Not imo. Take a look at the spore counts and the price. I use Mykos from Xtreme gardening. Straight Glomus, no trichoderma, very reasonable price considering.
Good Read OhSoGreen, makes Me glad I picked some this stuff up(in a packet,like) added to my Strawberry Blue when transplanted at the weekend into their final pots...SOOoo it will be interesting to see how these take of? or not...Proofs in tha pudding.
When you work on roots - you are working on flower - that's why you still use up to week 4 of flower
Agree. Then stop. Same page,,,,,,, Flower is when there are flowers,,,,,, imo when discussing..... Best of luckluck
Hey Dankswag, this is some great info. I'm very interested in feeding these microbes from soil contents rather than having them excessively sap root exudates. Molasses and rice seem to come up commonly, and I've used molasses for AACT. My question is, have you ever considered or heard of using rice as part of a soil mix itself?
Hi Rhizo,
I'd be tempted to do the same Don. I'd guess a primary reason it's not widely practiced or considered is that people tend to build soils based on what the plant needs rather than the collective needs of the living container... While I'm (fairly certain) plants don't eat rice, I know the microbes can use the grains as sources of concentrated carbohydrates. So, in theory, the plant will be able to conserve energy otherwise expended producing carbohydrate-rich root exudates to feed the microbial life since the carb-rich food is already there for them.
Good point, Rhizo. Though we now know its not the plant we feed, so much, its the microbes and roots we must nurture..
Always cracks me up when they say soluble fungi/bacteria. I'm assuming you are referring to a carrier. What species and spore counts do your products contain?
I've had very poor results with the "instant" stuff myself. At a recent indoor growing expo in Denver, I obtained a few samples of 'OG Tea - Veganic Special Sauce' (a no-brew-necessary instant soluble micro inoculant claiming their 'modifications' allowed the spectrum of species to 'colonize the rhizosphere at a constant rate'). I used the solution on four of my adult plants in vegetation and they all withered and essentially died.Always cracks me up when they say soluble fungi/bacteria. I'm assuming you are referring to a carrier. What species and spore counts do your products contain?
Wait... $119 a pound? Seriously?
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AFAIK fungi are not soluble. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here. It's another marketing buzz word. I would never, ever put fox farms anything in my soil, period. However, I use both of those Xtreme gardening products with good results. The mykos is what I use for my mycorrhizae innoculant. I was previously using great white (lots o species) and the Xtreme Mykos blew it away. No comparison. The Azos is also a good product imo, but a little bit goes a long way. I'll often use a little when cloning - more b/c I still have the bag around than anything.
Yes! I've had a bag of Azos around forever...a roommate left it to me! I mostly dust root balls (lightly) with it during transplants. I agree though about Mykos, I find Glomus intraradices is often the first fungal species listed on any given inoculant variety. So if there is a single-species approach that ultimately benefits your harvest more than the 'shotgun' approach, then I'd bank that'd be the one.
So Xtreme Mycos is the best myco in your opinion, P?
I don't know about the best. It out performed great white in my garden (anecdotal), and I find it to be a good value ($25 a kilo). I've also heard good things about Bioag's VAM, but I've not tried it. Most mykos are produced by a few companies and then repackaged under all the various names.
You must be after my heart stranger. I do 1:1 spent coffee grinds and peat moss fermented with EM extended. Then fermented a pail of kitchen garbage with it. Buried it. Waited two weeks and planted a fully established white widow topped and ready for the transplant. That babe yeilded awesome. Sustainable agriculture ftw. Eme is 30ml em1 + 30ml molasses + 1 liter nonchlorinated water in a plastic bottle + 7 days = new bottle of em or better known as eme. Cant extend the extended unless you want only lactobacillus@DANKSWAG nice remark to EM
I use EM in every other watering.. it works well
especially when you use molasses as food for the bacteria! try it out! I think you find several tutorials to make your own EM.
Another great think is Bokashi Compost! You can nearly compost all organic waste (food/ kitchen waste). After the stuff has composted for about 3 months, you can get it out of your sealed compost can, burry it in your garden and wait another month or two.. after that you may plant your girls at this spot and you will see how happy they are.
Nice for all people who have not enough space for a good old compost pile in the garden