Long time gardener who's basically trying to grow as much as possible, at the highest quality, in the smallest space with as little work as needed. I've been looking into this and Chris is the first guy to really lay it out in depth. Suffice to say my mind is blown.

It is totally irrelevant if it was man made or not. What is relevant is the soil is incredibly fertile where there is char in the soil.

Around 59:00, probably thinking about Peter Andrews

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Good to hear you still promoting soil science. I have not heard any of your recent research but still attempting to use aerated compost/teas for a farming benefit. Still seems pretty complex though.. Dennis 😊

I like lichens.

Difficult to understand 🧐for me.

I really hope you interview youngsang cho or his son with him

Facinating, thanks for sharing Diego. My window looks out on a 100yo clay tiled roof maybe 6ft from gutter to ridge, lichens proliferate across the whole roof, but mosses only grow on the bottom ~3ft, which leads me to think lichens play an underapreciated role in ecological succession, I watch birds digging in the mosses for invertibrates, and I take ~1" of soil out of the gutter every couple of years, often with grasses already rooted in the gutters.

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Diego footer a name i haven't seen for i while .been watching and listening for years good to hear and see you .

Excellent post

I thought Chris was a nutcase until I experimented his ideas and designs. Our yeilds are up 60%

Interesting content

Glad to see some new content on this channel and it's great to explore this subject. I would say that I'm an open minded sceptic so it's good to explore it. Thanks

Substrate lol you mean soil we aren't on mars and none of us are matt Damon so we don't hafto science the crap out of this whole deal lol farmers been growing this stuff since Jesus was walking the earth lol

I would like to see the crop yields from this system over a few years.

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For electro-culture you need to use nonferrous metals such as copper or aluminum. Steel, including galvanized, should not be used for electro-culture.

Hello Diego! Yesterday I made a video on Instagram about this topic, and I get myself in a big meshy debate, with some people arguing that I was talking bullshit 😅 I would love to record a new video answering some of the controversial comments from yesterday, and I though that it would be great if I could use some clips from this interview, do I have your permission to use it with it's propper atribution link to your KZbin Chanel??? Thanks!

What ratio is best for growing a cut flower garden?

It's a facinating subject, thanks for sharing the conversation Diago. The Gardentrust blog has a facinating post from 2021 on electroculture summarizing the histroy and mixed results going back to the 1700's, interesting to learn China has almost 9k acres under electroculture! I used to be very sceptical, I'm open minded thesedays, granite dust has a remarkable, noticable, effect on compost IME, worm activity alone is orders of magnitute greater, to the point I have purchased enough to cover ammend whole garden. If you read Olivier Hussons mammoth papers on REDOX, or watch the more accessible presentation he has on YT, you'll soon see the connection to minute electrical changes and paramagnetism. I take a limiting factors approach to gardening, I'd like to see a side by side trial in organically farmed soil that has been mineral balanced, reduced tillage, permanent cover (with living roots and/or compost mulch) regular compost additions with good humic compost, biologically assessed for maximum nutrient cycling with the all the tropic layers of the soil food web, good structure to provide a range of REDOX, already producing pest and pathogen free crops; ie. all limiting factors addressed prior to an electroculture side by side trial. If those limiting factors have not been addressed first, there's little point in spending the resources on electroculture IMO.

So are the directions of the spirals and the lead wire opposite in the southern hemisphere? Asking from New Zealand

awesome talk.

Great Interview, I am glad this happened. I have been curious about this subject but quality content is limited on electroculture.

This is fantastic information, thank you. Could you please provide links that discuss the fungal network between trees so I could lean just how conclusive the research is? In your podcast about biochar the guest repeatedly said research is inconclusive because the mechanism of how biochar works is not fully understood. Have you heard of research that compared just biochar to biochar and vermicompost? It sounds too good to be true that cucumber yields would be up 40% with the two combined.

This one was great. Tough for me to keep up with, might need to go back to school lol, but great scientific info. Love it!

Great episode. Love it!

What's the difference between these and the product SoilSecrets makes?

This is a great topic and there are a million ways to do the same 5ging with good results. My question still is how does KNF and JADAM create good results in plant growth? Plants live in an aerobic soil with aerobic microbes so how does adding facultative anaerobes/products to the soil feed the plant? Are the facultative microbes attracted to plant exudates or are the aerobic microbes feeding on the facultatives which release nutrients??? Would love to know.

At 28 minutes You guys were talking about biochar and root growth. I wonder if The CEC of the biochar is so high that the plant doesn't have to root out farther to get additional nutrients? The plant saves energy by creating more roots instead of longer ones.

Good show, thanks for sharing Diego

Outstanding, I usually have a bunch of questions after these type of conversations, can't think of anything you dint cover, thaks so much for sharing Diego

Thanks from South Africa

So good to see this really unique and helpful content back Diego, excited to see i missed an interview last week too i get to go back to.

Just ordered your inoculate on Amazon!

im glad your back to expand on this channel and its great content

thanks for the thought provoking conversation

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Are you going to start doing your garden experiment videos? Love the podcasts though

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Yes!!!! Been wondering, and hoping the best for you

Thanks for restarting these interviews, such good info

Thank you for spreading the word about soil biology. It helps the hear the message repeated.

Haven't seen you in a few years. Glad you're back. And what a great interview, thoughtful questions. It is obvious that Dr. Koziol knows her stuff.

Love this deep dive

Holy guacamole! Look who's back from the dead.

As somebody who first studied soil science 50 years ago and has studied it continuously since, I was never taught that humic extracts represented the true nature of the substances in humus. Everybody at that time understood that the powerful extractants used were greatly altering the materials extracted, but the techniques were easy and told us something. It is good that we have been able to progress to studying humus in place but that doesn't require that history be rewritten to make it seem as if past researchers were profoundly stupid. There are lots of popular articles about humus but they don't necessarily represent what soil scientists thought about the real nature of humus or even what the term recalcitrant means. Recalcitrant is a funny word to choose to describe a chemical property. If soil scientist wanted to imply that humus was resistant or impervious to decomposition, those words were available. Recalcitrance implies an increasing resistance but avoids implying an endpoint where no further breakdown can occur. So much of what modern science publishes is simply a restatement of old concepts from different disciplines, as in "chemistry discovers soil science and finds that soils vary in buffer capacity- KZbin video at 9:00“.