Biochar Trial 2 - Design-Draft
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Some design features below:
Exploring interaction effects of feedstock type, soil, char application
rate, crop species, char size, fertilization, and mycorrhizal fungi.
No repetition (n=1), this loses the ability to assign a statistical
significance level to results, but allows more interactions (96 unique
combinations, 96 pots) to be tried given limited resources.
Charcoal produced in WoodGas stoves.
Char yield 12-18% (char mass/air dry biomass mass) (ie not adjusted to conventional dry weight yield unit, yet).
Fine Char - Blended and sieved to 230 mesh (<63 micron).
Coarse Char - Blended and sieved to between ~24 mesh - 8 mesh.
Fertilizer - 4-4-4 NPK Organic (bone meal, feather meal...)
Potting Soil - Potting Mix
Sandy Soil - Mixture of Horticultural Sand and Sandy Loam from Central Valley
Pots arranged in random spatial order (to randomize light/watering variation). Trays rotated to limit effects of light/watering variation.
Automatic drip emitter watering. Pots grown in enclosed cage outdoors.
Blocks - ( 8 pots/block)
Fertilizer {Yes,No}
Plant {Wheat, Pea}
Soil {Sandy, Potting}
Blocks - (12 blocks * 8 pots/block = 96 pots)
B1 - Char (0 g)
B2 - Char (1 g, Pine, Fine)
B3 - Char (1 g, Pine, Coarse)
B4 - Char (1 g, Bamboo, Fine)
B5 - Char (1 g, Bamboo, Coarse)
B6 - Char (5 g, Pine, Fine)
B7 - Char (5 g, Pine, Coarse)
B8 - Char (5 g, Bamboo, Fine)
B9 - Char (5 g, Bamboo, Coarse)
B10 - Char (0 g) + Mycorrhizae
B11 - Char (5 g, Pine, Coarse) + Mycorrhizae
B12 - Char (10 g, Pine, Coarse)
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