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Chookface..... Yes, Sub-Culture is a decent amendment. I've noticed they now sell it in a Myco fungi only mix & a Good Bacteria only mix. Hmmmm......
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GH sures knows how to make a buck. They break everything down to lot's of parts - so they can make lot's of dough - selling you all the parts.
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Myco Magic, Plant Sucess and Super Plant Tonic are probably better choices. They come fully assembled. Not parts & parts with more parts available for a buck.
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If Sub-Culture is all you have access to - get it - any micro-beasties - wheter they be fungi or bacteria - will benefit your plants.
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Keep it Real...Organic......
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just to chip in here as a maker of Mycos. Not all are equal. I tested a great many during an evaluation for mining restoration before I started to make my own, and many of the products we tested came back with number of viable spores so low there was a high probability no symbiosis was possible. After live testing and the taking of root samples, this was born out with many of the products failing to produce any living Mycorrhizas.
Now this might be a storage issue, or it could be a production/ manufacturer failure, but a large number of the cheaper end where literally hopeless, and many of the higher priced ones too.
there was no difference between iquid or powders both were poor.
Some cheaper products are lab grown non resonant microbes, so there is a good deal of jet lag before the microbes get up to speed on what they ought to be doing.
Additionally there a wide number of reasons to not buy Mycos, depending on how you grow. if you use large volumes of P2O5 for example, have insufficient Calcium access and so on.
I agree with the fundamentals of this discussion, growing with Mycos is to use an evolutionary advantage over non using growers. Myco grown cannabis has more trichs and so more meds as a rule than non myco plants. The reasons are simply outlined in this thread, its about stimulation, modulation and up-regulation of Innate Systemic Responses pre loaded in our plants. Mycos boost up the plants own defenses, they protect from root pathogens, and from environmental stressors.
if you are a grower who prefers to let nature rule, they are a definite tool for the box, i wouldnt plant without them.
Because i use Mycos, i dont have to apply excessive P2O5, and this sits well with me knowing I am as an outdoor grower, not participating in water table pollution, and that i am sequestering more carbon building media fertility instead
