Re: Fertilization with liquid humus
Hello Juan:
I read your inquiry, and it made me remember that we have intruded in the subject for some years and we carry out a small experience in order to evaluate if after the filtrate decantation of humus existed. We fill a recipient of 200 liters with water and we add to it 50 dm3 of Worm Casting; during ten days we revolved the recipient during several minutes, indeed all the days the product decanted, but the water had acquired a brown color not too dark, but earthy. We go it by cloth filters (same cloth of the filters of coffee), difficult task when big quantities are managed, we pack in transparent drums the product. After the year very little sedimentation was noticed in the drums and the water remained with the same earthy color. We believe that we obtained liquid Worm Casting. But there arose certain queries:

Mendoza possesses soils with scarce organic matter; not all the components of the Worm Casting are capable of breakup, what real benefit does it give to the plant?. The filtrate really have to be perfect because if a small particle existed it would obstruct the watering, we would be dosing bad in the obstructed places (is it also necessary to think that the sleeves are hard to uncover in the event of obstruction, things that never passes with the chemists for which were developed), maybe it is better to dose 1 dm3 of Worm Casting, (with so much work that takes to make it to contribute 50% of the nutritious), per plant and to assure the entirety of nutritious in readiness of the plant, knowing that some of the characteristics of the humus is the wide power residual envelope is other fertilizers. With that we could, to increase the dose for plant and to carry out the process every two years. for each hectare of vine, making quick calculations, you would need 15 m3 for hectare, receiving each plant about 2,5 kgs. (4 dm3) approximately. The dosage is not very complicated and what it is necessary to make sure is the covered of the product that is carried out with the tractor.

It is my opinion, if I were an undernourished person I would not prepare rice, I would squeeze it and take the juice, the same thing with any vegetable or citric. Are Mendoza's soils hungry for organic matter, why not to be given it if we have it at hand? Going for a walk once for Chile I read a publicity that said "Since the earth has given so much to you, why don't you give it a hand back?” Shake hands with your earth".

 It expressed something like that. Juan: I hope to have helped you.

 Thank you.