So for week 9 Im going to talk about food and medicine for the system.For me the medicine is colloidal silver,I mix it with the seaweed extract.
I make a gallon of diluted extract with 1 ounce of extract per gallon.I take it and fill my spray bottle 3/4 full,and finish the last 1/4 with the silver.
The line behind the silver is it kills virus,bacteria,and fungus.The claim is its effective on 650 different organisms.The mechanism has something to do with it being a catalyst, disabling the particular enzymes that all one-celled bacteria,fungi,and viruses use for their oxygen metabolism. They suffocate.
The silver and bacteria,etc have different positive and negative charges,and it strips a molecule from Fungi,bacteria and viruses and they die.Something like that.
We use it in conventional medicine in silver impregnated dressings for wounds,and as silvadene ointment used to prevent infections on burn tissue.Its controversial in home use. You can decide if you want to use it on you or your pets or plants.
In my use in the hoop house,Ive sprayed it on fungus? on wood and it really knocked it out.On the seedlings they are getting a fungus when they come up,a quick spritz and it wipes it out,I mean its GONE.
So thats what Im doing,feeding and medicating the plants from disease several times a week.
My friend the herbalist made me a generator.Cost 25 bucks for parts,or about 100 bucks on web.Consists of a 9 volt battery,I use a rechargable Lithium Ion.The black box has some sort of current limiter IIRC,to make the finest sized nano silver particles.You could skip the box and apply straight current.
You need 2, 5 inch or so pieces of thick silver wire that is 99.9999% pure,thats really pure stuff.You hook the battery to the wires that are submerged in the very pure distilled water,the major brands work best.Also need a hand held laser pen and/or a Total Dissolved Solids meter (TDS) I got for about ten bucks from the China online place.
The kit
All there is to it,2 silver wires in a qt of distilled water in a VERY clean jar.
Its done when the laser makes a solid beam in water as light passes through,thats the laser reflecting off the nano silver particles,you can judge strength from that alone.In this picture the strength is 4ppm (parts per million) per the meter,minimum from most sources say from 3 to 50PPM.Friend says he makes 3,all thats needed,for plants I make up to 10 PPM.This batch is 6 for multi use as Im out and I use it for all uses,plants, animal and human,but THATS ME.I dont recommend you do anything,YOU make your health care choices,not me.
Took about 5 hours,I cleaned the probes 3 times during process,they get black and get particulate on them that slows down the current transfer between the rods.Then I transfer it to another jar through a coffee filter to get those few particulates that fall off rods.
Thats it,seems to work.
