I have been getting curious about Herijuana after all I have read about it. I will now just forget it LOL. I really really would love to not limit myself to two or three breeders but that is kinda how it is going now. What can I say, nobody can buy one's trust, and once earned it is hard to try somebody new for your gear. I have tried too much sub-par types in the last 3 years. Get hyped up to high heaven and then ends up being poopy.
Anyhoo, a few short weeks left on these DB girls
OH and that reminds me! Calicat, I finally got a conclusive answer on the lacto b in synthetic environments question. Took me a bit of foxtrotting around (I can't let on I am growing indoors with this fella) but basically, it would work BETTER in a synthetic environment.
What it is about here is establishing a dominant organism. A sterile synthetic environment easily falls prey to 'quick, bad' microbes like molds. They establish FAST, but are not very strong in comparison with 'slow, good' microbes like our Lactic Acid Bacteria friends. So the gist of it was, in a sterile environment the Lacto Bacillus will instantly dominate. You have to look at it as a 'monoculture' almost. VERY far removed from a natural state of affairs. A NATURAL state of affairs will allow molds. We don't want that. So even in organic growing, this is a totally UNNATURAL situation. BUT it does benefit us greatly.
Either way, there is absolutely no guarantee that the introduced micro-organism will thrive. Hence a 'regimen' is still necessary just like with any other foliar application. So you are establishing the good microbes' dominance, but you also have to maintain their dominance. One question is how are you going to introduce food stock to ensure a thriving population? You can't really. Not with weed anyway, none of the suggestions I got were things we would want to do. A fungus keeps going because the PLANT is the food-stock. That is why a single application is not going to help. It needs to be a regimen.
So in other words, if you keep culturing and applying your beneficial microbes to your phyllosphere, you should reap the benefits. We have not the luxury of safe fungicide for a flowering plant, but we can at least help out a bit with the introduction of beneficial microbes, even if it is only during high-risk times.
