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[greenkira]

Maybe you could cultivate and spread the "wee beasties" in a way similar to how gardeners get moss to grow on statues? They take a bit of moss, mix it up with a cup of buttermilk and tablespoon of honey (in a blender), if I recall correctly, and then paint it onto whatever they want covered in moss.

Perhaps if you got a cup or so of healthy native humus and gave it the same treatment, then dripped it onto the charcoal? I've heard adding a bit of forest topsoil to a compost pile helps it develop more quickly and healthily; this would be about the same thing.