DANKSWAG
Well-Known Member
Hello my RIU organic family,
I'm wanting create this thread to the pure idea behind Dr. Elaine Ingham statement, and I'm paraphrasing here "everything that is required for a plant to grow is already locked up in the tilt, the sand and the clay and all that's required is the correct balance of microlife to metabolize insoluble nutrients locked up in the tilt, clay & sand into soluble nutrients", that the plants roots themselves produce the exudates that select the bacteria and fungi the plant requires to produce the balance of nutrients the plant needs, by feeding bacteria & fungi they in turn attract higher forms of micro life protozoa & nematodes which feed and excrete the nutrients locked up in the bacteria and fungi which are ready-made soluble for the plants to intake.
This is why management of the micro life is the sole key to making readily available nutrients and irrigating the rhiosphere healthy anaerobic microlife.
? Do you know what form of nitrogen your plants require, ammonium or nitrates?
? Do you know how to manage your microherd to produce the required form?
Perhaps someday this thread can become one of the Mainstays to properly Farm organically.
Considering most threads, seem focusing on adding nutrients to the soil as if the we're going to be readily accepted by the plants roots. In fact overfeeding with certain foods and thus not having a balanced food web could lead to depletion of nutrients locked up and micro life that has yet to be devoured and excreted.
Therefore I'm hoping create a thread truly vetted and based in soil science with a requirement anything stated as soil science that properly manages and grows to microherd should have either a reference to Dr. Ingham or other noted soil biologist who follow the same principle that it's ensuring the right blend of microherd is key in supporting either a bacterial dominant, balanced with fungi or fungal dominant soil.
Let's see if we can keep this about growing the microherd and not some secret soil blend formula that if you buy all these organic ingredients and mix them together you have the most potent powerful soil and poof eerything grows big dense sticky buds, let's get past that to where the real action (science) is within the soil or have you never read Darwin's book the formation of vegetable mold through the action of worms with observations on their habits.
The point being to this threat is we need to know what we have in our soil before we decide what and how to feed it.
Please help keep this as source of truth and help me edit out errors.
DANKSWAG
Stay tuned more to come....
I'm wanting create this thread to the pure idea behind Dr. Elaine Ingham statement, and I'm paraphrasing here "everything that is required for a plant to grow is already locked up in the tilt, the sand and the clay and all that's required is the correct balance of microlife to metabolize insoluble nutrients locked up in the tilt, clay & sand into soluble nutrients", that the plants roots themselves produce the exudates that select the bacteria and fungi the plant requires to produce the balance of nutrients the plant needs, by feeding bacteria & fungi they in turn attract higher forms of micro life protozoa & nematodes which feed and excrete the nutrients locked up in the bacteria and fungi which are ready-made soluble for the plants to intake.
This is why management of the micro life is the sole key to making readily available nutrients and irrigating the rhiosphere healthy anaerobic microlife.
? Do you know what form of nitrogen your plants require, ammonium or nitrates?
? Do you know how to manage your microherd to produce the required form?
Perhaps someday this thread can become one of the Mainstays to properly Farm organically.
Considering most threads, seem focusing on adding nutrients to the soil as if the we're going to be readily accepted by the plants roots. In fact overfeeding with certain foods and thus not having a balanced food web could lead to depletion of nutrients locked up and micro life that has yet to be devoured and excreted.
Therefore I'm hoping create a thread truly vetted and based in soil science with a requirement anything stated as soil science that properly manages and grows to microherd should have either a reference to Dr. Ingham or other noted soil biologist who follow the same principle that it's ensuring the right blend of microherd is key in supporting either a bacterial dominant, balanced with fungi or fungal dominant soil.
Let's see if we can keep this about growing the microherd and not some secret soil blend formula that if you buy all these organic ingredients and mix them together you have the most potent powerful soil and poof eerything grows big dense sticky buds, let's get past that to where the real action (science) is within the soil or have you never read Darwin's book the formation of vegetable mold through the action of worms with observations on their habits.
The point being to this threat is we need to know what we have in our soil before we decide what and how to feed it.
Please help keep this as source of truth and help me edit out errors.
DANKSWAG
Stay tuned more to come....
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