Post by kenmb on Mar 12, 2024 9:57:24 GMT -6
I noticed that also about chloride not on Mulder chart, but I had seen ratios written elsewhere about chloride and that is where I came to the conclusion it was the CL in KCl giving the real result.
I remember your experiment years ago with potash SWMan, and it is fitting for this thread topic. I beleive what we are seeing now days is more people looking at more details and not just following what they were told. So that heavy potash recommendation likely had validity at the time but was based on a narrow scope. By that, I mean the idea to balance out ratios was correct but it needs to be expanded to look at the many other ratios that also need balance.
The tricky part then is to figure out what ratios truly need balance. Maybe some don't. What I mean is we are believing certain things based on "standard" thinking. But suppose the guy in the opening video is correct and potassium is available in much greater quantities then we currently beleive. Note that our current beleif is based on current soil testing practice and suppose that is not actually the end-all be-all of how it should be done. Suppose it's more a factor of what we take as accepted science right now but that actually isn't really true.
As shmiffy notes about nitrogen in the air, perhaps we don't need actual nitrogen fixing cereals but just a better way to access the nitrogen in the air already, same with improving c02 respiration. It's kind of odd, "science" wants to pursue nitrogen fixing cereals (corn in the works) but what is wrong with simply a cereal that was able to grab most of its nitrogen out of the air right now. Maybe science isn't pursuing it because it can already be done?
I remember your experiment years ago with potash SWMan, and it is fitting for this thread topic. I beleive what we are seeing now days is more people looking at more details and not just following what they were told. So that heavy potash recommendation likely had validity at the time but was based on a narrow scope. By that, I mean the idea to balance out ratios was correct but it needs to be expanded to look at the many other ratios that also need balance.
The tricky part then is to figure out what ratios truly need balance. Maybe some don't. What I mean is we are believing certain things based on "standard" thinking. But suppose the guy in the opening video is correct and potassium is available in much greater quantities then we currently beleive. Note that our current beleif is based on current soil testing practice and suppose that is not actually the end-all be-all of how it should be done. Suppose it's more a factor of what we take as accepted science right now but that actually isn't really true.
As shmiffy notes about nitrogen in the air, perhaps we don't need actual nitrogen fixing cereals but just a better way to access the nitrogen in the air already, same with improving c02 respiration. It's kind of odd, "science" wants to pursue nitrogen fixing cereals (corn in the works) but what is wrong with simply a cereal that was able to grab most of its nitrogen out of the air right now. Maybe science isn't pursuing it because it can already be done?
Calcium is a good example, for me I suspect it is a big factor. If I can get other particles to bind with the calcium then that would help fix an imbalance. Don't need to necessarily put more of everything else on. I posted this picture before of high calcium area that had become compacted and I ripped it deep with the cultivator in fall. The picture is the following spring with the white powder visible on top, this is the calcium being unbound from the clay. At time of ripping I can grab a softball sized chunk of clay and see groups of white powder bound up that look like a 1/3 piece of a urea prill dissolving. The white in the soil isnt visible because it is tightly bound up in concentrated lumps but once a process is undertaken to free the calcium then it is obvious how much was bound up.
