Tea Article

[Microbeman]

I should add that there are some good photos in the DIY thread.

 

[redclover]

PERFECT!!! You're too kind.

 

[ct guy2]

If I ordered the Tea brewer with the amendments(the $300 package). How long will amendments last in storage? I may not use them for six months but just want to have them there when i do need them.

I would recommend waiting to order the brewer or compost/foods until you're ready to use them to ensure maximum viability. I know they've been tested for up to a year in optimal storage conditions, but there's no point if you won't use it right away.

 

[Kozmo]

Well, it looks like ill need it sooner then I thought. Ill need the tea to cook my soil.

 

[ct guy2]

Well, it looks like ill need it sooner then I thought. Ill need the tea to cook my soil.

I do like to hit my soil with an ACT application after mixing to speed up nutrient cycling.

 

[Kozmo]

I do like to hit my soil with an ACT application after mixing to speed up nutrient cycling.

So how do you go about doing that exactly? Just spray a top coat or spray it in while mixing a second time.

 

[Kozmo]

I agree 100% with this. The excerpt from the book pasted earlier is not correct information in that mycorrhizal spores do not germinate nor grow in compost tea (with current science). The spores need to contact your roots to be effective. Mixing it in your tea is mostly a waste of time and $. Apply the spores to your roots at planting time.

So what is the best type of spores for cannabis?

 

[ct guy2]

So how do you go about doing that exactly? Just spray a top coat or spray it in while mixing a second time.

I use peat moss when mixing soil that's naturally dry (and hydrophobic), so I need to add water to raise my moisture content. Using ACT as a portion of this will help add more microbes, which will speed up the soils ability to tie up nutrients and get you ready for planting.

 

[ct guy2]

So what is the best type of spores for cannabis?

Not sure exactly what you're asking, but in regards to mycorrhizal fungi. You don't add it to tea and you want glomus intraradices or glomus mossae.

MM has listed some options in the past from Premier or Mykos from RTI is a cheap option with a lower spore count though.

 

[Kozmo]

Not sure exactly what you're asking, but in regards to mycorrhizal fungi. You don't add it to tea and you want glomus intraradices or glomus mossae.

MM has listed some options in the past from Premier or Mykos from RTI is a cheap option with a lower spore count though.

I had not meant to add it to the tea. I meant to add the mycorrhizal fungi to the soil mix. After reading part of this thread I figured that was the best way. Ill have to do some digging on Premier and Mykos.

 

[Microbeman]

I had not meant to add it to the tea. I meant to add the mycorrhizal fungi to the soil mix. After reading part of this thread I figured that was the best way. Ill have to do some digging on Premier and Mykos.

I found that the search function works. Better details coming soon from 'the logical gardener' near you

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=254432&highlight=mycorrhizal

 

[h.h.]

'I guess The Naked Gardener was already taken

 

[Hottish]

Mycorrhizal / VAM

Mycorrhizal / VAM

I had not meant to add it to the tea. I meant to add the mycorrhizal fungi to the soil mix. After reading part of this thread I figured that was the best way. Ill have to do some digging on Premier and Mykos.

With Mycorrhizal / VAM there is no point in adding to a Tea, water in or mix in to your substrate, soil or coco as early as possible (as soon as you have roots) , it takes a couple of weeks for the roots to become inoculated and you need to Keep your P below 50pmm or the VAM will go back to "sleep" so best used for Veg

Premier and Mykos have very low spore counts per gram there are much better products available from the States and Europe with 500 spores per grams with added N fixers & Phosphate Solubilizers & Potash mobilizers @ 5x10*10/gram

 

[Microbeman]

With Mycorrhizal / VAM there is no point in adding to a Tea, water in or mix in to your substrate, soil or coco as early as possible (as soon as you have roots) , it takes a couple of weeks for the roots to become inoculated and you need to Keep your P below 50pmm or the VAM will go back to "sleep" so best used for Veg

Premier and Mykos have very low spore counts per gram there are much better products available from the States and Europe with 500 spores per grams with added N fixers & Phosphate Solubilizers & Potash mobilizers @ 5x10*10/gram

Perhaps you are best off reading what has already been posted in this thread and elswhere before providing instructions.

First of all VAM refers to vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (fungi) which refers to a particular sort of interface of endomycorrhizal with the cells of plant roots. It is not a general term for mycorrhizal fungi.
The preferred term these days is AM for endomycorrhizal fungi. You can research this by reading;
Roger T. Koide · Barbara Mosse
A history of research on arbuscular mycorrhiza
Received: 9 November 2003 / Accepted: 9 March 2004 / Published online: 16 April 2004
Springer-Verlag 2004

Secondly Premier has (AFAIK) the densest spore count of any endomycorrhizal product globally and is exported to Europe on a regular basis. They hold the patent for the most advanced method (AFAIK) to date for propagatiion of Glomus Intraradices spores.

The agricultural products I have recommended from Premier have 3,200 spores per gram in a powder product and 2,000,000 spores per litre in a liquid product.

There are some products from Europe with a higher count of Glomus Mosseae (AFAIK) but unless one is mixing several varieties, there is no advantage to using G. Mosseae over G. Intraradices, according to research.

Finally, mixing into or watering into the soil is the least effective method for successful infection. Application directly to the roots is the best method.

 

[Microbeman]

'I guess The Naked Gardener was already taken

I thought that was you

 

[W89]

Hey MM long time no see, missed reading your posts since you left los.. I should come check this section more often..

Wayne

 

[Microbeman]

hey wayne; there is a light at the end of the bus ride.

 

[bigshrimp]

Nah - you just end up with scabies

 

[redclover]

What happens if you mix endo spores in your tea? Does this just diversify...if used within the right time frame?

 

[Microbeman]

Nah - you just end up with scabies

depends on the bus.