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BIO-CARBON
THE BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVATED
CARBON.
BIO-CARBON
•What is it?
•Why was it formulated?
What is it?
• High carbon content, high beneficial
microbial content organic based soil
restorer.
• Therefore known as BIO-CARBON short
for biologically activated carbon.
• Key words; Carbon, Microbial activity,
Biological, Organic, Soil restorer.
Why was it formulated?
• To provide a unique blend of
compensating organic based products in a
single formulation to improve soil health.
– What are these products?
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Decomposed wood chips aged 12 to 16 years.
Vermi compost.
Biochar.
Mycorrhizae spores.
EM (Effective microbes)
What is the significance of the
formulation as it relates to soil
health?
• What is soil health?
• The best way to describe the “state of
health” of a soil is by establishing the
following:– how far it has “deteriorated” from its virgin
state due to intensive farming practices?
– Where have interruptions in the soil food web
occurred?
– The above two questions are actually the
same just asked with different terminology.
The soil in a virgin state.
• ALL MICROBIOLIGAL PROCESSES ARE
IN HARMONY KNOWN AS A BALANCED
ECOSYSTEM.
• THE SOIL FOOD WEB IS PROVIDING
EVERYTHING THE PLANTS GROWING
ON IT NEEDS.
The Soil Food Web:
Where do things go wrong in the
soil food web?
• Agricultural production is synonymous with
mono culture cropping.
– Plowing.( Soil structure destruction)
– Fertilizing. (Over fertilizing to obtain crop
yields.)
– Irrigating. (Over irrigating, poor water quality)
– Fungicide / Insecticides / Herbicide
applications.
What is the result of these
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Depletion of oxygen.
Depletion of soil organic matter.
Destruction of soil structure.
Poor drainage.
Depletion of beneficial microbial systems.
Depletion of mutualistic fungal and
bacterial associations.
• Domination of pathogenic microbes.
BIO-CARBON and the relevance to
improving soil health.
• The Carbon factor.
– A balance of active and stable carbon is
required for a healthy soil to support the
beneficial microbial populations.
– The active carbon is the portion that can be
consumed by microbes and is regarded as
microbial food.
– The stable portion is non microbial food and
regarded as the microbial habitat.
What does BIO-CARBON provide?
• The decomposed wood chips as well as
vermi compost provide lots of active
carbon or microbial food.
• The biochar is a very stable form of carbon
and provides the “safe” microbial habitat
which has been described as the microbial
reef habitat.
The Mycorrhizae factor.
• As can be seen from the illustrative soil
food web the mutualistic mycorrhizal
association is a very important component
of the soil food web.
• This association will protect most plant
roots from pathogenic nematodes and
pathogens.
What does Mycorrhizae (VAM) do
and how does it function.
• VAM colonizes the host plant roots serving
as additional fine root hyphae that can add
several kilometers of feeder roots to the
host plant.
• The host plant provides the necessary
carbohydrates to the VAM fungus which in
turn sources the required nutrients
required by the host plant. This is known
as a mutualistic process.
Other stimulating influences
assisting VAM efficiency.
• Dr. Johannes Lehmann of Cornell Univ,
USA found the following:– Biochar improves the efficiency of
Mycorrhizae.
– There are a group of bacteria known as
Mycorrhizae Helper Bacteria (MHB’s) that
interact and facilitate the efficiency of VAM.
– The following slide explains the interaction.
The Mycorrhizal mechanisms.
1. Biochar changes soil nutrient availability.
2. Biochar alters the activity of other micro
organisms (MHB Mycorrhizae Helper
Bacteria) that have effect on
Mycorrhizae.
3. Biochar alters the signaling dynamics
between plants and Mycorrhizal fungi.
4. Biochar serves a refuge for colonizing
fungi and bacteria.
OLIVE TREES
VERMI COMPOST PROVIDES.
• A wide range of Mycorrhizae Helper
Bacteria such as the Phosphate
solubilizing bacteria.
• Several beneficial Pseudomonas species.
• A very wide range of beneficial bacteria
and fungi.
Disease Suppressive Microbes.
• Bio-carbon is also inoculated with a wide range
of disease suppressive organisms such as:–
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Trichoderma.
Pseudomonas fluorescence
Agro bacterium radiobacter.
As well as the 80 odd Micro-organisms derived from
EM such as:• Actinomycetes,Photosynthetic bacteria, Fermenting fungi,
yeasts, moulds and lactic acid bacteria.
What do we want to achieve with
BIO-CARBON?
• Our philosophy is that by establishing,
maintaining and improving the most well known
mutualistic soil microbial system the other soil
health issues will follow naturally.
• We believe that the major disruption of the soil
food web occurs around the Mycorrhizal system.
• That Bio-carbon is formulated with all 3
ingredients (VAM spores, biochar and vermi
compost containing most of the MHB) to reestablish this very important soil microbial
system.
AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS.
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All soils that have been over worked.
Seedling establishment.
All vegetable row crops.
Re-plant problems with the following tree crops:–
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Avocadoes.
Apples.
Citrus.
Stone fruit.
Vines.
• All landscape applications.
MY CONTACT DETAILS.
• Willie Pretorius.
• E-mail:- [email protected]
• Office tel:- 021 913 2913.
• Mobile :- 083 458 9854.