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 Purple non sulphur bacteria update with the extra sunlight they all did something. The green one is interesting one of the other large ones with the largest concertration of bacteria did that before turning reddish. Hopefully now the lab shed getting finished I will see if it's green sulphur bacteria or just some algae.

In total to buy that in the small bottles before for £35 a go would probably be getting on for about £800. Cost of production is probably a couple of quid.

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 Please tell me more, what is this used for how hard to make?

#allthequestions 
 Super easy to make just some eggs and msg and the original innoculant bottle or a source of bacteria from nature. You also need some sun

I have been using it to prevent and treat phytophora aka root root. It retasks this pathogen into something that is beneficial for trees shrubs etc even to the point I can replant the same type of tree in the area of the tree that succumbed to the root rot. It can also feed in multiple different ways and helps plants grow in general which is why it's in 'effective microbes' found in the terra preta of the Amazon so it's likely in healthy people too.
It's very useful in general PNSB is a term for these types of bacteria Rhodopseudomonas Palustris is a species of that term if you want to read more about it. There is another one in those bottles too but the Latin is escaping my brain right now. 
 Woah, so cool. I am just starting into my trees on my property. Thank you so much for all of this 
 Your welcome that's a useful video if you need it: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qzNfCi8E4

What species of trees are you planting? Are you in the mountainous parts of canuckyland? As the biology for some trees can be a little different. Most of it still beneficial like the PNSB you just might want to change a few things if you are making full consortium of EM  
 I am South of Detroit, on fertile lake bed looking at fruit trees. I will look more into this thanks for the video 
 It will be just be the normal endo mycorrhizal fungi and wine/ale/bakers yeast (s.cerevisea) you want to use then.  The alpine trees use lager related yeasts and that inhibits mycorrhizal fungi persumably to allow the ecotomycorhyzhal fungi to flourish at higher altitudes.

If you don't want to make it all you can buy it in as EM and scale it up. I still think it's worth buying and scaling the PNSB yourself though as they can't guarantee it's still alive in the opaque bottle by the time it gets to you...

If you need a source to scale up from you can buy it from algaebarn.com it's called PNS PROBIO and  it's the same one I have used. 
 At some point I’m going to have to ask you for your ted talk version because I don’t think I followed this at all.. but it looks so interesting I feel I need to know 😊 
 I didn't know about it a few years ago. Seems complex due to all the specialist vocab but it's quite easy really 🫂 
 I’m intrigued now 😊 will have to look it up and then ask you a bunch of questions 😁 
 Just went to a class on this last weekend. Looking forward to propogating the bottles we got.  
 It's fascinating stuff and there is so much to explore in this area. Did you learn just about this or EM in general? 
 “Lab shed” and now I have new goals ✨💖✨