Solar pump, charcoal, sand, charcoal, sand... five buckets and split your water lines to all five buckets and you will have the cleanest Pond water ever. Automatically you will charge your biochar for plants. So don't throw it out, cook your sand and reuse it. Separate it by robust cheesecloth so it doesn't get messy. Set the buckets on the shore and let the water come out from the bottom. Good luck with your endeavor.

Hey folks, if you’re watching this in the future I did respond to all the comments originally. However, I switched to a brand channel and all the comments on my 1st 85 videos were automatically deleted. If you have a question or concern please comment again and I’ll answer. Hope y’all enjoy the channel!

Great to see a fellow biochar convert. We'd never heard of it unti a few years ago. Along with going fully organic, integrated biochar system with a herd of loveable goats, has helped transform the awful soil conditions on our farm. Quick, easy & free to make (in a cone pit), it's almost too good to be true. Good luck with your experiment (probably a lot quicker way to inoculate the char than using the compost or manure method.) We'll be doing the same thing in our fishing lake during the next dry season. Cheers Leigh and Toon.

Just attended a conference in Scranton PA and a representative from Metzler, a company that has been researching and providing bio char and bio char compost. They have had some success in reclamation projects ( storm water cleaning) and vegetable gardening. I believe Penn State has a educational video about this. It was very enlightening.

you might maybe want to take some water samples at different stages --like now then in a month or so etc. that would probably be a good way to tell if it was working :)

When Jess was talking about getting that polluted compost I knew that’s what I had in one bed. The one bed I bought compost for instead of making my own was the one that killed ALL my tomato plants I put in it. I put some biochar soaked in duck water onto that one bed and after two times watering it was able to keep and grow other tomato and pepper plants and my okra went absolutely crazy!

I was taught to put charcoal from the fire pit or fireplace onto mud puddles that seem to always gather mud rather than growing grass to end the mud problem. It worked so we started spreading the ash in the chicken run to get mixed with their droppings and soil. After months we scrape up the run soil and add it to the garden beds to amend. Plants put on growth after looking like they were readily to be pulled AND beds are richer coloring of soil than best bagged compost.

Very interested to see the outcome. Definitely keep us posted!

Wow Will....another subject I have never heard of from you! Learning quite a bit with you - keep it coming! Love the boyscout loop trick! And thanks for excellent video!

Living the dream! So envious of your job. Thank you for all the information. I’m curious how this turns out.

can't wait to see what happens!

I am sticking around to see how this experiment pans out! I hope it works as you think it will...Simultaneously charging the charcoal as well. Experiments are fun!!

I have no idea what your trying to teach me, BUT, so happy and grateful for your interest in correcting the pond water! Experiment!! Huzzah!!

A YT channel "Life Uncontained" had a nasty pea soup green pond. He installed a solar aerator ( Oct 2, 2022)..pond turned from dark pea soup green to translucent brown within weeks. As you make compost tea with an air bubbler, perhaps an aerator plus biochar bag filters would greatly enhance your results.

I will I’m a microscopic Gardener lol I have a cinder block planter 6/5 and various storage tubs that I use for gardening. It’s very hard to inground garden here because of our infamous California gophers. Anyways I’ve had ponds in my backyard and in my front yard in the past with Koi in them I live in Southern California so it gets pretty hot and algae grows very fast. I learned from one of the girls at Petsmart about oat bales. Oat bales reduce the algae, you just sink them in your pond with a rock on top and it gets the algae out ! besides using a brand new toilet bowl scrubber lol I wish you nothing but the best Will -you’re an awesome man! Keep gardening!🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 P.S. I don’t know if y’all have a problem with mosquitoes but here in LA County we have the (mosquito vector control ) They supply us with mosquito fish that eat the mosquitoes. For people with ponds n such . I wonder if you could get mosquito fish there?? Take care and be safe.

Contact your local university and see if you can get that inoculated char under a microscope. Some undergrad would be thrilled to study this.

Seems like a cool idea. I would recommend planting the edges of the pond. Fast growing willows that you coppice each year will pull massive amounts of nutrient from your pond.

Great experiment. Thanks for sharing. I see that the edge of the pond isn't growing much vegetation. If you could protect the riparian zone, I bet the water quality would improve.

I came for this video after listening to you and Jess on Patreon

I'm going to try this with my pond. It isn't nearly as big but there is a lot of fish and very green.

Water sample test before and after might be good. If you want to clean pond and also produce some poultry feed, duckweed. Would have to keep ducks out of it, but a simple lagoon could easily be built. Here, in Florida, I use guppy grass in my water systems to soak up nutrients in water. I then harvest it as a green manure for composting pile. Interested to see how this goes.

This is fascinating, trying to learn what I can for when we get land one day. Thanks

Sending love, light, and protection prayers to y’all and Roots & Refuge 🙏🏼✨ Ian hit us pretty hard here in Florida 😢 stay safe lovely bunch of people and all animals too 🙏🏼🐾

Don't pay for them until you check at a local college library. They can often get "scholarly" articles for free, and just charge if you want them printed out. But can e-mail them to you for free.

If you knew someone who knew how to crochet (hehe) perhaps they could crochet you some market net bags to reinforce the paint bags. If they were crocheted with polyester yarn or poly fiber they won't compost in the water. They could even be crocheted with plarn, a fiber made from waste plastic bags & such.

You could also check with South Carolina state university’s science department.

If you're looking for papers that are behind a paywall, sometimes clicking the "all versions" option in scholar can have free pdfs, and local libraries, colleges and universities can have free access in their libraries (you might need to join the library). Paywalls are awful!

There is another KZfaqr, David Pagan Butler, who helps folks clean up ponds, etc to be good for swimming. One of his ideas to remove excess nutrients from the water is to float garden rafts (sounds a little like chinampas.....) in the pond filled with plants (in rocks no soil) that must pull their nutrients from the water, effectively cleaning up the excess nutrient issue. He consulted with a british estate owner (Mapperton, home of the Earl of Sandwich!) on their 18th century pool and has helped them clean it up a lot.

Interesting... science! Thanks 🤗❤️

Love your channel

We did the same on our little pond. after soaking green pond water in 20 cubic feet of char for a week , in a a thailand trough, it came out clear. My you tube channel demonstrates the results.

Sea food shell will do the same think. Like oysters, clams and or other beach shell. Just put them loose at the bottom of the pond.

I did this 3 years ago but by dumping 100lbs in and it cleared the water completely. Muddy murky to crystal clear

Hi there - interested in a follow up to see the results of the experiment. My activated charcoal is going in next month before the start of Spring here. Was wondering if this helped clear Jess's pond.

I might have to look into charcoal to see if it will clear up my dam 🤔 not necessarily nutrient but sediment wise. And if it does clean it up from all the wild ducks I’m sure my horses wouldn’t mind better water

good luck on this..

I'm wondering if the peer reviewed articles you read said anything about their results becoming alkaline or acidic and how long it took to stabilize if it did.

Cool

it's like a charcoal filter for a fish tank

I hope y'all don't get too much damage 😫. JO JO IN VT 😆💕

Did it work? Is there a follow-up video? Thanks!

🇦🇺Maybe take a water sample, ph test or water quality test and redo it every month to see if anything changes.

It's my understanding that charcoal is not boichar. Biochar is burned in low oxygen conditions. There is a great YT video on the history on biochar in the Amazons. The Secret Of Eldorado - TERRA PRETA kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrWjYNibytLPl6s.html

Did it work?

I watch plot 37, she has a tiny pond and I was wondering if you could put the green hair like growth in with comfrey just to add to its fertilizing value. This is interesting. Thanks. 👍🏼💥🦚 You all need peacocks 🦚. They are so cool.