My garden has gotten to be so awesome, since I started with biochar almost 20 years ago... I like to "charge up!" the charcoal in a couple of 5 gallon buckets of "compost tea" and an aquarium aerator in each bucket to keep the mycorrhizae and other micro organisms alive and healthy... I get incredible results in tastes and yields, and the plants have never been healthier. They seem to be more pest resistant too...
Biochar has to be soaked in manure or urine so the carbon bonds to cations. If you just apply it to soil "uncharged" its bonding to the cations in the soil.
@@Freeland-Farm show me one bit of research showing microbes living in biochar..... yes, you can have some things like nitrogen and potassium (water soluble) move in and out with h20, but it won;t support biology in the char....again, this shouldn;t be hard....show me something showing biology living inside char.
@@Freeland-Farm terra preta pits where so toxic with char, ash and clays that they stayed around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. When dug up and spred around some of the nutrients locked in that toxic pit are released..... I can't make a 5 yard pile of leaf mold soil and leave it in one spot for more than a month... the trees 30 feet away make roots and steal it.... so why is terra preta pits intack years after deposit? Cause the char with ash and clay inhibited tree roots..... duuuuh!
@curiousbystander9193 Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 182, article id. 104700. Recently, the effects of biochar on soil microbial communities have gained a lot of interest. However, researchers have paid little attention to microbial colonization of biochar surfaces and the effect of soil potassium (K) availability on specific colonization In this study, the microbial colonization on the surface of biochar was systematically investigated using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and metagenomics based on a four-year pot culture experiment. The results showed that the main microorganisms colonizing the surface of biochar were all potentially beneficial bacteria (g_Streptomyces, g_Pseudonocardia, g_Amycolatopsis). The main carbon source for microbial colonization was the alkoxy carbon component of biochar. Under normal storage conditions, biochar colonized a large number of beneficial microorganisms from the storage environment, but the amount of colonization increased when applied to the soil. Among them, the amount of colonization in the high-K environment was slightly higher than in the low-K environment, but the primary composition and functions of microorganisms were the same (carbon metabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, ABC transporters). In general, a large number of beneficial microorganisms can colonize the surface of biochar in any environment, which provides more cutting-edge theoretical support for the application of biochar in agriculture.
From my understanding of biochar is it's a good soil conditioner because it allows for housing of microbes in the pores of the biochar and helps keeps your soil living and active. I'm very interested in seeing the results of this project.
Placed crushed, not pulverized, 100% pure hickory charcoal on my garden this fall and I am planning to put mollasses water with on the soil at first warm up next. Hoping for better microbe activity in my soil.
@@JohnnyChapman-jp1ej the unsulfured molasses cow lick in the barn yard as a kid never, ever got rotten.... like really.... yeah, leaves, cows dung and piss, grass and hay, saliva....amazing...... and they loved it, but almost like occasionally...like they knew, don;t over do that stuff or it'll wreck your biome.
My garden has gotten to be so awesome, since I started with biochar almost 20 years ago... I like to "charge up!" the charcoal in a couple of 5 gallon buckets of "compost tea" and an aquarium aerator in each bucket to keep the mycorrhizae and other micro organisms alive and healthy...
I get incredible results in tastes and yields, and the plants have never been healthier. They seem to be more pest resistant too...
Biochar has to be soaked in manure or urine so the carbon bonds to cations. If you just apply it to soil "uncharged" its bonding to the cations in the soil.
it appears to have some ability to absorb micronutrients, and may encourage healthy soil structure
@@Freeland-Farm you are charging it with some soluble micronutirents...microbes won't live in biochar.
@@Freeland-Farm show me one bit of research showing microbes living in biochar..... yes, you can have some things like nitrogen and potassium (water soluble) move in and out with h20, but it won;t support biology in the char....again, this shouldn;t be hard....show me something showing biology living inside char.
@@Freeland-Farm terra preta pits where so toxic with char, ash and clays that they stayed around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. When dug up and spred around some of the nutrients locked in that toxic pit are released..... I can't make a 5 yard pile of leaf mold soil and leave it in one spot for more than a month... the trees 30 feet away make roots and steal it.... so why is terra preta pits intack years after deposit? Cause the char with ash and clay inhibited tree roots..... duuuuh!
@curiousbystander9193 Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 182, article id. 104700.
Recently, the effects of biochar on soil microbial communities have gained a lot of interest. However, researchers have paid little attention to microbial colonization of biochar surfaces and the effect of soil potassium (K) availability on specific colonization In this study, the microbial colonization on the surface of biochar was systematically investigated using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and metagenomics based on a four-year pot culture experiment. The results showed that the main microorganisms colonizing the surface of biochar were all potentially beneficial bacteria (g_Streptomyces, g_Pseudonocardia, g_Amycolatopsis). The main carbon source for microbial colonization was the alkoxy carbon component of biochar. Under normal storage conditions, biochar colonized a large number of beneficial microorganisms from the storage environment, but the amount of colonization increased when applied to the soil. Among them, the amount of colonization in the high-K environment was slightly higher than in the low-K environment, but the primary composition and functions of microorganisms were the same (carbon metabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, ABC transporters). In general, a large number of beneficial microorganisms can colonize the surface of biochar in any environment, which provides more cutting-edge theoretical support for the application of biochar in agriculture.
From my understanding of biochar is it's a good soil conditioner because it allows for housing of microbes in the pores of the biochar and helps keeps your soil living and active. I'm very interested in seeing the results of this project.
great misinformation..... microbes hate biochar, especially inside it..... show me one study detailing how microbes libe inside biochar. please.
Placed crushed, not pulverized, 100% pure hickory charcoal on my garden this fall and I am planning to put mollasses water with on the soil at first warm up next. Hoping for better microbe activity in my soil.
has molasses ever become rotten on your counter?
@curiousbystander9193 crystalizes
Unsulfured molasses only. Sulfur is bad for your microbes.
@@JohnnyChapman-jp1ej the unsulfured molasses cow lick in the barn yard as a kid never, ever got rotten.... like really.... yeah, leaves, cows dung and piss, grass and hay, saliva....amazing...... and they loved it, but almost like occasionally...like they knew, don;t over do that stuff or it'll wreck your biome.
@@frankenz66 but it does not rot, just like honey......ummmm?
An overview without results.
I was more interested in the results of the study.
"Harvest data was collected from all research sites in 2023 and 2024" so they know, but they're not telling! Truly annoying!
@@GoBlesstheSky Must not fit the narrative then.
@@GoBlesstheSky I thought it said collecting data til 2025, I'll look