I can send some to @cannabissequoia anytime. The benefits come with time as it gets colonized by the microorganisms. I’m trying to do the terra preta thing like the Maya, still debating the human sacrifice part though.
I can think of at least one human we can sacrifice. I call him the orange man. I’ll leave it at that.
Great that ya can get biochar like that … there’s a great set of videos with “ living web farms “ that states with experiments they have done that it can have a negative effect in certain Crops IIRCC i think they mention brassicas family
Yes, I’ve seen some experiments where they used up to 50% biochar and the results were all over the place. Definitely made me hesitant. Hard to say if it was charged it properly or how they treated it. Raw biochar is a no no. I’m shooting for about 10% biochar and 10% coco chips in the living soil or containers. I think that the biochar really needs time to “cure” and be fully colonized. It’s just a cage for water and microbes and has to be brought into your parameters like coco. If you’re rocking with a great super soil or premix already, you don’t need it. If your native soil could use help I think it’s worth it.
Your exactly right I look at as a set up Like a little condominium for your microbes that use it for refuge for all the little soil munchers out there it’s survival of the fittest that’s for sure!
Ancient Mayans probably weren’t too regimented with the garbage pit… 
From what I recall, the Mayans moved into the area many many decades after the fire and resulting biochar. They kinda discovered it by default. I know they didn’t burn the jungle down on purpose. lol
My guess is that the entire chain of Hawaiian Islands is all biochar too
Allright 
‘Soils with elevated charcoal content and a common presence of pottery remains can accrete accidentally near living quarters as residues from food preparation, cooking fires, animal and fish bones, broken pottery, etc., accumulated. Many terra preta soil structures are now thought to have formed under kitchen middens, as well as being manufactured intentionally on larger scales.’ [cit. # 14]
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Personally, I favor the “dump compost & shit on the ground & make a fire” method. 
he’s on !
Now I’m going to high road people and tell them I make anthropogenic soil. 
Think you gonna need a 3rd trellis … sorry for late reply… having some phone issues
Thanks buddy! It made sense just 2 days later and Dad has added a 3rd layer to the bigger girls. The Cheese or as I call her now The Cheesus Christ is about an inch from it already. Sheesh! They are all def starting to pack it on! About 2 inches a day now.
How fast are everyone’s outdoor plants growing right now? Mine are going about 5 inches every 3rd day or so… Eek!
The trellises are cool because they give me a height perspective, so I can mostly tell growth on the daily now. Usually it’s hard for me to tell looking at them every day.
The OG Kush although still dainty has decided she likes the soil and has started going. The Orange Goji is gonna be a big girl despite her time in the pot. She’s loving life along with the Cackleberry. The finicky bitch GDP, can’t tell, still small, she’ll get with the program I’m sure. UFS is slowing starting to take. I expect her to take off shortly as well. The original ground plants are freaking gonna be monsters.
will those bottom branches make it up to the trellis?
Probably not. I rid them of the bottoms as they grow. Any branch that won’t make the canopy will go
I’m a couplefew weeks behind & also have shadecloth up. plus transplant stress, so only a couple inches a day here max…
At 6 weeks, mine are growing an inch or more per day outside in containers. The ones inside not as much.
A couple of feet per month upwards and outwards . I hope they slow down I hate working from a ladder lol .
Stretching still here, putting some nice knuckles in and cracking a lot Necks to get them on the 90. Damn things straighten back upwards over night.
