[Gasification] Cheap charcoal manufacture

[Henri Naths]

I once planted 1000 tomatoes and fertilized with year old piss soaked sawdust from a dairy farm with only 20 % manure per volume. The best production ever. Tomatoes the size of your outstretched hand. 
H. 

On 2013-03-27, at 6:31 PM, "Big Daddy" <bigdaddy at offgridpro.com> wrote:

> David,
> 
> Exactly. The wood chips used had been sitting, semi-composting for 1-year. I
> didn't try to hot compost the pile, but it was so large, I could see steam
> coming off of it in the mornings for months.
> 
> BigDaddy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gasification [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On
> Behalf Of David Coote
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:20 PM
> To: gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Gasification] Cheap charcoal manufacture
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Do you have anything handy on what sort of conversion ratio (charcoal/input
> biomass) you were getting from the stove? And have you had the char tested
> for porosity etc?
> 
> And re the trials "Big Daddy" mentioned, I suspect you might get better
> results if you dug the innoculated char into the the soil root zone. 
> Topical application would probably be less effective. And nitrogen drawdown
> in most backyard gardens with healthy soil is not much of an issue with
> carbon rich mulch. Fresh chip can leach various chemicals that have an
> effect on plants. The way to avoid this is to compost the mulch for a while.
> 
> Regards
> 
> David
> 
> 
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