Yes I have - here's the ingredient list = Bacterial culture (1%), pelletized alfalfa (2%), water (97%)
We make our own home made version of this with:
EWC - 1 cup (takes the place of the bacterial culture)
1/2 cup organic alfalfa meal (pelleted version is Rabbit/horse feed found at your local feed store)
2 tbs Kelp Meal
4 gal filtered water
1 tbs of BSM (black strap molasses)
Bubble over night ~24 hrs in a Homer bucket (or if you have a vortex brewer that's another method).
Water in... We do the above on a bi-weekly basis, 4 gallons is enough for all of our indoor and outdoor gardens.
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Here's a little write up on how I transplant seedlings to either final containers or VEG pots.
I do 2 transplants with Photo period plants and 1 transplant of AUTO period plants.
PHOTO plants - seedling pot --> #2 nursery pot (1.66 gal) --> 7gal AutoPot XL
AUTO pants - seedling pot --> final pot #2 nursery pot (1.66 gal)
Here's how I transplant with minimal to no root ball damage, the plants just keep on going with little to no recovery needed.
First off before transplanting I will water the plants the day before with a good watering. This is so the root ball and surrounding soil will stay together when I pull the plant out of the old container.
First thing is the have the lager pot filled about 1/2 way with some new soil mix (I keep a container of freshly mixed soil on hand).
Next is, and this is
the most important part - take a knife and run it around the soil all the way down into the pot to the btm and around the entire pot. This loosens up the root ball from the container.
Here's a pic with the knife ... I run it around the edge of the pot full 360 degrees or more.
Now take the smaller pot & set it on top of the new container and GENTLY pull on the stem... if you don't feel the root ball release right away, turn the pot slightly upside down and give it a little shake while pulling. The root ball should come out fully to almost fully intact. Like this:
Here is the fully intact root ball, I'm holding the plant by its main stem right at the soil line. You can see this plant is just starting to outgrow its current container. This is an AUTO plant about 20 days old. Time for some Mycos... sprinkle right on the roots and also some in the pot where the root ball will sit.
Put the root ball into the new container - fill in empty spaces around root ball and water. Done!
Here's a comparison of the smaller seedling pot to the #2 nursery pot
Same diameter but the #2 pot is square and much taller but takes up the same floor space as the seedling pot but 3x or more the amount of soil.
This is how I've been transplanting plants from container to container or to outdoors in the garden for as long as I can remember.
Sometimes its these very important procedures that are often overlooked or not talked about ... hopefully there's something here that will help anyone having challenges with transplanting. It's the little things that sometimes can help gardeners make growing easier and more rewarding.
Transplanting can get daunting at times for me say when I have a VEG plant that got HUGE for whatever reason... I follow these steps and it makes transplanting less stressful for me and more importantly, for the plants.