[Terrapreta] Fossil fueled based fertilizers
Nikolaus Foidl
nfoidl at desa.com.bo
Sat Sep 15 12:43:48 EDT 2007
Dear Sean!
Its Haber-Bosch not Haber Bauch. To avoid toxicity of Ammonia and Urea you
can Polymerize the stuff using 1 :1 Formalin. You get water insoluble
crystals which are then broken up by bacteria which use unease as a enzyme.
Like this you have a retarded nitrogen fertilizer with very high efficiency
and the plants get the nitrogen in little doses time after time. As you will
apply the polymer below the seeds the rhizobia are not affected because they
react only to direct water soluble nitrogen next to the seeds.The efficiency
is so high that you can lower total nitrogen by more then 50% without
affecting effective uptake quantity. Add a little Molasse and the bacteria
will love to brake up the polymer. As an additional source of carbon you
might as well add some methanol to your mixture.DCPTA enhanced plant growth
loves additional CO2.
Thanks Nikolaus
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