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SanderanderS
SanderanderSstarted grow question 2 years ago
What is the best way of keeping a Mycorrhiza culture going on . I mean the stuff is expensive like canna so why not grow it ourselves ?! The quality will be better to I guess?
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DYNOMYCO
DYNOMYCOanswered grow question a year ago
Keeping a mycorrhiza culture going on could be benneficial to your plants, but a quick notice that not all strains and concentrations of mycorrhiza are beneficial for Cannabis!
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 years ago
Mycorrhizae live in a symbiotic relationship with a plants roots, meaning they need living plant roots to exist. No living roots to live on, no living mycorrhizae. It is that simple. Keeping a handful of your previous soil from each pot to add to each new pot MAY be enough to kick start the process anew. Personally I don't care how expensive it is, there is NO WAY I would ever grow without the real stuff ever again since discovering this "miracle" product a few years ago. "Mykos" from Xtreme Gardening isn't that expensive (in the grand scheme of things) and you don't need much per pot - and it works a treat!
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crimsonecho
crimsonechoanswered grow question 2 years ago
sorry you dont have the mental capacity to germinate a seed mouse :)
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m0useketeer
m0useketeeranswered grow question 2 years ago
@crimsonecho no need for a link the quotes are in the answer. 1 Wendy Taheri, an expert on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. 2. Do not provide much phosphorus. Taheri says too much phosphorus fertility in the soil, especially with crops and farm ground, can be almost as damaging as tillage.3. Avoid pesticides as much as possible. Although AMF have a lot of resistance to even such compounds as fungicides, Taheri says most pesticides can be hard on AMF. You can apologize to me now!
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crimsonecho
crimsonechoanswered grow question 2 years ago
its common courtesy to provide a link when you’re directly quoting something word by word mousekeeper/popcorn/chow_14/gottagrowsometime https://www.farmprogress.com/soil-health/heres-how-grow-more-mycorrhizal-fungi
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m0useketeer
m0useketeeranswered grow question 2 years ago
1. Do not till. Tillage breaks up the myriad of hyphae/mycellium, most of which can never reconnect. Once broken, they must start all over, says Wendy Taheri, an expert on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Dramatically shorter mycellium equals dramatically reduced plant food for your crops or forages. One source says it is not uncommon to have 20 meters of fungal root in one cubic centimeter of soil. Calculate that out to just the top inch of soil in an acre and you get a length that would stretch about 80% of the way to the moon; roughly 195,000 miles of food collectors per acre, all interconnected, all sharing stuff. 2. Do not provide much phosphorus. Taheri says too much phosphorus fertility in the soil, especially with crops and farm ground, can be almost as damaging as tillage. The plants latch onto the inorganic phosphorus source when young and never develop much of a trading relationship with the AMF. Remember that phosphorus is so necessary to plant life and so generally unavailable in a natural setting, that plants are programmed to make most of the trade deals with AMF based first on the need for phosphorus. You want the plants to be a bit hungry for phosphorus, Taheri says. For example, 200 ppm of phosphorus in a soil test is usually considered adequate for crop growth. If you want AMF to successfully colonize and trade with your plants, 50-100 ppm is a more AMF-encouraging range for phosphorus fertility. 3. Avoid pesticides as much as possible. Although AMF have a lot of resistance to even such compounds as fungicides, Taheri says most pesticides can be hard on AMF. The more you put on and the more frequently and the more you rotate pesticides, the more you will damage your AMF.
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crimsonecho
crimsonechoanswered grow question 2 years ago
reusing your medium without tilling
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