No I have not worried about that for a couple reasons. Although it is a good point. Here are my thoughts, and mind you I have no proof of any of this, these are just thoughts.
I put it on that plant because it was an experiment and the plant is easily and cheaply replaced. It has been five months since the first application and about a month between each watering of about 2 quarts of probably 15 ppm or so. It grew tremendously for winter growth, these are normally very slow growing plants even during active times of year. So I figure it is not hurting the plant, unless it is going to give out soon from being "forced" but so far no signs of that. If it is killing soil bacteria I am not so sure that will hurt at this stage. Since the activity of soil bacteria in the case of a non-legume would be to break down organic matter and fix nitrogen in the soil I assume that most of that is happening in my compost pile. When I potted the plant I included some of that compost and it is had been cooked well already, the bacteria having done its thing already. Then it was in that pot for over a year so probably nothing significant left for the bacteria to cook into Nitrogen? I am told that potted plants need fresh soil once a year for this reason. Also the amounts of CS I am pouring" may" not be enough to kill all the bacteria, if it even acts on these bacteria. When I fertilize my container plants I use liquid Seaweed, which I assume has some trace silver. This makes my plants grow much faster and larger, as compared to using Fish Emulsion or Hasta Gro which has a very small amount of the Seaweed in it also. I have used the Seaweed fertilizer for the past two growing seasons with only good results at the higher concentration. I regularly add fresh compost from my own heap that is absolutely chock full of microbes. Does anyone have any information on using CS for gardening. I have heard of others putting it on plants but have seen no test results or recommendations for requirements. Garnet On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 12:55, James Holmes wrote: > Have you considered that it may affect the soil flora? > > JOH > > I poured all of my golden batches on one plant last winter, with no other > fertilizer given that Masageana grew tremendously during a normally dormant > time of year. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
