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Sounds Ok to me, and most of the stuff sold contains lots of microbes which are otherwise padding if you like, Literally it would be impossible to make a plant tonic which is specific to a single plant, without sampling every single plant on the planet and in all conditions, but this is in fact the reality in the wild.
Some plants have lots of Biological Primer Partners (BPP), some hardly any. Japanese hogweed has about 20, where Sunflowers about 4. The more BPP relationships you can form, the wider your chance of acquiring what you need at any one time. The plants with lower ratios of BPP's must have conditions that favor these partners, or there will be trouble.
Bac Am is in Bio Media Pro, I have been using it for many years now, in fact since about 1990 I think. Most of the stuff we now use for plant growth promotion and bio control, came from our past/ existing business which was green waste management and mining restoration. This I did before I decided to become a full time farmer, and still do on a consultancy basis.
I make an SLF type of liquid inoculate, called K+AMINO. It is made in a very similar way, except we live in areas of extremes deliberately and so rarely have to ship in, rather taking samples from the wild and then growing these on in situ where we then collect living samples as the base to further process internally using the same basic principles for KNF fermentation.
K+AMINO is rammed full of PSB's KSB. SRB's and Nitrogen fixers. it is highly loaded with bio controls, esp valuable for pre treating land after winter, where negative biology can gain traction amid the cool damp of winter and early spring. If you needed an inoculate for single season plants, this is a really good option. Not just because we make it, but because it can consolidate many of the individual products we might otherwise buy, and it can be used across plant types, including legumes. it is rich in siderophore producing microbes, some of those are in the SLF-100 above I can see.
I use K+AMINO as a foliar at 0.01% from seed up to week 3-4 bloom typically on MJ. It is an excellent seed soak too, containing many microbes that are germination antagonists, working to chew the gums from seeds cases, rhizobial as well as autotrophs working more generally on soil health to restrict common white molds, fusarium and so on.
It also contain trichoderma, both viride and hazarium strains so boith N fixing and Bio Control. We only harvest microbes from the wild, we dont buy in spores for onward cultivation.
Why do we only attempt to use wild microbes and not simply get them from a lab which would be super easy?
Most of the knowledge about Bacillus subtilis derives from studies of laboratory strains growing as planktonic cultures, in which all the individual cells are considered identical. Recently, the study of a natural and undomesticated isolate has revealed that B. subtilis cells display multicellular and social features that were lost in the laboratory strains, which were selected over generations for easy manipulation. In undomesticated strains, certain environmental conditions trigger cells of this bacterium to form multicellular communities where sporulation takes place, and to exhibit some particular social traits, like swarming motility, the fratricide of sibling cells or cannibalism during sporulation, and the release of extracellular DNA. Interestingly, some of these behaviors are based in the heterogeneity of the B. subtilis populations, which has been determined using cell biological techniques like fluorescence and light microscopy. - https://www.caister.com/bacillus2017
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