Synthetic Nutes Effect on Roots Excelurators (And Homemade) & Beneficial Bacteria

I finally got around to buying roots excelurator and have a couple questions. I am running Floranova in DWC (and Coco also). I want to establish strong BBs and also incorporate my synthetics. Is there a particular order in which I should apply these. IE, roots excelurator first then Floranova a week later? Or can these be applied at the same time? The same questions go for anyone with experience with the homemade rice-water-milk solution? Please share your experience, pro’s con’s, etc. Thanks!

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No problem brother............salt based ferts(synthetics) will have a definite NEGATIVE effect on BB/fungi colonies ...........can't have you cake and eat it too You can just keep inoculating the medium between feedings in cocco but the effects are minimal and in DWC don't even bother cause it's just throwing away $$$ in that sterile/high salt solution.

PSUAGRO thanks for the reply. I went into my grow room 24 hours after I intro'd the RE into my DWC buckets and found nasty looking bubbles in the water. Judging from what you said it looks like I have three options:

1. Run RE with organics only in my DWC buckets (although Ive rarely if ever heard this done before)
2. Start with RE/pH'd water only, then use nutes thereafter.
3. Use RE only in soil (which I don't grow in, lol)

Do any of these options make sense? I think I understand your birthday cake analogy. lol

I figured out the problem. My CaMg+ solution is organic.