Wanted to get some insight

I've been doin a lot of reading on beneficial microbes, teas, and super soils. I'm wanting to experiment with this for my next grow and have been wondering if I used a mix of fox farm ocean forest and happy frog(the bags say they are loaded with bennies) and feed with a tea to feed the bennies would I be wasting my time cause I plan to use my dyna grow nutes to feed the plant? I know that teas are primarily for organic grows and didn't know if the synthetic nutes would counter act what I'm shooting for which is a thriving population of bennies.

Relax a little, just remember, you are growing weeds and they will grow in spite of most of the crap you throw at them....most of the problems we have as growers is dumb stuff we do, feeding and watering when it's not necessary....

what old guy said i new a guy that grew one and all he did was piss on it time to time lol but dont mix organic with chems man in chems u no what is in it to the ml organic well thats a hole diff ball park i can see u cooking em with nute burn or getting some sort of funky root rot

My college roommate works in the agriculture lab at the university here in my area (LSU). He does soil testing for farmers. I was curious about this same subject so we did a lil experiment. We found that using chemical ferts do in fact kill bennies. But not at the rate you might think. The testing was done using dyna gro because that's what I use/have. We found that with a normal full strength dose (5ml/gallon) of foliage pro only "killed" an estimated 3-5% of bennies. It wasn't until we were at 10 times the normal dose (50ml/gallon) that we noticed significant drops in microbial life (25% reduction).
On the other hand, micro life can be increased by plant and of corse root health being that the plants and mostly the roots "feed" these guys. So supplementing an organic grow with chemical nutes could increase the actual overall health of the micro herd. Or at least not make enough of an impact to justify not supplying much needed nutrition to a plant for the sake of a few bacteria.

I don't grow organically but I do experiment with all kinda stuff and these are my findings on this subject.

The short answer is;
Chemical nutes will kill some but not all beneficial bacteria.

Hope this helps,

Polo

Thanks for the replies I was just wondering cause I've been reading about different things and that kinda sparked an interest. I'm a newb so I guess I'll be smart about it and not over complicate things and just hope I make it to harvest with decent results. Thanks again guys

Anybody ever run the ffof or happy frog with dyna gro? If so were the results good?

Synthetic fertilizers will kill a lot of beneficial microbes. If you want to encourage microbial life, I suggest you use teas, and unsulphured molasses. The molasses feeds many different microbes. Bacterias love sugars...

Guys, the neut company's love you.....I have been growing for many years and find that, if you prepare your planting sites in the fall, digging in some leaf mould or planting mix along with a couple handfuls of 16/16/16 fertilizer (gasp) that after all winter to incorporate, it will not be necessary to add anything until the flowering, if then. There are many testing kits on the market that make it unnecessary to guess at what is required. Don't just add stuff because you read it in these threads, make sure it is necessary, not just popular......