What’s up gang. I didn’t find any threads with this focus and I want to have a place for me personally to note all the weird and wild things those science people do. Feel free to post any and all cannabis research and science content. Civil discussion encouraged, of course. Whether it’s testing methods, terpenes, storage, dry technique, lighting, cultivation, soil or whatever, bring it on. Here’s the paper I got sucked into this morning during coffee and a joint…
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Oh yeah I’ll be following this one for sure. I rarely come across studies in the wild but I’ll here checking out what I can. 
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This is a GREAT idea ! Thanks @DirtySlowToes
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This mornings 
pretty nuts where extraction is going now that things are legal in a lot of spots. Legalization definitely unites industries that may have otherwise never considered cannabis. Fun and weird.
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Awesome article! Love this thread. Have your or anyone else read up to see if any of the various microbial inoculants for sale contain the beneficial “PGR” rhizobacteria the study talks about?
I’ve bought various microbes, and added garden compost and such, but it seems so unreliable whether the right types of organisms will be present and alive, and then successfully colonize my soil.
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I understand what you are saying and sometimes it is practically not verifiable, unless you do a test with 2 clones, in the same environmental and nutritional conditions.
The mycorrhizae, on the other hand, you can “easily” see in the soil after harvesting your plant. Personally I have a home grown producer that supplies me with many beneficial bacteria and fungi, but every time I have used Mykos from Xtreme Gardening it has always worked. I always saw fungal colonies on my roots
This is a nice study about myco:
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Still reading but not sure if id be down with the mozzarella flavored smoke lol.
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With all the talk of microwaves i learned from Mr Toad from Boneyard seeds you can Decarb FECO in the microwave.20 second intervals with a small couple second pause inbetween for a total of 2 min time just not 2 min consecutive but broken up in 20 second intervals
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You have to eat the mozzarella, not roll it
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Nice! I’ve got Mykos in there, and there’s plenty of fungi, but I wonder about the specific species. I’m sure we’re just not there (yet) with home science for the relatively non-technical gardener. 
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I’ve definitely had microbes that worked and those that didnt. Currently trying out recharge and i can usually get mycelium throughout the soil in a week or two, even with the bag thats about a year old
Whether theyre the microbes that are ideal to cannabis, i couldn’t tell you with certainty but I’ve definitely seen improvements that could have been the result of improving the soil biome
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Microbes should be multiplying in the medium. Feeding plants is different than feeding soil life. Kinda. Focus on keeping soil life thriving. Microbes live and die. Create a happy place for em. Proof is in the pudding. As above so below. Chasing deficiencies with NPK bottles is a different style and disturbs soil life. Not to mention all that salt.
Diverse composts and worms plus LABS will beat bugs in jugs everytime.
Microbes are more like dogs than like GH or AN products. Keep your dogs happy and they’ll work. Trust and LITFA.
$0.02
Edit: All anecdotal my bad
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Mykos contains Rhizophagus intraradices. It increases phosphorus uptake in many plants, cannabis included.
It does not specifically improve just one function, but the health of the entire plant. A healthy plant expresses maximum terpenes and cannabinodes
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