Our Science & Technology
How Does bio365 Bring the World’s Only Clean & Consistent Wide Spectrum Beneficial Microbiology to All Growing Environments?
Through the Principles of Biomimicry
- We use real science that honors the plant’s DNA.
- We engineer groundbreaking technology and combine it with the best of nature to solve growing problems.
What is Biomimicry?
To understand biomimicry, you must first accept that:
- Nature got it right.
- Nature is our guide.
Biomimicry “mimics” the best practices used by living organisms in nature to develop systems and products that solve challenges faced by humans and societies. An example is an airplane’s wings built to mimic a bird’s wings to improve the aerodynamics of flight.
The biomimicry processes used by bio365 are based on three core elements:
- How the media holds water and air and makes them available to the plant
- How we engineer the biological and chemical buffering / cycling of nutrients in our media
- How we deliver a diverse and resilient micro and macro biology
Our biomimicry brings the symbiotic relationship between plants and the microbiology in soil to controlled environment agriculture in a complete and safe way – as close to the way nature intended as possible.
Our Technological Innovations Take Nature to the Next Level
With the right scientific data and designs in place, the bio365 team was ready to combine what we knew from nature with technology to engineer a new kind of growing media – what would become the world’s first and only clean and consistent wide-spectrum beneficial microbiology growing media safe to use in all environments.
Since then, we not only invented technologies and processes to manufacture bio365 growing media, but we also acquired 13 patents and developed numerous proprietary processes that ensure bio365’s media is one of a kind.
Some of the Patented and Proprietary Technologies Critical to bio365’s Biomicry
Multi-Patented bioCHARGE®
What Is It?
- Activated and aged combination of clean, beneficial wide spectrum microbiology anchored by bio365’s high temperature, high-carbon bioCORE® biochar matrix
- Patented consistent and clean biology culturing process without compost or worm castings
- Also has bioavailable nutrients
What Does It Do?
- Enables growers to deploy beneficial microbiology in controlled environments
- Allows plants to signal the clean microbiology when they need nutrients, water, or help battling pests and pathogens
- Maximizes plant health, quality, resiliency, and yields
Patented bioCORE®
What Is It?
- Ultra-pure carbon matrix made in high-termperature, low-oxygen conditions
- Derived only from softwoods, never from animal waste
- Acts as an ideal host for bio365’s clean microbiology
- Stores bioavailable nutrients and water
- Developed in conjunction with Cornell University
What Does It Do?
- Improves cation exchange (CEC)
- Improves fertilizer and water efficiency by delivering them on demand to the plant, working in conjunction with bio365’s clean biology
- Sequesters carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help combat climate change
Proprietary Transformation Processes of Bioavailable Nutrition
What Is It?
- Transform organic nutrients in bio365 media and nutrients growers add into their most bioavailable form
- pH balanced, dual biochemical buffer
What Does It Do?
- Provides plants the high quality nutrition they need to thrive
- Helps cultivators grow cleaner crops, minimize fertilizer costs, and maximize results
Patented UltimateAIR® Technology
What Is It?
Created in two ways:
- Careful selection and blending of raw materials based on their physical characteristics
- Multi-patented biological transformation process in creating bioCHARGE that alters the macro-, meso-, and micro-porosity or our products
What Does It Do?
- Tailors the air filled porosity of bio365 products to the needs of growers’ crops and cultivation practices
- Gives cultivators crop-steering flexibility to deploy a wide range of irrigation strategies from frequent watering to dry stressing the plant
Grow Bag Technology
What Is It?
- Uncompressed, hydrated, pH balanced and buffered, and immediately ready to use
- Easy-to-use perforation at the top of the bag
- Packaged on computer-controlled equipment to ensure consistent volume
- Macro hole pattern tested to optimize drainage
- Micro-perforation technology with thousands of tiny micro-perforations that optimize air exchange in the root zone and provide uniform dry down to enhance root growth and yields
- Made from sturdy, post-consumer recycled materials
What Does It Do?
- Ensures reliable outcomes with 100% consistent media from bag to bag
- Decreases risk through fewer plant touches and reduced risk of contamination
- Lowers costs by saving time and labor and eliminating the need to purchase, clean, and sterilize containers
- Improves results through optimized plant density and enhanced root development, growth, and yields
bio365 Brings Back the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Microbiology in Soil and Plant DNA
- bio365 growing media is engineered with patented and proprietary technological innovations using the scientific principles of biomimicry to work in harmony with the symbiotic relationship between the microbiology in soil and the plant’s DNA.
- This relationship evolved over tens of thousands of years but was removed from controlled environment agriculture before bio365 invented the world’s first and only 100% clean, biologically-active growing media.
- With bio365 media, the crucial relationship is back and plants are thriving as a result. Today, growers in all environments are choosing bio365 media for the unmatched benefits it delivers.