I’m making my very own DIY Charged Bio-Char for the Garden & this is exactly how I’m doing it at 2:00 am…
Empty jar (Mayonnaise Jar)
Crushed Organic Oak Charcoal
Seven Seas Seaweed mixture ( 2 Tablespoons)
Regular Cooking Flour ( 2 Tablespoons)
Worm Castings and/or Bat Guano (4 Tablespoons)
Dynomyco C Inoculants ( 2 Teaspoons)
Fish Shit Organic Soil Conditioner ( 8 Teaspoons)
Unsulfured Molasses ( 2 Tablespoons)
You could also all Powdered Kelp if you have it as well.
Note;
The 7 seas Seaweed mixture, since it’s dry powdered flakes, I add this to a small pot of water and let it come to a rolling boil for 1 min, then simmered for 5 min.
Doing this allows the flakes to rehydrate and leaches the Microbial & Macronutrent goodness into the water, thus assisting the microorganisms being multipleied here.
Allow it to cool 100% cold before adding this into the jar of Charcoal, DONT apply this while hot or even too warm, it will kill off everything your tryin to do.
How: #1) Mixed in all dry ingredients & gave it a good shake around to mix everything together… #2) Added all wet ingredients and gave another good shake… #3) Fill jar up with the water from pot and soak into the Charcoal, it will eventually evaporate and that’s what we want… Moist Charcoal at the end. #4) Let sit for up to 7 days and apply to gardon soil mixture.
Thanks for sharing this. I just burned tons of brush we’ve been clearing off the land, and now I have a huge pile of biochar. We make it often, but I’ve never gone through the process of activating it. Now I’ve got some knowledge.
When you activate it, the longer it sits the better. After you have got the soaking done. You can even add it into the compost pile or poop pile for longer time to reap the most benefits from it.
If you use it in the Garden and you DONT activate it FIRST, you end up sucking all the nutrients from your garden into the Carbon… That pretty much wrecks your garden…
WEMUST ACTIVATE IT FIRST then and only then will it become a massive benefit to your garden by providing nutrients and microscopic life to the soils. Thus allowing your plants to grow healthy…
I’m just doing mine quickly, mine could obviously sit alot longer. But I’m impatient and I’ll probably be making several jar like this till my bag of Carbon is gone.
I just bookmarked that bio char charging info. That’s good stuff. I just mixed some biolive and charcoal last time, and let it sit for a few days. I will do a better job next time.
You can see that the process of charging the Charcoal is working. Stuff bacteria is growing on top and the whitish lines of bacterial growth on the sides of this jar.
Another shot of Starpupil after being in the window all day, now back into the tent for the night. Tent is 12/12 lighting, so I move the Starpupil from tent to window daily so they keep in Veg mode.
Gonna up pot these soon and let them veg a while, make clones and if needed use STS on a few to make some seeds of the best looking Fems. I wanna make sure to keep this strain in my collection.
Those are looking great @CADMAN. I never use the bio char for anything immediately, other than fill some holes in the yard. . We do add it to the compost pile after it’s been sitting awhile. So seems like we’re were just doing the right thing all along. But not necessarily the right way.
Just read that article and I’d have to agree with you. TLO is essentially how I’m running this bin. After this grow is done I’ll top dress with some Worm Castings & Compost, some dry, add back the Top Layer of Mulch, ammendments and plant more seeds.
Doing this over and over create a humus layer that’s amazing for Air retention and microscopic life to grow efficiently.
In general I’m new to No Till / TLO (less then 1yr) so I’m always reading and incorporating everything that I can get local that may be a benefit to my setup.
Every bin is as unique as its owners so I’m happy with the items I’ve used so far to get this setup doing what’s it’s been doing.
Starpupil Got a nice up-potting tonight!
Both are upside to a recycled 4 liter water jug, wrapped in ducktape to hinder light penatration & have several holes drilled into the bottoms!
Method
Filled half of each container with HP Promix (Details below), Added 1 Tablespoon of Organic Powered Kelp Mixed in the kelp
Then mixed 2 Tablespoons of Organic non sulfured Molasses with a bottle of water, processed to soak the soil to get everything primed for success…
Poped each plant out of its previous hoke Check out the roots NICE !!
Placed them into each new container and gently packed in another soil Quali Grow (Details Below) up to the necks and slowly soaked in the remaining Molasses infused water for each…
Reasoning
I added quality trusted nutrient rich organic at the bottom half & added some organic Kelp…
The top half I added lesser nutrient rich soil since the cup it came from is loaded with nutrients already and I want the Microbial life to move deeper into the new soils…
Added Molasses to give not only the newly added Mycorrhizae from the soil, but also the current Microbial life a kick in the ars and get moving to break down the needed nutrients for the plants…
For the foreseeable future, these are in Veg Mode.
What is organic charcoal? is the chunk of wood in the burner left from burning OK?
Is FUl-Power the same as Dynomyco C inoculant?
Is the amount of fish before or after mixing?
I have a question about Molasses I have a 5 gallon of Molasses from the mill for mixing feed. Is that OK?
Thank you for posting this.
(Photos at the bottom)
and I’ll probably be making several jar like this till my bag of Carbon is gone.
I wanna make sure to keep this strain in my collection.
