Posts Tagged ‘organic’
Terpene Tuesday presents terpenes in your garden
Inoculating soil with bacteria and fungi has become more and more commonplace in cannabis cultivation and gardening throughout the world. Rhizobacteria form relationships with plant roots and help fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, while mycorrhizal fungi increase the uptake of phosphorus, water and more. However, the words in the language underpinning this dialogue between species…Read More
Terpenes may stimulate plant growth
It looks like even plants prefer an entourage effect to the use of singular compounds. A new study out of Germany is showing that terpenes from the Peppermint plant may have a place in the future of sustainable, organic farming. The scientists coplanted two varieties of peppermint (Mutlimentha/MM and English/E) into test crops of Brassica…Read More
Terpenes as Pesticides: Learn How They Work
The terpenes from cannabis may end up being a key to environmentally friendly pest management. A group of Italian researchers published a paper on the utilization of the essential oil from hemp as a pesticide. The scientists steam-distilled the hemp to create an essential oil. That oil was tested on mosquitoes, aphids, common house flies…Read More
