THANK YOU for letting your guest talk. The podcast was very interesting. We have always "diversified" our plantings, but after listening to this I'm going out today and sow more flower seeds in the hoop house!

I know many people are adamant about not growing plants directly in woodchip material and rightfully so. But, when I plant mycorrhizae related plants, I don’t mind a few semi broken down wood chips or even allowing the top layer of the plant access to decaying woodchips, so that it can form a relationship with my native fungal species...

Remember, we each have built in refractrometers called taste buds which naturally respond to sweetness😉. Peace.

A nice woman but I prefer a scientific approach which promises to increase photosynthesis as much as 300% by using Sap Analysis and foliar sprays of missing nutrients. Foliar sprays are cheaper than fertilizer per acre. Sap analysis is a lab analysis of plant sap to reveal what the plant is missing nutritionally at the moment. It is like testing human blood vs hair which would show what was happening months ago. These are some notes I took from lectures at Advancing Eco Agriculture which has a KZfaq channel. We start with Glucose made from photosynthesis. This makes more complex sugars and pectins and lignins. Add N to glucose and get amino acids, 2 or 3 amino acids, make peptides, and peptides make proteins. Enzymes are protein crystals. Enzymes need mineral co-factors. Plants have 10,000 plus enzymes and each one needs its mineral co-factors (Mn,Co, Mg, Cu, Zn). Insects have enzymes which take apart peptides and amino acids so it can digest a plant. Complete proteins might have 200,000 links. Insects do not have the enzymes to take apart complete proteins so they can't digest them. Enzymes have B complex co-factors but they are like B-12 dependent on cobalt. Don Huber was an army colonel tasked with curing plant disease. His solution was always mineral supplements. Plant pyramid. Level 1. All glucose becomes complexed carbohydrates. No glucose for soil borne pathogens. Level 2. Complete proteins means no available N, ammonia, nitrates. No aphids, no white flies, no alfalfa weevil, no tomato hornworm. Level 3. Storage of excess energy as lipids, fats and oils. Plants have shiny, glossy wax leaves. Lipids build strong cell membranes. Resists UV radiation, all airbone pathogens, diseases and parasites. Level 4 Plant Secondary Metabolites. aromatic essential oils, turpenes, phenoids, lycopene, resveratrol and bioflavonoids.) PSMs kill on contact. Resistant to beetles.Produces anti-fungals and insect digestion inhibitors. Insects have pectolytic enzymes to attack the pectin and go through it to the cell membrane to use it as an energy source. That pectolytic enzyme can only do one thing which is to digest pectin. If the plant has a waxy shield the insect can do nothing. MUST HAVE GREAT SOIL BIOLOGY TO GET TO LEVEL 3. HYDROPONICS CANNOT DO THIS. Phillip Callahan did Army research now declassified. Moths have antenna and communicate in the infrared spectrum. Unhealthy plants have a high ammonium content stand out in the infrared spectrum like a neon light against a dark background. Ammonium is an infrared signal pump. it is an amplifier. Chart of needed minerals, (Mn, K. Ca, Cu, Mg, Zn, N, B, P and Fe.) Cells only have so much space for minerals and micro-nutrients. An excess of one reduces spaces for the others.most problems according plant SAP analysis is caused by the farmer applying too much of one or two elements which cause deficiencies. NO3 nitrate and Ammonia NH4. Critical Points of Influence tied to a plants growth and reproductive cycle. 9 to day days after a corn seed germinates it is determining the number of ears. 14 to 21 days, it is determining the number of potential rows. 42 to 49 days after germination it is determining the number of kernels per row. Any stress the corn plant has during that 3 day window from day 9 to day 12 will reduce the number of ears. CPI 4 growth phases. 1) Planting, transplanting, blossoming 2)Filling plant frame 3) Filling fruit 4) Finishing fruit. At the end there is bud initiation for next year's crop. Corn has 13 periods where it switches from vegetative to reproductive and back to vegetative.Pollination like pregnancy requires nutritional support. If not present, the corn becomes disease susceptible. Good soil structure allows water infiltration in a drought. But roots can't access water because it has water tension on its surface that is too high. However, microbes, bacteria and fungi can. Rejuvenate (their product) gives amazing water porosity. 2 inches an hour of rain and plants survived. The field also survived drought. Roots are aggregated particles from the soil.If plants have a higher Brix reading than the weeds, the disease and insects go to the lower Brix reading. Plants resist aphids because of good photosynthesis. Plants only do 15% of their genetic photosynthesis potential. Plants are symbiotic with microbes. Healthy plants add carbon to the soil and soil biology. Unhealthy plants remove carbon from the soil. FOLIAR SPRAYS GIVE IMMENSE YIELD RESULTS IN ROI.$7 per acre). Much cheaper than using compost. Double the yield with 2 foliar sprays. Also built Soil Organic Matter. Rejuvenate plus Spectrum at planting. Bacteria population explodes. Bacteria eats glucose from root exudates and add minerals from soil. This is called mineralization. Plants can absorb organic and amino acids bonded with minerals. If corn absorbs N as nitrates, 12% of its photosyntheic energy is required to convert N nitrates. Plants can absorb microbial metabolites. At level 3 the plant exudes lipids. Microbes cannot digest lipids but fungi can. Fungi digest lipids (humification) and produces humics which cannot be digested anymore (When lipid acid is 40%).You can build SOM while growing corn and other crops. Anhydrous ammoia kills soil biology. Ammonia is an infrared signal pump for insects. Only apply N from SAP analysis data. Reduces applications 30 to 50%. Sulfur is required to maintain and hold SOM. One part sulfur, ten parts N and 300 parts C. We want to apply a small amount of sulfur to retain SOM. Foliars cost 10% of current fertilizer and pesticide costs. zophagy symbiosis', or 'rhizophagy cycle', is a cyclic process whereby plants obtain nutrients from symbiotic bacteria that alternate between a root intracellular endophytic phase and a free-living soil phase. Redox is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed. Redox reactions are characterized by the actual or formal transfer of electrons between chemical species, most often with one species undergoing oxidation while another species undergoes reduction. I do believe in composting and worm castings. Also cover crops. 2/3rs of all SOM is from decaying roots. I am a great believer in both red wigglers in worm bins and earthworms in the soil. Feed them coffee grounds and they give your plants a form of N they can absorb without spending energy to make amino acids. Foliar sprays are the only way to increase photosynthesis by 300%. I do believe in soil biology. But at certain points in the cycle of a plant there might by minral deficiencies in the Sap that will make for lower yields.

It's incredibly interesting but please try to improve the audio I'm Spanish and it's difficult to make out many words

Living in a 3rd world country where there is zero products that you where talking about is there any way i can add these microrisal and bacteria's naturally ?