tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63985528934940479702024-03-12T15:27:45.874-07:00Soil SecretsSoil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-38901532420015139842021-02-08T14:20:00.005-08:002021-02-08T14:21:27.658-08:00How does nitrogen work in the soil and where does it come from when we don't have a bag of fertilizer to supplement it? <p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I've spoken many times on this subject at conferences and it was the main theme of my talk when I represented North America at the World's 1st Humus Experts Meeting in Vienna Austria back in 2013. Most of the Nitrogen used by the vast tropical rain forests, or the fastest growing biomass place on Earth, the Coastal Redwood Forests of California, comes from the production of protein by the Free-Living Nitrogen Fixing bacteria in soil and the massive biomass structure of the mycorrhizal fungi. The proteins as it breaks down in the soil into amino acids are the building blocks of life and the explanation of the Soil Food Web. However, in order for those amino acids to enter a plant and be part of the nitrogen budget of the plant they must have the assistance of the mycorrhizal fungi. It's much more efficient for a plant to uptake amino acids whose molecules include nitrogen needed to build tissues than to uptake just nitrogen minus the amino acid. The problem with depending on Nitrification as the source of Nitrogen is that it results in the production of Nitrates that have a negative charge and the soil itself also has a negative charge, thus repelling the Nitrates. This is why we lose our Nitrogen into the groundwater beneath the farm, which results in another problem. I've included a paper I created for you that helps to explain what happens to nitrogen in the soil. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUSbORibUos/YCG42qDt3pI/AAAAAAAABWc/Ou8jCbf5ofsRDNpGekHbM08G70KU1YyYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/slide-003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1920" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LUSbORibUos/YCG42qDt3pI/AAAAAAAABWc/Ou8jCbf5ofsRDNpGekHbM08G70KU1YyYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h256/slide-003.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">As for the fungus you can see in the soil, or in a compost pile, or the floor of a forest. Both the fungus you can see, which are the saprophytic decomposers, and the ones you cannot see, the mycorrhizae, are so cool. The saprophytic fungus, the ones you can see, are the goats of the soil breaking down hard to eat stuff that the bacteria won't touch because the chemical bonds holding the stuff together are too tough for the bacteria to tackle. The bacteria are the cows of the soil that wait for their meal to be prepared for them by the fungus, who can break those bonds, and the bacteria then take it the rest of the way. The mycorrhizal fungus can dissolve the exoskeleton of a beetle, or a nematode, transferring the liquefied proteins to the host plant, contributing to the nitrogen budget of the plant. The hyphae tubes of the mycorrhizal fungus can also drill through solid rock turning the rock minerals into a liquid and once again giving that bounty to the host plant. This is exemplified when a crop soil lacks mycorrhizal fungus, the soil is loaded with phosphorus, calcium, zinc, etc., but the plant is still failing to get those elements out of the soil. That's when we need to add a mycorrhizal inoculant to the equation! Also, keep in mind that soil can be loaded with saprophytic fungus and test as a fungally dominated soil, but still lack mycorrhizal fungus, and the rock minerals are still not getting turned into a liquid and delivered to the crop. <b>Here's the equation of the energy and yield Cause and Effect relationship. </b></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ki2iwRkZN0w/YCG4-jcmW2I/AAAAAAAABWg/-gypf92DegA-_b-yarW6cMORnmtbfDf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/C_Xoefef.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ki2iwRkZN0w/YCG4-jcmW2I/AAAAAAAABWg/-gypf92DegA-_b-yarW6cMORnmtbfDf5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/C_Xoefef.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. The plant cannot produce biomass, nutrition, or yield without energy being produced in the mitochondria found in all the cells. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>2. The cellular energy of all plants and animals is called ATP, short for Adenosine triphosphate. </span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span> </span><span>Note the phosphate part of that name?</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Humans cannot have good health if we can't make enough ATP, and like the plant and the soil relationship, we need phosphate uptake to make that happen, and because of soil health decline in agriculture phosphorus is our limiting factor. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Almost without exception all the farm soils have been manipulated by conventional agriculture to the point where our crops cannot uptake phosphorus in adequate amounts because the equation lacks the mycorrhizal cause and effect relationship. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. We add mycorrhizal fungus, the fungal hyphae dissolve the rock minerals of the site uptaking phosphorus and all the other minerals that got in the way, and the crop now gets what it needs. Therefore our food grown on those sites also has a greater Nutrient Density!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael Martin Melendrez </span></span></span></div>Soil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-54921689488584791792020-12-14T16:40:00.020-08:002020-12-14T16:53:31.066-08:00Growing Pecan Trees in Western Alkaline Soil<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's common to see nutrient and water inhibition compromise the production of pecans in the arid western states, particularly where the soils are high pH, which can tie up nutrients such as zinc, iron, phosphorus and more. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>Keeping soils moist is also a problem because the regions were we grow pecan are not wet bottomland soils where pecan is native, but are high and dry desert soils where irrigation is essential. <br />If the irrigation water is high in dissolved solids, the problem is made worse.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Pecan leaves without Soil Secrets" border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DLtrcMPqUVY/X9gCwyg8RYI/AAAAAAAABUg/KdrVE2B8aOY4cA2P5hwqRwlYIJX6AgKmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Pecan%2Bleaves%2Bbefore%2Band%2Bafter%2Bfinal.PNG" /></a></div><br />There are many good things Soil Secrets can offer pecan growers that can overcome these obstacles, by improving the moisture management of the soil, improving nutrient solutioning and availability of both the native minerals as well as the purchased minerals, and improving the porosity of the soil so that water and oxygen can penetrate meters deep without the need to subsoil with machinery. <br /><br />How's this done? By using the power of Nature's own bio-chemical called the Carbon Matrix.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Pecan leaves without Soil Secrets" border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o4BkXzf6h_M/X9gDv9HpdbI/AAAAAAAABUw/tNzOtqs_1BMa3o003AJ2iHviEk7gbGZIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/3.png" /></a></div>Starting in 1998 and completing my research in 2011, Michael Melendrez, his technical staff, along with the technical staff at the two National Laboratories in New Mexico performed a purification and molecular study of the Carbon Matrix where we revealed the molecular characteristics of it for the first time. <br /><br /> As a result of this research the information on what it is and how to make it is owned by me, the founder and CEO of Soil Secrets. <br /><br /> The product that contains it is called TerraPro. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">It could be true if you were in a riparian area of Texas where Pecan grow naturally that the specific species of Ecto Mycorrhizae could be air born and therefore capable of inoculating a tree. </span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">However I’ve personally seen orchards in that region of Texas that did not have a mycorrhizal infection and suffered nutrient update inhibition. Once we inoculated the trees with </span><u style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">the proper species of mycorrhizal fungi</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> the trees rapidly begin to benefit from the infection. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In working with a company in Mexico that has the majority market share in agriculture for the distribution of fertilizers and biomimetic materials such as mycorrhizal products, we’ve seen the same thing. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I recall a conversation with a pecan grower in Texas about 15 years ago while I was attending the Texas Organic Farming conference, where the grower noticed that trees across the road from his orchard growing in the nearby river flood plain did not show zinc nutrient inhibition. He was curious why his trees had this problem while the wild trees across the road did not. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I theorized that his trees lacked the mycorrhizal relationship so we treated his trees and solved the problem. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Therefore I don’t put much stock in the academic world when they challenge this concept as they simply don’t have the years of experience or access to the science that I’ve had. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The images below show pecan roots with the fruiting body of mycorrhizal fungi and the mycelium in soil showing up after the trees are treated that are now showing up in an orchard that we inoculated only months earlier. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Already the trees are showing improvement in nutrient uptake, no zinc deficiency in tissue tests and no outward symptoms of zinc uptake inhibition. In fields within a stones throw we are not seeing the same thing on the same farm. </span></span><br style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fafdfe; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">These images came from an organic pecan farm here in New Mexico taken a few weeks ago. You are welcome to share these, just give me credit for where they came from. </span></span><br />
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Carbon Sequestration, how soil turns into top soil. I've shown you the foundation of our research into what the significant carbon based molecules of soil are and I've shown you how a ruined dispersed clay soil can be fix, healed, by inoculating it with a biomimetic soil ecology process developed by Soil Secrets that will capture carbon, change the color of the soil and change the structure of the soil, all in rapid sequence. In this post I'm showing you the roots of a young Shumard Red Oak that was cut down at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago. The wood found in tree roots is composed of cells that have cell walls made up of a sugar called Cellulose. Cellulose is a complex sugar made up of the same sugar that's found in our blood called Glucose, but in the case of Cellulose the Glucose is linked together to make a larger molecular substance that is structurally strong and able to be the structural backbone of wood. As you can see in these two images there's a lot of wood that has grown in the soil under this tree and the carbon making up the molecule of the cellulose will contribute to the soil building process as part of the soil carbon sequestration process.</div>
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Soil Carbon Sequestration is Building Top Soil. These two images were taken at our arboretum in Los Lunas, where 32 years ago the soil was a salty high pH clay with terrible structure. The images showing the cracking and light colored clay is the before Soil Secrets. Using the Biomimetic Soil Ecology protocol of Soil Secrets we've stimulated and instigated the process of top soil development which requires that carbon from the atmosphere is harvested by plants and turned into a molecular form in the soil that allows for long term storage. The image showing the darker soil with aggregates is the same spot the arboretum after three decades of Soil Secrets treatment.</div>
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<span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Can you tell the difference? The first image shows a field that was not sprayed with your Consortium Soil Probiotic called BIOpack. The second image field was sprayed. Look at the difference in color and the overall biomass increase </span><span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;"> the treated field. BIOpack is ATCC Certified (American Type Culture Collection) and <span class="il">USDA</span> Biobased Certified. All 20 species included in the BIOpack are exact species that will perform a known Mode of Action which will provide a specific benefit to the crop you are growing. For example if your lawn, trees, or crop are not getting enough iron pulled out of the soil to satisfy the needs of the crop or plant, than BIOpack can fix that problem by provided a microbe for that particular nutrient. Bottomline is that BIOpack will improve the Nutrient Density of any crop you grow as it improves the solutioning of the mineral element in the soil from a normally not water soluble into a water solution so the plant can drink it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">Soil Secrets LLC was created from our nursery business Trees That Please back in the 1990's. It's purpose was to continue the R & D of products that could be effective in restoring the natural balance of soil concerning what defines a healthy soil. The other objective was to use these same products for growing our hundreds of thousands of trees at Trees That Please, growing trees with the natural processes of Nature flourishing on the roots of our product. While fertilizers grow drug addicts addicted to the constant feed of the fertilizer, our Soil Secrets process will grow plants that are ready for the rigors of Nature. For a long time nursery people used balanced N-P-K fertilizers with names that implied they would improve the texture of soil, or they sold bulk amounts of compost, mushroom compost, peat moss and products called Soil Builder, in the attempt to change the Soil Organic Matter and bulk density characteristics of a soil, somehow mimicking the rich dark top soil of nature. However that has proven to not work as the chemistry of soil will consume the organic matter added faster than you can add it, resulting in a failed attempt to accumulate carbon to the point where you can say you are sustainable and contributing to "Soil Carbon Sequestration." The other problem is that by adding bulk volumes of organic matter from compost like products without knowledge of what the chemical characteristics are of the organic matter (salts, salinity, pH, etc.) can easily cause an accumulation of stuff in the soil that can damage the soils structure or ability to grow a healthy crop or landscape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">I grow trees at my Trees That Please Nursery in Los Lunas because I love trees, however my Life's work has been soil and what's needed to make it healthy, because without healthy soil we cannot grow a healthy tree, lawn, crop or ecosystem. In 1985 we purchased vacant land in Valencia County about 20 miles south of downtown Albuquerque, hoping to build a home we could raise our family in. My vision was a large yard, a secret garden trees, hiding places and a big lawn that my kids to roll in, climb the trees and find adventure. I soon discovered a major problem with the site in that the soil had been ruined by the decades of farming practices that had made the clay hard, full of sodium and salts and extremely alkaline. The surface would turn white during the winter revealing the White Death that would make it hard to succeed. A professor of soil science from New Mexico State University told me it was impossible to fix the site and that I should put a for sale sign on it and move away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">The following images are of the arboretum site as it is today which also has our Trees That Please production nursery on the grounds. As you can see the professor was wrong and the site is now a healthy sustainable ecosystem of carbon rich soils, with a collection of trees from all over the world. We succeeded because Soil Secrets has developed the molecular biology and products that can restore Nature's natural balance of what defines a healthy soil and our Arboretum and our nursery production system at Trees That Please proves this point. </span></div>
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Soil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-78396559859876673322018-03-23T12:16:00.000-07:002018-03-23T12:16:24.304-07:00The Arboretum Tomé History<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">The Arboretum </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Tomé property was purchased in 1985 by Michael & Kari Melendrez as vacant land. Unknown to the Melendrez couple the soil was a high pH Saline Sodic Alkaline clay with the pH running as high as 9.3 and never below 8.5. In the winter the salts would come to the surface and turn the ground white. In horticulture terms this situation is called "White Death" as very few of the most hardy weeds can tolerate those conditions. Michael showed a soil analysis report of the site to a Professor of Soil Science at New Mexico State University who told him it was impossible to fix that kind of soil and to put a for sale sign on it. Instead Michael using his knowledge of chemistry, molecular biology, microbiology and a good deal of dumb luck began to experiment with methods of soil restoration. The clay on the site is about 12 feet deep and was hard as a rock, taking many days of digging with a concrete buster and pick axe to dig a single tree planting site. Many dozens of trees were planted in 1986 of which all died after one agonizing summer. Today however the site is a rich collection of trees of the world with the largest collection of Oaks of any landscape in New Mexico or the Southwest. Also growing on the site are 70 foot tall Redwoods, 50 foot tall Native New Mexican Oaks, Giant Timber Bamboo, Sugar Maples and a Naturalized forest Michael calls the Woodland Edge. If you ask Michael what the key ingredient was to fixing the toxic chemistry of the site, he will tell you it was electricity. That's right, electricity that is coming from the Carbon Matrix of our TerraPro product, an invention of Michael that is bio-identical to what Nature is doing in the healthiest soils on the planet. In 2011 Clarence Chavez, Acting Soil Scientists for New Mexico working for the USDA NRCS requested from Michael that a new soil carbon test be used to measure the concentration of carbon on the arboretum grounds. This type of carbon test can prove if a successful soil carbon sequestration process is taking place. If the carbon accumulation is significant and is not there because you added it in the form of compost, biochar, etc., but rather is there because the soil ecology process of Nature put it there, than we can make the claim that Soil Carbon Sequestration has taken place. A result of the Reactive Carbon testing performed by Clarence revealed the highest carbon levels measured in New Mexico, including many Organic Certified Farms that have been organic for many years. It also revealed that when soils are healthy and full of carbon they stay cooler in the heat of the summer as the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Arboretum </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">Tomé soils were 16 F degrees cooler that other sites in the same county. Cooler soils stay moist in the summer than hot soils!</span><br />
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Soil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-34087200292092491742018-01-18T13:11:00.002-08:002018-01-18T13:11:32.507-08:00Growing Tomatoes With Soil Secrets<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: medium;">A few years ago one of our customers at the Trees That Please Nursery dropped in with a photo of him on a step ladder with his tomato plants. He was impressed by how large and healthy the plants got. This is not an uncommon thing to see and in fact Bob McClendon at McClendon Select in Arizona once complained to us that we did not warn him this could happen at his organic certified farm making it hard to harvest his crop. Now that we also have the best mycorrhizal product in the industry and the best Consortium soil probiotic (BioPack) in the industry I'd love to see what would happen to the vigor, yield and taste of this man's tomato crop if he would use those products along with the high energy dipole moment molecules of the carbon matrix of TerraPro combined with the amino acids of our Protein Crumblies product. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">Here's another successful test trial using our carbon matrix product called TerraPro. The situation was one of salt causing dehydration on raspberries on Driscoll's farm in California. If you go into any grocery store in the United States you can find strawberries and raspberries that came from Driscoll's. Globally, a gradual salinity build up on farm soil is a problem where salts are being contributed by the irrigation water, by the fertilizers and by the use of strong acids on alkaline soil in the attempt to reduce the pH. As salts build up water is inhibited from being taken in by the plant as water is attracted to the salt in the soil pulling water out of the plant. As salinity gets worse the farmer is forced into using more irrigation water to try and compensate for the osmotic drag of the salt. This only works to a point. The two images shown here are of a crop being dehydrated by soil salinity and within a dozen feet plants treated with our TerraPro that are not being damaged by the same saline site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">At the time of this trial at Driscoll's we did not have the Consortium BioPack ready and I'd love to see this test repeated using the BioPack because within the 20 strains of microbes in the BioPack are microbes that can help us break down the salts and also feed the plants solubilized minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, iron, zinc, etc……. The Consortium BioPack is ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) Certified. There's nothing like it on the market. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">This story is about TerraPro a soil additive discovered and made by my company Soil Secrets LLC. The active ingredient of TerraPro is a biomimetic substance called a Carbon Matrix of molecules that are supramolecular in behavior. At the National Nuclear Labs in New Mexico we have performed a full molecular characterization study of this soil molecular substance which now gives us the information we need to replicate it for the objective of fortifying soil. Using a Commercial Proprietary Information Contract with the National Nuclear Labs we have information that no other entity on earth has, which is the description of these molecules, the geometry of the structure and chemical formulas of the molecules and exactly who the Functional Groups are that are attached to the molecules that make them work, called the Mechanism of Action. In this story, 450 pounds was top dressed onto the arid soil of an organic cotton farm in Trans Pecos Texas (Chihuahuan Desert) and a control field without TerraPro was compared to the treated field. Both fields are side by side and you can see the same tanks in the background to confirm this. The field that appears dormant did not grow as tall or as productive as the field that is still green, but both fields had the water shut off at the same time in late summer. The non treated field terminated from drought while the treated field did not!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">The "Rest of the Story" is that the water management story on this site is just beginning. TerraPro alone is helping to hold water in the soil on this site, however if this farmer continued treating his field with the protocol of Soil Secrets biomimetic molecular biology we would also see a process of carbon sequestration taking place in the soil over time. This will provide an added water management advantage to the farmer as it's known and accepted by people of knowledge in soil science that one pound of carbon in the soil can provide the benefit of holding an additional 10 pounds of water. If we could increase the concentration of carbon in the soil by a tiny 1%, we could increase the water holding potential of one acre of land one foot deep by about 400,000 pounds of water. </span></div>
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<br />Soil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-64937564434035266622017-10-04T17:43:00.003-07:002017-10-04T17:45:07.981-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets LLC</a> is on the go. In the world of agriculture, or urban horticulture a major hurdle is how to make or keep the root system of the crop or the landscape plant material healthy. While I've made my living as a nursery owner, tree grower and the founder/operator of a soil ecology company, my formal academic training is from the world of human health and one thing we can say for sure about us humans is that oxygen and water are an essential part of our survival. Without either we die! Well the same thing can be said about the roots of our crops, or our lawn and trees in our yard as everything that's good that must take place in that soil keeping the plant alive and roots healthy is contingent upon water being able to penetrate the soil along with enough oxygen. If there's one thing I can hang my hat on while giving the 30 second elevator speech about what does <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> do, its that we increase the porosity of soil rapidly therefore allowing water and oxygen to penetrate. All the chemical reactions needed in the soil, the solutioning of minerals into the soil water matrix, the building of the soil carbon matrix, the uptake of water and minerals into the plant, all require that enough water and oxygen get deep into the soils sub structure. Roots of trees only grow where there's enough oxygen and porosity in the soil structure to allow for root growth so when we see your favorite lawn shade tree growing roots on the surface, that exemplifies the problem that you have poor soil health and not enough structure and porosity of soil. <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> is used by the largest pecan growers in the world, where nutrient uptake is a constant problem. When our molecular biology products are used its easy to measure the change that takes place in the soil structure, the oxygen content in the soil, the water uptake into the plant, the greater chlorophyll content to the foliage and a better overall productive crop. For example here are three moisture penetration charts provided to us by FICO (Farmers Investment Company) from their huge SE Arizona pecan orchards. Block 57 was not treated by our product because it was felt it had the best soil on the farm and was absorbing irrigation water without inhibition. Block 9 was a problem site, with desert clay soil and poor structure that would not allow rain or irrigation to penetrate. After one treatment last summer Block 9 passed Block 57 in water penetration and porosity and now holds moisture for many months making for a better pecan orchard. In December of 2016 the site had a 1.7 inch rainfall event and on block 57 the water only penetrated 5 inches, while on block 9 it penetrated 17 and eventually 19 inches by March. The third chart is showing that block 9 is still retaining the moisture in the desert soil into March. This is Proof of Concept that the highly electrified carbon matrix molecules of <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/what-is-terrapro-article-engineer/" target="_blank">TerraPro</a> do work in fixing the main problem of soil health! The molecular characters of <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/what-is-terrapro-article-engineer/" target="_blank">TerraPro</a> are 100% Bio-Identical and are a unique product globally of Soil Secrets, a Los Lunas New Mexico company. I'm the founder of the company, the person that discovered who and what the molecular descriptions are of this carbon matrix is, and the person that figured out how to create them using a biomimetic process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;"><b>Pre-Biotic - </b>A </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">substances that stimulates the growth or activity of microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and fungi) by creating or supporting a favorable environment. In this case the environment is soil and the area close to the plant roots called the </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">rhizosphere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;">1. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/commercial-grade-terrapro/" target="_blank">TerraPro</a> - </b>Tested and Measured doing a molecular characterization down to a sub-atomic level, under a Commercial Proprietary Information Contract by Los Alamos National Labs with Sandia National Laboratories, <b> TerraPro</b> is a carbon rich Macro-Molecular Substance (huge molecules clustered together into Supramolecular groups). Supramolecular just means that the molecules are highly energized and they self assembled into larger structures where the molecules are not chemically bonded to each other. In nature the carbon that accumulates on the surface of plant roots, the result of a chemical reaction and carbon sequestration, are recalcitrant carbon structures that are macro huge and supramolecular. Recalcitrant means that this form of carbon will not decay at the hands of the soil microbes and will persist in the soil for a long time. Some people will call Humic Acids recalcitrant however Humic Acids have never been described down to a molecular level, so not much is known about them. TerraPro has been described using a molecular characteriztion study at the National Labs. It fortifies the soil using a Biomimetic molecular substances that </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">support the healthy function of soil structure, soil porosity, drainage, salinity control, sodium remediation, improved uptake of water, improved uptake of mineral elements into the plant, improved environment for soil microorganism. This products active ingredient is protected by the Intellectual Act as proprietary and is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">3.<b> <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/supraplex/" target="_blank">SUPRAPLEX</a> - </b>used by fertilizer company's as the base liquid to add other soluble nutrients. Also could be used by lawn care company's for the same use for foliar feeding. Made from TTP Supreme Compost by minimizing the compost down to a sub collodal particle size into a liquid solution. The mechanism for doing this is proprietary. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0061ff; font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;">4. <b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/775/" target="_blank">Earth Nectar</a> </b>&<b> <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/earthambrosia/" target="_blank">Earth Ambrosia</a> - </b>companion items containing SUPRAPLEX, enzymes, Kelp and solublized oxidized lignite shale that provides a Humic Acid value. Keep in mind that the term Humic Acids does not describe a molecular substance that's ever been characterized or described. It's only a term that's used to describe a carbon substance measured using a very basic non molecular technique. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0061ff;"><b>Pro-Biotic</b> - In the case of Soil Secrets are specific microbes including </span><span style="color: #0061ff;"> live bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi or yeasts that are good for the health of the whole system. By specific we are saying we know exactly who the bacteria are and how many live cells the product contains of each species. The bacteria Pro-Biotic called BioPack is a Consortium product. These are the organisms that support and directly articulate with plants, providing something for the plants while the plants provide something back in exchange. This class of soil microbes are also involved in the anabolic construction of precursor chemicals such as enzymes, aromatic carbon rings, </span><span style="color: #0061ff;">glyco-proteins (Glomalin), etc. They are also the microbes that provide both a solutioning and solubilizing effect on the mineral elements of soil such as silica, sulfur, iron, zinc, copper, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium. These type of microbes are specialists and are not the same microbes that we call the Saprophytes, such as those microbes we find in compost involved with the catabolism (tearing down) of soil organic matter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">It's common knowledge that the idea of increasing the amount of soil organic matter is generally a good idea. Its an even better idea if you live in a place on the globe where soils never truly developed a defined zone of topsoil that one can see with the naked eye. Where I live in the arid Southwestern Chihuahuan Desert the only place we can truly see carbon rich topsoil is where lots of natural vegetation was able to grow over many hundreds of years, depositing organic debris and growing lots of roots that finally decay and contribute to this accumulation of decaying organic matter. An example of this might be along a creek or river where riparian vegetation is getting enough water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">It's also commonly accepted that soil organic matter (som) increases the soils potential for holding onto water, where its been said that for every 1 percent of increase in soil organic matter you can hold an additional 25,000 to 30,000 gallons of water per acre of soil. That's a bunch if you can increase the percentage by 3-4 or 5 percent. However lets be even more specific on how to calculate this out. For example, it is also commonly accepted in the world of soil science that the carbon fraction of the total soil organic matter is about 58 % and that the carbon part of the soil organic matter is what actually holds the water, capable of holding 10 times its weight So for every 100 thousand pounds of organic matter we have 58,000 pounds of the element carbon which can hold 580,000 pounds of water. A huge number! Water will weigh about 8.36 pounds per gallon if fresh water, less, so 580,000 pounds of water is equal to 69,378 gallons of H2O. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> success in increasing the percent of organic matter and soil carbon sequestering. </b> I've attached a inset of a soil analysis so we can see the values concerning the increase in Percent Organic Matter on a trial site we've been watching for 12 years. At the start 12 years ago the site had a raw percent organic matter content of only .6%, slilght over 1/2 percent. The site is sand soil so the bulk density will be higher with the whole acre foot of soil weighing about 4.8 mllion pounds, therefore 4,800,000 X .006 = 28,000 pounds of indigenous soil organic matter. So before Priming with <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a> Biomimetic process, the raw carbon of the site 1 foot deep can hold 19,980 gallons of water. So if you look at the inset of the analysis done on 11/21/2016 you can see that the new percentage value has gone up to 5.8%, which is 278,400 total pounds of Soil Organic Matter. The carbon fraction will be at 161,472 pounds holding 1,614,720 pounds of water which is 193,148 gallons of water per acre foot. <b>That's 4.4 gallons of water in every cubic foot of soil. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: American Typewriter; font-size: medium;">In conclusion, by using the "Applied Science" of the Biomimetic products invented by <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets LLC</a>, we have proven that we can accelerate the soil carbon sequestering process faster than the application of soil amendments such as compost, manure or biochar can contribute. The formation of topsoil defined by this Net Gain in Soil Carbon penetrates the earth 24 inches. See the attached photo of a spade of dark top soil that was extracted versus another picture showing the raw site before <a href="http://soilsecrets.com/" target="_blank">Soil Secrets</a>. The 24 inch deep carbon rich top soil at 5.8% Soil Organic Matter is a massive accumulation far exceeding what Nature could normally produce over the course of several centuries. The final evaluation we used to measure carbon accumulation was to measure the Net Gain in what we generically call Humic Acid, which are not really acids, but are carbon rich compounds that resist decay. These compounds also called Humic substances fall under the catagory of "Recalcitrant Carbon" which are not measured using the Soil Organic Matter test. In this case we had a net gain of 24,960</span><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: medium;"> pounds of this type of carbon per acre one foot deep. </span></div>
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Phosphorus is easily tied up in the soil chemistry by a concretion effect when acids come into contact with alkaline substances in the soil. For example, Phosphorus is often sold in the agriculture business or the retail nursery trade as an acidified product where the phosphorus rock called Apatite is ground up into a powder and then treated with Phosphoric acid to make a product called Triple Super Phosphate or a water soluble phosphorus fertilizer. However the problem is that once this acidified phosphorus hits the soils chemistry the buffering capacity of the soil rapidly turns it into a insoluble salt. </div>
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Here's our dilemma. Plants and all life need Phosphorus as its a main ingredient for making energy. The energy will be in the form of a high energy molecule called ATP (adenosine triphosphate ) <wbr></wbr>which is made in the mitochondria of the cell in a cycle called Krebs cycle or the Citric Acid cycle. I've attached a simplified chart of this process. If a plant is trying to make a seed, a fruit, or more biomass it needs energy and that energy comes in the form of ATP, therefore we need Phosphorus to get that done. For example, we often hear from the Cannabis growers that they want Phosphorus during the budding stage of the plant and the reason, energy is needed.</div>
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On another note, we humans also need ATP, so if you take a Statin drug to try and lower your blood Cholesterol, you will contraindicate your energy cycle to make ATP, which will lead to Heart Failure, as your heart is a high energy demanding muscle. I've attached a chart to show that metabolic pathway exemplifying the point of where the inhibiting effect of the Statin drug gets in the way of the process of making the reduced form of Co Enzyme Q10 called Ubiquinol, a key enzyme in the ATP production cycle. </div>
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Soil Secrets LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07331463224705066593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398552893494047970.post-63897503378624462462016-09-19T08:31:00.001-07:002016-09-19T08:31:31.447-07:00These are the non cation nutrients<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the red column are the nutrients called Anion, which have a negative charge opposite of the Cation nutrients. The soil has a negative charge of various strengths called the CEC or Cation Exchange Capacity. For example sand has a weaker CEC than clay therefore clay can hold more Cation nutrients than sand. However the negative charge of soil will repel the nutrients that already have a negative charge, the Anions in the soil therefore cannot hold onto those nutrients. TerraPro however can hold both Cations and Anions by having the Mechanism of Action of a Chelation Overlay.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;">This is corn I grew in Bosque Farms in order to harvest the corn as silage and then turn the silage into compost. I treated my side of the field with EndoMaxima (the Soil Secrets Mycorrhizal product) and TerraPro (the Soil Secrets Humic Acid product) while the field right next to mine did not get Soil Secrets. Both fields historically were amended with 30 tons of dairy manure per acre per year, resulting in high levels of soil nitrogen. For that reason on my side of the field I did not apply nitrogen while the other side was fertilized with N. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;">What's important about these images is the pink showing up on the bottom foot of the corn stem which indicates nitrate accumulation. This is indicative of the plant being under stress. Both fields were identical in soil type and irrigation, with the only difference being Soil Secrets on our side. Our side shows little to no nitrate accumulation which I believe is proving that our protocol of Molecular Biology is helping to reduce stress on the crop. The image with Fred standing between the two fields also shows that our treated field on the right is much taller, has more biomass and out performed the conventional field on the left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: medium;">The final image shows both fields after the corn was harvested and winter oats sown. The border going down the middle separates the control (without Soil Secrets) on the left hand side of the image with the Soil Secrets treated side, where the germination advantage is more than obvious. </span></div>
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