Re: delaying budbreak with FB
Dear Laura, There is a lot of potential for fine tuning by using tandem sprays of the BD preps. It's another job to do, but with a radionic instrument you might just fill up the sprayer with water and give it a homeopathic radionic treatment of a BD potency and then spray. What I would try for holding back the sap is an evening spray of the oak bark (505) spray followed in tandem with a morning spray of horsetail (508). This holds back watery growth, so it also is a good combination for preventing fungus and blights. Best, Hugh Lovel - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: delaying budbreak with FB Hi Laura Did you have any success with your broadcaster - slowing the vines down? Hugh and all other FB users this is my first season with my FB from Hugh. We had an unusually warm winter and still warmer spring (30 C yesterday) with lots of rain fall. The result is that my grapevines are hurdling towards budbreak much faster than I can prune. I am looking for advise on how to slow them down, hold the sap back ... ? I had a look at your website recently and recommend it to all (especially newcomers to BD) - I have read and heard a lot about the plant 'gestures' associated with BD - in Alex Podolinskys books,-also Allan Balliet said about his own home garden plants 'standing to attention' for weeks after spraying preps, Hugh Lovel and others have said similar things, all over my head until I SAW IT in your pictures of the vines - particularly the picture of the red variety in the 'a little about Biodynamics', this is a classic case of 'a picture worth a thousand words'. We have a lot of wine grapes near us so I am used to the look of commercial chemical nutrition vines - yours sure are different - I also observed this growth pattern at the Castagna vineyard at Beechworth in NE Victoria (they farm Biodynamic) - then went on to an organic vineyard where I am helping install a broadcaster pipe and it was totally absent - these people have been doing some BD but are in the process of falling off the (Podolinsky regulated) cart, and have slipped back to organic management, their vines have a similar growth habit as chemical farmed ones do. Anyway thanks for putting the link to your site on BDnow for us to see. Cheers Lloyd Charles Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
Re: delaying budbreak with FB
Dear Ron, Maybe. I haven't given it a good college try yet, whereas I have had salutary effects on seedling in cold frames with this kind of spray program. One of the problems with using a field broadcaster for something like this is it gets your whole entire property and does it all day, when maybe you want to hold back just one thing. Maybe if you added a high C potency along with just that portion of your property that you want treated banded to it, then stuck it in the well for a couple hours each evening and the other remedy with its map in the other well for a couple hours the next morning. Then back and forth each evening and morning. It sure is worth a try and should be easier than spraying. I just never thought of it that way and haven't tried it. Worth a try. Best, Hugh Hugh, Can these kinds of treatments such as described below, be made through more active use of the Field Broadcaster? Maybe by altering the potency of the BD prep reagents, putting in and taking out reagents, adding homeopathic dilution's of various elements, etc..? Ron -Original Message- From: Hugh Lovel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: Re: delaying budbreak with FB Dear Laura, There is a lot of potential for fine tuning by using tandem sprays of the BD preps. It's another job to do, but with a radionic instrument you might just fill up the sprayer with water and give it a homeopathic radionic treatment of a BD potency and then spray. What I would try for holding back the sap is an evening spray of the oak bark (505) spray followed in tandem with a morning spray of horsetail (508). This holds back watery growth, so it also is a good combination for preventing fungus and blights. Best, Hugh Lovel - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: delaying budbreak with FB Hi Laura Did you have any success with your broadcaster - slowing the vines down? Hugh and all other FB users this is my first season with my FB from Hugh. We had an unusually warm winter and still warmer spring (30 C yesterday) with lots of rain fall. The result is that my grapevines are hurdling towards budbreak much faster than I can prune. I am looking for advise on how to slow them down, hold the sap back ... ? I had a look at your website recently and recommend it to all (especially newcomers to BD) - I have read and heard a lot about the plant 'gestures' associated with BD - in Alex Podolinskys books,-also Allan Balliet said about his own home garden plants 'standing to attention' for weeks after spraying preps, Hugh Lovel and others have said similar things, all over my head until I SAW IT in your pictures of the vines - particularly the picture of the red variety in the 'a little about Biodynamics', this is a classic case of 'a picture worth a thousand words'. We have a lot of wine grapes near us so I am used to the look of commercial chemical nutrition vines - yours sure are different - I also observed this growth pattern at the Castagna vineyard at Beechworth in NE Victoria (they farm Biodynamic) - then went on to an organic vineyard where I am helping install a broadcaster pipe and it was totally absent - these people have been doing some BD but are in the process of falling off the (Podolinsky regulated) cart, and have slipped back to organic management, their vines have a similar growth habit as chemical farmed ones do. Anyway thanks for putting the link to your site on BDnow for us to see. Cheers Lloyd Charles Visit our website at: www.unionag.org Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
Re: delaying budbreak with FB
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: delaying budbreak with FB Hi Laura Did you have any success with your broadcaster - slowing the vines down? Hugh and all other FB users this is my first season with my FB from Hugh. We had an unusually warm winter and still warmer spring (30 C yesterday) with lots of rain fall. The result is that my grapevines are hurdling towards budbreak much faster than I can prune. I am looking for advise on how to slow them down, hold the sap back ... ? I had a look at your website recently and recommend it to all (especially newcomers to BD) - I have read and heard a lot about the plant 'gestures' associated with BD - in Alex Podolinskys books,-also Allan Balliet said about his own home garden plants 'standing to attention' for weeks after spraying preps, Hugh Lovel and others have said similar things, all over my head until I SAW IT in your pictures of the vines - particularly the picture of the red variety in the 'a little about Biodynamics', this is a classic case of 'a picture worth a thousand words'. We have a lot of wine grapes near us so I am used to the look of commercial chemical nutrition vines - yours sure are different - I also observed this growth pattern at the Castagna vineyard at Beechworth in NE Victoria (they farm Biodynamic) - then went on to an organic vineyard where I am helping install a broadcaster pipe and it was totally absent - these people have been doing some BD but are in the process of falling off the (Podolinsky regulated) cart, and have slipped back to organic management, their vines have a similar growth habit as chemical farmed ones do. Anyway thanks for putting the link to your site on BDnow for us to see. Cheers Lloyd Charles
