Symbiotic Microbes & Nutrients (SMN)

Symbiotic Microbes & Nutrients

What are Symbiotic Microbes?

Symbiotic Microbes (SM) are a diverse blend of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria, fungi and yeast that work together to improve soil quality and encourage healthy plant growth. They add more life to soil and assist with the decomposition of organic matter, producing nutrient-rich soil for plants, strengthening plants and helping fight pests.

What are Symbiotic Microbes & Nutrients?

SMN is a natural plant-based fertiliser that provides nutrients for healthy plant growth (including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). It consists of symbiotic microbes, fermented nutrient-dense herbs, sulphur-free blackstrap molasses and raw apple cider vinegar.

Additional Benefits & Functions

• It contains all the amino acids that play a role in healthy plant growth.
• It is high in silica and potash, which helps to form strong plant cell walls.
• It contains growth hormones for young plants’ healthy root and stem development.
• It is an excellent food source for beneficial microbes, increasing their populations.
• It contains antioxidants that increase plants’ resistance to pests, disease and stress.
• It improves soil quality and increases crop yield.
• It is a natural activator that speeds up compost heaps’ decomposition process.

Ingredients

Symbiotic microbes, fermented herbs (Alfalfa, comfrey, horsetail, moringa and singing nettle), sulphur-free blackstrap molasses, raw apple cider vinegar, natural ethanol and fountain water.

Benefits of using liquid ferments:

• prevent diseases
• prevent bacterial attacks
• prevent insect invaders
• provides a boost in nutrient needs
• Support the growth of more vigorous plants. (stems, leaves, and roots)

More about the Ingredients

Why do we use fermented herbs instead of a standard extract?

Fermentation increases the diversity of beneficial bacteria and fungi. It enhances the nutraceutical profile & bioavailability of the herbs. Symbiotic microorganisms can degrade plant cell walls via hydrolysis, converting the cell’s complex organic compounds into smaller molecules, such as polysaccharides, lipids and proteins. This enhances insecticidal, antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities. Symbiotic microbe’s proteases yield bioactive peptides with multiple health benefits, such as ACE inhibition and immune system modulation. During fermentation, apple cider vinegar and natural ethanol are added to extract more nutrients and beneficial phytochemicals. The resulting serum is rich in nutrients and phytochemicals.

Alfalfa

• Alfalfa is a natural fertiliser providing nutrients for healthy plant growth. The NPK value is usually balanced, somewhere around 3-1-2.
• It is rich in micronutrients and trace elements.
• High in vitamin A, B, and E.
• High in minerals including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and iron.
• It contains sixteen amino acids that play roles in healthy plant growth.
• Alfalfa stimulates plant growth. It contains triacontanol, a growth hormone essential for photosynthesis and encourages young plants’ healthy root and stem development.

Comfrey

• Comfrey is rich in macro and micronutrients, amino acids, proteins and vitamins, making it a fantastic input to boost plants and soil life.
• Comfrey is particularly useful for vegetative growth and in the transition from veg to bloom.
• Comfrey is very well-rounded and can be used at any time of growth.
• It is high in just about every nutrient a plant needs, including the big three, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and many trace elements.

Horsetail

• Horsetail is ancient plant, horsetail has been around since 100 million years before the dinosaurs appeared
• Horsetail showed excellent growth capacity of probiotics, Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus salivarius, and produced the volatile compounds from biotransformation.
• Horsetail balances the moist environment and helps prevent aphids, whiteflies, fungus, and damping off.
• As a soil drench, the fermented brew is said to help balance beneficial fungal and bacterial organisms in the soil by increasing their populations.
• Horsetail is a very effective plant fortifier that protects plants by increasing their natural strength and resistance to disease, insects and stress via their immune systems.
• It is high in silica and potash which helps to form strong plant cell walls.
• Strengthen plants which are in danger of attracting fungal infections like Blight or Blackspot.

Moringa

• High in Vitamins – Moringa leaves contain high levels of Vitamin C and Beta Carotene, both essential nutrients for healthy plants.
• Rich in protein – Moringa leaves contain 18 essential amino acids, making them a complete plant-based protein.
• Powerful antioxidant – Moringa leaves contain powerful antioxidants that reduce oxidative stress and improve the overall health of soil and plants.
• Moringa is a sustainable alternative to synthetic fertilisers. It improves soil fertility and plant growth without harming the environment.
• Improved plant growth – Moringa provides valuable micronutrients that result in better plant growth, yield, and quality.
• Improve soil quality – It assists in fixing nitrogen in the soil, creating a healthy microenvironment for crops to thrive.
• Increases yields – Studies have shown that crops treated with fermented Moringa leaf can yield up to 35% more produce.

Nettle

• Stinging nettle is known as a dynamic accumulator, which readily take up nutrients and minerals from the soil, and then store them in highly bioavailable forms and concentrations in their leaves. This makes nettle an excellent natural fertilizers, mulch, or addition to a compost pile.
• The nutrients nettle fertiliser contains include chlorophyll, Nitrogen, Calcium, Manesium, Iron and Potassium.
• Stinging nettles leaves are loaded with high concentrations of vitamins A, C, D, E, F, K, P, and vitamin B-complexes
• It contains many minerals, including calcium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, iron, and lower amounts of potassium. 
• As a leafy green, stinging nettle is also high in nitrogen, chlorophyll, and plant polyphenols, bolstering plant health and stimulating growth.
• Stinging nettle is lower in potassium than comfrey but much easier to come by and contains an average N2:P0:K5 but with high trace elements.
• Nettle acts as a natural activator and speed up the decomposition process in compost heaps.
• Because it’s rich in nitrogen, this is particularly useful for leafy vegetables like kale, chard and spinach. 
• It works best on leafy plants and heavy feeders.
• Plant Immune Health – Stinging nettle fertilizer make plants less susceptible to certain diseases due to its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. Plants with a strong immune system are also less negatively impacted by pests or stress, such as drought, heat, or other unfavorable conditions.