Old Reviews Live test: Cannazym vs Sensizym

[Soylent Green]

Personally i think the boys of Canna now what there doing!:
:walk:Canna is around since the jump street making it pop!

Hop digitySince the summer of 91 nobody was talking about bluntHop digity

 

[Groff]

Hey SM! Welcome to the forum!

I certainly have heard about hygrozyme - a few horror stories with extreme RDWC setups (foaming)... But yeah guys out there gizz their pants about it. Went to check on it and boy is it expensive!! Sorry man, I simply can't afford it right now but will definitely be part of my test rooster.

I think we should be fair and devise a proper test method for these two, and then take it from there. For instance, you just brought up some cool tidbits. Cellulose and startch/sugars... So how about thinking of a solid recipe for the zyms to munch on?

I'll kick it... a chunk o raw potato (startch), an A5 piece of printer paper (cellulose)... I'm lost for sugars. A piece of fruit of some kind?
What about the mix itself? Add water, just enzymes, ph,proper temperature, light/no light...?!

Variables, we need proper variables to honestly replicate results!

 

[Groff]

Personally i think the boys of Canna now what there doing!:
:walk:Canna is around since the jump street making it pop!

Hop digitySince the summer of 91 nobody was talking about bluntHop digity

Totally agree Soy!!

Yet one cannot deny the virtues in thinking outside the box like AN does... it is only the marketing monkey crap that gets to me.

 

[Super Mario]

Thank you :High 5:.

Don't get me wrong, I think highly of some AN products, I'd just like more honesty.
Maybe try to contact the Hygrozyme guys and tell them what you have planned, maybe they can provide a sample for you. If their product is any good, they would surely be interested.

Yeah you could do that, you would go about this the same way you prepare substrates for microbiology & mycology, pm me if you decide to do that.

But after all the products are supposed to be used on living plants & roots. And that is exactly how I would go about this for the most representative results.
Grow some clones in a similar environment (DWC), use the enzymes diluted as the manufacturer instructs as soon as the roots are old enough, and compare the before vs. after weight, and visually examine the roots. I would avoid using any medium at all by using netpots with neoprene inserts( aeroponics would work fine too ).

 

[Groff]

Thank you :High 5:.

Don't get me wrong, I think highly of some AN products, I'd just like more honesty.
Maybe try to contact the Hygrozyme guys and tell them what you have planned, maybe they can provide a sample for you. If their product is any good, they would surely be interested.

Yeah you could do that, you would go about this the same way you prepare substrates for microbiology & mycology, pm me if you decide to do that.

But after all the products are supposed to be used on living plants & roots. And that is exactly how I would go about this for the most representative results.
Grow some clones in a similar environment (DWC), use the enzymes diluted as the manufacturer instructs as soon as the roots are old enough, and compare the before vs. after weight, and visually examine the roots. I would avoid using any medium at all by using netpots with neoprene inserts( aeroponics would work fine too ).

I like your think process! I am currently planning to do DWC, but have to take it easy. Right now I'm on coco, but hope to soon have a RDWC 12/12 tent to run photo clones. I need to up my production to cook some RSO concetrates to treat my dad. Resources are slim (space & stealth essentially), so I am totally into squeezing as much performance as possible.

When I'll have clones to work with, I'm taking these tests to a whole new level

 

[Super Mario]

Good Luck! :tiphat::High 5: And I hope you'll be able to care well for your dad :edible:

And if you're done with your tests, you could use the micro-DWC setup to produce your own homegrown mycorrhizae powder :

The reason why I would use living roots, is because I think ( don't know ) that the plants must have some defense-mechanism for these common enzymes, otherwise they would get eaten by funghi and bacteria very quickly. I think it is something similar like when plants use enzymes ( Superoxidase/Peroxidase ) to protect themselves from Hydrogenperoxide ( H2O2 ), otherwise you wouldn't be able to desinfect hydro systems using H2O2. It could also be that the commercial enzyme products just use the perfect concentration to remove crap, without hurting roots. Or they do destroy some tissue, but the damage is to miniscule to matter. Anyway, to be safe rather living roots for accurate results.

But I don't know much about this. I'm not a enzyme pro.

 

[wg]

I don't understand why this is still a gray area with growing.. even if you google "enzymes root zone" or any of the sort, it's all heresay.. and this test looked good on the leaf matter, but on the root matter.. how did it wind up not making a difference? I mean you say it worked better on the dry leaf matter, but how often do we water our plants bone dry? Why do I want to let my plant go bone dry before watering it with enzymes, that seems silly..

Yet, the use of enzyme products is clearly beneficial (I used a 8oz Sensizym sample and saw a difference on control plants)... but WHY?!

Thanks for keeping this going Groff, there aren't many of these (none) that I can find online.

 

[Super Mario]

Enzyme products work best in conjunction with beneficial microorganisms.The enzymes provide attack surface, and the micros feast on the rest.
I think there are many reasons why enzymes are nice, but mostly because damp/rotting roots produce a horrible microclimate/environment for the healthy surrounding
roots, you can prevent this and more by keeping your roots clean, and your soil/soilless mix/coco and hydrosystem full of the right microorganisms.

But this also happens naturally, you can do without enzymes. Inoculating your medium with good beneficials, and feeding them properly with kelp and a light carbohydrate solution will work just as fine.

 

[Groff]

Well, for one thing I left a leaves out for about what... a month or so? The roots was like a week or two.

Just found this!

[video=youtube;NVuaYznhdhU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVuaYznhdhU[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVuaYznhdhU

[video=youtube;6on_amwcN9I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6on_amwcN9I[/video]

 

[Super Mario]

Nice videos! :thumbs:
Wanna try out what happens if you use cottonwool ( supermarket cosmeticsarea, to remove make-up ) , Cornstarch and a combination of the two?