Microbial action
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DonBrennon
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1, EWC or good compost
2, EWC or good compost(with some mollases and bubbled for 36hrs if you want to water it in)
....................sorry. I'm baked...................but still right, pmsl
2, EWC or good compost(with some mollases and bubbled for 36hrs if you want to water it in)
....................sorry. I'm baked...................but still right, pmsl
greasemonkeymann
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baked or not, your response is as accurate as you can get.1, EWC or good compost
2, EWC or good compost(with some mollases and bubbled for 36hrs if you want to water it in)
....................sorry. I'm baked...................but still right, pmsl
Worm castings for bacterial microbes, compost for fungal (depending on how its assembled)
ideally you want both
DonBrennon
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I've been learning from some of the best................
Richard Drysift
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Recharge is good to add and I've used it but it's more of an inoculant that a tea. I bet some fresh worm casting would be even more active than powdered microbes. You would need to add recharge like once a week to get the same level of activity as fresh EWC in your mix globally or as an AACT. If you bubble some EWC with clean water, some molasses and kelp meal for 24 hours+ you'll make an AACT that is just as effective and arguably more so than recharge but if you've got some on hand it does help increase the microherd. Some hydro shops give out samples of recharge so maybe you could score some for free while you source some fresh EWC
Rasta Roy
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Not to parrot everyone else buttt....It's just a powder trying to recreate what fresh earthworm castings and compost will already do for you.
Top dress with both and do the tea with it as well like a couple helpful growers said above.
whatever fertilized or composted meals/poos around or over 40% organic matter will instantly trigger the reversal of the c/n ratio. The native microherd will explode on its own medium like a supernova. No matter what we do..100% broadband genes expression & 100% full strenght [stress resistance & aggressivity] on its own substrate, not in water or water cultures wich are the very weak link of this game because an over brewing of teas will encourage an overabundance of secondary metabolites<----being know the nature of these metabolic wastes....we sometimes find out a pure napalm effect once we pour the tea into a balanced substrate.
In fact it doesnt exists a balanced-multi strain-liquid-culture if we attain to microbiology basics. It fluctuates more than the wall street ticker guys. Better testing it previously in little containers or cloning cell trays, mind we always test this things in weak subsystems.
iHearAll
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i add
activated EM +molasses every week
fermented extracts every AACT
bokashi as a top dressing (must be mixed into top 3 inches)
bd500 in every few AACT(really not important in the soil but best used as compost activator)
if you're going full blown organic with microlivestock you'll find it's easiest to turn your surroundings into plant food and compost/compost activators. versis buying things.
learn to make a microbe colony whether from EM1, lactoserum, or kambucha. i like to promote not exclusively using IMOs as they carry pathogens. but adding a probiotic source and molasses (specifically and not granulated sugar) they will starve out the pathogens in the materials like vermicastings and manuers.
cheers
activated EM +molasses every week
fermented extracts every AACT
bokashi as a top dressing (must be mixed into top 3 inches)
bd500 in every few AACT(really not important in the soil but best used as compost activator)
if you're going full blown organic with microlivestock you'll find it's easiest to turn your surroundings into plant food and compost/compost activators. versis buying things.
learn to make a microbe colony whether from EM1, lactoserum, or kambucha. i like to promote not exclusively using IMOs as they carry pathogens. but adding a probiotic source and molasses (specifically and not granulated sugar) they will starve out the pathogens in the materials like vermicastings and manuers.
cheers
GreenSanta
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What I like to do now is take it a step ahead, I use mulch and worms, make the castings on site!1, EWC or good compost
2, EWC or good compost(with some mollases and bubbled for 36hrs if you want to water it in)
....................sorry. I'm baked...................but still right, pmsl