mychorrizal anyone use it?

[SmokeUpJohnny]

just curious if anyone has tried or used mychorrizal fungi

I hear it's found naturally in outdoor soil

should I mix some up with my FF ocean soil and perilite and plant my seedlings?

any great benefits?

thanks!

Johnny

 

[ugmjfarmer]

I'm using a product right now called Super Plant Tonic from Blue Mountain organics that contains Mycorrhizai. Its a brewed tea of completely organic material. I'm waiting to see how it benefits my plants and roots, but right now my ryders are popping into flowering. It can't be a bad thing to have around!

 

[84VW]

I'm using a product right now called Super Plant Tonic from Blue Mountain organics that contains Mycorrhizai. Its a brewed tea of completely organic material. I'm waiting to see how it benefits my plants and roots, but right now my ryders are popping into flowering. It can't be a bad thing to have around!

im actually using the same tonic, they seemed to perk up and have a growth spurt just after i started using it

 

[ugmjfarmer]

Yep, the bud sites on the AK-47's have doubled pretty quickly. Sick stuff. I might just use their whole line next time.

 

[84VW]

i am using it for veg right through flower

i also got worm casting and some guano from those guys and it was very nice stuff, although its kindof hard to screw those up, the worms and bats do most of the work

 

[bombbudpuffa]

The worm poo will feed the myco fungi too. Worm castings are a good source of humus. Humus is what the myco eats.

 

[SmokeUpJohnny]

so I have FF ocean soil and some perilite to mix in it, should I mix anything else in it, or is it fine how it is? (I'm gonna germinate this week sometime)

 

[ugmjfarmer]

You might want to mix a little more worm castings and some perlite into the FFOF. really, its great soil by itself and should feed your plants fine for a month.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

I'm using BM Plant Tonic too. I cannot believe the growth in the 3 weeks the Aurora Indica have been vegging. I should have gone organic in the first place.

 

[ms4ms]

i think this is for good root health which makes healthy palnts

 

[KushmasterJ]

Using mycorrhizal fungi is very beneficial to the plants. I've used it for 2 grow's so far and definitely notice a difference in the vigor and yield. Its supposed to enhance water and nutrient uptake and keep the roots healthy.
When using mycorrizal fungi you should also supplement the soil with something for the fungi to live off of. There is an excellent product called Earth Nectar/ Earth Ambrosia, each is in a seperate bottle but it comes as a set... I use it just after transplanting my clones into the soil and then as often as the instructions say to.

getting to the point. its good stuff.

 

[massproducer]

1 thing everyone should remember or understand is that mycorrizal fungi is not the name for a specific strain of fungi... It is actually more of a catch all term used for any benefical fungi that create a symbiotic relationship with the plants root system... The more diverse the spectrum of organic food sources, the more diverse the spectrum of active benefical microbes and fungi, with microbes thriving from simple sugars and fungi needing more complex forms of carbs to really thrive... That is why IMO, you have to ensure that you are feeding your medium both simple sugars and complex chains, like oats, kelp, alfalfa and other dehydrated starchy amendments, as well as things like blackstrap.

 

[entropy82]

Has anyone used mycorhizae in conjunction with inorganic nutes, particularly Technaflora BC series? Can you kill the fungi using inorganic nutes? Does anyone have experience using the fungi in hydro?

 

[massproducer]

Myco needs something to ancher on to and most strains do not like constantly hydrated conditions like most hydroponics systems create, so you can always try and add or harbour beneficals in your hydro system but i doubt you will get any fungi, microbes for sure but fungi is a bit more complex.

Also yes inorganic chemical nutes can severally harm your benefical populations... They can survive but not really thrive because they can not eat inorganic minerals and they can cause rapid ph swings when using inorganics, which locks out any available nutes.

Unless we are talking coco... then it's a whole new ball game... What are you trying to do?

 

[godspeedsuckah]

are the fugi present in coco without adding them or is it necessary to add them to your medium?

 

[bombbudpuffa]

Coco is sterilized as far as I know so you will have to add fungi.

 

[godspeedsuckah]

according to this read earth worm castings contain the fungi we need.

hxxp://www.forterra.com/pdf/Brochure_WormCastings.pdf.pdf

 

[IRISH]

this is my 4th indoor grow this year. i use a soil called Pro-Mix ultimate organic mix, with mycorise. it has a sea-based marin compost, with a bio stimulant. i add only castings, perlite, and a dash of soil sweetner. i ph my water at 6.5, and add black strap molasses to insure the myco has the added sugars to maintain the beneficials it needs.
this works well for me. when i first began using this soil, i was'nt completely 'in the know' of how to treat this soil with the ammendments it needed to thrive. a lot of research , and trial, and error, have gone into where i'm at now. on my first, and second grow, i did'nt realize i was harming my plants by adding GH Flora Nova nutes. each grow is a learning experience. you always need to have a journal, so you can look back at what works, and what don't. experience is the key to any success.
grow , grow with Myco. ...bb...

 

[godspeedsuckah]

Thanks banjo, I am going to start feeding blackstrap every other watering.

 

[entropy82]

*Masspro* thanks for the reply. i've used myco a lot in soil, now i'm trying to use it in hydro. just getting the kinks worked out. i use a mix of hydroton, coarse large perlite, and diatomite right now. do you think that will be enough of an anchor for the fungi? have you used coir in conjuction with any of those three types of media but particularly diatomite?