Am I killing my living soil?

SPLFreak808

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If you successfully kill off all the microbes with soluble nutrients, you would have also killed the plant.

The microbe population can swing from slight dormancy all the way to thriving, all of this is normal depending on your grow style.
 

rkmcdon

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Thank you guys for the responses. I wish I could find the thread where I originally saw this. I think it was referring to the salts commonly used in bottled nutrients. It certainly sounds like it’s not an issue though, so I may have just imagined it!
 

2Hearts

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Its because of a simple word called salt, many salts are harmless compounds both the plant soil and microbes love to eat and why we sprinkle on soils.

If you use salts the microbes will shift to a less diverse and lesser plant relationship not die. The ones that fare bettet with those compounds and soil will prevail. Add organics and they simply switch back to a more dependant role and other species prevail.

You would neeld high levels of npk salts to kill a microbe or bacteria in a soil cation matrix, past overfertilizing and into toxic. At that point plants would die and microbes that love to eat toxic stuff now move in and prevail.





Thank you guys for the responses. I wish I could find the thread where I originally saw this. I think it was referring to the salts commonly used in bottled nutrients. It certainly sounds like it’s not an issue though, so I may have just imagined it!
 

rkmcdon

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Well that's good news and will make transitioning much easier. I can keep using the age old bottled nutrients as needed until i'm fully transitioned to ROLS
 
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