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Originally Posted by NewGrowth
Chemical fertilizers have been shown to reduce beneficial microbes in the soil. It can take years to rebuild soil structure after being intensly farmed using modern chemical fertilizers. This is a major problem in the American midwest its called the mining of "young coal" carbon is drawn out of the soil by plants but never replaced. Eventually it will not matter how many chemicals we spray on our crops we will have robbed the soil of any available carbon. Adding mollasses and then using chems is just silly. We need to look at soil as a living ecosystem not just a medium.
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In fermentation, well fed yeast are more resilient to extreme environmental factors like high alcohol content.. You can typically push a couple extra % abv if you add the proper nutrients.. Seems somewhat analogous to what harsher fertilizers would do to the ecostystem below.. Anybody who has ever done hydro knows that algae, bacteria, and other things can thrive in a nutrient tank.. If these things aren't posing an actual problem, you might as well use them like you would in soil..
If adding a few carbs wasn't simple and cheap, I may lean the other direction outside of soil, without a nitrifying bacteria as well.. When I was doing hydro I always used molasses.. Then at one point I added goldfish and a nitrifying bacteria into the regimen, and my plants loved it late into flowering compared to previous crops using clones from the same mother, and the same setup disregarding the addition of the goldfish..