Quick question on living soil..

[bankcee]

does super soil ever become inert per say? or will a microbial tea fix that? you know does it just go dormant til I kick start the micro herd with a tea?

like if I had cooked some soil couple years back and it's still sitting is it no longer usable?

lol just curious..

 

[DonBrennon]

does super soil ever become inert per say? or will a microbial tea fix that? you know does it just go dormant til I kick start the micro herd with a tea?

like if I had cooked some soil couple years back and it's still sitting is it no longer usable?

lol just curious..

some of your microbes will have died, most will have just gone dormant, depending on conditions. I would definitely advise an AACT, it would replace some of the dead microbes and bring a balance to the existing one's, the soil should be good to go then, as long as it was good to begin with.

 

[bankcee]

you have a good recipe for an aact? I see so many different ones out there.. generally the same.. but some add more stuff and some add less.

some of your microbes will have died, most will have just gone dormant, depending on conditions. I would definitely advise an AACT, it would replace some of the dead microbes and bring a balance to the existing one's, the soil should be good to go then, as long as it was good to begin with.

 

[DonBrennon]

you have a good recipe for an aact? I see so many different ones out there.. generally the same.. but some add more stuff and some add less.

IMO less is better, Homemade vermicompost or thermal compost, molasses and water with no chlorine or chloramines. Agitated vigorously!!! for 36-48 hours, possibly a very small amount of kelp meal and rockdust at the very beggining of brewing, only as a food source/anchor point for microbes, not for any nutritional benefit for your plants.