Hello everybody! Pretty sure this is my first post...I'm a medical commercial grower in CO, part of a team of supervisors managing 5 warehouses, of which the smallest (my "office") is 52 lights. We have had problems in the past with PM, gray mold, aphids and gnats, and more recently with thrips. It cost nearly 2000 bucks to stock enough omri listed preventatives (
botaniguard,
spinosad, activonate, etc.) for the warehouses, every week! We made the move to the beneficials (i guess the biowar products now!) about three months ago, and have seen a complete collapse of every root aphid colony. We haven't seen any kind of mold (even fuscarium on clones) since we began application. Every now and then, aphids will break out in our coco, but they are annihilated within two days of a tea application.
The plants are definitely uptaking more sugars (we've seen mag deficiencies that we can only attribute to a thriving biolife), and are always in praying position (auto-response always engaged). Every transition period is taken with ease, where we used to wait a day or two for growth out of transplants and flipped plants, we now see such vigorous, happy plants that we've had to make changes to our cycles and scheduling to accommodate their maxed-out growing habits.
we foliar and feed feed tea @ a 1:5 ratio once a week, or four days apart if we see an outbreak.
here are some pretty insane pictures of the destruction. This is what sealed the deal for me and made me realize that biowar products are without a doubt the most effective and beneficial thing you could put in your garden. Liquid gold.
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These three are all shots of infected root aphids. it's the coolest thing i've ever seen...been obsessed with peeking in my grow bags lately :p The best part is that the fungus will break down the aphids and turn them into plant food. you can see the dried carcasses from an earlier application in the bottom pic :p
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this is the side of my EWC strainer when i make the tea. after 20 hours the whole thing is usually coated in colony.
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and last but not least, this is what is happening after 20 hours of brewing. Bacteria and fungus cultures big enough to see with the naked eye! you can even see differences in the way different species are growing. It's as much fun to make and apply tea than it is to actually grow the plants...talk about making life happen! this stuff is literally biosoup!
if you have any reservation towards capulator's products, ignore that part of yourself. These packs are easy to use, hard to fuck up, and will be the best change your garden has ever seen.
