This video details the use of a cone pit to create a large volume of charcoal for use in making our potting mixes at Honey Badger Nursery. The charcoal will be inoculated and charged with nutrient to become biochar, at which point we'll mix it with double ground red oak bark and mushroom compost to form the base of our potting mix we use in the nursery and air-pruning beds. The biochar replaces perlite and vermiculite that is commonly used in most commercial potting mix brands, while providing a whole host of benefits that perlite or vermiculite do not.
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