My Cannazym test.

[bunnyface]

Intro

Hello,

As you can probably tell from the title this is my cannazym test. As far as I can tell there have been a few tests so I thought I would give it a go. Note that I will not be using apple sauce or paper like canna themselves choose to do for some reason? Anyway I will try to keep this brief and I want you to know in now way would I call this the most precise or scientific test that can be done but there are pictures....
So after reading up on enzymes and a few other things, like products available, contents,(which takes a while and sometimes just isn't found) and small reviews people have done, thought I would try something and see if it is as good , or dose what the people who make it claim, and if not I wont get it and i will try somthing else. anyway before i rant....
After some talking to people and what they think and such, recommendation, experience I thought I would try Cannazym,(if you don't know what it is check there website or this ones search bit,)
so bought a bottle, anyway,

The Tests

To start I thought I would do two small test, I grew 4 clones in soil,(along with 6 in rockwool cubes but that's for another time and place), culled two with a high dose of neem and dried out of 3-4 weeks, plucked them both from the soil trying to leave root mass (which was easy as they were very dry),

First Test.. Cannzym in dead root mass in soil mix (roughly 40% perlite rest biobizz allmix) in small coinatiners,
vs
Dead root mass in same mix of 'soil' with just water added.

So then I applied one with a half liter of water, then mixed up the bottle stated dose in scaled down form for the other,, if i remeber its like 1:400, or 25ml to 10L o water, so I did 2.5 ml in 1 L o water, they both got drenched until they dripped of liquid,
For both these pots they are in the tray of a small heated propagator , in the dim side of my space, temp of both water was roughly 22 degree C (71.6 F).
I say roughly as I did measure it and they were both 22 C when I started, also measured pH to start, (didn't measure pH of mixed Cannazym, maybe abit of a small mistake on my part but I will update it when I re-dose when soil drys out, I have small funny moisture meter, anyhow,) starting water pH was 7.1 according to my meter, and the EC IS below 0.2, ( sorry my meter only goes that low so I count it as being 0.1 - 0.2 but if it help we have soft water and from my experience its quite good water, sorry, getting long winded again,,) I also say 0.2 because the meter says its below 0.2 according to the instructions, but i once again didn't get the ec of the cannazym...next update though..
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Here is test one after it got dosed, So plan is to re-dose same volume when soil is dried out,...and then give it a good few weeks, then empty pots side by side and measure root volume left, cause as they say it should munch the dead roots,, so we will see.... also I will try get a pic of them in situ...

Second test.... Just the dead clones and a small amount of root material,. In 200ml of 22C water with 25ml of cannazym.

This test is to see if there are any results from dead material like leaves ,stalks, and small root material , in a reasonable amount of time, and give me a visual picture of if it dose eat all plant material. This will be kept in a 19C (66.2F) dark cupboard for 24-48hrs, and see what happens, then final lenght of test will be max. one week,,maybe two, see how it goes ay,,

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So theres the pics, sorry my camera is a bit shit but for the results I will use another one,,

Of course I will get the pics in when the results are in , if there are any, It will probably be nearer march for the soil test but I will let you know how it goes. Sorry If I being long winded, .. and take it easy,.... also feel free to comment...

 

[bunnyface]

Bugger,,, sorry about the pics being attachments,, they were in the text when I wrote it up??? Take it easy.

 

[kountdown]

I couldn't get the attachments to work but I guess just to clarify, your experiment is to see if cannazyme breaks down dead root material faster than plain water? I have interest because I'm starting an experiment of my own using reused soil and I've been reading up on how to break down the remaining dead roots in the soil. All signs pointed to enzyme supplements but they are a little pricey. I have been monitoring a garbage barrel full of used soil for a couple weeks to see if anything is happening. I have added compost tea and a microbe supplement but nothing dramatic has happened so far. Good luck and I'll be watching.

 

[bunnyface]

Well thats what I too was thinking, if the cannazym dose as it declares it should break down the dead roots in a usable form, im not sure if they will dissolve completely in the soil so am quite interested to find out also,,,,
sorry then photos not working in try agin, in a moement.....

 

[bunnyface]

Well 24 hrs after and Im goin to give it 48hrs for the water, with the same dose added again as there was some decompostion, but not a huge amount./

 

[bunnyface]

I did have a few snaps of the stuff in the liquid but they arn't the best,strained through a baking sieve, fair amount of small leaf chunks, but not huge quantities.

So this is 42hrs after two doses of the cannazym, the material such as the leaves are very gooie to touch,almost seem to have a coating of sludge. I don't have a microscope to see it scientifically, so wouldn't claim its algae. But it dose have the similar 'feel'. I don't know if other people have touched algae but it certainly has that same feeling. Leaves did break apart quite easily, but i would argue the leaves would break apart easiest when dried and crushed. Stems seems to have stayed quite solid, with typical peeling of outer layers which I would attribute to them being soaked in water rather than infer the cannazym did it itself,

Most intresteing is the small amount of root material that was in the mix. From the pictures it dose appear to have broken down or at least broken up somewhat. It still has quite a solid structre but , comparing the picture from earlier to today would seem to of done something. Note the are some of the smaller parts of the root stuck to the leaves in one of the pictures.

Anyhow sorry for the state and quailty of the pictures, will let you know how the pots go. Also if there is a difference in the pots whatever roots I am left with I will do the same test as before but just with root material. When I do that I will weigh the mass and do a comparison with just water.....

 

[bunnyface]

dont know how they got so big but there are the two photos, before and after...

 

[bunnyface]

finally got round to doing this,, the pile on the left is the cannazym one, and the right hand pile was just water,
I teated them with water and cannazym roughly once a week, i say roughly as once it was twice a week once(im a stoned fool) and then another time wasn't spaced properly.
as you can just about make out the roots in the pictures, but more importantly the one treated with water is abit clumpy, that is the roots holding it together, not me smoothing out one pile, and those clumps at the front were just clumps of soil, no roots in it, the 3rd soil picture is the cannazym treated one and the first two are the wtare treated one,
Then i did go and sieve through them both and found more roots in the one treated by water. so make of that what you will, there were still roots in the cannazym soil but very few and they certainly werent holding the soil together like in the other pot..

so after i have finished with this batch of plants i will do another test were i take a picture of the root mass before and then see. take it easy all.

 

[ghb]

how about an after shot with some plants in?

i have noticed the plants prefer the recycled coco so i assume it would only be the same in dirt. they require less nutrients and enjoy faster growth and better overall plant health.


nice experiment

 

[bloomswarm]

It is really entirely unclear what you are trying to proof with your test?

What will it help to dissolve dead roots in soil without a plant? Do you want to reuse the soil? Or is this some kind of test on how it would work on a living plant?

I dont usually try to play around with dead rootballs and there is no application i can see.

The only interesting scenario i could see is, will it help the yield on a live plant. But then again, I dont see live plants with dead leaves on them. Are there actually any dead roots on perfectly fine plants?

 

[anzohaze]

Just out of curiosity instead of buying more enzymes etc why not just chop the root system up w a shovel etc just remove stalk and bulb. Make them smaller and just re use its food for microbes once dead any way oh hell just blend that shit up lol. Sorry but its cheaper and would take 5 minutes per plant w shovel on bigger plants just my retarded 2 cents

 

[budman111]

Are there actually any dead roots on perfectly fine plants?

Yes, plants produce enzymes to eradicate them.