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Tucker Robertson replied to the discussion Sap analysis report interpretation for Olive Trees in the forum Fruit and Nuts a year ago
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Andre, have you made any progress on finding or developing olive sap standards? My family recently installed 30 trees as ornaments along a fence line with the idea of maybe producing olive oil one day, but they are not doing well. I want to pull sap, but I just discovered your issue with reference data
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Tucker Robertson replied to the discussion Vineyard postharvest fertilization in the forum Berries a year ago
Reply to Vineyard postharvest fertilization
The conventional industry standard of “replenishing” the extracted NPK nutrients from the vineyard after harvest is something that you should leave in the rear view mirror. This inevitably results in flushed nitrates from the rainfall, locked up phosphates, and plenty of Potassium ready to give you a watery, susceptible plant at budbreak…
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Hey Christopher, your growing conditions sound similar to ours in Paso Robles, CA. High pH, calcareous soils in an arid region. I am jealous of your free reign to go wild in your vineyard! Its quite the challenge to incorporate unconventional practices on vineyards that are owned by other people… How have your cover cropping…
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Average pH of soil is 8.2+ (some places it’s 9, not in my vineyard). Average yearly rainfall is ~12″-14″. I’ve now catalogued nearly 40 species of plants across 4 functional groups that have quite literally cropped up out of the soil seed back after applying biology, native and introduced. Of chief interest to me is the 3-4 varieties…
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can’t edit comments anymore? I meant to say “soil seed bank”
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Tucker Robertson replied to the discussion winegrape YAN values and SAP N-Total Nitrogen in the forum Fruit and Nuts a year ago
Reply to winegrape YAN values and SAP N-Total Nitrogen
I would encourage you to look into the work of Graeme Sait. He is an Australian agronomist who own Nutri-Tech Solutions and presents around the world through his Nutrition Farming seminars. He has an absurd mind that stores an immense amount of information, so you will find his material to be very, very dense. He has an excellent podcast…
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New here, Did the soil food web fundamentals a few years ago, but haven’t really been able to dig into it that much. Working through Matt Power’s microscopy course as well. Primary energy has been going into building and setting up my off-grid property, with what was originally intended to be the “shed to library/classroom/microscopy lab”, but…
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