Tutorial Organics for Beginners

[maryjohn]

Yes!

In mj it helps a lot. For transplating, I believe it offers protection. I had 100% survival this year of squashes that should not have survived. The weather didn't cooperate, and they were in pots too long. That is supposed to mean death. They were very well colonized.

Get some biotone or one of the many products available.

 

[vonforne]

Anyone here ever use mycorrhizal fungi in their medium?

Been reading about, it seems to be greatly beneficial to plants.

Also read that it reduces the need for watering and fert. Seems kind of advanced for a beginner like me. Just wondering if people get good results using one of the mixes and fungi.

At every transplant. Starting with seedlings. Sprinkle a little around the root base after they come out of the container. Or just roll them around or sit them in the spores that you have placed at the bottom of the container.

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[Frozenguy]

So I've been using the tea recipe #3 on a set of fox farm soil mix pots with extra lime, perlite, ewc, and cut 50% with LW..

They have been lush and green and full, but now my purple kush is yellowing its leaves and dropping them and I feed it the veg tea every watering now. Can I up the mex bat guano or do I have to up everything else too? I thnk it just needs more nitrogen..

 

[Absolut]

At every transplant. Starting with seedlings. Sprinkle a little around the root base after they come out of the container. Or just roll them around or sit them in the spores that you have placed at the bottom of the container.

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Anything to adjust when using myco?

Plan on using LC mix #1 with recipe #3 (guano teas)

 

[maryjohn]

if you are getting started just add them and forget them.

 

[vonforne]

Ya, MJ said it There is not much t do after addiing them. Just water and keep the medium moist.

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[IE2KS_KUSH]

Anything to adjust when using myco?

Plan on using LC mix #1 with recipe #3 (guano teas)

Oh...
I wasn't gonna plan on using the guano teas right away, but had thought that adding the mycos would be a good idea, is there a disadvantage to using them otherwise, whilst using the first method w/ the kelp, bone, and blood already in the mix? Was my plan, what say all yous out there? Should I not, I thought that they would be beneficial regardless?

 

[maryjohn]

They are cheap to add, just add. Proceed as planned and later on you can try to perfect your myco colony for fun.

No disadvantages. Only risk is wasting a sprinkling of spores.

 

[anonymousgrower]

The grow I'm doing now will be done without any beneficial bacterias other than what my castings / guanos can bring in, I'll edit this post in the future with pictures from this grow (3 agent orange tga and a vigorous bagseed),

and pictures from my next grow with mycorrhizae will be right here, to show the differences. If no pictures are in this post in 4 months someone pm me to remind me lol.

My soil mix is the
6 parts sunshine mix #1 (love this stuff)
2 parts perlite
and 2 parts castings

with teas as my nutes.

 

[maryjohn]

That's actually a whole lot of beneficials from your castings.

Will you be watering the same or reading the plants and counting waterings? The drought thing it interesting.

 

[IE2KS_KUSH]

They are cheap to add, just add. Proceed as planned and later on you can try to perfect your myco colony for fun.

No disadvantages. Only risk is wasting a sprinkling of spores.

Ah, good to know, will proceed as planned, and stay focused! TY

 

[BurnOne]

The grow I'm doing now will be done without any beneficial bacterias other than what my castings / guanos can bring in, I'll edit this post in the future with pictures from this grow (3 agent orange tga and a vigorous bagseed),

and pictures from my next grow with mycorrhizae will be right here, to show the differences. If no pictures are in this post in 4 months someone pm me to remind me lol.

My soil mix is the
6 parts sunshine mix #1 (love this stuff)
2 parts perlite
and 2 parts castings

with teas as my nutes.

You need powdered dolomite lime.

 

[IE2KS_KUSH]

You need powdered dolomite lime.

LOL, If I had an extra hour or so, I would like to go back through these 120 pages just to count how many times you have said that.
You should make it part of your siggie, then you could save yourself from having to type it over and over!
I don't get it, how is it that is ALWAYS the one thing that everyone seems to leave out if they leave out anything? CRAZY I TELL YOU!
BTW, thank you for all the great info, and rest assured, this man right here is not going to forget the dlime!

 

[magiccannabus]

I use pelletized dolomite. Am I going to hell?

 

[maryjohn]

Yea but not fir the lime.

 

[BurnOne]

I use pelletized dolomite. Am I going to hell?

For the 15967th time... Powdered Dolomite Lime.
Everyone deserves Hell. Choose Christ instead.
Burn1

 

[maryjohn]

One of us needs to post the conversion factor. Sorry about the pun but - pelletized lime is mostly clay, and you need to put more by volume. Also never mind the crushing it's a waste. It mixes up better as pellets.

Espoma garden lime is very easy to find and comes in micro grower size. Not a bad deal. Also very good in the worm bin.

 

[louie]

Yeah a conversion factor for how much pelletized lime=powered lime would be awesome! I have looked everywhere and still can't find any powered dolomite lime and ordering it would be way too expensive. I am stuck using pelletized for now(pellets on average are about the size of a seasame seed)

 

[mrred]

you'd be better off going to stores to get some powdered dolomite lime for 3 bucks

 

[vonforne]

Yeah a conversion factor for how much pelletized lime=powered lime would be awesome! I have looked everywhere and still can't find any powered dolomite lime and ordering it would be way too expensive. I am stuck using pelletized for now(pellets on average are about the size of a seasame seed)

Add one third extra then. Mine are the same and that is what do.

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