And if the Quad Squad has any feedback… suppose the thread there is where to ask. I wouldn’t mind a moment of hand holding right here, make sure no glaring errors are present.
5 weeks ago these were dry-ass seeds…Ah, almost forgot, so actually yesterday was microbe… Tuesday? Yes, we’ve fallen off schedule a day. Whatev. But point was, I foliar sprayed this time. Now I have a couple weeks in this setup and I have my plan in pocket, not scared of my shadow anymore, so I was happy to foliar even though outdoors there’s a lot of PM about the place (means there is indoors too, mine anyway and don’t kid yourself). I’ve got a pic of my ingredients for you, best I can offer this moment.
These are the shelf-able products that can sit ‘indefinitely’. Some more indefinite than others but Hydroguard the one “wet”product can be stored for decent durations if precautions taken, I am reliably informed. My personal experience now is only an open bottle for 6 months, so now we’ll see.
However, instead of the 50ml per dose you can pop 5ml on the stirrer with some cornstartch for 24hrs and your bacteria will be 5x the originally suggested, 50ml dose. In my research it was clear that for such a single bacc. species product, with the right amount corn starch or similar carb your res will only feed the hydroguard, they’re only meant to be in solution a day or three to sweep out the baddies, not always be at max dose level even though the marketing gives that impression. Controllability is the value of taking the trouble to isolate only the hydroguard bacillus that the seller takes. They know they aren’t seeding your res with something weird, regardless your usage. That gives you some more experimental freedom.
I’m working on a tek but it’s not very sponsor business-friendly. Which is to say, I buy shelf microbes
then culture to keep on hand in their most impactful state (motive, or hyphae not spore). This is for my own interest in exploring this incredibly small and ridiculously important universe.
Most important part was figuring out a way to tell if microbes were active in my culture. Many are so small that a sub 1500$ microscope has no hope. They are unaffected by gravity, effectively massless. Yet you, the thing you see in the mirror each morning contains more microbial cells than human ones.
So, how do you know if you are successfully culturing? Definitively? You don’t. But good enough, pH testing is one part, however, I’m growing them on the roots of a mix of red wheat, corn, bean and pea all wildly oversown atop perlite with some vermiculite and dash of peat in 10x20 trays on mesh inserts. It’s very easy to quickly peek and I’ve learned what cultured roots look like compared to plainos, and that’s what the peat is for.
When endomycorhizal fungi and their associated bacterium
have entered the root itself and found a workable state of things, they, with the root’s mutual contributions, express tiny hairs out through the roots. When layers and layers of these are present, earth, peat in my case, adheres to the roots in a peculiarly unique way that is your best gardener’s signal that the rhizosphere has been successfully inoculated and functioning. I will find you a pic, very sorry not at this moment.
Inoculating…. So far as endomycos go, the promagule numbers you’ll get will be likely comparable to those of the commercial vendors, however a promagule is counted as any part of the fungus capable of eventual inoculation… and this means, essentially, in a reasonably profitable product with a shelf-life, spores. Spores that have to be hydrated and conditioned-in-place. These and other events mean that it takes some time, more than strictly necessary, to become active and impactful. This is a different process for different microbial life, but a process for each nonetheless.
So the advantages of having fresh on hand here are effectiveness, time to impact and I’m quite certain also, cost. Though that is a variable totally at your discretion, unlike the others.
Now, if instead you were to just pop back to your 10x20 trays of corn, wheat, pea and bean and the promugules you come back with will be 90% hyphae, ready as ready can be and need only copy itself, not awaken, reconstitute from sporulated form. The same can be said for the other complementary
, whether bacillus or many others, if faced by no viable competition in the new grow matrix they will immediately take over at moment of transplant as I believe mine did. I am very pleased with all aspects of the grow so far, vigour, turgidity, pleasantly surprised at growth rate.
As a guess, purely for sport, I reckon that I f you were in DWC and didn’t have a pump dribbling on plant before roots hit the nutrient I think you’d be behind this grow. With it the pump you’re likely ahead but only by a few days at this stage is my guess and feel for it. Not an expert, I’ve been around a lot of plants but not my own personal indoor and that’s different, that’s the most telling, and teaching, scenario IMHO.
Anyway, I’m trying to put individual pics of each SIP plant here, ignore the others, we’lll see them take their turn in a SIP and find out what cannabis can do in them. Spoiler Alert: good
things…
congratulations. Looking forward to seeing your craftsmanship and I’m really excited to see what phenos traits come out. 
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