Microorganisms in Nature

I joined this site for new information. Searching through the threads and info on teas and feeds etc. I have seen that there is very little mention of the microorganism balance of the soil and compost and teas used.

I am starting this thread to hopefully add a piece to the pool of knowledge that is so valuable for Growth.

The microorganisms are split into the 2 main categories: aerobic and anaerobic.
The balance between the aerobic and anaerobic organisms within our bodies and the earth is what determines our health.

These microorganisms are responsible for carrying the nutrients in the ground to the roots of all plants where the roots have receptors ready to accept the different nutrition. There is an exchange of sun energy from the plant to the microorganisms when they bring nutrients to the receptor of the roots.

In my perspective the maintenance of this aerobic and anaerobic balance is the core of maintaining a healthy grow, a healthy environment and a healthy body.

There's lots of us harvesting IMO's.

As a JADAM guy, I care very little about the an/aerobic nature of my brews - your soil structure provides the aeration that determines which ones are active where it matters, and plenty of microbes can survive in both conditions under different modes of metabolism. For humans, almost every food we eat is either stored anerobically or is fermented anaerboically as the majority of food borne illnesses are aerobic in nature.

The elaine ingrahm crowd (think the "teaming with" books, anyone who uses the word "soil food web", and most KNF folk from my experience) are a little obsessed on this topic (and the whole fungal/bacterial "dominance" idea, but I digress) and tend to have a horrific fear of anaerobic microbes, to the point where they buy expensive air stones, pumps, "air lifts", for their brews to assuage their unfairly held superstitions. Some will even say you can't use compost teas intelligently if you don't have a microscope and the knowledge to identify what you see When you have several billions of individual microorganisms swimming around in a shot glasses worth of dirt, I can't see how anyone could look at that under a scope and be able to intelligently say how each and every one is interacting with the others, much less name them! But it's not like you'd be able to see even half of them, even with an electron scanning microscope, and they're gonna tell you and me they know for a fact whether that sample is "good" microbes or "bad" ones?!? Flaky science at best, imo. Beyond some specifically studied microbes like LABs and PNSB I'm happy to accept I don't really know that half of what's going on and that I'm jusy trying to foster a healthy, living diversity which my plants will then pick and choose from according to their own needs.

I alternate soil drenches with anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms.

AACT one week, EM-1 the next week, then AACT...

It's pretty obvious that in nature there's a balance between both, and I've seen tremendous results incorporating this type of schedule. My plants are constantly praying, no deficiencies or excesses.

A variety of inputs is great, and you can let the plants choose which they want/need.

Definitely anaerobic bacteria are the tastiest. I've been doing a lot of harvesting from the garden so I have half gallon bottles bubbling away all over the house:



The fact that you can take washed vegetables (I do between 2.5% to 3% salt) and ferment without any inoculant just goes to show how prolific the little guys are. They are everywhere. The only reason I LAB ferment things is for the purpose of eating myself. I'm too selfish to feed these to my plants.