I made terra preta three months ago and I have tomatoes growing faster and bigger than I have ever seen before. I only put 2" of terra preta on the topsoil. My farrier was so stunned to see how big they were and how quickly (she is at my place every five weeks). I also have coriander that is a couple of feet tall...all just with 2" of homemade terra preta on top of the soil.
I've been using this "biochar" that you have there But instead of mixing it into soil I take a 5 gallon bucket and set up a air pump creating a bubbler to airiate the liquid in which I soak peach tree, fig tree, fruiting mulberry and plum tree cuttings for two (2) days then I plant the cuttings into Pro-mix with Endomycorrhizal fungi. Been doing this several weeks and only lost 1 cutting by my Rhodesian Ridgeback dog eating a fig plant right out of the pot, everything at this point is beginning to pop out leaves and waking up from dormancy Praise GOD it works for Me. BIOCHAR WORKS!!! March/ 7/ 2018
1:25 it does show positive results if the ratio is above 10%, tomatoes show increasing yield of up to 40% biochar, it's just that 5-10% is the sweet-spot that gives the best bang for the buck. For people with heavy clay soil it's very important to use more than 10% to solve the compaction problem which is by far the worst problem with clay soil.
Forgot to add the fact that I put 6 ounces 15 year old Bat Guano, urine, and a little bit of the Endomycorrhizal Fungi to speed everything up. I used the "Winter 2018 Webinar Biochar Series methaed to make the charcoal that I crush up to almost powder (1/4").
I think everyone missed the obvious thing here. They made a earthen enclosure, and anything they used had to be returned to mother Earth. They would then let it fill with plants etc and small trees, then burn it. Sealing it with charcoal to help with the smell. Heap the enclosure up a bit, rinse and repeat.
your also talking about humanure i ques.. ? the old ancestors (the really old) had homes.. almost modern.. next to their houses in the garden .. (without roofs these days) you find a big stone ring.. like meter and a half diameter roughly.. about.. hard to say how high.. 60 70 cm i quess..I always thought they made charcoal in it for whatever what.. Machu pichu for example has one waterspring.. the water enters the community through the noblest of house and spreads, runs of through open gullys.. dont know the word..from there through the rest of town.. we think its an open sewer if i read right.. i just don't know.. don't think so anyway.. talk more please.. i like the idea of a home related clean smellfree type of waste processing system ..
My terra preta recipe: 10 cups of "topsoil" -- I use bags of Ace Hardware All Purpose Top Soil that is composted materials. 1 cup of sand, because I found the first year that I was growing in nearly pure horse manure that the roots rotted without the use of sand. 1 cup worm castings to help build up humus. 1/4 cup bone meal to replicate the pieces of bones that are found in real terra preta. 1/2 cup all clay no additives non-clumping kitty litter to simulate the pieces of clap pottery found in real terra preta. Clay is good because it absorbs and holds water for the plants. 1½ cups charged biochar. I soaked it in chicken manure tea to charge it with nutrients for about a month. If you don't charge the biochar, it will absorb nutrients from the soil. Biochar is magic! You can make your own but I bought ten bags of it from Lowe's. 1/4 cup azomite to add 67 minerals I read that our fruits and vegetables are much lower in minerals than they used to be because farmers would use wood ash in their fields for fertilizer. The wood they burned to heat their houses and cook with contained minerals. Because only chemicals containing nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium are used now for fertilizer, our fruits and vegetables aren't very nutritious. 2 tablespoons mycorrhizae root fungi I add effective microorganisms that I add (diluted with water) once the terra preta is in use.
Earthworm castings, but I have no access to them as of yet! I am new to the Florida growing conditions and neighbors tell me they never see earthworms--- I have been seeing them since I started heavy mulching.
From the documentary about Eldorado. They were talking about the farmer selling the Terra Preta. He would wait for a time. The Terra Preta would rejuvenate. So he could sell more.
Nice that you enriching soil and saving the carbon from going in atmosphere but it sounds like you are using the dousing open flame method which has been shown to make a poor quality char. None-the-less i did appreciate your sharing your way of mixing it with your poor soil after inoculating it with compost as well as a few good other tips. I am wondering if there is an easier way than removing, mixing and replacing all that soil though. Perhaps in doing it on top a garden, putting layer of biochar down, straw and manure and cover with compost and then leaf mulch and wood chips and only breaking the sandy soil without actually turning it over and over as such or removing it from the garden as you do. This way the microbes in original soil are not disturbed and oxygen aeration is only thing that is being done to it. I have invested in rabbits to help with composting methods and want to try row gardens instead of the till method. I believe just doing it on top will result in the nutrients to leach down into the poorer soil and the roots of plants will go down as well. I am fortunate to have room for a garden not needed for a couple or three years that is just wild grass while using my present one for growing, but neither one do i want to disturb the lower soil . Thanks for sharing. I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you my friend--- my method was influenced my hurricane cleanup, and the fires were burning for weeks, and I couldn't see wasting the opportunity of missing all that charcoal.
David the good dug a huge trench burned a lot of wood made it into chart and threw all sorts of compostable stuff on it and compost tea. And some broken clay pots
You want to inoculate with local microbes, they are adapted to your growing conditions and would likely end up replacing any imported microbes you brought in anyway
wrong, you should just use your own hands to mix it for getting that right microbe-system which your body has naturally built. then you don't get sick or allergic of anything.
@@sina942000 exactly thank you for someone finally commenting about it, this soil is also missing animal, human manure, and animal bones/skin in addition to the pottery shards & biochar
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Can't wait to check back in a couple hundred years for progress!
😂😂😂 but you can taste it now in your food!
@@rumpleforeskin9543 Which End Game/Mad Max/Apocalypse scenario got you most freaked?
Luckily some of us think like that. Not like you. About short term benefits for yourself.
Everyone keeps saying that 🙄
I made terra preta three months ago and I have tomatoes growing faster and bigger than I have ever seen before. I only put 2" of terra preta on the topsoil. My farrier was so stunned to see how big they were and how quickly (she is at my place every five weeks). I also have coriander that is a couple of feet tall...all just with 2" of homemade terra preta on top of the soil.
I've been using this "biochar" that you have there But instead of mixing it into soil I take a 5 gallon bucket and set up a air pump creating a bubbler to airiate the liquid in which I soak peach tree, fig tree, fruiting mulberry and plum tree cuttings for two (2) days then I plant the cuttings into Pro-mix with Endomycorrhizal fungi. Been doing this several weeks and only lost 1 cutting by my Rhodesian Ridgeback dog eating a fig plant right out of the pot, everything at this point is beginning to pop out leaves and waking up from dormancy Praise GOD it works for Me. BIOCHAR WORKS!!! March/ 7/ 2018
Thank you my friend--- Don
LOL, beautiful dog
Obviously that particular breed of dog is necessary to this process, or was it some sort of canine-fan show-offery ?
Well done🙌
1:25 it does show positive results if the ratio is above 10%, tomatoes show increasing yield of up to 40% biochar, it's just that 5-10% is the sweet-spot that gives the best bang for the buck. For people with heavy clay soil it's very important to use more than 10% to solve the compaction problem which is by far the worst problem with clay soil.
Forgot to add the fact that I put 6 ounces 15 year old Bat Guano, urine, and a little bit of the Endomycorrhizal Fungi to speed everything up. I used the "Winter 2018 Webinar Biochar Series methaed to make the charcoal that I crush up to almost powder (1/4").
nice!
I think everyone missed the obvious thing here. They made a earthen enclosure, and anything they used had to be returned to mother Earth. They would then let it fill with plants etc and small trees, then burn it. Sealing it with charcoal to help with the smell. Heap the enclosure up a bit, rinse and repeat.
And when done, throw the soil down from the top, naturally mixing it.
Spot on Mark,thank you!
your also talking about humanure i ques.. ? the old ancestors (the really old) had homes.. almost modern.. next to their houses in the garden .. (without roofs these days) you find a big stone ring.. like meter and a half diameter roughly.. about.. hard to say how high.. 60 70 cm i quess..I always thought they made charcoal in it for whatever what.. Machu pichu for example has one waterspring.. the water enters the community through the noblest of house and spreads, runs of through open gullys.. dont know the word..from there through the rest of town.. we think its an open sewer if i read right.. i just don't know.. don't think so anyway.. talk more please.. i like the idea of a home related clean smellfree type of waste processing system ..
My terra preta recipe:
10 cups of "topsoil" -- I use bags of Ace Hardware All Purpose Top Soil that is composted materials.
1 cup of sand, because I found the first year that I was growing in nearly pure horse manure that the roots rotted without the use of sand.
1 cup worm castings to help build up humus.
1/4 cup bone meal to replicate the pieces of bones that are found in real terra preta.
1/2 cup all clay no additives non-clumping kitty litter to simulate the pieces of clap pottery found in real terra preta. Clay is good because it absorbs and holds water for the plants.
1½ cups charged biochar. I soaked it in chicken manure tea to charge it with nutrients for about a month. If you don't charge the biochar, it will absorb nutrients from the soil. Biochar is magic! You can make your own but I bought ten bags of it from Lowe's.
1/4 cup azomite to add 67 minerals
I read that our fruits and vegetables are much lower in minerals than they used to be because farmers would use wood ash in their fields for fertilizer. The wood they burned to heat their houses and cook with contained minerals. Because only chemicals containing nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium are used now for fertilizer, our fruits and vegetables aren't very nutritious.
2 tablespoons mycorrhizae root fungi
I add effective microorganisms that I add (diluted with water) once the terra preta is in use.
Very nice--- thank you for your recipe, that should be excellent for our garden plants, much appreciated, Don
Lowe’s sells bag of biochar?
The absolute best video I have seen about how to practically turn charcoal into Terra Preta . Thank You. Any idea of the PH of this mix?
Probably perfect..
Opposite of acidic.
10% very nice. how is everything coming along? any use of earthworm castings?
Earthworm castings, but I have no access to them as of yet! I am new to the Florida growing conditions and neighbors tell me they never see earthworms--- I have been seeing them since I started heavy mulching.
Walmart sells Worm Castings in 5 pound bags for $4.97 works along well around planted trees and mixed into the mulch everywhere.
Thanks for this awesome demonstration
From the documentary about Eldorado. They were talking about the farmer selling the Terra Preta. He would wait for a time. The Terra Preta would rejuvenate. So he could sell more.
It would sink into the soil by around 6 feet every twenty years because it's a biome that is self perpetuating.
Wondering if chess layout plots would also encroach the native soil plots even if in a longer timeframe, to maximize keeping desertification at bay.
Scientists do not succeed in recreating terra preta, but an ingredient is still missing, these are animal bones.
how do you know
@@michaelberg303 Because people on the internet know everything but how to be wrong
Fish bones especially. It's true you know. Research is available on interweb.
@@chriswilson5750 Got any sources where i can read it?
@@michaelberg303 look up azimuthproject.org
Hey! Long time no see! I am a former student of yours, both in high school and tae kwon do.
good to here from you- how is life treating you? Shinning I hope!
Donald Porta not bad, glad to see you’re doing good. Interesting topics :)
Nice that you enriching soil and saving the carbon from going in atmosphere but it sounds like you are using the dousing open flame method which has been shown to make a poor quality char. None-the-less i did appreciate your sharing your way of mixing it with your poor soil after inoculating it with compost as well as a few good other tips. I am wondering if there is an easier way than removing, mixing and replacing all that soil though. Perhaps in doing it on top a garden, putting layer of biochar down, straw and manure and cover with compost and then leaf mulch and wood chips and only breaking the sandy soil without actually turning it over and over as such or removing it from the garden as you do. This way the microbes in original soil are not disturbed and oxygen aeration is only thing that is being done to it. I have invested in rabbits to help with composting methods and want to try row gardens instead of the till method. I believe just doing it on top will result in the nutrients to leach down into the poorer soil and the roots of plants will go down as well. I am fortunate to have room for a garden not needed for a couple or three years that is just wild grass while using my present one for growing, but neither one do i want to disturb the lower soil . Thanks for sharing. I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you my friend--- my method was influenced my hurricane cleanup, and the fires were burning for weeks, and I couldn't see wasting the opportunity of missing all that charcoal.
Now that's a comment. Fuck. It's an addition to the video.
David the good dug a huge trench burned a lot of wood made it into chart and threw all sorts of compostable stuff on it and compost tea. And some broken clay pots
Thanks a lot!)
Can you please show, how to made, a charcoal process?)
It wood be grate!
I wish you prosperity
🌞🌳🌱📈💪🏻😎🏄♂️
check this out--- biochar is also charcoal---th-cam.com/video/9kdPZv691K0/w-d-xo.html
Is is necessary to inoculate with imported terra preta or is that the role of things like manure and urine? Also is rock dust helpful?
use local inoculate, and rock dust is good.
You want to inoculate with local microbes, they are adapted to your growing conditions and would likely end up replacing any imported microbes you brought in anyway
amazing
Spading fork mixes the the mix easier.
good advise, thank you my friend.
You should use copper tools to mix as steel changes the ionization polarity.
What the actual fuck are you talking about
@@Taxi4B lol this is probably one of those hEaLiNg CrYsTaL hippies
wrong, you should just use your own hands to mix it for getting that right microbe-system which your body has naturally built. then you don't get sick or allergic of anything.
Sir scientist have chemically analysis this soil and they still can not duplicate it! Joe
Where's the pottery?
What do you mean?
@@BEELEE-xx3hh Terra preta has pottery shards which help wick water up from the water table. This is just biochar, not terra preta.
@@sina942000 exactly thank you for someone finally commenting about it, this soil is also missing animal, human manure, and animal bones/skin in addition to the pottery shards & biochar