Glen wrote:
All I am claiming ownership of is a procedure I conceived a year ago and tested last month.The original reference was in my post 'Re: Perfect Orchard - Calcium' of 23 Dec 02 in which I responded to Allan about use of chemical fertilisers. In this I stated in relation to 501:Roger Please forgive my lack of attention on this. I have looked thru the archive and can not find the post that you outlined what you have done and what you achieved. As a researcher in this field, we have done several trials of 501 as a weed control as early as 1990. I would be most interested in the details of what you are claiming to '' own'.
I don't hold with everything that Rachel Carson or Tom Hartmann wrote, or for that matter Rudolph Steiner. 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. (For the record, in my opinion 3.8 grams IS a minute quantity.) The same mixture, sprayed on african lovegrass in the heat of the day, renders the seed unviable. Instantly.
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 (and I don't mean fossil fuels). The opportunity to do so - indeed, I feel I should say 'necessity' - is upon us. From now until the bombs start falling, and never mind that the time of year or month is 'incorrect', make preparations for the future. After the last desperate empirical doomed-to-failure grasp of the 'western' nations at world supremacy is over, we will all be too busy chopping wood and carrying water!
The details of the lovegrass test are in my post 'Perfect Orchard - Calcium' of 24 Dec 02:
Liquid 501 potentised by hedley & hedley & supplied in 20 to 1 concentration was mixed with african lovegrass pepper (potentised on site by h&h in mid oct) & hand sprayed from a 15 litre clean backpack unit directly on to one patch of seeding plants.The indications are that 501 mixed in a particular way and sprayed in the heat of the day has an adverse effect on african lovegrass. I am currently retesting and trialling on other plants.
Actual (ie powdered) 501 supplied by BACA a year ago was mixed with AL pepper at proportionate rate (to match 3.8 grams to 34 litres), stirred in recommended manner, sprayed from the same backpack in same manner on a separate patch.
Lovegrass was late growing and a healthy green with full seed. Pendulum questioning indicated result would be instant and effects visible within 15 minutes. We did not believe that was possible but it was true. Have 'during' and 'after' photos in digital format but unfortunately not 'before' (was going to take some of another patch, untreated, but got too hot (me, that is.) Time of spray was mid afternoon, temp about 33, place Dalgety TSR.
As far as other tests of 501 or any other BD preps as weed or plant controllers used as above are concerned, I have searched internet and print references extensively without finding anything on the subject. That being so, I am most interested in hearing the details of your own trials.
Cheers Roger
