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From: Roger Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Perfect Orchard-Calcium
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> Think now about the other 700 grams per kilo which are used in some way
> by plants. These are mineral salts, remember. Every gram is capable of
> attracting up to 70 grams of moisture which has to go somewhere - is it
> any wonder that green crops are outwardly so boisterous and exuberant?
> Unfortunately it is just a facade, a brave show to divert attention from
> the lack of true nutrition internally.
Roger
I think you've missed the point of what I have been writing. You
are talking about fertiliser usage of these materials (in bags to the acre).
I'm not and never was!
one ... I wrote about this as a mechanism to catalyse locked up soil
minerals and so deter weeds from germinating and to kick start the system
nutritionally. Alex Podolinsky and PA Yeomans both made reference to this
tactic with superphosphate in startup situations - two of the most astute
and dedicated soil men that ever left a bootprint.
What you write about quantity use of salt fertilisers is right and I have
not disagreed with that.
two .. I have been very careful, anytime I have written about this, to
recommend that organic growers look at OTHER liquid calcium sources such as
calcium lignosulfonate or some of the liquid limes and see if they can get
beneficial results similar to what I can get with the calcium nitrate.
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three ... its what is going on in the soil system thats important here NOT
the material used or the quantity of it.
four .. what you do, what I do, Allan, Hugh Lovel, whoever, these are all
tools for us to use and we fixate on one of em at our peril - particularly
in the early stages - its expecting too much of biodynamics to think we can
bring highly degraded soils back to full production in the short time
necessary economically, without doing something else to help as well.
> But I do know that 3.8 grams of
> BD501 mixed with 34 litres of fresh water and potentised, and sprayed on
> one hectare of degraded farmland in the evening when the land is drawing
> its nutrients and energies back into itself, will unlock and catalyse
> natural minerals and vitamins. The same mixture, sprayed on african
lovegrass in
> the heat of the day, renders the seed unviable. Instantly.
This is unconventional usage of 501 - can you just answer yes or no if what
you've written is what you did please. Also what was the effect on other
plants in the pasture?
>
> 500, 501 and the other preparations are miracles-in-being whose
> greatness, despite the passage of time, has in no way been fully
> realised. Similarly we have hardly explored the energies available to us
> naturally.
Could'nt agree more.
Cheers again
Lloyd Charles
