Wood vinegar, liquid smoke, pyrolysis water, smoke water, wood distillate or Mokusaku, is an amber liquid produced through the natural act of carbonization during charcoal/biochar production. Wood vinegar is acidic with a pH of around 2.5 – 3.0 and contains a multitude of organic compounds: the major components aside from water include acetic acid and methanol.
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The benefits for different crops are;
1. Spraying diluted wood vinegar on plant leaves increases their vitality and improves crop quality. 2. Spraying also helps control harmful insects and some kinds of plant diseases. 3. Wood vinegar and agricultural chemicals are complementary. The efficacy of using them together is greater than using either one alone. 4. If wood vinegar is applied to the soil or mixed into it in high concentrations, it inhibits eelworms and soil diseases. In low concentrations or while it is in th process of being broken down in the soil it increases the quantity of useful microbes. 5. Wood vinegar helps plants develop stronger roots. 6. Mixing wood vinegar with manure reduces odours and facilitates composting.
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Wood vinegar has a strong germicidal effect due to its high acidity and the presence of germicidal ingredients such as methanol and phenol. The microbes first killed by wood vinegar are bacilli which have no spores, and some hyphomycetes which are weak in acid. However, when wood vinegar is diluted 20 times, it greatly increases the concentration of microbes. It is believed that this is primarily due to the effects of the acetic acid in wood vinegar. Plants and microbes produce a substance named acetyl coenzyme from acetic aid. Acetyl coenzyme itself is then converted into various substances which facilitate the growth of plants and microbes. Wood vinegar usually is able to reduce soil diseases through its ability to destroy harmful microbes and encourage the growth of helpful ones. Wood vinegar both has a direct germicidal effect, and an indirect, prophylactic effect through changing the biota on the leaf surface. When leaves are temporarily acidified, it prevents the increase of germs. However, the most conspicuous benefit of spraying wood vinegar on leaves, is the vinegar’s ability to strengthen plants’ natural resistances to diseases and to increase the permeability of agricultural chemicals. The bottom line, wood vinegar is beneficial to plants. I think this information will work for you.
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