Lloyd Thank you for this wonderful picture of your experience. How do you place your preps in your broadcaster? You mention you use 500-508 plus the clays. How do you place these? and how often do you move them around? Glen A
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:46 AM Subject: Re: Preps 500 and 501 Effects as they relate to Sequential Spraying > > Subject: Re: Preps 500 and 501 Effects as they relate to Sequential Spraying > Dear Merla > I am unable to explain any of this but can offer a few > comments/observations > * the BD farmers in Australia who have encountered problems after a period > of what looked like successful practice are mostly from the Alex Podolinsky > group and have been mostly not using 501 or very little of it and certainly > not in concert with 500 - and for sure no horn clay. I'm not challenging > AP's knowledge but the message has not been filtering through to the other > end of the pipeline. > * these farms have suffered flat battery syndrome somewhere between 7 and 15 > years. > * The new organisation of Biodynamic agriculture that I belong to (Cheryl > Kemp writes here sometimes) is promoting the spraying of 500 and 501 in back > to back applications - 500 at evening and then 501 next morning over the > same area, farmers that have done this so far are talking very nice results > and more important have experienced none of the supposed ill effects from > using 501 in what is a very warm and high light environment, they have NOT > burned up their hay crop or had premature fruiting or all of the other > things that worries people about using 501. > * when we started using our broadcaster (three seasons ago ) I didnt have > access to horn clay for some months and yes we got results (visible) but it > was as if things were haphazard - the whole place went into rampant > flowering in late spring / early summer - perennial weeds, the native > plants, our home garden , everything just blazed into bloom. The look of it > was as if we were shunting things one way then the other. > * After about four months I got Rae cards that included the horn clays and > made up a new set of reagents and I have always used horn clay since that > time. In the broadcasters I use the full suite of preps 500 through to 508 > plus horn clays. > * I guess the best description I have is if you came to a furiously boiling > pot and turned it down to a gentle simmer, we dont see as much happening > (things are much more subtle), but I also think its much more stable and > balanced. > * its human nature that we look for a quick result, or a dramatic change, > but I do think that a slow gentle shifting of the balance point is a lot > more beneficial in the long run. > Just a few thoughts from down under > Cheers > Lloyd Charles > > > > > I just read Hugh Lovell's words on "Prep 500 and 501 effects". It was > > way over my head since I can only understand what is going on with the > > plants on a intuitive basis. > > > > I want to do a sequential spraying on 3 1/2 acres of our land, the part > > that is not wooded, but fenced and in agricultural usage. I feel O.K. > > about BC, 500, 508, but really question the use of 501. > > It's really > > confusing to read Hugh's references to horn clay because Hugh Courtney > > doesn't include it in the sequence. > Internal politics maybe? > > Should I order some horn clay? If > > I do, when do I spray it? We have glacial till soil with wind blown > > laos from Washington grain fields. > > > > Hugh C. suggested that I do it in leaf to stimulate > > water influences and I'm thinking about June 20-21. I don't do the > > whole 25 acres because it would be hard to spray in the trees and > > underbrush. Should I be doing that too? > > > > What am I doing when I do a sequential spray sequence? Can someone > > explain it to me the way Hugh Lovell is explaining in his post on 500 > > and 501, but in not quite so difficult a conceptual framework? > > > > Best, > > > > Merla > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BDNow mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can unsubscribe or change your options at: > > http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow > > > > _______________________________________________ > BDNow mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can unsubscribe or change your options at: > http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow _______________________________________________ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
