I suggest that any insect indicate that the plant is under stress, as they
come in to clean up the lessor ones. Could it be that you have exhorted
something from your soil or got it out of balance? Are there enough minerals
available, it is easy to get too organic and not have the necessary
Subject: Re: CEC Balancing
Dave - pr'haps Jose got a bit excited but when somebody questions the
validity of Albrecht's work then at least they should please get the
chemistry correct. All my chem books have Mg++
Dave Robinson wrote
Walter is a very careful researcher and author, (snip)
Dear Jose and List,
I haven't read the Goldstein article, but I've talked with Walter on this
topic on other occasions.
First I'm surprised if Walter referred to Magnesium as a monovalent cation.
It is in the IIa family of elements along with calcium and is Mg++. Walter
surely knows this as he
There is a funny tendency in academic science that
mediocre scientist thrive on trashing fringe science.
Ag scientists especially are very closed. This person
doesn't even know exactly what the tests were and
doesn't realize that sensitive crystalization and
chromatography are completely
Dear Hugh and List,
Thanks for explaining many things.
I went to Michigan State and there they
tought me that Mg is a divalent cation.
I am not familiar to the University you have
mentioned. I simply don´t know it. It can be a good
one but I simply never heard of it before.
There is little I
from Michael Smith
Please FWD:
Dear Hugh, Jose, etal,
I'm a little confused. In my memory, one of the
Albrect saying was; Lime, lime and no manure, make
the father rich and the son poor, which is basically
showing how easily lime sucks up and burns organic
matter content.
To open up another
Watching my father-in-law dying from pancreatic cancer, realizing
that his chemotherapy is doing nothing to prolong his life, but it is
making his last days a swirl of disorientation and nausea (at a cost
of $55,000), has heightened my awareness of how 'complete' the system
we live within has
