Aact tea and solubility time.
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Rasta Roy
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The AACT increases the size of the microherd population, and they allow things to break down faster sure...but no it does not quicken the time, every time you increase the population of your microbes. It allows the insoluables to break down most efficiently. Greensand and rock phosphate still take years to break down...they would have just taken that many more years without a decent microbe population.
If you're doing no till gardening or recycling your soil then its okay to use long term amendments...just use fertilizer teas and worm castings, fish fertilizers work great too...on your first round until some of your soil amendments are more available.
Or even better, make your own compost with your amendments and mix that in your soil. The nutrients will be more readily available.
If you're growing no til aact become unnecessary after a while because you don't need to populate the microbes anymore. However if you recycle soil, your killing your microbes every time you dump your pots so you need to bring them back to life after you repot.
greasemonkeymann
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not really, and the biggest reason is simply because most of the microbes needed to breakdown nutrients aren't always in the bacteria class, which a AACT is based on the bacteria present in the worms digestive system.
Fungal microbial life is crucial to the breakdown/assimilation of phosphorus.
and considering it's typically phosphorus that is the non-soluble nutrient too.
that's why i reaaaally like to be able to make your soil using both castings, as well as a specific compost.
Compost is bad ass, and made correctly can have a good amount of fungal microbial diversity.
don't get me wrong though, the bacteria and microbial life from the castings are crucial as well.
both are "must-haves" in my opinion
greasemonkeymann
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lacto serums can quicken the process though..
bokashi and such
Rasta Roy
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Have you bokoshied amendments before?
greasemonkeymann
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no actually i haven't
haven't done any lacto teas either
i always do my compost a season in advance so i have like 8 months for it to break down
but if i was in a hurry i would
those two thing i have little experience with to be honest.
i know how they work, but haven't done it personally