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#garden #aquaponics #propagation #grownostr I enjoy making new plants with no chemicals or complicated/complex systems.

I’m currently propagating mulberry in my pond system. I’m always testing different methods to make plants.

Constant flow, flood and drain 15 minute timer. Different mediums, I’ll do hydroton clay balls, biochar chunky, biochar rice size, lavarock, soil.

I’ve had good success with flood and drain and all mediums , flow through has been OK, but some of them died.

The chunkybiochar works really well and is great to put in with your potted plant when transplanting.

NaturalNerd 1y ago

Looking good. I like the use of biochar as a growing medium, this is new to me. Did you charge the biochar before using it?

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IdahoPuma 1y ago

This is just to get the mulberry to root in the pot. It will charge in this as well, basically fills with 2” of water every 15 minutes during the day and drains.

NaturalNerd 1y ago

Very cool. I will have to try rooting sticks in biochar. My first experiment this year used perlite

IdahoPuma 1y ago

And I’ve dumped a lot in the beds with no charging, 25% mix, working good :)

NaturalNerd 1y ago

I have been giving biochar a quick overnight charge when adding to the garden or potting soil. I use liquid kelp or pee. The pee char just goes in the garden, not potting soil.

I don't like wasting my pee, so I got a 5 gallon bucket with char. Once I started getting smell I added water and more char on top. This bucket was just placed in the shed until I was ready to use it.

Most of the char i have made gets mixed in with compost or chicken bedding for charging