Microbes are your friend
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growingforfun
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Glomus intraradices.It is used as an insecticide...
There is only one myco that has a symbiotic relationship with cannabis.
I will try to find the details for you later. I have it in a long video somewhere
And that's what is in the extreme gardening mykos. Their website is pretty good.
Kingrow1
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Yes is that the main plant and grass fungi, just this is all you need and soil that breeds it.
growingforfun
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Yeah it's pretty cheap, a 30$ bag will last me a couple years. The soil I get is already pretty high microbial count like you say you also get, and it may not be needed to also add the mykos, but it's always helped my grows a lot so it's not something I'm gonna stop using any time soon that's for sure
I was told mykos works WITH the other microbes, it doesn't compete in the same way as some other types do where one will dominate the other. From what I can tell this is true. The granular makes it so when you recycle your soil it just keep continuing to get better with time, like you say, a soil that breeds it. My ideas on this topic have really progressed over time from thinking it's best to buy fresh soil each cycle to thinking it's best to save soil and rebuild it and continue the micro herd
Kingrow1
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Adfing microbes is not very effective, an established population is worth 100 times more.Yeah it's pretty cheap, a 30$ bag will last me a couple years. The soil I get is already pretty high microbial count like you say you also get, and it may not be needed to also add the mykos, but it's always helped my grows a lot so it's not something I'm gonna stop using any time soon that's for sure
The granular makes it so when you recycle your soil it just keep continuing to get better with time, like you say, a soil that breeds it. My ideas on this topic have really progressed over time from thinking it's best to buy fresh soil each cycle to thinking it's best to save soil and rebuild it and continue the micro herd
Theres two sides of the same story, most soil pros never added benies but just made good soil and let nature do the rest.
Thats the issue, this is a natural occurance in all soils, you can buy them but if your good in soil its already home to established colonies in tune with tbeir surroundings. If you need to add them id question what your doing to kill the originals off first.
I use chem and organics or whatever needs using up in my cupboard, no fert is given in strong enough quantities to kill off anything in soil but they will start to dwindle with just chems. To kill a soil you need to hyper salinate, another ill concieved fact on some threads.
My local garden centre stocks most benies, popular with veg and garden growers not just weed now. Intrestingly fungi is just a small component of soil, bacteria is the main ingredient and provider for the plant.
Kingrow1
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Give the fungi a shortage of food and the symbiosis is over and it will compete against the plant.
Everything fights for food in bad times
hotrodharley
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I rarely deny anything it requires for a healthy balance.Give the fungi a shortage of food and the symbiosis is over and it will compete against the plant.
Everything fights for food in bad times
Johnny Lawrence
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University studies would disagree with you. As far as hydro mediums go, bennies do best in coco, followed by rockwool, LECA coming in third behind the other two. They still do alright though in LECA.
I run ebb n flow with bennies and get fantastic results.