Good work lloyd
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Re: BD501 as a Weed Control was Re: BD501 as Herbicide > James Hedley wrote> > > The genesis of the concept that high potency peppers were able to destroy > > viability of weed seeds should be able to be found in the archives when I > > reported on the results of the years research work. This work is in the > > third year of testing and shows promise as a tool in weed control. There > are > > many other posts in the archives regarding the development of the use of > > high potency remedies in Agriculture. > Gooday James > Just to add to your info above - we harvested some wheat - got a little more > back than we planted - and took an economic decision to abandon some - > easier to give it to the sheep on site than smash our equipment up getting > it only to turn it back as sheep feed a month later - the point being most > annual plants that germinate will find a way of producing at least the > amount of seed required to ensure a start to next years growth even in very > adverse conditions, natures survival plan is pretty good. We are two years > into our program of peppering weeds, using homeopathic potencies that we > make in our sprayer tank when putting out the liquid calcium / molasses > spray (also aimed at weed control). Annual ryegrass germinated this year and > because of the extreme moisture shortage it affected the crop to some > extent, however the wheat and barley did manage to make some seed - more > than required to replace itself - the ryegrass never got past the mid > tillering stage, we had several hundred acres where it got to about three > inches of spindly growth (lots of plants) and then died without even putting > out a seed head, while the wheat went on to make viable grain. There are > several nutritional tactics involved in this also but none of it is > expensive or difficult to do. Potentising the tank is so simple its a joke, > I have used one small vial of ash for all of it, the instrument cost about > the same as spraying 25 hectares of herbicide. Perhaps there is light at the > end of the tunnel? (or is that a train I hear coming?) > Cheers > Lloyd Charles > >
