Thanks DG
PC: I don't know all the mechanics of it. I'm not saying that the plants feed on the microbes, the microbes produce enzymes that break down organic materials and make them available to the plants. I used to work for an enzyme factory that makes enzymes for everything from washing detergent to beer production, and as I understand it(and I may be wrong) ALL chemical actions in the biological realm (on the molecular level) occur with the use of enzymes.
So it is my reasoning that if you can substitute the microbes with the enzymes that are produced by those beneficial microbes then you can get the same results as having the beneficial microbes
(albeit probably not as efficiently as with a solid herd of bennies). But in a situation where you have an environment that is unsuitable for a healthy microbe herd, ie. synthetic nutes
I would postulate that having the enzymes in place of the microbes that would quickly die off, would still have some benefit to the plants.
I may be wrong in my assertions, however, I didn't tell any of the people that use my bud that I was doing these changes and combining the synthetic and organic nutes. I did it as an experiment because I have a couple people who love "organically grown flavor", who had mentioned repeatedly that they liked the flavor of my buddy's organic bud better than my synthetic bud. The key to this was that they didn't know our individual methods. We were growing the same strains and they liked the flavor of his better.
I told no one what I was doing, including my buddy. But then when My bud began being circulated among friends
(without knowing whose was whose), they raved over the flavor of the newest bud that was circulating. Also my other friends, who also really liked my bud and didn't know organic from synthetic, raved over the flavor of my latest products, and wanted to know if I was doing something different.
So was it coincidence? I don't know since I am currently shut down and can't continue testing my results. But it is what it is, and I invite anyone who is doubtful or curious to try it and see if a larger experiment with different grows produces the same results or different results. Maybe we can narrow down the parameters that will help us all make some minor improvement to our grows.