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| I searched the web and cannot find the answer so I hope I can find the answer here.
I just purchased Xtreme Gardenings products Azos or Azospirillum Brasilense Nitrogen Fixing Beneficial bacteria and Mykros or Mycorrhizal fungi, they work well together. Details here: http://www.hydrowholesale.com/Xtreme-Gardening/Xtreme-Gardening.asp My thought is I can extend the amount of product I purchased by placing a small amount of each in the compost tea brewer which should multiply and therefore extending the amount of product purchased. Is there any reason why this will not work? Thanks in advance for any information. Randy |
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| If your plants are growing in a good healthy soil these very expensive products will do nothing and of your plants are growing in an unhealthy soil these products will do nothing. If you have soil somewhere between those extremes they might have some small beneficial affect, probably not worth the cost of the product. Keep in mind that is the seller of something tells you stuff that sounds to good to be true, it is. |
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- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 2, 11 at 9:31
| They are not telling the truth about the "nitrogen fixing" bacteria. They only work with SOME plants, and every plant seems to have a different strain of bacteria. As for the "mykros" ... spores of mycorrhizal fungi blow in the wind, and every area has its own varieties that are adapted for the soil conditions. ********** |
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- Posted by vintagewood (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 11 at 20:57
| Useless pixie dust eh? That's why the products consistently produce solid results... lazygardens you should research azospirillum brasilense, you might find out that it is a free living bacteria and is not plant specific like most other nitrogen fixing bacteria are. As for mycorrhizae spores floating around in the wind, those would generally be ecto mycorrhizae spores that only form associations with conifers and hardwood trees. Endo mycorrhizae is what you are going to find in Mykos and it is a particular species(glomus intraradices) that is highly effective on most plants. It seems to work really well for a lot of gardeners out there so you should not spout off so fast. Tronic you are not going to reproduce the mycorrhizae in a tea brew it just doesn't work that way with VAM, the azos may be a different story as bacteria are easily multiplied. |
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- Posted by lazygardens PhxAZ%3A Sunset 13 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 19, 11 at 21:45
| There are a large number of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) species being researched, including several species of Azospirillum. The results for any given species are very location dependent. A. brasilensis is NOT the solution for all plants. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1388448/ "We conclude that A. brasilense is a rhizosphere colonizer which survives poorly in most soils for prolonged periods of time; that outside the rhizosphere, seven abiotic parameters control the survival of this bacterium in the soil; and that disturbance of the soil (percolation with water or plant removal) directly and rapidly affects the population levels." And another article - "Pseudomonas fluorescens P-93 gave the highest seed yield, number of pods per plant, weight of 100 seed, seed protein yield, number seed per pod, seed protein yield." That's Pseudomonas, not any of the Azospirillums. Some of the results were the result of GMO, which may cause organic fans to do some pearl clutching: "Moreover, 85% of maize plants inoculated with transformed A. brasilense survived drought stress, in contrast with only 55% of plants inoculated with the wild-type strain. " And multiple species in a single seed inoculant are often better than one. It's a waste of the typical gardener's money. |
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