@Ecompost, can you explain a little bit bout free ranging bacteria or give me some reading material? Thank you brother
sure,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1002016008600429
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294487/
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-bacteria-and-vs-fungi/
bacteria dont need plants to live, so you can get these in to your pile before you plant up, they will go through the mix and pull out the good stuff, releasing enzymes and antibiotic properties in to the substrate, along side humates such as the soil glue to which you earlier referred, called Bio Film commonly when specific to bacteria. Soil dwelling microbes like Bacillus spp. Azotobacter spp. etc etc can fix NH4+ from N2 and Mo interactions, later on when you get fungal relations, these will call in the biome of bacteria and the big exchange will begin :-) Fungus like mycos need bacteria, just as we need bacteria to digest food in our sacks or stomach, fungus use the same system, only external, we are the same :-)
The types of fungus, eg G. Intraradices, Trichoderma spp. that associate with cannabis, rely on free ranging microbes with which they themselves form relationships with, not our plants in most cases we know today. Our plants form relationships with fungus, and so it is from the chain that the truest benefit is released.
Bacteria and fungus modulate the environment and offer benefits not possible if plants grew alone. Bacteria rely on micros such as Mo, Mn etc, which they mine from minerals in the substrate, bedrock and so on, they need this for fuel, when our higher bacterial forms, eg flagelettes move through the colonies of Azotobacter, we often find a release of these micros as ions, which are then diffsued in to our plants, what is unused is often stored along fungal strands for later use, or picked up by other forms of bacteria where the process repeats.
Bacteria can hold and store ions on there bodies, preventing them from causing electrical fluctuation among our soil particle types, so helping prevent compaction and pH swings.
We need more than fungus to grow biologically, and it all begins with bacteria :-)
Hope that helps