perhaps I should start again and see if I can word the procedure better... I am simplifying here, so bare with me :-)
As I understand it, plants are basically a thermo engine, using warm leaves evaporating moisture to create the "sucking" to pull up the nutrients absorbed by the cooler roots. The greater the temperature difference (delta T) between roots and leaves, the more sucking there is. The more nutrients the plant can ingest, the healthier the plant. A brix reading of the plant seems to bare this out. The higher the brix, the healthier the plant seems to be...the healthier the plant the more "umph" its product have ( fruit, flowerettes, leaves, etc). It seems that the higher the health level of the plant is, the less disease, parasites etc. it has. Essentially disease , bugs etc. attack low health plants to make way for better plants; thats there job. SO to minimize these detriments all you have to do is have a basic well nourished plant. Most plants seem to have the greatest spurts of growth in Springtime when soil is still relkatively cool and the Sun is warming the young leaves. So it would seem that duplicating this condition, i.e. warm leaves and cool roots, would help maximize the plants ability to use nutrients and grow. Experimentation has proven out that this does indeed work. Concern then would be to enrich the soil so that the plants can get the maximum nutrients without running out of "gas" so to speak. Herein lies my interest in what BD may do. Since the procedure above is not chemical in nature, rather it utilizes the normal thermo dynamic process. Someone suggested or perhaps they miss understood the procedure I described thinking it was a hydroponic system. I of course was open to discuss this twist on the cold ag system I was familiar with and the concept of blending it with hydroponics. I appologize for seeming to be interested in a water process rather than earth process (which actually is NOT the case). I appreciate those in the group that have considered the hydroponics (even though I myself did not introduce that idea :-) My interest is to help assemble and desiminate a more sustainable and healthy method of agriculture for the tropical zones for improvement of the quality of life... as always curious of BD Bob SLF ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & S Chamberlain" <Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Hydoponic BD > Hi Panama Bob > > > > > > > My question is if BD may possibly be integrated into a production > system > > > > that sprays cold nutrients onto roots or is soil temperature need to > be > > at > > > > certain level to encourage micro organisms activity which produce the > > added > > > > umph to plant health.... Would it be possible to make a nutrient > liquid > > mix > > > > leached out of a compost bed that utilized the micro organism > activity? > > > > > > Yes While am am not a hydoponics grower I am familiar with what you are > > > doing. I have some ideas how to make this work. I use foliar spraying as > > > a rescue method to over come a serious nutrient imbalance on an all year > > > round cut foliage nursery under plastic. > > > A combination of liquid teas,sequential spraying,and potentised preps is > > > what i have in mind. It would not be able to be certified as organic but > > > certainly would get you away from growing waterfilled chemical food that > > > tastes like crap. > > > > > > > > The higher than normal brix levels intrigue me, and the subsequent > > natural > > > > defense against parasites.... > > > > > > This is an area that really does interest me also. It ties in with Hugh > > > Lovels idea of growing corn as a suppler of nutrients to the soil. Also > > > with DR Carey Reams work as written by Dan Skow in 'MainLIne Farming for > > > the 21st Centary and William Albrect work " The Albrect Papers" vol 1-4 > > > and "Weeds with Poisons" written by Charles Walter . > > > They all refer to achieving high brix levels to ward of insects and for > > > weed control. > > > Any way when i have cleared my backlog of work[it has rained on 17 days > > > this month and it is the middle of summer for us]I will post you my > > > thoughts. > > > Seasons geeeting and blessing to the new year. > > > Cheers Tony Robinson > > > New Zealand
