myco fungi??

[Closetgardner]

Hi riu,so i just bought some myco fungi.thing is i dont know how best to use it.do top dress the soil of the plants that are in their final pots and water it in?? or do i use it when transplanting only?? its david austin mycorrizhal fungi with added biostimulants,sea kelp extracts,vitamins and humic acids.I didn't buy this from a hydro shop it was just a big garden center so i couldn't ask anyone.i grow in soil and use the full bio-bizz range of nutes and as im sure you will all know they are organic.Thanks for your help in advance CG

 

[MyCo JoRdAn]

I never used that brand before but I drench my roots when transplanting and and another soil drench 10-14 days later at 1 tsp per gallon of RO water. I use Plant Success Soluble and it works great. Remember that the myco fungi need to come into contact with the roots to be productive for your plant so top dressing isnt the best way to go IMO.

 

[Closetgardner]

thanks very much myco,advice noted!!!

 

[Vindicated]

The way I was taught was you first soak your seeds in water for a min or two, then take them out, and roll them around in a pile of inoculate dust. You can even add a pinch to the hole you make when your sowing the seeds into the dirt. The main thing is to do it as early as possible. Once they're in the ground, it's to late. The organisms that are already there will be able to out compete anything you add in.

This is how farmers do peas, but peas are easier to tell because after a few weeks you can look at the roots and you'll see pink balls. The pink balls only appear when the peas have been properly inoculated. For cannabis, you can't tell if it worked or not, but the method is still the same.

Another time you can inoculate your soil is when your growing outside in a garden patch and you've just tilled your soil. The tilling process kills a lot of what's living in the soil, so it's always nice to spray water that's been treated with inoculate.

 

[Rising Moon]

I think the above post could use a little correction. Farmers innoculate peas/beans with a type of fungi that has a relationship to legumes and helps them fix nitrogen to their roots. True this should be applied at planting. However myco's are a totally different thing, that live in the soil, and can be added to living soil at any point (earlier the better). I get my myco's from fungi perfecti and apply when I make my soil mix. I cannot even dig around in my soil without disturbing the little white mycelium growing like a net throughout. I think top dressing will work, but next time mix them in before transplanting.

 

[Jack Harer]

I think the above post could use a little correction. Farmers innoculate peas/beans with a type of fungi that has a relationship to legumes and helps them fix nitrogen to their roots. True this should be applied at planting. However myco's are a totally different thing, that live in the soil, and can be added to living soil at any point (earlier the better). I get my myco's from fungi perfecti and apply when I make my soil mix. I cannot even dig around in my soil without disturbing the little white mycelium growing like a net throughout. I think top dressing will work, but next time mix them in before transplanting.

Dude, they are one and the same thing. Endomycorrhizal fungi. Almost all plants have a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi. I don't usually cite wiki, but in this instance, it's dead on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

 

[Vindicated]

With legumes you inoculate with rhizobia and with cannabis you use mycorrhiza. IMO, they're all pretty much the same, in so far as how you apply them and why we use them. If you want to really be technical about it, one is a bacterium and the other is a fungi. Then again, most inoculates usually have a dozen or more things in it and usually contain both fungi and bacterium. So it's moot regardless.

 

[Rising Moon]

My previous post was to point out that innoculants used on beans are used to help fix nitrogen, with bacteria, so the following crop, say corn, can benefit after the bean roots decompose. Using myco fungi for cannabis is indeed a totally different thing, because the fungi are different and have a different purpose. My outdoor garden is innoculated with all sorts of fungi, and heavily mulched, you can literally see the mycelium attaching itself to debris and eating them up. However in my bean plot,i innoculated my bean seed with rhizobia, the bacterium are building colonies on the root system fixing nitrogen from the air, but don't extend out into the soil, and draw nutrients into the root system like mycorrhiza fungi do. So IMO they don't do the same thing at all.

 

[Coho]

My clonss get it at the start.

 

[jpeg666]

My previous post was to point out that innoculants used on beans are used to help fix nitrogen, with bacteria, so the following crop, say corn, can benefit after the bean roots decompose. Using myco fungi for cannabis is indeed a totally different thing, because the fungi are different and have a different purpose. My outdoor garden is innoculated with all sorts of fungi, and heavily mulched, you can literally see the mycelium attaching itself to debris and eating them up. However in my bean plot,i innoculated my bean seed with rhizobia, the bacterium are building colonies on the root system fixing nitrogen from the air, but don't extend out into the soil, and draw nutrients into the root system like mycorrhiza fungi do. So IMO they don't do the same thing at all.

Didn't someone in another thread tell you that the web you have is not Myco but a native fungi form the forest that is near you?