OMG! Thank you for this revelation. So, basically what you’re saying is I could cut out things like mammoth P and Recharge with the right worm casting teas right? Do you have a good example/recipe of one and may be what it’s good for ie. N uptake or P uptake?
The one that's worked for me, as far as "uptake increase"...
Has always been a simple one.
1/2 cup of worm castings
1/4 cup of alfalfa meal
1/4 cup Molasses (I buy my molasses from a restaurant/bakery supply company - GORDON FOODS. This molasses is rather sweet and supplies plenty of "food" for the bacteria and fungus to grow.
Added to
5 gallons of Rain, pond, river, creek or spring water. I NEVER add kelp meal to any of my teas! It will reduce the living bio counts by as much as 45%+.
A cpl guys from Vortex and myself found that out by doing differing mix's and doing live counts.
So, don't add any Kelp product to your teas. Add kelp meal to your soil mix's and I also use kelp extract at every up potting and in foliar mix's (these foliar mix's help with cloning by helping root formation).
This tea is then brewed in a Vortex style tea brewer for 36hrs before use. It will last a day or so in the open , and about a week or so if refrigerated.
Some folks cut their tea before delivering it to the plant. I do NOT, Pour it on, full strength.... Ever get PM issues? Pull some of that tea at 18hrs of brew time and lightly filter it so it will go through a spray rig. Spray your plant surfaces with it - About 2 weeks of protection.
I use a Horse tail grass tea for direct PM killing....
That tea formula is a very normal simple Bio Tea. The Alfalfa (Dr Earth's is my religious go to brand) adds a few things spectrum wise (Bio's) and some minor available N.
This is the exact formula I used in testing the every other day use of it and synthetic's. It reduced the use of nutrients by a whopping 75% (Only feeding every other day and the concentration used was only 50%.
I say this because it was so powerful in bloom, I had to be very careful with any additional P&K use or ,, boom - P tox!
So I would say by hands on trials. This will do what those expensive and un needed supplements advertise they do.
Always remember that P will speed up the end of the plants life. Too much will not allow the plant to mature properly before it expires. This is that thin line between just right and too much. Unless you want pretty yellow plants with lost "potential" results.
BTW. That cool paper on terpenoids above. Should also be telling you that sulfate compounds present, effect the ability of those fungal types (
Rhizophagus intraradices and
B. bassiana ) to increase terpenoid production. It's what
they eat (or part of their focus) too.. That tidbit of knowledge is from Agronomy class.
Bacterial–Fungal Interactions in the Kelp Endomicrobiota Drive Autoinducer-2 Quorum Sensing
www.redbudsoilcompany.com
