BIOCHAR don’t want to/can’t make it? Here is how you to make it for SUPER cheap!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2024
- This video is about how to make biochar on the super cheap!
Don’t want to make it yourself from scratch, don’t have anyone in the area who is selling it!
Well if you got a Dollar General near you then you can make this for very cheap!
I will show you what to buy and the very easy process from start to finish!
Jeez Off Grid. Sure wish that I could live in the bush.
It certainly has been and still is an extremely fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Wish I would of done this a long time ago.
Well my friend, your kind of lifestyle choice would be limited by the cost here in the UK. I have however, been tempted by properties in North Queensland, Australia. In comparison, they seem pretty cheap. @@Off-Grid-Ping
@@obesetuna3164 Yeah I imagine land is pretty expensive there, especially the right kind of land that would be conducive to this type of lifestyle. Well if your ever in Tennessee stop on by I got extra space!
Thank you kind Sir.@@Off-Grid-Ping
Lol an actual use for all those masks I was given.
RIGHT! That or possibly as kindling for a good bonfire!
Sorry but lump charcoal is not true biochar. At first I thought the same but then I tested it (I bought the Cowboy brand lump charcoal from Lowe's). I crushed the Cowboy charcoal with a hand corn grinder, then I made biochar in a TLUD (google it, it's an easy build) and crushed that with the grinder. In one gallon container I put the Cowboy crushed charcoal and in another one gallon container I put crushed biochar. One gallon of crushed Cowboy charcoal weighted 3 lbs 3 oz. One gallon of crushed biochar weighted 2 lbs 4 oz. The one gallon of Cowboy charcoal was able to hold 7 cups of water. The one gallon of biochar was able to hold 10 cups of water. One can see that there is a difference.
The lump charcoal still has brown (upon close inspection) in it (as you saw in your bag), which will breakdown and decompose in your garden. But biochar has no brown, but will stay (upon doing much research) for hundreds (maybe even thousands) of years in the soil.
Biochar ADSORBS water and nutrients not ABSORBS. Best way to remember is, adsorption is it has the prefix "add". A dish sponge absorbs water, that is, water goes inside the sponge. Nutrients are adsorbed by the charcoal, that is, "added" or better said, attached to the surface of the charcoal.
Charcoal made properly (no signs of brown in it) has a negative charge which will attract positive ions to its surface. That is why I like to have my charcoal crushed and have a range of particle sizes, from whole corn kernels to dust size. The mix is better for the biology, then just one size. There is research done on this. As you saw large chunks will mostly float, as air is trapped inside of them, but the smaller pieces easily sink to the bottom.
Make more Biochar!!!
Sam
Thanks Sam this is a lot of great information, I will definitely do some more research and will certainly be making more!
Put the lump charcoal in the bottom of your worm bucket to soak in the worm water.. add to your compost with the worm castings..
Get some 1/2 inch. Hard ware cloth to sift the charcoal. Then you can. Keep crushing it until it all goes through the hard ware cloth.
You got, that's what I do.
Thanks will do this for sure got tons of hardware cloth in lots of sizes left over from coops and hutches!