Activating / Charging Biochar For The Garden | The Ultimate Nutrient Carrier, Soil Builder!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2017
- Biochar can help you take your garden to the next level of production and disease resistance. In this video Dan from www.plantabundance.com shares with you a great combination of nutrients, vitamins, minerals and microorganisms for inoculating, activating & charging a fresh batch of biochar.
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Another good one is the "Mi Gardener" channel. Very, very knowledgeable !
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Thank you that was the perfect explanation of biochar, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks so much for the good video! Good length and detail, perfect for a transient learner like myself.
If you do this a lot a cement mixer would make this job a joy
I've got about 500 lbs of biochar screened down to 1/2", I'm going to inoculate it with manure from my pigs, chickens, turkeys and goats. Thanks so much for this video!
lucky guy, how did it go?
Wait so you can charge biochar with just fixing in manure, do manure teas work as well?
yeah you just need manure/compost and moisture. You can actually just use urine to charge biochar.
Thanks for the Lesson. going to give it a try.
Great information! I saved the video as I’m starting my first biochar experience
Learned a lot from your videos.
so humble yet informative thx
Very useful info, thanks for sharing 😊
Great video! Thank you❤️
great information and you are a wealth of it...thanks for sharing...:)
Thanks for your sharing.
Glad I found your vlog. Always great to learn new techniques for the garden. Thanks for sharing!
I break it into manageable sized pieces, then run it through the blender to reduce it to powder and tiny pieces for a quick annual release. I put the powdered charcoal into a plastic wheelbarrow and add urine until it's saturated. It will suck it all in. Do this until it stays damp and let it sit for a month, then add it in to your soil. For longer term release, I leave the chunks a bit bigger, but still use nothing but urine. I make a couple gallons a day, so it only takes me a day or so to get this going.
Do you put water with the urine
I like seeing you make these ingredients, good luck, I'm from Indonesia, seeing you really want to know how to make it,
Very helpful and to the point. Thanks! Off to mix my first batch.
Great video
Thank you...
What a great guy ! Glad I found
Good job
Great video, bio char is amazing.
Thank you! And it has many different applications.
Good information, thank you 🙏
I add some wood ash, hydrolyzed fish, molasses, kelp, moringa, fast acting sulfur, blood meal, urine and a little bit of comfrey. I add the sulfur to keep my soil from getting too alkaline. The sulfur additive isn't for everyone especially if you already have acidic soil. I only charge it when I have to use the bed I'm applying it to. Otherwise I'm a believer in letting it rest for a year or so. I usually always have to charge it.
Great vid. thanks! Be careful using hay or straw as it most likely contains a persistent herbicide which last 2 yr. even when hot composted. The amount you used is small, so probably ok, but don't use for compost like I did. Will hurt broadleaf vegetation. It's a big problem and most people don't even realize it.
Give your hay/straw (or anything that may have pesticides herbicides or fungicides) a dip in some water with dissolved baking soda (about 1:100 ratio baking soda to water) it should remove some of the pesticides
You can also use vinegar in place of baking soda at a 1:3 ratio. Either recipe could use a squeeze of lemon too for a more effective wash
@@catstack_ Is there any science to support using baking soda to remove pesticide from hay or is this just an unsubstanciated wives tale, as I suspect
thank u
Sir , what if we haven't worm casting , can we replace it by another stuff , and what must be that stuff ?
What do you think about adding yeast to help bio charge the mix?
I enjoy seeing everyones take on biochar. Yours should be good. When you come out to check on it...pee in it. Urea, bacteria, calcium, aminos, pee has lots of stuff in it. Biochar in the compost absorbs stuff that creates the hole in the ozone layer, plants love it, helium, Co2, methane, and toxins like lead all gets sucked into the char forever. Throw it in raw, crush it to preferred size and add a thin layer after every time you add nitroge and carbon materials. Enjoy, make mistakes and have fun.
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Carbon is amazing at binding up microorganisms and toxins and nutrients. 50 years ago it was common practice to pump the stomach of someone who had overdosed on an oral drug, but now the common practice is to administer charcoal powder and let that bind up the drug as it transits the digestive tract.
The practice of inoculating bio-char prior to introducing it to garden soil so you don't deplete your existing soil is mandatory, as carbon is literally like a black hole in several respects.
wow
With all that water sittin there for 2 week, doesn't it go anaerobic? Thanks for the video 😊
Hey. Ive just started with biochar. Im mixing my biochar with coffe grounds and chicken manure.....and then peeing on it and let it sit in a bucket for a couple of weeks. 😂😂😂 Hope it works.
i would make a rich compost tea, castings, kelp/seaweed liquid, humic / fulvic acid, compost, molasses, fish & guano emulsion bubble w/ air stone for 24-48 hrs then add to bio char soak for 48-72 hrs should be ready to go, that bin is gonna stink after a week. you know what they say " Tomato - Potato" or is it " Potato - Tomato"
seaweed , dry or liquid type , what they contain ? thank you ❤️
Seaweed has many micro nutrients that aren't as Common in land plants!
@@bencyber8595Seaweed contains essential Amino Acid
BTW. It's "Tomāto Tomăto. Lol😂
Question: can we use half burnt pieces of charcoal with the same process?
What time of year is best to apply to the garden
What were you results ans do you have an idea of the approximate area this volume will serve?
You know your the first one to speak about adding in nutrients to the biovhar. Would you still do this if your putting in a chicken coop? Due to the fact you want the charcoal to absorb smell?
I’m assuming biochar naturally has high potassium levels. Is this going to burn younger plants? I’m hesitant to use it early, however I can’t recommend using it enough in bloom.
Instead of biochar can I use carbon from fish tank? Good video...right to the point. Thanks .
Damn that sounds like a good idea!
I really don't know for sure if there would be any problem with that or not though. One would think that the carbon particles would still act to hold on to an exchange nutrients just like the biochar, and also if it's been soaking in fish tank water there's all kinds of nutrients there as well 👍
Greetings Are jou going to put everything in the garden and water and bajoča Please answer me Thanks
Add some Ormus from spring water., Or plasma activated water .
Is that sawdust? please can list me all the added materials. Thanks .
Will beet pulp work for the sugar source?
Is there another source of minerals rather than rock dust [I don't have any], and would wood ash be useful?
Do you use wood ash? How can i incorporate ash in the soil?
Where is the next video?
I put bajoča into the water and IT has been štanding for 2 weeks what am igoing to do with that water My english is not good and i don’ t understand everything it’ s the first time I’m doing this Thank you
great tutorial, do you have to consider inhaling the charcoal and rock dust?
Not if you wear protective gear!
If you make your biochar right using the right and and proper techniques and handling and pre-treating with decomposed compost known as humus, one must mix it with the soil until the soil has a 16% to 25% biocharch carbon content and can retain nutrients indefinitely and can be easily maintained by recycling all agricultural wastes and using alley cropping techniques. The yields are very high, as high as 880% if properly made and applied and people using only food grown on such soils known also as biochar are, given enough time and using only organic NON-GMO/NON-HYBRID SEEDS, never sickly until they are never sick throughout their lives but only as long they avoid eating processed foods. It is more of a SLASH AND BURN process.
Bro take an English class.
Sir how to inoculate large scale of biochar... it so happen that here in our country biochar is abundant...and follow up question, if it's ok to use 75% of biochar and the remaining 25% is mixed of compost and wormcast?...
Urinate in a bucket every morning for a week or two, then apply. Its works well. Mix in some organic sugar will speed it up just prior to applying.
What was the straw for again?
Nice vid sir. Do you use non-sulfur molasses?
Always
Got a question if raw charcoal applied to the soil without loading sucks up the nutrient and holds it for two years wouldn’t it take two years to charge your before it would be beneficial?
But you will be adding so much concentrated goodness that should not be a problem - that's my thought. Good question tho.
how much of that mixture should i use for a garden sized to 75 by 110 ft? in order to enrich it?
I saw another video where they recommended 10% of bed be biochar.
What is rock dust made of?
Name The powder and the liquid which have you included
i learned a lot from your this video. kindly tell me the ingredients of this biochar. i live in pakistan.
Basically it is coarsely broken charcoal activated with beneficial microbes. To charge/activate your charcoal, put it in some manure or a very fertile place for a week atleast, this will give the microbes enough time to 'move in' into all the fine pores of your charcoal (More time is better, plus you can make it in batches like every week or month or so on). Greetings from Bangalore, India :)
Hello!
Sorry my English is not so good, so can i ask you please to write a list of ingredients?
charcoal - worm castings - rock dust - fish emulsion - liquid kelp - molasses - straw - water - burlap
PS Use captions. They actually work in this case (he has an accent that's easy to understand, and doesn't mumble, so the captions came out right).
Dan, how does urine do on charcoal? Thanks as always!
Urine is an effective biochar activator.
this may sound like a crazy question, but could you do a biochar litterbox and recycle that into your soil?
Some people bring their animals into a barn in the winter. They put charcoal down on the floor. It takes away the smell and binds the nitrogen. In the spring they shovel it out and use on garden
No meds in the urine, even asprin?
In My charcoal mix I put urine and coke for the phosphorus 😆
What is rock dust?
Liquid compost heap!
Is there some reason that everyone seems to use maple syrup rather than honey? I would think it would feed as well and add vitamins and minerals
Renee Brown honey is said to be antibacterial and we are trying to increase bacteria and microbes to the soil
@@mikescala4398 Molases its used just because it adds a carbon source.You can use cheapest sugar or alcohool or vinnegar.Maple syrup and honey are way too expensive for such job.
I know that where I live, Maple Syrup is essentially free to make and requires very little concerns about protective suits and stings.
Additionally, you can use birch for an "Ag Grade" syrup. We feed it to our chickens as a spring-time energy & minerals supplement.
Beautiful, for sure fun ,but too much work ! Love to work but rather smartly for me. Love supporting farmers & the free lessons however. Respects.
The effects last hundreds of years ...
Can I use regular charcoal briquettes to make the charcoal in use for terrariums with succulent plants?
There is a bunch of videos on how to make completely organic biochar. Only use organic made from real trees not plywood or anything with chemicals in it.
Is rock dust Azomite?
Yes
sting like
Have you thought about putting biochar into your worm bin
How would you do that, do you mix it with something
@@rianajansevanrensburg2444 I just put it over the top of the food that I add a little bit of biochar goes a long way
I would listen to the worms. But then I’m not a worm whisperer.
Put. Some. Mustered. In. It. Lol
What was the ingredients.plz write down
As far as I understood it, the ingredients are: - crushed charcoal, worm castings, rock dust, 1st liquid was ???, 2nd liquid was ???, 3rd liquid was molasses, then straw, water. I would appreciate if you could precise both missing liquids...
Fish emulsion liquid kelp molasses water
Don't forget to pee in it!
I also heard that. Another guy said just to use urine
Can you use human pee for nitrogen.
Absolutely!