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Re: RES: [compost_tea] Salt Water in CT?



Jose,

When you say desalted sea water works wonders, what in particular 
have you observed with your agriculture in Brazil? 

--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, "Jose Luiz M Garcia" 
<gingerjo@t...> wrote:
> I have been doing that all the time except for the
> fact that I use desalted sea water and I can guarantee you
> it works wonders.
> NaCl is no good regardless what Dr Maynard has to say.
> So, I use sea water without NaCl but with all the other
> 90 minerals ( When I say "without" I should have said
> "with most of NaCl removed" in fact).
> You have a company in the States that removes NaCl from Salt Lake
> and sells it as Liquimins Concentrace, Trace Mineral Drops, Low
> Sodium. Trace Minerals Research, PO Box 429, Roy, UT84067.
> www.traceminerals.com
> Maybe they have low grade batches that could be used for 
agricultural
> purposes like the product I get here in Brazil.  
> What really works in sea water is the 90 other minerals and not 
sodium
> and chlorine regardless what Dr Maynard have said about it. Na or 
Cl
> can be obtained mostly everywhere and do not really help.
> See, sea water is still a mystery to us. Science cannot duplicate 
it so
> far.
> They can analyze it and figure out all their components and 
individual
> concentrations but when they try to duplicate it fishes will not 
live in
> man-made artificial sea water. 
> In fact little attention is done on practical means on how to 
remove
> NaCl
> from sea water and leaves all the rest. Whoever can do that will 
reap
> lots of
> benefits either from plant nutrition , animal and men nutrition.
> 
> Jose
> 
> 
> I have just read the book Sea Energy Agriculture by Dr. Maynard 
> Murray (d. 1983). A physician and physiologist, he studied the 
> properties of ocean water for 40 years, concluding it was the key 
> ingredient in restoring mineral deficient soils (ocean water 
contains 
> 90-odd minerals). His experimental vs. control tests on plants and 
> animals yielded impressive results. He used sea water two ways: 
> direct application to soil and evaporation yielding mineral 
residue 
> which he applied to soil.
> 
> My, and everyone's, first reaction would be, What about the 
negative 
> impact of salt? He says that soil microbial activity does the same 
> thing to ocean salt as to the other minerals -- transforms it from 
> inorganic to organic so that it doesn't harm plants. He states in 
his 
> book that the primary purpose of the plant kingdom is to be a 
conduit 
> of minerals in the soil to the human body. Interesting.
> 
> Question: What about mixing sea water in with CT in the brewing 
cycle 
> in limited amounts? Impact on the critters? Other 
> advantages/disadvantages?
> 
> William K.
> 
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