A timely video for me, thanks. We're moving from our usual regular rain through winter and early spring to our usual dry and warm conditions in late spring and throughout summer. The warmer, drier conditions tend to expose troublespots, and since i've got rock dust and compost on hand, I'm going to apply them to these spots first so that they'll assist the resilience of the plants against the heat to come. Then I'll apply to the rest of the garden after.
This is another case of whether the problem is the dis-ease or the environment. The battle of perspectives between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp continues, and the same contest of perspectives rages between pharmaceutical disease treatments and natural health care. IMO, the Pasteur approach is to maximize profits while the Bechamp approach is to maximize health.
The best understanding of soil science and nutrition is igneous rocks. - There are mafics (iron- and manganese-rich) Gabbro, Basalt, and Obsidian rocks - There are felsics (silica-rich) Granite and Rhyolite rocks - In between, there are intermediate mafic-felsics that are a mix of iron and silica rocks - Mafic rocks break down into black (iron) sands - Felsic rocks break down into silica, silt, and clay sands - Organic soil is from organic muds and peat bogs - Depending on the phaneritic (large crystals) or aphanitic (micro crystals) of these igneous rocks, will be those small or large rock crystal particles - Large crystal igneous rocks are mafic Gabbro, intermediate Diorite and Granodiorite, and felsic Granite - Micro crystal igneous rocks are mafic Basalt and Obsidian, intermediate Andesite, Dacite, and Rhyodacite, and felsic Rhyolite. - Mafic rocks are iron-rich and have iron cement holding the crystals together. Iron mafic rocks rust and quickly erodes into black sands. - Intermediate rocks of iron and silica cement erode out the iron first, then decompose the silica crystals. Here one gets iron banding and jasper/chalcedony silica quartz sands. - Felsic rocks of silica cement holding the crystals together. Silica quartz felsic rocks erode into sand grains. Rock dust can be composed from sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous rocks. The best rock dust contains phosphorus (the oldest rock erosion cycle). Plants need critical phosphorus and its is one of the micro nutrients with the highest of plant nutrition needs. N-P-K (Nitrogen -tree 'UP," Phosphorus - roots "DOWN," and Potassium - tree "ALL AROUND" are the main mineral nutrients, while the micro-nutrients are the most critical. It is known within biochemistry of the body, that one needs critical minerals in the body. Calcium as a base mineral creates 10,000 enzymes in the body. Iron another 10,000 enzymes. Magnesium another 10,000 enzymes. Not getting the proper food, just like a human balanced meal of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, pre- and pro-biotics skews the human metabolism and health. The same applies to plant science, nutrition, and health. Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Cobalt, Phosphorus, Copper, Sulfur, ... are all needed. Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) provides 2 of these ingredients. Copper sulfate used in many plant sprays for bugs and bacteria also provides 2 needed ingredients. Iodine is also in micro-dilutions also needed for plant health, but providing a clean soil, removing harmful bacteria, nematodes, soil fly larvae etc. Kelp and dulse can provide many nutrient micro sea salts and iodine. Sphagnum moss compost provides iodine. Chaga mushroom tumors on birch trees are an iodine producing fungi. Providing calcium sweetens and alkalizes any acidic ph soil. Sulfur acidifies any alkaline ph soil. Cobalt, copper, etc. are micro ph soil adjustors.
Knowing your proper soil type, and treatment to get it into a loamy texture, is knowing your clays, silts, sands, and organic mud percentages. Clays hold back water. Sands quickly drain out water. Silts are the most-optimum soil for growing vines and fruit orchards - as shown where the best wines are grown in silt regions. Silts hold a modicum of water with their micro-crystals, but drain out any excess keeping the plant humid and watered, but not in dry and drought sandy soil, or saturated and soggy clay soil. Extreme organic muds make soggy soil of wetlands, estuaries, and river deltas, or the drought cracked mud soils of deserts and flash floods. Amend your soil making it the optimum loamy soil, and you will have healthy soil and healthy plants. If you have proper soil, proper soil nutrition, then you will have marvelous plant health and fruiting production - less invasive and (seemingly) damaging insect infestations. As Stephan mentions, weeds and bugs tell you what is needed for those plants and soil.
Sedimentary and metamorphic rock types made into rock dust will be constituents of clay stone, silt stone, mudstone. These turn back again into clay stone, siltstone, and mudstone. These turn into slates, that turn into banded schist, that turns into gneiss, ... and finally into the hardest of pegmatite and migmatite Fossil coral beds - OR - high calcium-rich rocks turn into dolomite (dolostone, White Cliffs of Dover), limestone, travertine, and marble Felsic silica quartzite and quartz sands turn into sandstone, that morphs back into quartzite and quartz, ... AND with possible igneous heat and pressures morph into large crystal diorite, granodiorite, and granite rocks The erosion cycle repeats, tearing down these rocks with wind, weather, heating, cooling, and freezing cycles, and water actions.
Thank you Stefan another brilliant video and well explained. It makes sense the beginning about the rocks grinding. You have a good way of looking at things
A million thank-yous for the tip! I'm sold. And if ANYIONE thinks that the human body is any different than what Stefan is talking about, they are sadly mistaken. We need to stop putting things in ourselves to "make us feel better". We're doing it all wrong. Research another Stefan named Lanka.
Tried azomite on my apple trees one year- best apple year. I wasn't sure if was a coincidence but this makes me think. It is a little cost prohibitive. My soil is pretty soggy at times but have had success by heavily wood mulching the root zone. Seems to absorb the excess water.
Hi Stephen, what about moniliose? The extend of the damage can be whether dependant, but if you have it in the orchard I am in doubt you can get rid of it by just improving general tree health. Sun, air, nutrients even on the ideal level will not be enough to fight with such serious disease. Am I right?
Wollastonite is high in calcium, silicon and oxygen CaSiO3 and has some micronutrients, but nothing like a good basalt has, Both are mined in Ontario and elsewhere. Azomite is pretty good if you can get it economically from Utah. If you're in Ontario, I have access to Spanish River Carbonatite and market it in northern Ontario. It's being used around the world in extremely succesful trials. Stunning stuff.
Our land is right below a huge dormant volcanic crater...the soil has been depleted over the years by dairy farming, but most of the trees we have planted they seem to be doing well. Our goal is to turn a grass field into a food forest. I do like the basalt dust idea. We have quarries around. Why not feed the trees with food scraps from that tree? As an example, feed orange trees with the orange scraps or peels or healthy leaves from pruning? Or banana trees feed them with banana peels?
Yes, use what you have ... buy rock dust, buy bags of compost ... hahaha easy, just so something buying ... and lay down a layer of a couple of inches so you have to buy a lot ...
@@monicali2608 Yes, that is what I did with a little variation, I first inoculated the wood ash with urine to neutralize it and also used nettle slurry then I covered everything well with hay that´s what I have and it worked quite well till now.
@ Examples of hard rock include granite, basalt, limestone, and gneiss. These erode into gravel, sand, and clay and are utilized by life forms to make dirt. The musical hard rock does not apply to this.
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A timely video for me, thanks. We're moving from our usual regular rain through winter and early spring to our usual dry and warm conditions in late spring and throughout summer. The warmer, drier conditions tend to expose troublespots, and since i've got rock dust and compost on hand, I'm going to apply them to these spots first so that they'll assist the resilience of the plants against the heat to come. Then I'll apply to the rest of the garden after.
This is another case of whether the problem is the dis-ease or the environment. The battle of perspectives between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp continues, and the same contest of perspectives rages between pharmaceutical disease treatments and natural health care. IMO, the Pasteur approach is to maximize profits while the Bechamp approach is to maximize health.
There is no contest. Pasteur admitted this himself. Beuchamp and many others should have been the honest approach.
The best understanding of soil science and nutrition is igneous rocks.
- There are mafics (iron- and manganese-rich) Gabbro, Basalt, and Obsidian rocks
- There are felsics (silica-rich) Granite and Rhyolite rocks
- In between, there are intermediate mafic-felsics that are a mix of iron and silica rocks
- Mafic rocks break down into black (iron) sands
- Felsic rocks break down into silica, silt, and clay sands
- Organic soil is from organic muds and peat bogs
- Depending on the phaneritic (large crystals) or aphanitic (micro crystals) of these igneous rocks, will be those small or large rock crystal particles
- Large crystal igneous rocks are mafic Gabbro, intermediate Diorite and Granodiorite, and felsic Granite
- Micro crystal igneous rocks are mafic Basalt and Obsidian, intermediate Andesite, Dacite, and Rhyodacite, and felsic Rhyolite.
- Mafic rocks are iron-rich and have iron cement holding the crystals together. Iron mafic rocks rust and quickly erodes into black sands.
- Intermediate rocks of iron and silica cement erode out the iron first, then decompose the silica crystals. Here one gets iron banding and jasper/chalcedony silica quartz sands.
- Felsic rocks of silica cement holding the crystals together. Silica quartz felsic rocks erode into sand grains.
Rock dust can be composed from sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous rocks. The best rock dust contains phosphorus (the oldest rock erosion cycle). Plants need critical phosphorus and its is one of the micro nutrients with the highest of plant nutrition needs.
N-P-K (Nitrogen -tree 'UP," Phosphorus - roots "DOWN," and Potassium - tree "ALL AROUND" are the main mineral nutrients, while the micro-nutrients are the most critical.
It is known within biochemistry of the body, that one needs critical minerals in the body. Calcium as a base mineral creates 10,000 enzymes in the body. Iron another 10,000 enzymes. Magnesium another 10,000 enzymes. Not getting the proper food, just like a human balanced meal of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, pre- and pro-biotics skews the human metabolism and health. The same applies to plant science, nutrition, and health. Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Cobalt, Phosphorus, Copper, Sulfur, ... are all needed. Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) provides 2 of these ingredients. Copper sulfate used in many plant sprays for bugs and bacteria also provides 2 needed ingredients. Iodine is also in micro-dilutions also needed for plant health, but providing a clean soil, removing harmful bacteria, nematodes, soil fly larvae etc. Kelp and dulse can provide many nutrient micro sea salts and iodine. Sphagnum moss compost provides iodine. Chaga mushroom tumors on birch trees are an iodine producing fungi. Providing calcium sweetens and alkalizes any acidic ph soil. Sulfur acidifies any alkaline ph soil. Cobalt, copper, etc. are micro ph soil adjustors.
Knowing your proper soil type, and treatment to get it into a loamy texture, is knowing your clays, silts, sands, and organic mud percentages. Clays hold back water. Sands quickly drain out water. Silts are the most-optimum soil for growing vines and fruit orchards - as shown where the best wines are grown in silt regions. Silts hold a modicum of water with their micro-crystals, but drain out any excess keeping the plant humid and watered, but not in dry and drought sandy soil, or saturated and soggy clay soil.
Extreme organic muds make soggy soil of wetlands, estuaries, and river deltas, or the drought cracked mud soils of deserts and flash floods. Amend your soil making it the optimum loamy soil, and you will have healthy soil and healthy plants.
If you have proper soil, proper soil nutrition, then you will have marvelous plant health and fruiting production - less invasive and (seemingly) damaging insect infestations. As Stephan mentions, weeds and bugs tell you what is needed for those plants and soil.
Sedimentary and metamorphic rock types made into rock dust will be constituents of clay stone, silt stone, mudstone. These turn back again into clay stone, siltstone, and mudstone. These turn into slates, that turn into banded schist, that turns into gneiss, ... and finally into the hardest of pegmatite and migmatite
Fossil coral beds - OR - high calcium-rich rocks turn into dolomite (dolostone, White Cliffs of Dover), limestone, travertine, and marble
Felsic silica quartzite and quartz sands turn into sandstone, that morphs back into quartzite and quartz, ... AND with possible igneous heat and pressures morph into large crystal diorite, granodiorite, and granite rocks
The erosion cycle repeats, tearing down these rocks with wind, weather, heating, cooling, and freezing cycles, and water actions.
Are you guys sure?
@@tonycortese2165 Yup !
Where did these soils come from? What makes up us, what makes up the vegetation? There is design, a Creator that knows.
Thank you Stefan another brilliant video and well explained. It makes sense the beginning about the rocks grinding. You have a good way of looking at things
Glad it was helpful!
A million thank-yous for the tip! I'm sold.
And if ANYIONE thinks that the human body is any different than what Stefan is talking about, they are sadly mistaken. We need to stop putting things in ourselves to "make us feel better". We're doing it all wrong. Research another Stefan named Lanka.
Lanka is a good start. The Holy Bible is better. We should know better!
Thank you very much for this very informative video.
Glad it was helpful!
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Glad you think so!
Thank you, Stefan.
I am taking notes
I wish you are doing great and with good health.
Thank you, you too.
Many old quarries were used as a shooting range or a dumping ground. They can be an unregistered Mckissick dump site.
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great one, thank you so much!
Glad you liked it!
thank you sir
Most welcome
Thank you
Tried azomite on my apple trees one year- best apple year. I wasn't sure if was a coincidence but this makes me think. It is a little cost prohibitive. My soil is pretty soggy at times but have had success by heavily wood mulching the root zone. Seems to absorb the excess water.
Wood chips and basalt or azomite will help.
Good video
Thank you so much
Micorhizal fungi and rock dust?
Ashes? Rock dust? hmmmmmm
I was right! I use Wollastonite and Azomite Clay!
Hi Stephen, what about moniliose? The extend of the damage can be whether dependant, but if you have it in the orchard I am in doubt you can get rid of it by just improving general tree health. Sun, air, nutrients even on the ideal level will not be enough to fight with such serious disease. Am I right?
I am yet to see a disease that tree health will not keep away. As long as you’re not using synthetics that kill soil life.
I was right! Stefan, what do you think of Wollastonite and Azomite?
Wollastonite is high in calcium, silicon and oxygen CaSiO3 and has some micronutrients, but nothing like a good basalt has, Both are mined in Ontario and elsewhere. Azomite is pretty good if you can get it economically from Utah. If you're in Ontario, I have access to Spanish River Carbonatite and market it in northern Ontario. It's being used around the world in extremely succesful trials. Stunning stuff.
Same idea just a more localized product. Use it if available.
I agree 💯
Where do you buy Basalt? I only found it on Amazon
Look up basalt rock dust supplier
Its expensive. I would suggest adding the litter from your trees/crop back into the soil. Mulch them in.
Our land is right below a huge dormant volcanic crater...the soil has been depleted over the years by dairy farming, but most of the trees we have planted they seem to be doing well.
Our goal is to turn a grass field into a food forest.
I do like the basalt dust idea. We have quarries around.
Why not feed the trees with food scraps from that tree? As an example, feed orange trees with the orange scraps or peels or healthy leaves from pruning? Or banana trees feed them with banana peels?
I practise this every year. Same with potatoes, mulch the leaves, stems and roots back in. You will have a great crop!
Does azomite works as well as Basalt?
Similar, it's a more localized dust. Not as widespread as basalt.
Yes, use what you have ... buy rock dust, buy bags of compost ... hahaha easy, just so something buying ... and lay down a layer of a couple of inches so you have to buy a lot ...
Make compost,use wood ash, autumn leaves, jadam microorganisms, weed fertiliser in a barrel. All free and effective used together.
@@monicali2608 Yes, that is what I did with a little variation, I first inoculated the wood ash with urine to neutralize it and also used nettle slurry then I covered everything well with hay that´s what I have and it worked quite well till now.
I was thinking magnesium or Epsom salts
Have to be careful with the 'salts'.
Bio char ??
Would make a great 3 way mix right in the compost pile.
What’s older than dirt? Hard rock.
What is hard rock?
@ Examples of hard rock include granite, basalt, limestone, and gneiss. These erode into gravel, sand, and clay and are utilized by life forms to make dirt. The musical hard rock does not apply to this.