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Rudolph

Okey so, I can get this product at a very good price by me I would like some input on it, these are the different beneficial bacteria that are in it.

Contains 5,678,688 colony forming units (CFU’s) per lb. (378,579 CFU’s per lb. each of the following 15 species):
Bacillus subtilis
Paenibacillus polymyxa
Bacillus licheniformis
Pseudomonas alcaligenes
Bacillus megaterium
Pseudomonas chlororaphis
Bacillus marinus
Pseudomonas putida
Bacillus coagulans
Acidovorax facilis
Bacillus thuringiensis
Arthrobacter agilis
Bacillus pumilis
Rhodococcus rhodochorus
Bacillus lentimorbus
Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: 44,200,000 propagules/lb. of the following 8 species:
Pisiolithus tinctorius (40,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Scleroderma Citrinni (1,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Scleroderma Cepa (1,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Laccaria Bicolor (200,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon Roseolus (500,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon Subscaerelescens (500,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon villosuli (500,000 propagules/lb.)

Endomycorrhizal Fungi: 1,200 propagules per lb. of the following 2 species:
Glomus aggregatum (600 propagules/lb.)
Glomus intraradices (600 propagules/lb.)


If I could get some of your opinions on this that would be great...

Thank you..
Josiah O, Brandt

4/13/2010 10:20:21 PM

Waterville, Ohio

I bought a similar product called "Thrive". It seems alot of companies are starting to offer bio products marketed toward the home gardener. I have two test seeds that I'm starting tonight and am going to use the product on one of the seedlings. I'll compare the two and let ya know how it goes.

4/13/2010 10:28:48 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

I used that Espoma product last year. I put a teaspoon in each 5" peat pot and some more in the planting hole. I also used some at leaf/root nodes when burying vines. My plants started off very well, with 2 ex eeding the 1200# benchmark for 35 days. Then we got way too much rain and a flood. I used this on 6 of 8 plants. I also used Aliette on all 8 plants. None of the plants treated with Starter Plus had any of the root rot problem that I have had in the past. One of the plants that was not treated did get that problem and the other just didn't grow well at all. It would be better if it had more of the good endo micorrhizae and none of the useless ecto.

I went to get more this year, but all the nearby Lowes store had was over 2 years old. Espoma's website recommends that it is best if it is less than 2 years old. So I went to Menards and got a similar Jobes product that was fresh.

If you can get it cheap and fresh, I recommend it.

4/13/2010 11:24:39 PM

Rudolph

Well I'm happy that you would recommend it Iowegian.

I bought 20 pounds of this product,
at the time I got it I did even think to look at the exp. date, just figgerd it was new, well, I just looked at it, it's just a year old, should still be good....

I did do a test with it on some seeds with great results.
thanks for the insight,
Josiah O, Brandt

4/14/2010 6:08:06 PM

Somers, CT

I have used it too. It works well and has myco in it. The price is right.

4/15/2010 10:40:48 AM

Massachusetts

used 20 lbs. of it on one plant in 08..... got to 1309

4/16/2010 10:00:11 PM