Whoa back Cisco >What we have done to treat gardens, rice patties, corn and other acreage is a simple thing for soil treatment only.
What exactly are you treating ??? Kill off the soil microbes with C/S as you would be doing, and you will totally eliminate any possible chance of the crop/plants etc taking up the nutrients that are vital for the crop/plants to be able to grow at all !!!!! The obsession to kill microbes with C/S should be tempered with the fact that less than 1% of all microbes are pathogenic, less than 1% again of the pathogens are harmful to man !!!! Since I subscribed to the silver list this is about the dumbest thing I have read. It is either not what you do Cisco, or you should not be doing it. Too bad about the dumping I will now get. Soil microbes breakdown organic and other matter into humus and humus gasses to make the nutrients available to the plant for up take via the root system and also the stomata on the underside of the leaves of all plants ....kill of the soil microbes and you kill off the plant !!!! >We take a 5 gallon bottle and make the stuff so strong it is nearly chocolate in color. Then we utilize a slow drip into the water supply being sprayed or irrigated into the field or patty. This does not allow for a contrlled amount persay but it does allow for the CS to get back to the soil. For what purpose are you treating the soil ??? It is not disease ridden, but will become as barren as Michael thinks it is, if you kill off the soil micro-organisms, and what ever plants you could grow in sterile soil, they would be sick beyond your worst imagination, that is if they grew at all !!!!!! >Of 20 Rice Patties treated the results appeared to be good. We had less rot problems less mold and mildew, and the crops appeared to be slightly larger than usual (course that could have been weather related). We also had less insect problems. Sorry Cisco they are rice paddies not the edible type of patties What in fact exactly where the prior rot and mould and mildew problems ? None of these are normally harmful to anything in the soil or plants !!!! Plus the biomass in a healthy soil MUST contain these in big numbers. The rot, mildew, mould etc you speak of are fungi from the family of saprophytes, they consume only DEAD organic matter, and are not parasites, and are as important to a healthy soil as are earthworms and nutrients!!!!. >I dont know if you are talking about 100's of acres but the same system could be utilized in the irrigation or spraying systems. Lets hope no one ever does put C/S in an irrigation system ....would you think heavy chlorination would be a good idea ???? yet that s the same as putting in C/S for this purpose !! So what is the purpose??? Unless the crop is sick what exactly are you treating ???? > I dont really know if this would be cost effective in your area....but if it results in a 5% increase in the production it could pay for itself. What is the mechanism that will cause an increase in production ??? >Espically if you dry your crop as in Soy Beans.....we lost a lot of product due to rot....eh just an idea and the point of how we do it. Well you sure lost me on this very unwarranted use of an anti biotic!!!! C/S is for pathogens in sick organisms, plant, animal or human, not to make healthy organisms normally totally dependant on beneficial micro-organisms for health and growth, lacking in the very mechanism that sustains health !!!! I guess I will be bounced again from the list now I disagree again with another contributor ....but what can anyone gain here from "nutty" contributions, based on good intentions and totally ignorant science??? .....before anyone jumps to Cisco's defence ....try reading " The Secret Life of Soil " by Christopher Bird ...or " The Secret Life of Plants " same author ....or just check out the most elementary info on beneficial soil micro-organism's Cisco you will have to do better than this ....if anyone takes this post seriously then actually implements the suggestions they are going to get the sickest soil, and the sickest plants. Darryyll JOSEPH T HARRISON wrote: > > Just wondering how silver, selenium etc. is replaced in depleated soils. > Most fertilizer does not have these things in it. 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