Posted on March 7, 2010.
Sol Volcano: a hybrid marijuana new? The volcanic soils: a new hybrid marijuana?
Why do people live on volcanoes dangerous? The main reason is the rich volcanic soil. People are willing to take paris high risk for the most basic things of life - especially food.
However, the most basic things of life for some, synonymous with Cannabis. Medical Marijuana and the relief of symptoms of certain diseases has led to cannabis at the forefront of social consciousness. As a disastrous event that volcanoes pose, there is a glimmer of hope. Hawaii of course, is born of volcanic activity. Hawaii also has some of the richest soils in nutrient culture. Add goo-gobs of sun, and you make my favorite strain of marijuana of all time, Kona Gold. Thus, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or, when life gives you volcanic ash, creating a new strain of cannabis. Before you start licking our chops at the potential of ash, we will examine what it is.
Near a volcano eruption destroyed the short term by pyroclastic flows, heavy ash falls and lava flows can not be complete, the extent of damage according to the scale eruption. Crops, forests, orchards, pastures and animals, or surfing the slopes of the volcano or in the vicinity of plain can be upgraded or buried. But the effect is short term. In the long term, the volcanic deposits may develop in some of the richest farmland on earth.
An example of the effect of volcanoes on agricultural land in Italy. Except for the volcanic region near Naples, agriculture in southern Italy is extremely difficult because the shapes of the limestone basement rock and soil is generally quite low. But the region around Naples, which includes Mount Vesuvius, is very rich due primarily to two large eruptions 35,000 and 12,000 years ago which left the region covered with thick deposits of tephra, which has since withstood the rich soil. Part of this area includes Mount Vesuvius. The region has been intensively cultivated since before the birth of Christ. The land is planted with vines, vegetables or flowers. Every square foot of this rich land is used. For example, even a small vineyard has, in addition to grapes and spring beans on the trellis, beans, cauliflower and onions between the rows of mesh, and the margin of vines bordered by orange and lemon trees, of herbs and flowers. It is also a tomato growing region.
The verdant beauty and fertility of farmland in many of the North Island of New Zealand are on volcanic soils of different ages. volcanic loams developed on more (4,000 and 40,000 years) deposits of volcanic ash from the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions. Combined with abundant rainfall, warm summers and mild winters, these regions produce abundant crops, including kiwifruit found worldwide in modern recipes. Volcanic ash altered are well drained, but retain the water for plants, and are easily tilled. Deep volcanic silt are particularly good for pasture growth (there is a large dairy industry in New Zealand), horticulture, and corn.
Life forms on the surface of the Earth exist primarily by the partnership agreement of nature - the sun, and nutrients from rocks that have been broken down and recombined into soluble molecules by chemical reactions with moisture and gases such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The process is known as "chemical weathering." Chemical interactions of the atmosphere with the release of key rock-forming minerals, rocks that are then accessible to more and more things. Volcanic rocks make some of the best soil on earth because they have not only a wide variety of common elements of rock and are easily chemically separated into its basic constituents.
After the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, people who lived downwind of the eruption were concerned that the