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Yes worms eat bacterial slime. Enzymes increase the conversion of organic matter into compost. Your living soil is based on plant growth regulators present in the soil. Microorganisms feed on them constantly. These PGRs enter your plant also. Introducing MBP accelerates the entire process by also introducing large amounts of these naturally occurring PGRs.So the phosphatase, chitinase (and the others) make the P and chitin that's present in the soil (from things like bone meal, guano, and dead bugs?) plant available (magically changing phosphorous into phosphate, which is used in every cell in/on the planet/plant in the ATP cycle…it’s almost like I remember biology…sometimes it takes an inordinate amount of time for things to percolate around in my brain). No idea why the worm pile goes crazy.
It sounds to me as though we're making sure that the plant has "full access" to the sources of nutrient in the soil by adding enzymes that start the process of breaking these nutrient resources (substrates) down into ions or at least into simpler things that bacteria and fungi can work on. Put alternatively, by having a boatload of enzymes in the soil, we're helping to ensure that access to nutrients will not be a limiting factor for our weed plants (all things being equal). And now I get your last point. Roots exude these enzymes (for whatever reason...bait for bacteria?), and in the process of malting, the grain brain gets serious about making roots, so enzyme development goes into overdrive and using malted barley in tea steals these freely available enzymes and puts a goodly portion into the rhizosphere (or the plant surface even), right where it's needed? Yeah, I dreamed that entire last bit up I think...but it could be how it works.
Still no idea why the worm pile goes nuts...I wouldn't think worms would be terribly dependent on the enzymes since they come with guts and mucus...maybe the barley enzymes get leaf mold going faster...food source easier to deal with for the worms so they have more time for sex? Yeah, I don't know about that...but it could be how it works.
This is why I envy soil science students (I was planning to be one, back in the day); he or she could just jot that question down for his or her next class (not about the worms, about the enzymes)...or maybe read Tim Wilson's, Microbe Organics page...or read the "Teaming with..." books (I've read them and think they're great, but I have a ways to go before I actually get it...it's complicated, and I’ve already admitted that I’m slow). cheers
Coot doesn't believe in teas...a lot of the conversions and transfer of enzymes and culture blooms and what not would be better to happen in the soil itself. Lots of organic acids are released.Well, I don't know clackamas coot, but I like his name and I like his ideas. Too bad he didn't answer my own general interest question about what process puts enzymes from malted barley into compost teas and how do those enzymes once in the soil improve nutrient uptake or nutrient availability. If I had to guess, I'd say that enzymes doing their thing naturally improves nutrient uptake, and, guessing again, that the enzymes move from a place of high concentration (within the malted barley) to a place of lower concentration (in the tea?)?
Let me emphasize on what masanobu is trying to say...this defies laws of creation (assimilation of the building blocks of life). It also defies laws of physics even....law of diminishing returns would be a contradiction on Einstein's theory of preservation of matter which states that "matter cannot be created or destroyed".
Think like this there is an opposite to all laws. Complete contradiction if you will...now law of minimum can be fixed by nature by law of compensation...uhhh plants drop biological denitrification inhibitors through exudates....what does that tell you?
Neem, as well as mulch, and legumes act as a denitrification inhibitor.
And I’m pretty sure that the scientific method presupposes that advances in science (or at least new scientific discioveries...maybe not all are “advances”) are not done in a vacuum but build on previous advances/discoveries/ideas. And while I agree with you that neither was a saint (and may have been real dicks), the guy in the wheelchair is my own personal hero (the one with the crazy hair and a pipe was before my time...wonder what he had in his pipe as he contemplated the fact that mass equals energy...most of the time).
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