mulch isn't always needed it can harm plants if the soil is too thick or wet to begin with, not to mention RH. It can be great or bad, just like most things.
I appreciate that you are eager to see the actual differences but you gotta remember all the other variables included.
I got ya man, I was like that when I was younger, wanting to re-invent the wheel... sometimes it's ok to stand on the shoulders of others men.
I mean, you don't think the earth is flat do you?
or that the sun rotates around the earth.
But I bet you have never seen that first hand... Do you KNOW that plants use nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium?
Yea, but do you KNOW that? proven it to yourself? You don't need to, because it's a factual thing that others that are smarter than you and I have already done that.
That's my point, we already know that there is about 21% oxygen in the earth atmosphere (
@sea level)
We KNOW that nitrogen is the most abundant gas in the air, we know that.
We KNOW what wavebands and color spectrums that plants use for photosynthesis...
we KNOW that there is microbes in AACTs...but I have not see the microbes first hand, have you?
just saying.. sometimes it's best to already acknowledge the facts that others have layed down, and then using that to further achieve your goals.
make sense?
Don't get me wrong man, I somewhat admire the fact that you are like that, but simultaneously I think it really slows down your progress to growing some really great herb.
My 2 cents... no change given.
All the love man.