Unless indicated differently everything written herein is my opinion
and my experience and should be read accordingly.
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501 quartz silica. Maturation mechanism during later development,
'hardens' plant off after seeding, prepares soil for winter sleep during
which it releases locked up nutrients.
509 Alfalfa. Contains all known minerals & vitamins. Assists seed
content generation, puts life elements back into soil to help cellular
breakdown and next season growth.
508 Valerian and 507 Dandelion mixed. Next most powerful elements.
Calyx, flowers & seed casing.
506 Oak Bark for leaf generation
505 Nettle for buds
504 Equisetum. Growth control mechanism during early development.
503 Chamomile for cotyledons.
502 Yarrow for seed germination
500 Balances and enlivens soil
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500 - Horn manure - what magical wonderful stuff this is! But when I
read (in David's course notes) about the process by which it becomes so,
I laughed with chronic disbelief - how, I thought, could anyone be taken
in by such patent cosmic clap-trap? Three months later on a property
near Goulburn NSW I first saw Hamish Mackay mix BD 500 and manure
concentrate in his vortex flowforms and I began to understand a little.
Since 'discovering' within myself the ability I have to detect energy
flows, that understanding has grown in depth.
I have been present at all but one of the BD sprays at Dalgety. Early on
in the mixing of 500, I can stand right up close and plunge my hands
into a flowform. When I do, I feel the energy that is being generated
flowing rhythmically this way and that, outside as well as inside the
flowform. Later in the process, at three metres distance away I tingle
all over and I dare not go closer. Towards the finish, when I look at
the rig in certain lights, it shimmers like a golden beacon.
Energy, lifeforce, call it what you will, it remains at that level only
very briefly before starting to fall away; within 24 hours all that will
be left is a residual charge which though still beneficial is a mere
shadow of what was. Nor can it be brought back by further stirring.
Potentised BD 500 has its differences. Initially the energy level does
not appear to be as high as that described above but it can be increased
by vortex stirring. It also keeps longer.
But let's imagine that we have a batch of mixed 500 and MC at that very
high energy level - can you visualise what it will do to compacted soil
bereft of microbial organisms? Soil whose energy is so far down as to be
non-existent, which has been hammered for almost a century with every
known chemical and toxic spray, constantly overgrazed? I can tell you
because I've been watching it happen for over a year. The 20 hectare BD
portion of Dalgety TSR has had six sprays of 500 and MC in that time,
along with two of 501 and two of CT made in the old-fashioned way.
The improvement on the surface is almost invisible (because we have not
had the rain) but it's there in the soil and it can be felt by almost
anyone just walking across the area, by comparison with the other two
paddocks.
At the other end of the scale we have 501. That used at Dalgety (until
we began experimenting with the lovegrass) has had mixed results. Yes,
it encourages growth and is capable of unlocking nutrients in soils, but
the limitations on its use are so stringent - must be early morning
before the sun has risen or risen much, must be applied as a fine drift
and not sprayed directly and so on. Reading about it late in 2001 I
began to wonder 'why'; why such limitations on something as benign and
useful as 501 appeared to be? What was it about sunshine that could be
dangerous? That was when I first thought that perhaps 501 had more uses
than the BD movement had interpreted up to now. Also it is very powerful
in its own right; at the start of the mixing process it is already way
ahead of 500 in terms of energy.
Well, it all goes together in my mind. Seven plant-stimulating
preparations (in the order above) each more energetic than the one
preceding it, plus two siliceous growth guidance systems, one soon after
the above-ground start and the other at the seeding stage. The second of
these, applied under certain conditions, acts as a true growth control,
slowing or accelerating growth as necessary, or where necessary stopping
it altogether.
Should the above find acceptance, it would seem the intermediate preps
must have a whole range of uses by themselves or in combination.
What is needed however is not conjecture but experiment and results -
published. Who is better suited to do it than this community with its
great names and wealth of talent?
Before I finish, it seems I upset a few people with my apparently
stereotypical 'racial' comments in Part 1. Well, that's as may be, they
weren't meant to be taken that way. I am an Anglo-Australian (normally
proud of the fact but not so at the moment) descended in part from that
massive (for those days) migration of Celts westward across Europe in
500 BC. Another bit comes from the Scandinavian region and yet another
from a Britain so ancient it was called something else entirely.
It is the 500 BC Celtic movement I'm concerned with here (and don't 500
and BC go together so naturally? ;) ). Those 'barbarians' that settled
in the area that millennia later would be known as Germany and Austria
are believed to have developed the spoked wagon-wheel which was and
still is a technological marvel, the secrets of which lie in the hub and
the fillets which separate the spokes in the outer rim. The Romans
appreciated the invention greatly - they built the roads upon which the
Celtic wagons ran! Unfortunately, when the second wave of Celts went
through Europe around 300 AD, the knowledge of making the wagonwheel so
elegantly was lost and several hundred years passed before it was found
again.
Alas, it seems we have been re-inventing the wheel ever since!
roger
