What are the best fungi and bacteria innocults?

keepitcoastal said:

I think I may have confused you, I was mentioning two different things. Iv have my soil plants which have plenty of lime already and my soil ph always stays relatively in range. But I was talking about my indoor coco/perlite plants at the end there, and I typically always ph to 5.8 and water twice a day. But recently on one test plant iv been not ph'ing an aact tea and just feeding it too it, no deficiencys and no I'll effects so far, and only requires one watering per day now.
I like coco/perlite a lot and I know I could essentially just add lime , humus and their amendments and make it into a soil pretty much, but will it still preform like it did when I treated it like hydro?

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Never done coco but I have done some soilless mixes, and to me, there's either organics or sterile "hydroponic" grows. No middle ground. The mycorrhizae and beneficial bacteria either flourish in a "soil-like media", or you treat the thing as you would a hydro grow. There would be no benefit to amending coco/perlite with organic nutrients unless you can cultivate the micro-herd as well to break down the oganic ferts into a plant usable form. In other words, either use organic nutrients and go all-out organic, or stick with the chemical ferts and treat it like hydro. Without a thriving micro herd, the plants cannot take up very many organic ferts anyway.I hope this answers your Q. I could still be confused. I migrated to organics very early on and have never looked back. And you say below you want "hydro-like" yeilds? (Some how that sounded like organic yeilds were somehow inferior!! LOL) If you go organic, and tend your girls properly, you'll get yeilds every bit as good, and imho, way better than "Hydro-like". Organics has yeilded me breadloaf sized buds, and buds the size of my arms. (Check my albums) Potency,quality and flavor are UNSURPASSED!!

Bacteria and Lime - my ph up and buffer

Fungi and Organic Nutes and Root Exudates - my ph down

So long as you start with a good buffered correctly pHed mix which is alive with microbes you should not have to worry about target pH (5. of your input water at all. AACT is thriving with beneficial organisms who work like their lives depend on it to maintain a good pH for the plant and maximizing its exudates. IMO AACT is better than man-made inoculants due to 1. price 2. diversity of species 3. Freshly booming populations in aerated water. "Tea is a religion" KK

I just learned that coco/perlite is not too enticing for microbial colonization. Microbes do not colonize perlite and have trouble with coco strands being long and smooth as compared to the rougher, more colonizable surface of peat particles. I bet you the plants will not do as well as soilless methods in this mix.