I think this is the most educative video in terms of density and richness of the information. Like informational pemmican! You have woven quite a masterpiece here!!!!
At last, honest answers from a golf super ,admitting a problem and also dealing with low funding , every video ive seen has limitless budget and amazingly few problems,well done.Fabulous explanation.
Thank You Ken, for reintroducing this lost information, growing up on a farm, having very little money, we also used the organic materials and manures, I have carried this way with me, your knowledge and experience is very refreshing🙏🏽👍🏽
I think (hope) someday commercial ag will figure this out. Most commercial Ag in the midwest is destroying soil and on a year to year basis. What you just described is Gods wonderful work.
I usually apply wood chips around trees and goat manure and grasses around vegetables etc as mulch. I apply goat manure compost tea to all of them once a week. This regimen seems to allow all the plant species to thrive. Fungi usually appears on the wood chips after rain events. This not strict for trees, but I never mulch non-tree species with wood chips, ever. My soil used to be very poor and plants hardly grew. So far, so good.
You never mulch "None Tree Species?" Have you ever seen what wood chips does to a rose bush? What I find interesting is that Compost Teas sound like they're the end all for soil improvement. Have you ever planted grass seed on top of wood chips? My vineyard is going absolutely nuts "growth wise" guess what I mulched my vineyard with? You guessed it, wood chips. Vine crops thrive on fungal vs bacteria. Last year I mulched my tomatoes with wood chips, I couldn't walk through my garden the tomatoes were so thick. I think you re-evaluate your use of wood chips. Grass and manure are great, but some plants require or thrive on different soil chemistry.
The white fungi you see on woodchips is decay fungi. Mycorrhizal fungi can only be seen with a microscope (400x) & needs a living root with which to interact & form a network underground. If you have the white decay fungi, you may well have surviving myco spores as well.
Fantastic video. It is a shame that millions of tons of leaves, shrubs, branches are disposed out as garbage and goes into landfills along with the rest of our household trash. All towns should be picking up plant material separately and recycled. They town I live in does this and then allows the town residents to take the shredded 'waste' so they can use it as mulch. I am not sure what one bacteria to one part fungi means? What consists of one part fungi?
Absolutely love the bit around 12:00 and maybe us humans need to think the same. Rather than binging on single aspects of nutrition (sugars, starches, alcohol, water, fats etc.) then excreting the excess imbalance, we should aim to consume it basic ratio of needs!
Thanks for video, extremely informative! But I would like to incorporate this with my lawn? I have 2 year old sod and higher PH 7.2 to 8.2 depending on location with my lawn. I would like to fix my issue from soil up!
You actually reduse energy consumption if you ventilate in the vinter. The warm, humid air is ventilated out and cold, dry air is ventilated in. This means there is less water in the air inside wich reduces the amount of energy needed to warm up the air!
Hello where did you find out about how much fungal or bacterial you need for grass or fruit trees sounds supper interesting and if there was a book I would read it anyways thanks for the video Trevor bow
Blueberries @6:27 are not vines, they're shrubs and need much more acidic soil than the vines and cane plants (raspberry, blackberry) you mentioned. That brings up a question. Does overall soil PH affect the carbon to nitrogen and/or bacteria to fungi ratio?
@@makeamoveasap1978 Yes, I get that. I should have asked whether the starting pH might be a general indicator of those ratios .In listening to this again, I think the answer is yes. I just haven't found any info with an explanation of it from that angle.
Blueberries are perennials, and I've seen some northern species like V. angustifolium maybe older than I was at the time while picking. They produced heavily for wild ones in that area of Quebec, just across the from the Ottawa River on the upper-sides and top of the escarpment. Great mushroom picking there in the late summer and into fall too, especially boletes. So I'd say fungal. Just let them attract what they want through the extra stuff blueberries put out into their root exudates. Plants when provided with choices will establish the environment best suited for them without us worrying about it IMO.
@@GerryMantha Thank you. I'm in central VA where most of the soil is slightly acidic clay which I understand is good for fungal life but it isn't high enough in organic matter to support blueberries and the other fruits I want to grow. There are a few places in the larger surrounding area where blueberries thrive but none near either of my two tiny properties. They both sit on granite substrates with relatively thin soil layers on top. On the 2-acre property I only had enough soil depth to support a 2-bedroom septic system spread out across the back third. It seems I will need to do more research and figure out how feed my soil to get it to where it needs to be.
@@glenagarrett4704 In a way you're lucky. The soil where I am is calciferous gritty clay loam, underlaid by solid limestone. With nearly unlimited buffering capacity, I need to add elemental sulphur every year, and check the pH at least twice each growing season to ensure a continued response. I normally start preparing a new area for blueberries at least a year in advance. In the spring once the soil is workable, I add about 2" of compost with a good N content, along with 4 compressed bales of unbuffered sphagnum peat moss (approx. 16 cu ft per 100 sq ft). To keep the soil from buffering the peat too soon, I add an initial 10 pounds of elemental sulphur on the 100 sq ft. surface, then cover with 6" of ramial (arborist) wood chips. It just sits that way until fall, when I do one last pH test 6" below the soil surface under the chips, and if pH is still too high I apply more sulphur right over the chips at this time. The next year by the time the weather is warm enough, the chips are then only about 3" deep. I take a pH test, plant, and I'm done with it except for of course topping up the wood chip mulch each spring, and the regular addition of sulphur to prevent the pH from drifting up. The soil and the wood chips remain undisturbed because from that point on, anything added just goes on top. Blueberries have evolved to grow under conditions in which other plants don't do well. It's recreating these conditions that can be challenging. I've never worried about fungal to bacteria ratios, nor do I have access to the expensive analytical lab equipment necessary to accurately measure their relative mass. Many species of bacteria don't do well at a pH of 5 or below anyway, so build the environment and whatever the blueberries want will be what they cultivate most in their rhizosphere.
If carbon is more important then nitrogen could i increase carbon levels in hydropinics and one would see results ehen compared to a controlled box and a nitrogen fixed box?
Ok so I now have a completely different outlook on how to approach my growing habits. The question I'm left with is how do I now apply this new information to my soil. What can I purchase to make all of these things happen in my soil is there one simple product or do I try what the Indians did for thousands of years. Fish parts in the soil ? I know there are numerous ammendment choices and something that I would want a proper ratio of balance for these nutritional elements. But they don't come with protozoa fungi and the like. Any advice would help. Nematodes are available but not much else so I'm finding
You can look at our Microbial Mineral Tea pages on the web site. Learning to brew the tea and using our products to brew it will give you the results you are looking for. www.biomineralstechnologies.com/farm-solutions/restore-soils/microbial-mineral-teas
Now that i finished the video and see i do practice alk these methods plus organicly and i dont see these results tells me one thing. The only way it wors is if you can help protozoa and other microbs eat bacteria and fungi inorder to get the ratio levels explained in this video. So how do we teach people how to control the levels of microbial life in our soil. Can i take protozoa in a jar with soil and water feed it abunch of carbon in form of molded leaves. Then let them populate in said container. Then add them to the soil. Which in my case my bacteria andfungi levels are high enough i would not need to feed amend the soil at. After some time would the bacteria and fungi levels will drop? What time would that be depended on the amount of protozoa i made? Say i make i 5gl tea buckt full of it and dump it in a 5ft by 7ft bed? Hmmmm so many questions
Hello, Mr. Al-Fadl, I am from Algeria. I would like to ask you. I made compost from cow and sheep animal dung, sawdust, vegetables, and fruits. I was stirring it, and after 3 months it became ripe and its color became deep brown. Its smell is like dirt mixed with rain. When I planted coriander seeds, I tried it, nothing grew, so I mixed it with dirt, but I found an hour and nothing appeared. I am very confused as to what it isIn your opinion, sir, you are very knowledgeable. Please advise me
Mr. Al-Fadl, we don't have enough information to properly diagnose your compost issues, but if you will provide your email address, I can send you a document with some diagnostic and success parameters for well-made compost.
How would one know before purchase which local farmers market vegetables like leafy greens and beets have a high level of NITRATES?? I read online that organic vegetables have less nitrates than conventional vegetables,due to the latter using nitrogen rich fertilizers???
From the video, I get ideas below. 1. It's Carbon, not Nitrogen, the most important nutrients to plants. 2. Every kind of plants favors different bacteria-fungi ratio soils. 3. Via the soil food web system, in order to maintain the proper composition of the micro-organisms themselves, they release those extra nutrients to the soil, and plants roots get the chance of absorbing those nutrients. Q: Is there any ways to adjust the bacteria-fungi ratio of a land, in order to grow the desired plants/crops/vegetables better?
Most soils have a very low fungi to bacteria ratio. In order to improve the ratio you need to incorporate inputs that promote beneficial fungal growth or that have a high fungal balance. Bio Minerals Technologies produces ingredients for a fungally rich tea that we use to help achieve those proper balances. On a small scale, incorporating brown material (wood chips, leaves, sawdust, and other high-carbon inputs) will help to improve the fungal balances within your soils.
Most farmed soil has significantly more bacteria. The key is to add fungi. We use our Microbial Mineral Tea to increase fungal balances in soils. You can find more information on the tea at www.biomineralstechnologies.com/farm-solutions/restore-soils/microbial-mineral-teas. You would need to build your own brewer, but we provide the ingredients for brewing. You are welcome to call us with additional questions or for specific applications within your soils.
You got my atention when you said nitrogen es not the most important but CO2 i thougth i was crazy and importante as CO2 i found CH3COOH in compost is a good sign for fertility i confirm acetogenic bacteria makes my fields be green and fértil
Question: When it says, "Everything that favors growth of microorganisms increases the generation of CO2", does that mean that microorganisms release CO2 into the atmosphere?
Yes, they do. Microorganisms respire, just like we do. They "inhale" oxygen and "exhale" CO2. When in a plant environment, the CO2 is absorbed and used by the plants surrounding it, as they "inhale" CO2 and "exhale" oxygen.
@johnlawrence9547 hmmm , I am out my league here and don't know exactly how the ratio works..(I'm thinking, not knowing) 3 bacteria to one fungi seems like not enough bacteria..I was saying samesish when the video was talking about corn/maize(I see the plants look similar / grow tall) I personally wouldn't even worry about any ratios ...just pump ya soil full of chicken shit/ seaweed and the ratio will balance itself!! Again sorry,,, I do not have your ratio answer
I have been interested in boosting the Fungi in my soils for 15 years or more. I live on ancient, leached soils derived from granite sands, and so my nutrient levels tend to be very poor by US standards. At the same time I have, on my office wall, the Circle of Life diagram prepared by Texas A+M which is a family tree of life with all kingdoms from Archaea, Bacteria, Protists, Plants, Chromists (I believe they are called - sponges and corals) Fungi and Animals. If one follows this tree, you will see that Chromists evolved after Plants and then the "tree" splits and the Fungi are in the bottom left of their circle and Animals in the top left. Now we know that Animals need Na, I, Co and Se that Plants don't need. So I wonder whether Chromists are plants that learned to do something clever with I (say) and Animals are Chromists that learned to do something clever with Na, Co and Se. If so, Fungi might be Chromists that not only need I (in addition to all the plant nutrients) but also Ni or some other nutrient NOT required by Plants NOR by Animals. If so, on our leached, nutrient poor sandy soils, we may not be able to stimulate sufficient Fungal activity because they (the Fungi) simply cannot find sufficient of their essential nutrients to support the Fungal population that we (as farmers) would like. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has researched this.
You are welcome to share the links of this information with all you would like to educate. Our main focus is on farms and agricultural production as we are trying to educate the producers of our food supply and improve the nutritional value of our food sources in order to improve the nutritional results in our people.
FUNGUI omg i live in the woods so humidity and the woods are the reason for white powery Milldo. And thats because of the ratios of fungi vd bacteria loool nice i made the same connection when i could see tons of mold spores on the difrent types of trees. I also notice it effects my wheat with other types of molds. Their spore can lay dormant under freezing temps and when i till the soil over 18in i make sure the are safe under all that soil. Then it gets exposed once spring comes loool gardening is fun when you understand the microbiology.
I would love to see you cover the risks involved with applying compost. In California we have systematically turned compost into a product that is often not beneficial. Unfortunately many trends that start in California have a tendency to spread across the nation. One of the best things we can do is utilize compost. One of the most devastating things I have seen that put farmers out of business is compost. I work with a lot of cannabis farmers whom test their products in PPB. We are gaining lots of insight into our farm inputs. On a bright note we are increasing genetic expression. The same elements that we deem unhealthy for humans in excess are showing great results when they are not in abundance in plants too. Far to long we have used organic standards for our imputes and deemed them ok. We are learning that is not the case. That just imputes, don’t even get me started on excessive bacteria and nitrate production burning up the humas and exposing stuff like aluminum.
The old adage "too much of a good thing" is as applicable here as it is anywhere else. Properly produced compost is good for a field and a crop, not only for its nutritional value, but for its microbial population and increased diversity. However, like with any inputs, if you apply too much, it can create imbalances that are detrimental to the crops. It is always important to know the composition of what you are applying and maintaining the proper balances and ratios to manage your soil's overall health and productivity.
@davidking6136 The ‘talk’ about compost is in most cases far to ‘general’ and focuses too much on the starting process in terms of brown(C) and green (N) … and then looking for this ‘dark crumble’ end matter… but in most cases nobody, including myself 🙄, has a good idea about the basic NPK of this compost… so maybe, depending on the available starting ‘materials’, one of the NPK components could be far too high or low for the use with some specific plants/fruits/vegetables… real drama’s with the wrong application of compost happened in Sri Lanka for instance. I am still looking for a fast, economical and reliable field test kit for this NPK but the actual commercial products cannot convince me yet…
@@bmtedTo what extent does the 'curing' process improve compost? Might unfinished compost not be as beneficial or even negativity impact soil? Do the big commercial composters allow for curing time before marketing it?
I'd rather sequester more carbon in the soil rather than have it all outgas in the form of CO2. It can take many years to increase the stable organic carbon content of soil even a single percent. The ambient atmosphere has more than enough CO2 for my field crops now at 422 ppm minimum, up from 280 ppm before industrialization. I don't really see the point of that segment of the video.
You are correct in that it takes a long time to build organic carbon in the soil, but the plants don't use that carbon. They use the carbon from the CO2. You can look at our "Using Biology to Maximize Growing Systems" playlist for a more complete explanation.
@@bmted I’m well aware of where plants obtain carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, what chloroplasts are, and where stomata are located. I think you misunderstood my comment. I was specifically referring to the segment on nitrogen vs the importance of CO2 at 1:50, and the segment of the video concerning CO2 starting at 4:09. While the segment at 1:50 states the obvious that plants require more carbon than nitrogen, to farmers who grow plants nitrogen is a much more important consideration due to it being a common limiting factor to plant growth and thus actively managed. CO2 is free, abundant, and no one needs to worry about it unless growing in an unvented closed environment. And besides, carbon comes in second place to abundance in living plant tissue. By far the element of greatest abundance by mass (and thus the most important?) is oxygen in living plants. The segment at 4:09 opens with a claim that “the main structure of a plant is carbon dioxide produced by microbiology”. However CO2 is a colorless gas, and is not the compound responsible for plant structure. What gives plants structure is mainly its cell walls, comprised of polysaccharides such as cellulose, and amorphous polymers like lignin. While these molecules contain carbon as well as oxygen and hydrogen, the carbon comes from CO2 which itself is not directly utilized to create these substances. Instead photosynthesis utilizing sunlight as an energy source uses CO2 and water to produce these molecules through a complex multi-step process. In simple terms, it strips the carbon from the CO2 and releases excess O2 during photosynthesis to the atmosphere. Additionally, plants do not care where the CO2 came from in the atmosphere. It could be from the biologically driven part carbon cycle, from abiotic sources or sinks, or from burning one gallon of gasoline to produce 20 pounds of CO2 while driving your car. The video caption at 4:38 states that “the most important component of the soil atmosphere is carbon dioxide”. For whom or what? Soil microbiological processes are in fact impeded by CO2 because it is a waste product that displaces the oxygen that most beneficial microorganisms require for cellular respiration. Hence why the soil structure is of such critical importance, as the continuous slow exchange of atmospheric oxygen and CO2 in the soil is necessary to get rid of CO2. CO2 is not important nor wanted in soil by microorganisms or the plants themselves. The last sentence of this caption at 4:38 states “Everything that favors growth of microorganisms increases the generation of CO2”. So what’s the point here? The goal isn’t to increase CO2 levels in the soil for the benefit of plants. CO2 production is simply one indicator of metabolic activity, and in turn the relative speed at which mineralization may be taking place. Higher rates of activity don’t necessarily have a positive effect. If we wanted to speed up metabolic activity of soil microorganisms where moisture, C, and N aren’t limiting factors, the most effective way to do so would be through tillage. Tillage resulting in high metabolic rates due to the sudden large influx of oxygen causes soil microorganisms to quickly break down organic matter, and then work on more stable forms of carbon, lowering soil organic carbon (SOC) levels. This loss of SOC ends up adversely impacting soil structure, aggregate formation, water holding capacity, lowering cation exchange capacity (CEC), and contributes to climate change. Achieving the highest rates of metabolic activity possible is certainly not a goal for any farmer. I won’t even start on the F:B ratio part of the video, which in fact cannot be simply manipulated by the farmer through the use of “compost”.
Higher CO2 concentrations doesn’t mean better growing overall… the ‘extra’ green matter production you get is limited to an optimal concentration, different according plant species, and the nutritional value of plants goes down because the concentration of proteins (N) seems to drop more in relation to the rise of the carbon intake… bottom line is that you have to eat more in order to get a full balanced diet… balanced ? 🙄
No shit. Anyone who understands the basics of photosynthesis knows this. The carbon makes their biomass. Carbon release from fossil fuels is still destructive though if that is what you are getting at. And if you increase too much carbon they'll die just like you can force a human to eat and drink to death. Plants have adapted to increases in carbon over changes of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. But the increase humans have caused in the 200 years since the industrial revolution is too rapid, they can not adjust properly because adapted alleles frequency dominance takes time to set in.
@@brudo5056 you can double the co2 in the atmosphere and it will do nothing to global avg temperature. you need to stop promoting this man made climate change theory that has failed to make a single valid scientific prediction.
@@whatabouttheearth nonsense. the CO2 in the atmosphere in the past was much much higher than it is now, and the world was full of animal and plant life. the CO2 during the Meseozoic was 10 times higher than it is today. you guys need to stop with the nonsense, because there is just far too much propaganda you're being exposed to here on UA-cam and other sites.
Fungi is not pronounced FunJai anywhere in the world other than America. American will say Fungus, Fungal, but won't say Fungi. Funjee, Funjai... wrong. Fung / Gi
Feed the soil and not the plant. Truly a marvelous world beneath our feet.
It's interesting as he's describing the bacterial to fungal ratios it's following plant succession
you could argue that the plant succession is following the microbial succession
I think this is the most educative video in terms of density and richness of the information.
Like informational pemmican!
You have woven quite a masterpiece here!!!!
Vital information the world needs and even more for our kids to view and mold the future regenerative organic agriculture
At last, honest answers from a golf super ,admitting a problem and also dealing with low funding , every video ive seen has limitless budget and amazingly few problems,well done.Fabulous explanation.
So much of knowledge packed into a single video, thanks for imparting the wisdom nuggets
This is one of the best things I’ve found on you tube! Thank you so much for sharing this 🙏🏽
this is the absolute true about the importance of carbon in soils.
Thank You Ken, for reintroducing this lost information, growing up on a farm, having very little money, we also used the organic materials and manures, I have carried this way with me, your knowledge and experience is very refreshing🙏🏽👍🏽
Its really difficult to find a good quality content like this in youtube.....
I think (hope) someday commercial ag will figure this out. Most commercial Ag in the midwest is destroying soil and on a year to year basis. What you just described is Gods wonderful work.
The soil in commercial grounds would be worse than sand after all the fertilizers in them.
Just look at how many earth worms are in the soil.
They are obvious indicators of the soil state 🙏
So much work put into this
I usually apply wood chips around trees and goat manure and grasses around vegetables etc as mulch. I apply goat manure compost tea to all of them once a week. This regimen seems to allow all the plant species to thrive. Fungi usually appears on the wood chips after rain events. This not strict for trees, but I never mulch non-tree species with wood chips, ever. My soil used to be very poor and plants hardly grew. So far, so good.
for the goats hard work, you let them live right?
@@vegan-rising who said the goats are mine??
You never mulch "None Tree Species?" Have you ever seen what wood chips does to a rose bush? What I find interesting is that Compost Teas sound like they're the end all for soil improvement. Have you ever planted grass seed on top of wood chips? My vineyard is going absolutely nuts "growth wise" guess what I mulched my vineyard with? You guessed it, wood chips. Vine crops thrive on fungal vs bacteria. Last year I mulched my tomatoes with wood chips, I couldn't walk through my garden the tomatoes were so thick. I think you re-evaluate your use of wood chips. Grass and manure are great, but some plants require or thrive on different soil chemistry.
@Paul not tried some of the things you mentioned. But I don't do just one or two things all the time. I am experimenting. Thanks for the tips.
The white fungi you see on woodchips is decay fungi. Mycorrhizal fungi can only be seen with a microscope (400x) & needs a living root with which to interact & form a network underground.
If you have the white decay fungi, you may well have surviving myco spores as well.
Fantastic video, very clear and with data not seen before, thank you.
Excellent narrative & animation. I will be using this to orient garden volunteers so they understand the philosophy of our operation & processes.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful information with us ❤
Fantastic video. It is a shame that millions of tons of leaves, shrubs, branches are disposed out as garbage and goes into landfills along with the rest of our household trash. All towns should be picking up plant material separately and recycled. They town I live in does this and then allows the town residents to take the shredded 'waste' so they can use it as mulch.
I am not sure what one bacteria to one part fungi means? What consists of one part fungi?
Fabulous video thank you so much for sharing your immense knowledge so generously.
Absolutely love the bit around 12:00 and maybe us humans need to think the same. Rather than binging on single aspects of nutrition (sugars, starches, alcohol, water, fats etc.) then excreting the excess imbalance, we should aim to consume it basic ratio of needs!
Ya'll did a fantastic job on this one!
I'm delighted to have learned from this video.i would like to know more about soil health and soil biology.
Very interested. Thanks you for this information.
great video, I learned so much that I will use in my composting operation. Thank you!!
That's amazing, I love it. Thank God for the restoration
Theres more info in these 10 mins than anywhere on yt!
Dang man. I wasn't expecting such a good video. You got my sub. Awesome music, too.
incredible easy to understhand video and great content, makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing
Fantastic explanation so much better than my material I am using for my hort degree
please share a book that talks about this
Thanks for video, extremely informative! But I would like to incorporate this with my lawn? I have 2 year old sod and higher PH 7.2 to 8.2 depending on location with my lawn. I would like to fix my issue from soil up!
Very nicely explained!! Thank you!
You actually reduse energy consumption if you ventilate in the vinter. The warm, humid air is ventilated out and cold, dry air is ventilated in. This means there is less water in the air inside wich reduces the amount of energy needed to warm up the air!
Brilliant teaching Sir, keep it up... Thanks for the Info
Hello where did you find out about how much fungal or bacterial you need for grass or fruit trees sounds supper interesting and if there was a book I would read it anyways thanks for the video
Trevor bow
Very important "research based informative about Soil and Plants"
Thank you for sharing
I am from Pakistan
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Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
pls, can you tell us, how to make compost like yours?
Amazing video! May God truly bless you for sharing your knowledge with Man. #TopBloke
Blueberries @6:27 are not vines, they're shrubs and need much more acidic soil than the vines and cane plants (raspberry, blackberry) you mentioned. That brings up a question. Does overall soil PH affect the carbon to nitrogen and/or bacteria to fungi ratio?
It might be the other way around, I think, c to n and bacteria to fungi ratios will change the ph
@@makeamoveasap1978 Yes, I get that. I should have asked whether the starting pH might be a general indicator of those ratios .In listening to this again, I think the answer is yes. I just haven't found any info with an explanation of it from that angle.
Blueberries are perennials, and I've seen some northern species like V. angustifolium maybe older than I was at the time while picking. They produced heavily for wild ones in that area of Quebec, just across the from the Ottawa River on the upper-sides and top of the escarpment. Great mushroom picking there in the late summer and into fall too, especially boletes.
So I'd say fungal. Just let them attract what they want through the extra stuff blueberries put out into their root exudates. Plants when provided with choices will establish the environment best suited for them without us worrying about it IMO.
@@GerryMantha Thank you. I'm in central VA where most of the soil is slightly acidic clay which I understand is good for fungal life but it isn't high enough in organic matter to support blueberries and the other fruits I want to grow. There are a few places in the larger surrounding area where blueberries thrive but none near either of my two tiny properties. They both sit on granite substrates with relatively thin soil layers on top. On the 2-acre property I only had enough soil depth to support a 2-bedroom septic system spread out across the back third. It seems I will need to do more research and figure out how feed my soil to get it to where it needs to be.
@@glenagarrett4704 In a way you're lucky. The soil where I am is calciferous gritty clay loam, underlaid by solid limestone. With nearly unlimited buffering capacity, I need to add elemental sulphur every year, and check the pH at least twice each growing season to ensure a continued response.
I normally start preparing a new area for blueberries at least a year in advance. In the spring once the soil is workable, I add about 2" of compost with a good N content, along with 4 compressed bales of unbuffered sphagnum peat moss (approx. 16 cu ft per 100 sq ft). To keep the soil from buffering the peat too soon, I add an initial 10 pounds of elemental sulphur on the 100 sq ft. surface, then cover with 6" of ramial (arborist) wood chips. It just sits that way until fall, when I do one last pH test 6" below the soil surface under the chips, and if pH is still too high I apply more sulphur right over the chips at this time.
The next year by the time the weather is warm enough, the chips are then only about 3" deep. I take a pH test, plant, and I'm done with it except for of course topping up the wood chip mulch each spring, and the regular addition of sulphur to prevent the pH from drifting up. The soil and the wood chips remain undisturbed because from that point on, anything added just goes on top.
Blueberries have evolved to grow under conditions in which other plants don't do well. It's recreating these conditions that can be challenging. I've never worried about fungal to bacteria ratios, nor do I have access to the expensive analytical lab equipment necessary to accurately measure their relative mass. Many species of bacteria don't do well at a pH of 5 or below anyway, so build the environment and whatever the blueberries want will be what they cultivate most in their rhizosphere.
Thank you so much for the Valuable Information. 🙏🙏🙏
Maraming salamat po, thank u in Filipino, godbless
If carbon is more important then nitrogen could i increase carbon levels in hydropinics and one would see results ehen compared to a controlled box and a nitrogen fixed box?
Why is the weight percentage the same for oxygen as it is for carbon at the 3:40 mark? Oxygen is double and even heavier than carbon too.
Where do we get carbon or carbon dioxide?
Ok so I now have a completely different outlook on how to approach my growing habits. The question I'm left with is how do I now apply this new information to my soil. What can I purchase to make all of these things happen in my soil is there one simple product or do I try what the Indians did for thousands of years. Fish parts in the soil ? I know there are numerous ammendment choices and something that I would want a proper ratio of balance for these nutritional elements. But they don't come with protozoa fungi and the like. Any advice would help. Nematodes are available but not much else so I'm finding
You can look at our Microbial Mineral Tea pages on the web site. Learning to brew the tea and using our products to brew it will give you the results you are looking for.
www.biomineralstechnologies.com/farm-solutions/restore-soils/microbial-mineral-teas
Now that i finished the video and see i do practice alk these methods plus organicly and i dont see these results tells me one thing. The only way it wors is if you can help protozoa and other microbs eat bacteria and fungi inorder to get the ratio levels explained in this video. So how do we teach people how to control the levels of microbial life in our soil. Can i take protozoa in a jar with soil and water feed it abunch of carbon in form of molded leaves. Then let them populate in said container. Then add them to the soil. Which in my case my bacteria andfungi levels are high enough i would not need to feed amend the soil at. After some time would the bacteria and fungi levels will drop? What time would that be depended on the amount of protozoa i made? Say i make i 5gl tea buckt full of it and dump it in a 5ft by 7ft bed? Hmmmm so many questions
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✌❤from Arizona. Very interesting. Thank you😎👍
Hello, Mr. Al-Fadl, I am from Algeria. I would like to ask you. I made compost from cow and sheep animal dung, sawdust, vegetables, and fruits. I was stirring it, and after 3 months it became ripe and its color became deep brown. Its smell is like dirt mixed with rain. When I planted coriander seeds, I tried it, nothing grew, so I mixed it with dirt, but I found an hour and nothing appeared. I am very confused as to what it isIn your opinion, sir, you are very knowledgeable. Please advise me
Mr. Al-Fadl, we don't have enough information to properly diagnose your compost issues, but if you will provide your email address, I can send you a document with some diagnostic and success parameters for well-made compost.
Thanks.
A great, informative video but spoiled by the unnecessary and distracting background music
How would one know before purchase which local farmers market vegetables like leafy greens and beets have a high level of NITRATES?? I read online that organic vegetables have less nitrates than conventional vegetables,due to the latter using nitrogen rich fertilizers???
What I'm curious about is, can compost tea by itself rejuvenate poor soils with adding massive amounts of compost?
Super important. Thank you
From the video, I get ideas below.
1. It's Carbon, not Nitrogen, the most important nutrients to plants.
2. Every kind of plants favors different bacteria-fungi ratio soils.
3. Via the soil food web system, in order to maintain the proper composition of the micro-organisms themselves, they release those extra nutrients to the soil, and plants roots get the chance of absorbing those nutrients.
Q: Is there any ways to adjust the bacteria-fungi ratio of a land, in order to grow the desired plants/crops/vegetables better?
Most soils have a very low fungi to bacteria ratio. In order to improve the ratio you need to incorporate inputs that promote beneficial fungal growth or that have a high fungal balance. Bio Minerals Technologies produces ingredients for a fungally rich tea that we use to help achieve those proper balances. On a small scale, incorporating brown material (wood chips, leaves, sawdust, and other high-carbon inputs) will help to improve the fungal balances within your soils.
Most farmed soil has significantly more bacteria. The key is to add fungi. We use our Microbial Mineral Tea to increase fungal balances in soils. You can find more information on the tea at www.biomineralstechnologies.com/farm-solutions/restore-soils/microbial-mineral-teas.
You would need to build your own brewer, but we provide the ingredients for brewing. You are welcome to call us with additional questions or for specific applications within your soils.
You got my atention when you said nitrogen es not the most important but CO2 i thougth i was crazy and importante as CO2 i found CH3COOH in compost is a good sign for fertility i confirm acetogenic bacteria makes my fields be green and fértil
Question: When it says, "Everything that favors growth of microorganisms increases the generation of CO2", does that mean that microorganisms release CO2 into the atmosphere?
Yes, they do. Microorganisms respire, just like we do. They "inhale" oxygen and "exhale" CO2. When in a plant environment, the CO2 is absorbed and used by the plants surrounding it, as they "inhale" CO2 and "exhale" oxygen.
Amazing video thank you !!!
Need electro magnetic energy if the eart as well at each step of living organism development
I have experienced this bacteria to fungi relationship restoring a pineland here on top of coral rock.
thank you for sharing, Sir/Madam
Loving the videos Ken 💚. what would be a good ratio of bacteria and fungi for hemp & cannabis soil ?
Cheers 👍
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@@kotukuwhakapiko467 so it would be 3 bacteria & 1 fungi ?
@johnlawrence9547 hmmm , I am out my league here and don't know exactly how the ratio works..(I'm thinking, not knowing) 3 bacteria to one fungi seems like not enough bacteria..I was saying samesish when the video was talking about corn/maize(I see the plants look similar / grow tall)
I personally wouldn't even worry about any ratios ...just pump ya soil full of chicken shit/ seaweed and the ratio will balance itself!!
Again sorry,,, I do not have your ratio answer
@@kotukuwhakapiko467 thank you for information 🌱👍
Thank you for this, I always imagined worms as the whales of the soil, only the stuff they eat comes out alive in a pile of food 😂
Very informative...👏👏👏
You math is Wrong.
If you have 45% C by mass and 45% oxygen by mass, than you don't have enough Oxygen to convert all the Carbon to CO2.
There are bacteria, fungi, root, and nematode feeding Nematodes.
The bacteria feeders are the most commom
Really it's verry informative!
Thanks Ken
temperature is the biggest driver
Informative video
Thank You!
I have been interested in boosting the Fungi in my soils for 15 years or more. I live on ancient, leached soils derived from granite sands, and so my nutrient levels tend to be very poor by US standards. At the same time I have, on my office wall, the Circle of Life diagram prepared by Texas A+M which is a family tree of life with all kingdoms from Archaea, Bacteria, Protists, Plants, Chromists (I believe they are called - sponges and corals) Fungi and Animals. If one follows this tree, you will see that Chromists evolved after Plants and then the "tree" splits and the Fungi are in the bottom left of their circle and Animals in the top left. Now we know that Animals need Na, I, Co and Se that Plants don't need. So I wonder whether Chromists are plants that learned to do something clever with I (say) and Animals are Chromists that learned to do something clever with Na, Co and Se. If so, Fungi might be Chromists that not only need I (in addition to all the plant nutrients) but also Ni or some other nutrient NOT required by Plants NOR by Animals. If so, on our leached, nutrient poor sandy soils, we may not be able to stimulate sufficient Fungal activity because they (the Fungi) simply cannot find sufficient of their essential nutrients to support the Fungal population that we (as farmers) would like. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has researched this.
How can I get this lecture ?
I'm a physician and want to be educated and educate.
You are welcome to share the links of this information with all you would like to educate. Our main focus is on farms and agricultural production as we are trying to educate the producers of our food supply and improve the nutritional value of our food sources in order to improve the nutritional results in our people.
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I wanted to get availability of fats to be able to
Reproduce Slides...is that possible?
Amazing video
FUNGUI omg i live in the woods so humidity and the woods are the reason for white powery Milldo. And thats because of the ratios of fungi vd bacteria loool nice i made the same connection when i could see tons of mold spores on the difrent types of trees. I also notice it effects my wheat with other types of molds. Their spore can lay dormant under freezing temps and when i till the soil over 18in i make sure the are safe under all that soil. Then it gets exposed once spring comes loool gardening is fun when you understand the microbiology.
Pretty good video 👍
This was an Aaaahha video ! I learnt a lot ! Thanks
I would love to see you cover the risks involved with applying compost. In California we have systematically turned compost into a product that is often not beneficial. Unfortunately many trends that start in California have a tendency to spread across the nation. One of the best things we can do is utilize compost. One of the most devastating things I have seen that put farmers out of business is compost. I work with a lot of cannabis farmers whom test their products in PPB. We are gaining lots of insight into our farm inputs. On a bright note we are increasing genetic expression. The same elements that we deem unhealthy for humans in excess are showing great results when they are not in abundance in plants too. Far to long we have used organic standards for our imputes and deemed them ok. We are learning that is not the case. That just imputes, don’t even get me started on excessive bacteria and nitrate production burning up the humas and exposing stuff like aluminum.
The old adage "too much of a good thing" is as applicable here as it is anywhere else. Properly produced compost is good for a field and a crop, not only for its nutritional value, but for its microbial population and increased diversity. However, like with any inputs, if you apply too much, it can create imbalances that are detrimental to the crops. It is always important to know the composition of what you are applying and maintaining the proper balances and ratios to manage your soil's overall health and productivity.
@davidking6136
The ‘talk’ about compost is in most cases far to ‘general’ and focuses too much on the starting process in terms of brown(C) and green (N) … and then looking for this ‘dark crumble’ end matter… but in most cases nobody, including myself 🙄, has a good idea about the basic NPK of this compost… so maybe, depending on the available starting ‘materials’, one of the NPK components could be far too high or low for the use with some specific plants/fruits/vegetables… real drama’s with the wrong application of compost happened in Sri Lanka for instance.
I am still looking for a fast, economical and reliable field test kit for this NPK but the actual commercial products cannot convince me yet…
@@bmtedTo what extent does the 'curing' process improve compost? Might unfinished compost not be as beneficial or even negativity impact soil? Do the big commercial composters allow for curing time before marketing it?
Ammonia is NH3.
Don’t you mean carbon, not carbon dioxide?
Diatomaceous earth
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if a bunch of little fish were to gang up against a large fish then perhaps they will be able to take it down
I'd rather sequester more carbon in the soil rather than have it all outgas in the form of CO2. It can take many years to increase the stable organic carbon content of soil even a single percent. The ambient atmosphere has more than enough CO2 for my field crops now at 422 ppm minimum, up from 280 ppm before industrialization. I don't really see the point of that segment of the video.
You are correct in that it takes a long time to build organic carbon in the soil, but the plants don't use that carbon. They use the carbon from the CO2. You can look at our "Using Biology to Maximize Growing Systems" playlist for a more complete explanation.
@@bmted I’m well aware of where plants obtain carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, what chloroplasts are, and where stomata are located. I think you misunderstood my comment. I was specifically referring to the segment on nitrogen vs the importance of CO2 at 1:50, and the segment of the video concerning CO2 starting at 4:09.
While the segment at 1:50 states the obvious that plants require more carbon than nitrogen, to farmers who grow plants nitrogen is a much more important consideration due to it being a common limiting factor to plant growth and thus actively managed. CO2 is free, abundant, and no one needs to worry about it unless growing in an unvented closed environment. And besides, carbon comes in second place to abundance in living plant tissue. By far the element of greatest abundance by mass (and thus the most important?) is oxygen in living plants.
The segment at 4:09 opens with a claim that “the main structure of a plant is carbon dioxide produced by microbiology”. However CO2 is a colorless gas, and is not the compound responsible for plant structure. What gives plants structure is mainly its cell walls, comprised of polysaccharides such as cellulose, and amorphous polymers like lignin. While these molecules contain carbon as well as oxygen and hydrogen, the carbon comes from CO2 which itself is not directly utilized to create these substances. Instead photosynthesis utilizing sunlight as an energy source uses CO2 and water to produce these molecules through a complex multi-step process. In simple terms, it strips the carbon from the CO2 and releases excess O2 during photosynthesis to the atmosphere. Additionally, plants do not care where the CO2 came from in the atmosphere. It could be from the biologically driven part carbon cycle, from abiotic sources or sinks, or from burning one gallon of gasoline to produce 20 pounds of CO2 while driving your car.
The video caption at 4:38 states that “the most important component of the soil atmosphere is carbon dioxide”. For whom or what? Soil microbiological processes are in fact impeded by CO2 because it is a waste product that displaces the oxygen that most beneficial microorganisms require for cellular respiration. Hence why the soil structure is of such critical importance, as the continuous slow exchange of atmospheric oxygen and CO2 in the soil is necessary to get rid of CO2. CO2 is not important nor wanted in soil by microorganisms or the plants themselves.
The last sentence of this caption at 4:38 states “Everything that favors growth of microorganisms increases the generation of CO2”. So what’s the point here? The goal isn’t to increase CO2 levels in the soil for the benefit of plants. CO2 production is simply one indicator of metabolic activity, and in turn the relative speed at which mineralization may be taking place. Higher rates of activity don’t necessarily have a positive effect. If we wanted to speed up metabolic activity of soil microorganisms where moisture, C, and N aren’t limiting factors, the most effective way to do so would be through tillage. Tillage resulting in high metabolic rates due to the sudden large influx of oxygen causes soil microorganisms to quickly break down organic matter, and then work on more stable forms of carbon, lowering soil organic carbon (SOC) levels. This loss of SOC ends up adversely impacting soil structure, aggregate formation, water holding capacity, lowering cation exchange capacity (CEC), and contributes to climate change. Achieving the highest rates of metabolic activity possible is certainly not a goal for any farmer.
I won’t even start on the F:B ratio part of the video, which in fact cannot be simply manipulated by the farmer through the use of “compost”.
the planet NEEDS CO2 for life
Higher CO2 concentrations doesn’t mean better growing overall… the ‘extra’ green matter production you get is limited to an optimal concentration, different according plant species, and the nutritional value of plants goes down because the concentration of proteins (N) seems to drop more in relation to the rise of the carbon intake… bottom line is that you have to eat more in order to get a full balanced diet… balanced ? 🙄
No shit. Anyone who understands the basics of photosynthesis knows this. The carbon makes their biomass.
Carbon release from fossil fuels is still destructive though if that is what you are getting at. And if you increase too much carbon they'll die just like you can force a human to eat and drink to death. Plants have adapted to increases in carbon over changes of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. But the increase humans have caused in the 200 years since the industrial revolution is too rapid, they can not adjust properly because adapted alleles frequency dominance takes time to set in.
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you can double the co2 in the atmosphere and it will do nothing to global avg temperature.
you need to stop promoting this man made climate change theory that has failed to make a single valid scientific prediction.
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nonsense. the CO2 in the atmosphere in the past was much much higher than it is now, and the world was full of animal and plant life. the CO2 during the Meseozoic was 10 times higher than it is today.
you guys need to stop with the nonsense, because there is just far too much propaganda you're being exposed to here on UA-cam and other sites.
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Fungi is not pronounced FunJai anywhere in the world other than America.
American will say Fungus, Fungal, but won't say Fungi.
Funjee, Funjai... wrong.
Fung / Gi
Im like 5 minutes in and all i got to say is Nitrogen builds soil, Nitrogen grows microbes, and plants will have no mass without plenty of nitrogen.
Hmm very interesting and informative presentation