I’ve read multiple times that a lot of bottled nutrients can kill the beneficial microbes in living soil. I’ve been feeding age old bloom and grow and am wondering if this is one of the ones that will harm living soil?
Am I killing my living soil?
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OrganicBudz
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Nah, those ingredients come in alot of supersoils.
SPLFreak808
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If you successfully kill off all the microbes with soluble nutrients, you would have also killed the plant.
The microbe population can swing from slight dormancy all the way to thriving, all of this is normal depending on your grow style.
The microbe population can swing from slight dormancy all the way to thriving, all of this is normal depending on your grow style.
2Hearts
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Its because of a simple word called salt, many salts are harmless compounds both the plant soil and microbes love to eat and why we sprinkle on soils.
If you use salts the microbes will shift to a less diverse and lesser plant relationship not die. The ones that fare bettet with those compounds and soil will prevail. Add organics and they simply switch back to a more dependant role and other species prevail.
You would neeld high levels of npk salts to kill a microbe or bacteria in a soil cation matrix, past overfertilizing and into toxic. At that point plants would die and microbes that love to eat toxic stuff now move in and prevail.
If you use salts the microbes will shift to a less diverse and lesser plant relationship not die. The ones that fare bettet with those compounds and soil will prevail. Add organics and they simply switch back to a more dependant role and other species prevail.
You would neeld high levels of npk salts to kill a microbe or bacteria in a soil cation matrix, past overfertilizing and into toxic. At that point plants would die and microbes that love to eat toxic stuff now move in and prevail.