Late to join, I guess this thread disappeared but now its back..
I hear people about ferments being a PITA. Water only is just so amazing to experience. When one has immaculate castings in conjunction with a healthy web of several fungi types, with a couple mineralized foliars they can cause better results then at least I've ever seen then ppl doing ferments, but I am still playing around here a fair bit ferment wise, so I will have to revisit this in a year or so after a few more rounds, and also, not all people take good photos so lets leave it at that for now.
Now as for azomite, its not just the AL in azomite, its everything else.. AL is buffered by Si to a point, but azomite was given its name because it literally has everything from A to Z, (hence the A and Z at its name's core).
As for high brix, brix readings are just measuring the amount of covalent bonds present in a tissue, that's what it comes down to really right. If one sprouted sunflower seeds or any sprouts in fresh, living castings, vs store bought junk fed cardboard and cheap fillers, not to mention it sits for a year or two before being sold, and also gets pasteurized so it can cross borders, of course the results will be higher brix-wise in the fresh. We have tested the same recipe with different castings (via growing and making note of deficiencies and when they swept in) in several batches and its really clear to see.
As for the overall high brix regime, its a bit of an art and a science, just like nature herself.. if one talks to AG LABS who writes a 30 day newsletter just about High Brix gardening, it comes down to certain ratios..
18 parts calcium, 1 part phosphorus, 1 to 2 parts potassium, depending on preferred K usage.
it goes beyond that, a bit too, but thats their sweet spot according to all their testing and farm trials.
Cool thread btw, guys!
