Dear Ed, At 08:31 AM 7/31/2002, you wrote: >Folks, > >It has been recommended by a local permaculture authority that I can remin >my poor depleted Florida sands (soil) by using a 20:1 dilution of seawater. >Supposedly the broad spectrum of elements in solution would be a temporary, >but available source of minerals. Care must be taken to use it on >established growing plants (not seedlings). I have read about Dr Murray's >experiments with sea solids, and I know there is work being done using >seawater to grow hydroponically, but I can't find any other references to >this being practiced. Has anybody heard of this before? Comments on this >would be appreciated ... seawater (although an hour drive away) is a lot >easier to get here in Florida than any kind of igneous rock!
Sea water contains great amounts of the ORMUS elements. These are the same elements which are in paramagnetic rock dust. You can separate the ORMUS minerals from the salt in sea water by precipitating them out using lye (sodium hydroxide). Slowly add a lye/water solution (made using eighteen ounces of dry lye to a gallon of distilled water) to about 50 gallons of ocean water. You want to take the ocean water up to pH 10.78 and no higher. Let this set overnight. You will get about ten gallons of white precipitate from 50 gallons of ocean water. Once you have gotten the ocean water up to 10.78 pH you pour off the top water leaving the precipitate. This can be done on a boat or at the shore. The white precipitate will need to be washed three or four times with fresh water to wash out the salt and lye residues. The clean precipitate can be added to compost and BD preparations or applied directly to plants. You can read a short story about the first example of this (and see pictures of the giant walnuts produced) at: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/walnuts.htm The precipitate was applied to the tree in the picture once at the rate of about two cups of precipitate in five gallons of water soon after the tree was planted (from a seedling) about four years ago. Additionally there has been some of the top water from the third wash of precipitate added a few times each year. Tomatoes grown on the same site using the same mix of precipitate in five gallons of water applied to a flat of tomato plants have shown increased yield and less acidic flavor from control plants on the same site. The method is described in greater detail at: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/ormus/ormus2.htm Additional ocean water handling suggestions can be found at: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/ocean.htm I have been ingesting this white precipitate for about five years now with great benefit and no ill effects. -- With kindest regards, Barry Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2319 Balm Baker City, Oregon 97814 Phone: 541-523-3357 Web Pages: Forest - http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/bmnfa/index.htm ORMUS - http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/whatisit.htm "The heart always brings new life to any situation and opens up possibilities that would have been impossible without it. Sometimes a 1 percent change is enough to make all the difference, because that's all it takes to reposition a situation which seems to be absolute and to demonstrate that it actually is a relativity. Only God is absolute. All else is relative. That's why a man who judges becomes imprisoned within the deadlocks of his mind." --From "Love Without End - Jesus Speaks" by Glenda Green
