Yucca, Aloe Vera, Kelp, and other Extracts

[mad librettist]

Let'ss say anaerobic extracts then. I don't have a very strong pump and when I when do use it the fines that settle tend not to get oxygenated. Maybe that is what I'm taming down. Isn't that where the ammonia comes from? The nitrogen?
I'm doing something right. I don't know what.

nitrogen gassing off due to anaerobic conditions tends to smell like ammonia.

that's the smell of N leaving.

Even though she sleeps upon your satin
Even though she wakes you with a kiss
do not think the moment was imagined
do not stoop to strategies like this...

say good bye to N... leaving
and say good bye to N... lost




(whoa I am stoned)

 

[h.h.]

Of course it is.
It's the yucca bounding to the ammonia, the N, that keeps it from leaving. It keeps it in solution.That is why I don't smell it and my extract, not tea, stays good. That is why I'll get a growth spurt from it and just enough to keep things green.

 

[mad librettist]

whatcha want is ammonium, not ammonia.

Let's not get confused

ammonium
ammonia
nitrate
nitrite


then there is ammoniated pepsodent. it fights cavities like no other tooth powder!

 

[habeeb]

never heard of yucca as an anti-bacterial, anyone have any thoughts on that, as yucca is used as a wetting agent..

also I have heard wetting agents calming down foam in hydro or I guess teas would be the same principle here



that's all I got. oh , also did CC re-invent himself?

 

[h.h.]

Ammonium would be formed if the solution was acidic. Possibly it keeps the rogue hydrogen atom from separating to form the ammonia.
As an anti bacterial, it has some effect on some bacteria. At least from my readings. It won't sterilize anything. I don't know about anti foaming, it suds up like soap. I read somewhere to use an anti foaming agent when spraying.

 

[mad librettist]

ammonium is your basic protozoa poop.

when fungi dominate (and keep the soil acidic), it stays ammonium. in bacterial dominated soil a lot of it is turned to nitrate.

 

[h.h.]

So I'm binding my wetting agent to ammonium and feeding it to the hungry bacteria in my soil. If I use it to make tea and add the bacteria, it also works well as a foliar??? It does make a good foliar spray as well. Again, don't know why. Lacto? Sunscreen?

 

[CC_2U]

Yucca extract antibacterial properties........

 

[h.h.]

Google Scholar? Way cool. Didn't know it existed.
The trouble is as you brought up, the research is on livestock. I try to relate that to what we are doing and as you can see I do a bungled up job of it. It is relevant, same bacteria, same chemical reactions...I put what I have out here in hopes smarter people will correct me or add to it.
Not that I'm not smart, I got an 8th grade education and have been to at least 5 junior colleges and lived near a real one once..

 

[h.h.]

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