All good. Perhaps the packs they tested were bunk. Maybe they got too hot somewhere I don't know. All I know is that we tested both a current batch and last batch and got great results.
Hey Cap i applaud you for your effort and striving to produce something that may help growers achieve there goals
I have over the years began to question many things as a farmer / gardener / and a MJ grower i have come to the conclusion that
Mycorrhiza is a type of fungi that is very important for plant growth. Companies have started packaging them and promoting them to consumers. At first they were sold as an additive to soil, but now you can find them added to many soil and soiless products.
Your soil already has mycorrhiza so you don’t need to add them.
There are hundreds and maybe even thousands of different types of mycorrhiza, some of which are very specific to certain varieties of plants. Commercial products, at best, contain 4 types. Many products contain fewer types. You don’t know that the ones in the pack or soil are the ones your plant needs!
Mycorrhiza are fairly sensitive to high temperatures. If the container holding them gets too warm, like sitting on a truck too long, they die. You have no way of knowing that the product you buy actually contains living mycorrhiza. It may just be a very expensive, useless white powder.
Probiotics for soil is the same idea as probiotics for your intestines. They are a combination of microbes that you buy and add to your soil.
How do you know if they are living? You don’t.
Will they live in your soil environment–remember microbes only grow in environments that suit them? You don’t know.
Probiotics for soil is just another way to fleece you of your money.
In last couple of years i sense the urge since the microbe rage is all about making more microbes and i ask my self WHY ???
how have we come to this stage in thinking more microbes is better think about it
A single teaspoon (1 gram) of rich garden soil can hold up to
one billion bacteria, several yards of fungal filaments, several thousand protozoa, and scores of nematodes so this is one teaspoon
Lets put it into another perspective 1 gallon of living soil is 768 teaspoons x that by one billion or 768 billion microbes living reproducing and diein off
Fungi multiplies every 10 mins this means in 10 hrs your going to have 10,000 fungi
we have moved away from Keeping Soil Microbes Happy
Your soil already has lots and i mean lots as mentioned above imagine 5 gallons 3 Trillion 72 billion microbes
Holy shit Do we really need more ??? of living microbes. Don’t add more using commercial products or compost tea. The secret is to provide the microbes you already have with a home they love. How do you do that? Feed them.
Microbes eat and digest organic matter. Keep adding compost, manure, plant cuttings, wood chip mulch etc, to your soil. Just growing plants in the soil will provide organic matter for microbes to eat. Disturb the soil as little as possible. No rototilling–it destroys microbes. Hoe as little as possible for the same reason. Walk on the soil as little as possible–compaction kills microbes.
And that is how you grow healthy plants no need for all the crap being spewed as its needed Its not
build a decent organic base soil and all them microbes alone will do the job
its all a marketing scam add benificials etc and people fall for it
PS: CAP much respect for doing what your doing and sharing this is rather valuable thanks
