from a perfectly good material that is just not appropriate at
the
>time -
>> whichever bottle mix gives the best crop response (increased brix
of
>crop
>> and decreased brix of any weeds) is the one to use and less
quantity
>is
>> usually better than more
>>
>> The crop response (yield and quality ) that can be achieved at
low
>cost
>> using this method can be truly amazing. We have had several
times
>where
>> brews that ran around a dollar an acre material cost have given
>several
>> bushels per acre more wheat as well as lessening the vigour of
weeds
>in the
>> crop
>>
>> This is not rocket science and its not new either
>> I read the brix mans online book this morning and would recommend
it
>to
>> all - and while it seems written more for the consumer than the
>producer -
>> its good information - as also the book by Arden Andersen that
is
>referred
>> to there
>>
>> For those having difficulty finding instruments at a reasonable
price
>in
>> Australia or New Zealand David Von Pein in Queensland is the
most
>cost
>> effective supplier of this gear that I have seen (dont know how
this
>bloke
>> makes a profit he's heaps cheaper than most) - OK thats a plug
but I
>have no
>> financial connection !
>>
>> After we get our soils properly balanced and remineralised to
>Albrecht
>> standards and get our biodynamics working right and everything
else is
>good
>> then I suppose what I have written here no longer applies - in
the
>mean time
>> its another tool we can all use to grow better quality produce
at
>less
>> expense for the good of all - and I know at least one feller
that
>needs to
>> make a profit from his farm in the short term.
>>
>> Best to all for the new year
>> Lloyd Charles
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