Show me your microbes .

[Eyes on Fire]

another batch i tunred and mixed the other day.

 

[Jraven]

Here's some gathered from the wild and propagated with EWC and soil. I consider it experimental at this stage.

 

[hecno]

Nice fuzzy family there Mr Eyes . Jraven , just waiting to see if my experiment works .

 

[BII]

Well this is awesome , maybe the best way yet , I have been mucking around for the best out come to grow microbes and this is by far the best yet , So what did I use , something every one can get --- chopped banana skins -- I let them sit in a bag till they where black and soft then just chopped them up and added oats on top and placed under a bamboo plant outside . So microbes easy to get -cost $1.20 a bag for oats -- [ goes a long way ] -- Lactobacillus another easy one to make -- cost around $6.00 to make , [ also goes along way ] --- Now next -- Fish Hydrolysate -- Will be starting this when I get home from work today .
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It is highly unlikely that you are actually selectively culturing beneficial soil microbes. In fact, it would be incredible if you were. You've done nothing to assure sterility of your culture medium (rotting bananas or other foods you're using); nothing to reduce, much less eliminate, environmental contamination, e.g., air contact; and nothing to select for or otherwise selectively culture desired vs. other/junk microorganisms. Do you even know whether what you seek are aerobic or anaerobic microbes; and are you not creating relevant culture conditions? Rather, you a culturing whatever grows on the sugar-rich decaying bananas in a highly aerobic environment, most likely culturing the common air-carried filamentous fungi already on the bananas, while the soil microenvironment, particularly where it matters (roots) is likely not as fully aerobic, often tends towards being anaerobic, and lacks high concentration of sugars.

Otherwise, what is the presumption, the goal, here? Do you actually presume it good to have fuzzy mold (filamentous fungi, probably just super common rhizopus or equivalent from the air) growing on the top of your soil? What leads you to think that the fungi you see on the surface are in any way desired soil beneficial microbes?

 

[hecno]

@BII NO don't say that mate . I got lots of bananas I hear what you are saying and was coming to that conclusion after I did it , Microbes and fungi that I want can't be gained from banana skins .

 

[BII]

@BII NO don't say that mate . I got lots of bananas I hear what you are saying and was coming to that conclusion after I did it , Microbes and fungi that I want can't be gained from banana skins .

Your choices are either buy commercial microbe products or inoculate/mix your soil with some fertile soil you know/presume has a good mix of what you want. Look into the organic microbe-rich 'teas' the organic-type growers often use.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

or make your own too. bacterial and fungal 50-50 are the best that can be bought.or made. and the skins can be utilized ,just not as effective. bacterium ,and a fungal dominate combo . placement when harvesting microbes counts just as it does to the fule or food you'll use for said microbes. our atmosphere is made of of what..? 78% nitrogen so pulling from the air is actually part of it too. shit air hurts but generally its ok especially if your OUT of the cities and the like. country to collect is cleaner. but today its all tanited some but also, some are less tainted than others in various regions.

 

[Eyes on Fire]

here is another batch I did,with another mostly done batch too.

 

[hecno]

Now check this out , Horse dung and is this fungi or what , My mate next door has 2 horses at his place so I now can get as much as I want . Not sure what I am going to do yet , but it will be a 4 to 5 month compost .

Young Turmeric Flower

 

[Green Goblin]

Pic is kind of dark because of where I have the tote located..this is about 3 days after moistening the mix..smells like if you just went outside after it rained and dug up some fertile earth..