Raeofsun13
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Az - nice on the b vitamin, we are definitely gonna that a whirl. We love stuff like this.
That would be a good thing to post on the Nutrients thread, a formula for Super Thrive. I was using it, a couple $10 bottles, but wasn't able to identify it as helping the plants and after stopping they look the same. But I wasn't using for transplant, just an additive in hydro.The vitamin B trick is still missing "Hormones and stimulants" that Superthrive actually has, I found adding some Kelp/Seaweed tea to the mix makes a "True Home Made" version of Superthrive. I should just call it a "Root Stimulant/Transplant Shock" additive, and only call it the Superthrive mix if adding the hormones
hmm interesting, so we use either GH Rapid Roots or Roots Excelerator. So does that mean they cross each other off, hormone a and b? So when do you use Azos? We typically use it when we pot up sprinkled on the soil where the rootball will sit, Sometimes, I have used it as a top dressing as well.SauceFactory seeds sound amazing. Some very good strains represented here, great job!
Hey Raeofsun13 looking like a healthy start, I am curious what roots stim you use?
If using H&G root excell (what I use), it is counterproductive to run Xtreme Azos (I also use), as H&G roots helps the plant produce hormone A, while Azoz produces hormone B. I learned this after watching a skilled grower dump 2 litres of roots excell ($350-400 in root stim) on 50 lights of soil that had been top dressed quite liberally with Azoz. Yield was fine for 4 plants/k commercial med but after harvest we were pulling the roots recycling our soil and there was hardly any root development!
A correspondence with Xtreme Gardening led to that hot tip...
Thanks man I believe you just save us some money on that tip not to mention some positive bud growth.It's not so easy that they cancel one another completely.
Only that if you use Azos on the up-plant as I do too(which I use along with mycos),
you shouldn't then do the typical capillary building type watering in with root excel until 4-5 days after transplant or at least 2 consecutive waterings after transplant.
My understanding is that by allowing the plants to utilize the Azos (nitrogen fixing microbes) before using another beneficial bacteria based root specific product ie Root excel, you're enabling the plant to benefit from each independently from one another.
As most of us who use H&G root excel use it 3-4wks into flowering, if not longer. So we're constantly inoculating the rhizome with the bennybacs from root excel.
It was also my understanding that if one chose not to use Azos because running H&G was crucial to the nutrient regimen, mykos could easily be and should be used in place of Azos, but to also use a Earth Worm Casting tea as EWC contain nitrogen fixing microbes as well but are not specifically the Azoz specific bacteria Azospirillium brasilense.
So to clarify they can be used in the same grow on the same garden just spread out the timing so you get the most bang for your buck.
I see the most benefit from Azoz when using in a fully amended soil upon transplant then I run the H&G roots hard with many varieties of beneficial microbe teas both earth and animal based...