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If I get more time I could try to explain the way the the whole mycorri-stuff and beneficial microbes thing works, but I'd probably get half the stuff just a bit wrong. Besides, you probably know it better anyway.
But yeah, hydroponics tends to overlook the natural symbiosis between plants and microbes. Hell, the stuff is one of the major differences between soil and desert. Brilliant stuff.
You take two plants, give them all the perfect environment they could possible want, and give one of them the beneficial microbes they'd have in nature, and you could ask a 3 year old which plant is the better plant, it's that obvious. Major difference.
(I don't have anything to back it up, but I think that that's the difference in the results of regular hydroponics plants and soil-grown. Know how everyone says hydroponic tomatoes don't taste as good? That's why. Put that in and they'll swear it was soil-grown. That's my experience, anyway.)
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