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Your cart is empty.The Ultimate Tool for Determining Soil Health and Fertility Microbiometer allows you to estimate the microbial biomass in your soil in 10 minutes for 10% of the cost of a lab test. Results are read and stored on your cellphone or tablet and in the cloud for access across all your devices. Why you need the MicroBiometer MicroBiometer measures the amount of microbes less than 100 µm in size in a sample of soil or compost tea – these are the microbes that form the basis of the food web. It is well documented that microbial biomass is the best indicator of soil fertility: nutrition poor and challenged soils have very low microbial populations and that successful remediation results in an increase in the microbial population. The nutrition available to plants in a growing season is mineralized by the microbial population. We have shown that the microbial population of a compost sample reflects its nutritional level. MicroBiometer allows you to capture the data that will allow you to scientifically monitor your activities and correlate microbial biomass with increasing soil fertility and vegetation outcomes. You can join the revolution that allows you to scientifically measure the parameters that ensure success.Use the MicroBiometer to: Measure the microbial biomass in a compost sample. The higher the numbers of microbes the richer the compost. Measure the microbial biomass in a sample of inoculum. Measure the microbial biomasss in liquid soil amendment. Calculate how much you can dilute your liquid soil amendment. Track the changes in microbial biomass with season and treatment. Track the recovery of soil by treatment – the vegetation will increase as the microbes increase. This comes with enough supplies for 10 tests.
Composter
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2023
Haven't tried it out yet, but it promises to be a much more affordable way to evaluate compost and soils.Important to note, this isn't an actual meter, since it uses your smart phone with an ap. It is the testing accessories and enough materials for 10 tests. Additional test materials are available.For information on why it is useful, search Johnson-Su bioreactors. I have very high expectations of the information gleaned from these tests!
S. Haney
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2022
Really wanted this to work, a couple problems: 1) the kit doesn’t contain a way to measure the water quantity so you’ll need a way to do that; 2) the “sifters” have a mesh that is too tight to use with moist soils, and 3) the results were inconsistent. Using the same sample each teat readDrastically different even after reading 5 different cards. Really wanted this to work but it’s unreliable.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017
It took me a while before I finally pulled the trigger and decided to buy this “lab-grade kit”, but after hearing Jeff Lowenfels talk about it at a conference, I had to try it out. The results were amazing and gave me an accurate biomass reading. I decided to test out my non living-soil and the results came back much lower than my living soil biomass results! Honestly I can now see why they are saying this is 10% of the cost of an actual lab test because the whole procedure actually felt like it was something a scientist would actually do!
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