[Terrapreta] Char hydration

[Kurt Treutlein]

MFH wrote:
> You're doing better than me. I've had char in buckets for 3 weeks with added
> urea, wee, cow poo and detergent.
>
> There has been some water uptake by the char in the bucket with the soap,
> but all the other remains floating like tennis balls.
>
> Source was dry and dense eucalypt.
>
> M
>   
Interesting! Last year when I made charcoal from bamboo I had it in foam 
vegeboxes, on the back lawn. They got rained on there and seemed to get 
wet with no problems. I don't remember any floating on top of the water 
that collected in the boxes.

Kurt