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Hi Guys, I’m just about to build a 2m³ JS Reactor but wish to run feed-stock through 2 x 5 day heat cycles to kill weed seeds etc before loading. Feed-stock is mainly carbon material and controlled heat cycles will come from Alphalpha inclusion and forced air extraction. Wondering if the thermophilic cycles will be detrimental to the…
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160 degrees F is a usual cutoff for where of the “good guys” will be destroyed, so you may be defeating the purpose with a strong heat cycle. I’d suggest a good compost is better than a compost with no seeds, otherwise you are just creating an expensive mulch. If you let the pile mature fully, and drop in a lot of worms, I’d bet that a lot of… Read more
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My (limited) understanding of the JS method, is of very high carbon, very brief somewhat thermophilic phase with a loooong aerobic, fungal growing and diversification phase. I seem to recall that this long maturation phase, with the vast diversity of fungi, might do a fairly good job of dealing with any pathgens, and weed seeds, though… Read more
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Haydn Gunningham replied to the discussion How to fix hydrophobic soil regeneratively in the forum Soil Health 3 years ago
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Hi Daniele, I’m not qualified to offer tech advice but have fixed this myself on small scale by drenching and working the top 50 – 80mm soil with a rake (not the best I know, but it works). I then sow a thick green manure crop into this wet soil and cover with a 50/50 mix of lucerne / wheat chaff about 5 mm thick, as “sunscreen”. The…
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Michael Brown replied to the discussion How to control pest pressure without biocides? in the forum Fruit and Nuts 3 years ago
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Michael Brown replied to the discussion How to control pest pressure without biocides? in the forum Fruit and Nuts 3 years ago
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Gday herb,
Sorry it took so long to reply!
Same the endophyte didn’t work, but good to see your other treatments have worked! Definitely will be trying this, seeing as our CLM season is just about to start!
Yes the Salicylic acid is definitely worth a try with a few didn’t pest pressures. Graeme saint mentions it in his podcast “nutrition…
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Hello all,
I’m seeing this again and again and again:
crops heavily fertilized with K and N showing chronic deficiencies.
No response for reducing or increasing fertilization levels.
Anyone else seeing this?
What does it mean??
Ido
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What are the deficiencies observed when N and K are heavily supplied?
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