Symbiotic Microorganisms (SMO)

What are Symbiotic Microorganisms?

Symbiotic Microorganisms (SMO) are a diverse blend of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria, fungi and yeast that work together to improve soil quality and encourage healthy plant growth. SMO have a complex microbial biology composition with polysaccharides, nutrients, minerals and proteins. 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.

Why use SMO? Symbiotic Microorganisms go into a pathogenic environment like first aid emergency workers cleaning up. It brings the oxygen back into the system so good microbes can start dealing with toxins. It is also great for decomposing animal waste. It will enable it to go away naturally. It preserves and enhances feed, and you can use it to sterile your equipment.

Benefits of SMO

• A leading source of probiotics for soil organisms
• Prevent the growth of plant pathogens.
• Degrade mycotoxins – toxic substances produced by a fungus.
• Inhibits fungal and bacterial overpopulations in plants’ rhizosphere and phyllosphere.
• Remove pesticides from food and soil
• Detoxify hazardous chemicals, and enhance plant health.
• Regulate soil organic matter and the biochemical cycle.
• Act as a fertiliser promoting biodegradation, accelerating soil organic content, and producing organic acid and bacteriocin metabolites.
• Get rid of odours and decompose animal droppings fast.

How to use SMO

• Dilute with water 1:250 – (4ml to 1 litre water)
• Pour it directly on animal droppings – It will decompose very fast.
• Add this to your animal feed the night before – It will improve its value by decomposing the enzymes in the feed. In this way, you get much more nutrition from the same feed.
• Improve plant growth – Mix 4ml SMO serum with 1 litre water. Apply it as a foliar spray and soil drench. SMO improves the plants’ efficiency in nutrient uptake, which improves the plant’s growth. Lab serum allows nutrients to become more bioavailable and easily absorbable by plants. Plants do not use organic nutrients directly. Microbes convert organic nutrients to their inorganic constituents, which the plants utilise.
• Aid Organic Fertilizer – Mix 4ml SMO with 2 litres of water-nutrient solution.  SMO consumes organic nutrients, making them bio-available to plant roots. Plants don’t use organic fertilisers. Microbes break it down into inorganic constituents, which plants can take up.
• Houseplants – Dilute 4ml SMO with 1 litre (non-chlorinated) water; water your houseplants or spray it on the leaves.
• Aid Compost – Mix 4ml to 1 litre (non-chlorinated) water and spray on the compost pile to improve decomposition.  
• Reducing Odours – You can spray it on anything that smells bad. Add 2 ml SMO serum to 1 litre of water. Apply where there is odour buildup. SMO “eat” the odour-causing germs, and the smell is gone.
• Indoors – Reduce foul odours of cats, dogs, mice and other pets. It reduces the smell of stinky shoes, wet clothes, gym clothes on the way to the wash, smoker’s scent, and nasty smells.
• Outdoors – Use it to control odour in animal pens, including pigs, cows, and chickens, or around the yard where needed.
• Animal beddings – Dilute 4ml SMO with 1 litre (non-chlorinated) water. Mix it with animal bedding (Chicken and pigs) to reduce smell and increase longevity. Spray until the bedding is slightly damp but not wet. The amount you spray depends on the climate. You can spray more in a dry environment and mix in evenly. A wetter, humid climate needs a bit less. Mix it evenly into the bedding. When the smell is extreme, use more.
• Keep the septic system clear – Are you tired of having your septic system drained?  Dilute 20 ml lab to 1 litre water and pour in a septic tank once a month. Research indicates that LAB can suppress bacteria pathogens in human faeces.
• Clear clogged drains – Add 10ml SMO to 1 litre of water (non-chlorinated) for semi-clogged drains. Use in the evening and allow the microbes to do their work during the night.
• Aquaculture – SMO works great in aquaculture – Add roughly 50ml SMO serum per 700 m3 of fish-containing water. (Example: A pond of average 20 meters by 17 meters wide and 2 meters deep. 20 x 17 x 2 = 680 m3. To a pond this size, you roughly add 50ml SMO. SMO assists in digesting fish wastes, cleaning up water, and improving water quality. It allows fish to grow larger due to their digestive efficiency. It allows for a higher population of fish in the same water.
• Growth & digestive aid for animals – Mix 4 ml SMO to 1 litre (non-chlorinated) water, then add that mixture to the animal’s water at 30ml per litre.  This is very flexible.  SMO is not harmful, so it’s about adding enough to be effective without wasting it. TIP: To boost animal growth, mix 4 ml to 1 litre (non-chlorinated) water and soak the food in this solution for a few hours to a few days.  Food is pre-digested when animals eat it.

Keep the septic system clear.

Are you tired of having your septic system drained?  Dilute 20 ml SMO to 1 litre water and pour in a septic tank once a month. SMO can suppress bacteria pathogens in human faeces and have a sanitising effect on faecal sludge.

SMO removes pesticides from food and soil.

Symbiotic Microorganisms (SMO) are probiotics that can grow in the presence of pesticides and degrade them effectively. SMO plays an essential role in biodegrading insecticides and decontaminating foodstuff.

SMO in Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Farming

Symbiotic microorganisms regulate soil organic matter and the biochemical cycle. It detoxifies hazardous chemicals and enhances plant health. The metabolites in SMO promote plant growth and stimulate shoot and root growth. It is a natural fertiliser that promotes biodegradation, accelerates the soil’s organic content, and inhibits fungal and bacterial populations in the rhizome and phyllosphere. SMO efficiently decontaminates and detoxifies heavy metals and mycotoxins from the soil, water and other environments.

SMO is used as a plant growth promoter and biocontrol agent in fruit trees and other crops to control unwanted insects and diseases. They detoxify pesticides and mycotoxins in food and feed. Their antimicrobial and growth-promoting compounds can replace inorganic fertilisers and pesticides. SMO also form a starch film to protect fruit and vegetables from oxidation damage. SMO nanomaterials and nanochemicals effectively promote plant growth and control disease.