To MYCO or not to MYCO?

[BBPac]

This is my second grow, and I’m going to be using the freebie I got. In doing some reading I’ve found mycorrhizae and Real Growers Recharge caught my interest. What effects do these have on the plant / medium? I planned to use the same medium as my last attempt (FFOF with dry amendments).

Without being 100% positive what either does exactly I figured I’d ask for assistance to which if not both are what I’m looking for.

do either make a significant impact in plant?

 

[hotrodharley]

Both have impact. Use Mykos on transplants. Use Recharge regularly during the grow. Also consider adding a fulvic humic supplement. Readily available on Amazon if you can't find locally.

 

[mudballs]

Yes use mycos...when you see fuzzy white root hairs you'll get excited and swear by them from then on. I love fuzzy roots and mycos gives me that.

 

[myke]

Isnt mycos filled with fulvic?

 

[BBPac]

Do either effect uptake amount of nutrients? Enough to change plant feeding?

 

[mudballs]

Hell yeah that's the whole point, it's symbiotic relationship.

 

[drsaltzman]

Do either effect uptake amount of nutrients? Enough to change plant feeding?

Just feed as you normally would.

 

[drsaltzman]

Both have impact. Use Mykos on transplants. Use Recharge regularly during the grow. Also consider adding a fulvic humic supplement. Readily available on Amazon if you can't find locally.

This^

 

[hotrodharley]

Anyone wanting to grow anything in the ground or in a medium other than liquid based would benefit from reading about mycelium networks. There's a total lack of understanding just how important this is. This has been understood for years regarding forestry but is only recently being acknowledged as basically the key to plant life. Plants and trees and everything else with roots in the ground.

Once you understand the actual function of our "beneficial microbes" operate to regulate and deliver the more attention you will pay to enhancing it in your grow. Forget chlorine in the water because the effect in the ground or medium is negated in the first layers.

Do learn to use Mykos or Great White (overpriced in my opinion and loaded with strains not useful to cannabis). Learn to use Recharge and humic acid instead of molasses. Use fulvic acid to help with nutritient uptake.

You can make your own mycorrhizae innoculant. It's easy but unnecessary. A lot of hassle to save money if you can buy it. If not

How to make homemade mycorrhizal fungi - Simplify Gardening

The first step to making homemade mycorrhizal fungi is to collect starter soil, preferably from an uncultivated area. Then, consider choosing a combination of grassy plant species which are likely to become infected with the mycorrhizal fungus and sow their seeds into the soil.

simplifygardening.com

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Both have impact. Use Mykos on transplants. Use Recharge regularly during the grow. Also consider adding a fulvic humic supplement. Readily available on Amazon if you can't find locally.

I just got this stuff. How much do you use and how often?

BioAg Ful-Humix – BuildASoil

Ful-Humix® is a soluble, concentrated humic powder and powerful soil/nutrient activator. It increases nutrient efficiency and uptake, increases cellular activities at all levels, stimulates beneficial microorganisms and converts raw organic matter and fertilizers into available forms for faster...

buildasoil.com

 

[hotrodharley]

I just got this stuff. How much do you use and how often?

BioAg Ful-Humix – BuildASoil

Ful-Humix® is a soluble, concentrated humic powder and powerful soil/nutrient activator. It increases nutrient efficiency and uptake, increases cellular activities at all levels, stimulates beneficial microorganisms and converts raw organic matter and fertilizers into available forms for faster...

buildasoil.com

How To – BioAg

There's multiple ways to use yours. Check out the page. But probably the feeding schedule. I'll also urge you to buy a fulvic acid supplement.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

How To – BioAg

There's multiple ways to use yours. Check out the page. But probably the feeding schedule. I'll also urge you to buy a fulvic acid supplement.

Thanks. Maybe I'll add a little tomorrow with the Organics Alive when I water.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

How To – BioAg

There's multiple ways to use yours. Check out the page. But probably the feeding schedule. I'll also urge you to buy a fulvic acid supplement.

I bought the Ful-Humix already. Are you saying I should get something else too?

 

[speedwell68]

There is a great documentary on Netflix about this very subject, Fantastic Fungi.

 

[hotrodharley]

There is a great documentary on Netflix about this very subject, Fantastic Fungi.

I heard a woman speak in Fairbanks at University of Alaska. PhD in forestry management. Descendant of multiple generations of timber men. Literally grew up in it. She was describing how trees use chemical transmitters that are delivered to the rest of the trees via the fungal network. She said if a tree is cut into or damaged it emits a chemical signal that other trees respond to by sending nutrients needed for repair. She said this has been known to occur from spruce to spruce and birch to birch etc. But she went on to say they now know by analysis that if a spruce is a distance from another spruce and birch are closer they'll temporarily send what they can that a spruce can use. Until other spruce deliver. All of this on the fungal network. It gets way more involved but she was addressing forestry issues.

Think about what is going on under your feet in the forest or a park.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

I heard a woman speak in Fairbanks at University of Alaska. PhD in forestry management. Descendant of multiple generations of timber men. Literally grew up in it. She was describing how trees use chemical transmitters that are delivered to the rest of the trees via the fungal network. She said if a tree is cut into or damaged it emits a chemical signal that other trees respond to by sending nutrients needed for repair. She said this has been known to occur from spruce to spruce and birch to birch etc. But she went on to say they now know by analysis that if a spruce is a distance from another spruce and birch are closer they'll temporarily send what they can that a spruce can use. Until other spruce deliver. All of this on the fungal network. It gets way more involved but she was addressing forestry issues.

Think about what is going on under your feet in the forest or a park.

Aspen trees are really interesting too. It's all basically the same tree. They're all over here.

Pando Aspen Grove Recovering, Partially

Aspen trees in a fenced portion of Pando, the world's largest aspen clone, are reaching for the sky. Learn about the effort.

www.grandcanyontrust.org

 

[hotrodharley]

Aspen trees are really interesting too. It's all basically the same tree. They're all over here.

Pando Aspen Grove Recovering, Partially

Aspen trees in a fenced portion of Pando, the world's largest aspen clone, are reaching for the sky. Learn about the effort.

www.grandcanyontrust.org

Aspen suck. They fall over here in windstorms all the time. It is the wood of choice for using in a wood cook stove. Burns quickly leaving a huge ember. It's called poplar here but it's aspen. But in a high wind you hear them going down here.

They're sure pretty in Fall though. Chainsaw in the truck at all times and hoping one doesn't fall on the truck.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Aspen suck. They fall over here in windstorms all the time. It is the wood of choice for using in a wood cook stove. Burns quickly leaving a huge ember. It's called poplar here but it's aspen. But in a high wind you hear them going down here.

They're sure pretty in Fall though.

Wow. They're pretty hardy here. We had 100 MPH winds a couple days ago and it didn't knock down any of our aspens. It's windy a lot here so maybe they're just a little tougher. Ya, they're pretty in Fall. Especially when I look around and I see all different colors of them.

 

[hotrodharley]

Wow. They're pretty hardy here. We had 100 MPH winds a couple days ago and it didn't knock down any of our aspens. It's windy a lot here so maybe they're just a little tougher. Ya, they're pretty in Fall. Especially when I look around and I see all different colors of them.

They compete with birch here but grow faster. Shading the birch. Birch are magical to northern cultures. Especially in Russia. We harvest chaga from them. Using certain guidelines. Chaga is true medicine.

 

[hotrodharley]

Birch burns for hours. Aspens? Poof and they're burned up in the stove and smells like hell downwind. There's no mistaking burning aspen firewood. I do use it mixed in with spruce and birch.