From: "Sarah Cherry" > > Hi, Liz, > I realized that the communication, > feelings, energy flows or whatever you want to call it were different > for "decay" when the plant was manifesting an insect problem than when > it just needed water. Same with "growth". The forces in a well-ordered > plant are perceptably very different than one which is bolting from too > much of something. Hi Sarah , Liz. These energies that Sarah describes here are what some of us unfeeling and mundane types measure with a brix meter via the plant sap. Low brix will always leave plants exposed and susceptible to insect attack - sometimes we get lucky and that does not manifest - but if the bugs are about they will home in on those crops. Bolting crops, which to most farmers look healthy with their dark green colour - you have low brix - and almost always an oversupply of soluble nitrogen, which can just as easily come from too much manure or even an overdose of compost. These crops grow vegetative bulk at the expense of the fruiting impulse and for leaf crops we get the bitter taste of excess nitrogen and lack of sugar, coupled with a low mineral status. Frost damage in small grain crops comes hand in hand. > One problem is that > I'm not always sure what to do even after I understand what's wrong! Foliar spraying can help enormously - but its important to measure a favourable response to the material you would like to apply, and there are many suitable natural ones, that can be either used as is or added to a "brew". The plants will tell you via the brix response, whether or not they like what you are doing. There are some on the list who are able to use the BD preps in a corrective manner to bring these things back into balance, and I guess a few who have things cranked up to the stage where there is no problem. If you can feel or sense these energies thats fine but many are unable, or lack the confidence, so use of a brix meter allows us to measure the physical manifestation. Hugh Lovel tells us he chews and tastes the sap - I like this approach - same system , different instrument. Of course all of this is dependent on a basic understanding of photoshythesis and the cylical nature of plant sap brix in relation to weather conditions. We are tapping into the lifestream of the plant, its not a static thing. Cheers all Lloyd Charles
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