Cool! report back how you go.

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My best results are achieved with chicken manure applied liberally during flowering period for a good balanced input to feed the trees. Every 2-3 years basalt dust in a smaller chip than aggregate size. This is to remineralise the soil and also serves to aerate the soil as the chips work their way downward it minimises natural soil compaction. Your soil test will let you know if your soil needs boron (which is irregular). As a general rule any fertiliser ending in "ate" has been washed through acid e.g potassium sulphate, etc. This is done to increase immediate absorption but the downside is that your input is readily leached leaving you on a treadmill, which is great for the fertiliser manufacturer and lousy for the farm creating an addiction to achieve a PH balance while being dependent on adding acid washed N,P, K in a formulated ratio...unnatural! Mulch, mowing leaf drop and grass directionally under the trees as well as compost are essential and natural additions that allow an environment for natural process.......Hope this helps🙃

@@brucechester3491 thanks a million!

I agree! We should also explore wild maccas more

Sorry to hear Cath and thanks for sharing, I would love to hear more of the story 🙏

And I thought that ignorance was supposed to be blissful WildForest....at least you can name a couple of chemicals to denigrate. "The entire place is sprayed multiple times a year..." sums up a lack of truthful quality and vast reserves of ignorance that are intended to deceive🥸. Incidentally you may find that cedar-cutters and pasture farming account for the 99.7% of the rainforest destruction that you have parlayed. Macadamias (bopple nuts) grow naturally in rainforests, generally favouring the southern side.

@@brucechester3491 Just because our grandfathers were ignorant enough to cut down and burn all the trees doesn't mean we shouldn't put some of them back. Macadamias grow in diverse subtropical rainforests, not in monocultures. There's no reason we can't plant macadamias in diverse polycultures and negate the need for most pesticides and herbicides. There needs to be incentives for farmers to conserve ecosystem functions rather than maximising profits.

Since the 1970's macadamia cropping in the Northern Rivers has replaced the grass paddocks previously used by the dairy industry with tree crops. Bush nuts grow and reproduce naturally in diverse subtropical regions. Economics is the sole reason that macadamias (cross-bred bush nuts that were selectively bred to retain qualities suitable for commercial production) are grown as a monoculture along with almost every other crop grown or raised commercially. Ideally, mulching , a naturally occurring phenomenon in rainforests, and careful soil care negate herbicide use...for 33 years now. Predator populations help alleviate insect crop damage. The methodology behind pesticide usage has led to an unnecessary dependency by large commercial operations portrayed as "best practice" science....unfortunately. My day-to-day incentive to provide a good ecosystem is that I live here. Profit and it's maximisation is a different argument altogether.....GREED🤑 !!!