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Biodynamic Marijuana Grower Interview FYI

Fascinating article, Paracelsus! It describes someone who is really in tune with his environment on all levels. And I'll bet that his nugs are fantastic because of the respect he has for natural cycles and for the plants themselves.

The points about "western medicinal approach" are especially interesting to me. That approach is a cold and calculating one that doesn't mind sacrificing all manner of animals in the lab just so the mad scientists can observe and record their data. Power does not equal knowledge, that's for sure--nor does technology equal the best results, as we are certainly seeing globally now. Technology has become nature's worst enemy.
 
That's right nothing earth shattering, doesn't even use electricity. Actually your right, he does exactly what farmers have been doing for centuries, just not the last one. And those ways and skills are being left behind. Also biodynamics follows Lunar. Solar and Astrological charts, cover crops., insect enrichment control, and special treatments of minerals and crystals too. A little eye of newt with the bat guanno stirred widdershins for one hour during a new moon
 
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to get to that level of harmonious cultivation, I just don’t have the knowledge yet but most importantly time and space are lacking. Good article for sure, it just made it sound like a novelty I thought...which is not obviously.
 
They didn't mention things like making dung and mineral potions burying them in a bull horn in the norteast corner of the field during the winter solstice, lol true though. You dig it up and make fertilizer in the spring.
 
Oh yeah for sure! Read the story once of this ethnologist half “stuck” on an island more or less by choice who decided to repopulate the local palm trees by use of his own crap basically, composting it in the local soil, enriching it. Totally worked, ended up helping the natives rebuild a small local economy out of it! ... call me lazy but I buy organic fertilizers instead😂😂😂
 
The lunar aspect of the article is an unproven theory and one which does not make theoreticle sense. The suggested reasoning for lunar involvement describes the force on physical mass, such as fluid or sap movement. But what reasoning is used is likely from the misunderstanding of how tidal force works.
Tidal forces are the combinational effects of the moon, earth and sun all together. But the earths gravity superimposes most of the force as a whole. Looking at the moon alone, the effects we see from tidal shifts are a result from the large surface area it covers. Its individual effect on small mass objects is so insignficant that it becomes extremely difficult to quantify. This is why you see no tide effects in lakes or small areas of enclosed water. As such, there would be no real effect with fluids in plants or soil.
Moon photosynthesis is a joke. Maybe algae, but not terrestrial plant life.
 
Pretty sure it is a joke ,but all the ole time garden growers, not pot growers, just vegetable gardens that's had vegetable gardens for years, they go by the Farmers Almanac an good friday, they wouldn't change for nothin,, even if they were proved wrong.That's kinda like being able to tell when a LargeMouth Bass is going to bite,
 
Haha sounds interesting. All i know is that weather prediction is still difficult even just for the next few days. Let alone 16 months. ^.^
 
The article doesn't really say a whole lot about how planting with the new moon affects the entire grow, so I don't think it's about lunar photosynthesis. It's about plant circadian rhythm, isn't it????
 
"Perhaps the most important lesson in biodynamic agriculture is that of growing in sync with the moon’s cycle"

My extended detail was not extracted from the article but from the commonly accepted theory from such that follow it. The fact that it was highlighted as one of the integral parts of biodynamic agriculture, allowed me to focus on that point alone.
 
Ok but Dan, help me out here cuz I really don't quite understand: the importance of following the lunar cycle would concern cicacian plant rhythm, wouldn't it?
 
No not at all, i touched quite a bit on plant circardian rhythm in another thread. A plants circardian rhythm follows the sun, the moon has no effect on a plants internal clock. Think phytochromes and cryptochromes. When people talk about lunar cycles, they are not referring at all to a plants internal clock, but rather the gravitational effects and or moon photosynthesis on a plant. :)
 
Then I wonder if the buildup of the pr hormone occurs better during a new moon, and whether germination time takes that into consideration.
 
The moon has no effect on the pr or pfr hormone.
Here is a lengthy discussion between me and greenthumb. I cover the issue of plant circardian rhythm quite heavily.
 
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