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Ugrow are UK distributors for Metrop products. Information on this page is copyright Metrop 2004. With the help of soil life, plants can develop a natural resistance against diseases and attacks. Bacteria can be categorised into two main groups; bad bacteria and good bacteria, the so called Rhizo bacteria. Rhizo bacteria can again be categorised into 3 groups:
Roots expel sugars and bacteria come to the sugars. Rhizo bacteria need to get the upper hand over the bad bacteria to prevent diseases and make food available for the plant. The easiest way to do this is simply add these bacteria. Another advantage Rhizo bacteria have, is that at the root points, they can change a wrong PH into a right PH. A root can fill up a maximum of 10% of the pot, more is simply not possible. We can up the capacity of the roots with root moulds, the so called mycorrhiza moulds. Because the mould threads grow meters from the roots and are microscopically thin, they come to places the roots can never reach. The root system of these plants becomes hundreds of times larger then of plants without the mould threads, all in exchange for a bit of sugar. The threads excrete some of the sugar they do not use around the threads, which attracts the already available Rhizo bacteria. Because the Rhizo bacteria are present around the mould threads that stimulate nutrient intake, the PH of the soil will be just right. A liquid bacteria preparation however can not be kept long, because bacteria need sugars to survive. Without sugars bacteria only live for 3 days. A liquid preparation with sugars would expand in a short time (bacteria multiply) and the bottle could explode. When the sugars are gone the bacteria die. That is why you seldom see liquid bacteria or enzymes in agriculture or horticulture (or it is fake). |
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