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Originally Posted by maikeru
I'd like to, but much past experience and frustration with whiteflies tells me I probably won't win the battle.
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Yes best move; pyrethrum kills them if you can get it on them
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My neighbors think I'm a weirdo when they've seen me crushing charcoal outside. I'm already a bit loopy, so I don't need to give them any more ideas. 
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See post 85 which packed me up -LOL. The loopyness is spreading
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I have most of the materials (seaweed, bonemeal, eggshells, coffee grounds, potting soil, etc.)
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Smelly old fish heads?
(I was thinking of asking the local fish co-op to save them for me to make a poor pensioner's soup!)
Zealoite/kitty litter for clay? Or smash all your fly infested flower pots? That would give the neighbors something to talk about!
Thanks to those who have been saying nice things about all of us being clever people.
Seriously I think it is important.
The researchers do their job we do another.
(Try to make them comprehensible?)
IE.,
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Best Energies pyrolysis machines can churn out tonnes of charcoal a day. (and make it in a hundred different ways) I figgure this country needs a few hundred of them. So gardeners and farmers are going to have to create a market for that charcoal. Otherwise pyrolysis of our organic waste for energy and charcoal will never get off the ground.
We also need to know how to use different types of charcoal. Chicken shit charcoal has a pH of 9 but has lots of available calcium and fertiliser. How do you use that differently from paper-mill-slurry char? or rice hull char?(lots of silicon) or sea weed char (lots of trace elements?) or wood char??
What happens when we can get a carbon credit when we buy potting mix?
Or an office can get carbon credits for office plants grown in charcoal? When farmers can get credits?
Would you prefer to buy a plant grown in charcoal rather than peat moss, woodchips, perlite and vermiculite? Will you tell the supermarket/nursery plant-buyer that?
Then we will start to make a difference.
It has to start somewhere and it is starting here on the net as we all struggle with our incomplete knowledge of the process.
MY boast
I have a 12 month old (from cutting) 1m high Fig Tree
with figs grown in home made TP mix. Will try and post a pic.
