Hi there fellow geeks, here is what I am proposing:
Just as we keep mother plants, it is possible for us to keep myco mothers.
The reason we should do this? Because with only 3-6 months from seed to senescence, cannabis isn't "permanent" enough to enjoy the benefits of replacing some fertilization with inoculation in a meaningful way.
For those happy to be organic hippy type growers like myself, the easy and obvious answer is to keep a network of companion plants in specialized media designed to last for many years and growth-harvest cycles.
But what if you only want to grow cannabis in containers, and not mess this living mulch business and the extra lighting required? Well in that case I think the answer is to keep a small bed of mycorrhizal plants on a windowsill somewhere in the house.
You can start with a tray, glomus intraradices spores, some local dirt (sterilized if you must), and seeds for mycorrhizal plants that will grow easily in your environment with only window light or maybe a bit of additional lighting.
when you need to inoculate cannabis, instead of using a powder you can harvest a plug from the tray, and use the root material to inoculate rooted cutting with live mycelia instead of spores.
am I on to something or just stoned?
Just as we keep mother plants, it is possible for us to keep myco mothers.
The reason we should do this? Because with only 3-6 months from seed to senescence, cannabis isn't "permanent" enough to enjoy the benefits of replacing some fertilization with inoculation in a meaningful way.
For those happy to be organic hippy type growers like myself, the easy and obvious answer is to keep a network of companion plants in specialized media designed to last for many years and growth-harvest cycles.
But what if you only want to grow cannabis in containers, and not mess this living mulch business and the extra lighting required? Well in that case I think the answer is to keep a small bed of mycorrhizal plants on a windowsill somewhere in the house.
You can start with a tray, glomus intraradices spores, some local dirt (sterilized if you must), and seeds for mycorrhizal plants that will grow easily in your environment with only window light or maybe a bit of additional lighting.
when you need to inoculate cannabis, instead of using a powder you can harvest a plug from the tray, and use the root material to inoculate rooted cutting with live mycelia instead of spores.
am I on to something or just stoned?