[Gasification] Smoke water for seed dressing!

[Ken Calvert]

Gentlemen,   In years bygone we used to have a disinfectant product on the 
market called Jeyes Fluid.  It was a semi refined bleed  off from  Coal tar 
refining, Impure Carbolic acid, smelt like tar,  and proverbially would 
clean the spots off your Grandmothers conscience.  It was renowned for use 
as a soil sterilising agent when well watered down.  What it did was kill 
off  lots of  the fungal and bacterial disease organisms in the soil, 
particularly those that caused damping- -off , Root rot and and stem wilt. 
Its acknowledged  stimulation to seeds was
seen to be in reducing the pathogen load that they had to contend with.
Cheers,  Ken C.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "doug.williams" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification" 
<gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Gasification Digest, Vol 15, Issue 15


> Hi Nikolaus,
>
> You suggest some interesting possibilities:
>
>> The " black water" or smoke water is used for seed dressing because there
>> is
>> a vigor enhancing substance in the smoke water.