So I seen these packs on sale in Walmart for 1 bucks a piece so I picked up a few but I am not too familiar with this? How should I use it? I know it has something to do with giving life to the soil but that’s about all I know. I do use CX horticulture nutrients so I’m just trying to figure out how to go about using this. Thanks
Mycos are simply the organisms that eat organic material, which breaks it down into a form plants can uptake. Synthetic nutes are instantly available due to the salts not having to break down any farther. Adding mycos gives the organisms a head start and establishes their colony faster, so they start feeding the plant sooner.
Cool video, but still trying to see how to go about using it. So I’m using some old Fox farm soil right now and I have about five seedlings that just popped from my old dirt. So I take it by me putting the microorizal in my old dirt it will make it new again in a sense. But even though my seedlings are only a few days old is it still okay to put some in the new seedlings pots or should I wait until they get bigger? I wonder how much I should put in the pot with the seedlings? I wonder how much I should put in a pot with flowering plants? I guess it’s not going to hurt an adult that is 6 weeks in flower but then again I’m wondering if it is even worth using it that late into flower or if I should just use it for the seedlings? Just trying to get this figured out
@MidwestGuy okay well I have a seedling in a 3 gallon pot and a solo cups so how should I go about doing it? Should I just put a few tablespoons on top of the soil and water it in?
Negative Ghostrider. It isn’t like recharge. It is simply adding microbes to your medium as mentioned so the critters, Microbial Life, can assist in breaking down whats in the soil so the plant can uptake. I use both Mykos and Azos. Mine is a powder so I mix it per the instructions and water it in to the transplant pot 1 week or so before the transplant. You can also do a top dress and mix it into the topsoil and then water it in throughout the grow after transplant.
Note that mycos and microbes are 2 different things. Mykos is a beneficial fungus. Products like Recharge and Urb contain microbes (beneficial bacteria.)
They work differently:
Mykos: provides an additional “root” network that communicates with the plants roots to help them find nutrients and water.
Microbes: the microbes eat plant nutrients and poops them back out in a form that is more readily absorbed by a plant.
I don’t know what Recharge smells like, but I use Urb and it literally smells like shit.
You have to be careful with microbes, as their use can dramatically increase nutrient uptake and cause nute burn. Do not use too much of it. There are no similar problems with mykos.
I would evenly mix in a 1/4 cup mykos in a 3 gal pot.
@MidwestGuy@Bonjoyle okay thanks, here might be a stupid question but can I put it in my dwc bucket? Would it be kind of like hydroguard? I use CX horticulture nutrients with wilt guard and biobalancer, the bio balancer is beneficial microbes I believe but everything can be used together still?
I guess you could but my question to you is why would you use 3 different things that provide the same thing? Xtreme has a specific brand of mykos for hydro.
All right cool I added some in there last night and yes Midwest I am growing with CX horticulture nutrients. This is probably the only organic thing I’ve ever got besides worm castings haha but yeah I’m going to try the organic route from one of these days