The Mars Hydro FC4800, Prescription Blend And Weed Seeds Express 3x Sponsored Grow: The Amazon Pt I: A Flowering Paradise

[Mars Hydro]

Your photos are all very nice. I often share them with my colleagues.

 

[Krissi Carbone]

Your photos are all very nice. I often share them with my colleagues.

Aww thanks a bunch!! Share away!!

I try to do them justice but you know more than anyone that they're better first hand. Even when I try to get pics of the 4800 in action, I get frustrated because you just can't tell how strong it is in pics...that is until you see the transition of the plants-then it speaks for itself without words...

 

[Krissi Carbone]

I used to use Pro Mix peat mixes growing my "youthful-days" 420. When I started here at the 420 website, I was looking at the Pro Mix web pages for a peat/perlite mix percentage so I could mix my own. When I was looking, I saw that they also sold versions of Pro Mix with mycorrhizal inoculant additive. I wondered what that was. Pro Mix said it was a vital beneficial fungal microbe inoculant added to Pro Mix for enhanced and vigorous root growth.

OK starting off easy

I did a little more research on it and found it really works (according to real SCIENCE). So I searched online at Amaz** and found mycorrhizal inoculant products that were sold to mix in with your soil or soilless mix (excluding rockwool).

@West Hippie went rockwool and never went back....

I tried "Xtreme" mycorrhizal inoculant. It can be used when transplanting or as a top/side dress for existing plants or that can be mixed in fertilizer/compost teas or hydro top-feed situations for better root growth. I guess the mycorrhizal inoculant forms a fungal-web-like structure binding the roots together in the soil and soilless media or the case of hydro - "strings structures" - and helps capture nutrients.

I'm listening.....

Apparently, the plants roots like this and the fungal-web helps the roots absorb and process nutrients better. I used in in all my peat/perlite mixes, so far. A little goes a long way.

I assume this can be used on any medium?

When I transplanted my 420 from 1-gal plastic pots recently to fabric bags for the flowering tent, I noted EXTREME root development and growth. I thought about taking a a pic and posting here but I was busy with dirty hands and thought - I'll do it next time. Wish I would have posted a pic - the root growth was phenomenal and the root balls transferred so easily because the roots had fully enclosed the soilless media so tightly. I became sold on mycorrhizal inoculant!

How exciting

I was doing some research and talking with another professional grower here and he said you need to add some more microbes once in a while and feed and care for those microbes (soil fungi and soil bacteria) so they do not all die out eventually. Those microbes like sugars in the form of black strap molasses and carbs like kelp (me too).

My PB has a Kelpful as part of their 6 system...I have seen nothing but wonderful results

Soooo...you see why I prepared a compost tea last weekend that included kelp to feed my little root enhancing buggers (the tea you said: "I'd eat that.").

Yummmm

You can also just feed the microbes powdered supplement products like Recharge that have all that kelp, molasses and things mixed in. Recharge mixes well with compost teas and nutes/water. I have some Recharge. Last weekend, I just wanted to try a powdered compost tea mix I purchased previously first with some added liquid kelp I had. Worked wonders - saw the results within hours.

Amazing!

Well, I was doing some research tonight (as I am watching SF beat the "stink" out of the Chargers)

This weekends games...these upsets last few weeks have been insane!

and there are plenty of nitrogen fixing microbes too. Recently, I had a little issue of "lime-greenness" and "veininess" in the flowering tent mature leaves and I added a little iron to green them up. The veg tent also needed a little more nitrogen and I fixed the issue yesterday too. So now I am looking for beneficial microbe products that I can add easily to my growing plants so I do not encounter the slight deficiencies in nutes I have previously encouinsane icing!

Fill me in when you do!!!

Products that I can add easily by top/side dress or mixed-in with nute/water applications. Products that will help the roots along and add plant vigor and growth through a kind of fungal/bacterial/plant food web. That professional grower I communicated with said "the roots" are the key to awesome 420

That is the "root" of the 420....

So I found that chart/figure that shows the kind of microbes that aid plant roots in development and feeding. There you go...that's the LONG of it. Plenty of books and papers on the subject. I still want to use nutes, maybe, and not go full-blown organic, but I also want vigorous plant growth too and no deficiencies. Maybe I can have the best of both worlds - happiness derives from the simple things in life and is best celebrated in small doses. Happy plants, happy life. @Krissi1982

100%. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention and please keep me updated as you experiment further!!!

 

[Krissi Carbone]

DAILY WISDOM #30 SOMETHING (Like me for another few months)
NOVEMBER 16 2021

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried"
-Japanese Proverb

Success doesn't come without failure, guys and gals. Persistence and Patience are key

 

[ppm Charlie]

@Krissi1982 trying to keep up with all you have going on is a task within its self but determined to catch up, that setup with the ladies looking happy under their new rays of sunshine courtesy of @Mars Hydro is looking like F'en awesome I likey a lot lol

A great setup.

 

[Krissi Carbone]

A great setup.

I've been set up very well from my friends at Mars Hydro. @Prescription Blend gives them everything they need to make the very best of that light's capabilities. And I can NOT WAIT for Part II once the @Weed Seeds Express seedlings grow up and move out of the veg tent and into that flower set up! I am gonna have some big, healthy girls in there..I keep forgetting I'm running a flip of my usual autos vs photos...I'm heavy handed on the big girls this round coming

 

[Krissi Carbone]

Frankie: Trich Check #2

I'm thinking it may be go time after all...I pulled her out with Sophia

 

[420 Ceasar]

Frankie: Trich Check #2

I'm thinking it may be go time after all...I pulled her out with Sophia

Yessssssss

 

[cjsbabygirl313]

Frankie: Trich Check #2

I'm thinking it may be go time after all...I pulled her out with Sophia

Oh yum! You got a beauty there Krissi!

 

[420 Ceasar]

OK OK I did it!! I touched her and moved her!
God help me

you got this especially now that you put hands on that girl

 

[420 Ceasar]

Just checking in! Looking bud-errifc

Hope everyone has had a fabulous day!

Everyone got fed yesterday, nothing especially special to note today!

Beautiful pics of the ladies, you and them lights are really killing it you seem dialed in now the ladies are gonna appreciate it and you will when said and done

 

[Krissi Carbone]

Beautiful pics of the ladies, you and them lights are really killing it you seem dialed in now the ladies are gonna appreciate it and you will when said and done

Thank you!!!! They just keep getting bigger and fatter and more beautiful and smelly lol

 

[420 Ceasar]

Thank you!!!! They just keep getting bigger and fatter and more beautiful and smelly lol

You're welcome and isn't that the plan we all have here at community bigger, fatter and smelly I hope to have those issues I take that in a heartbeat

 

[420 Ceasar]

These girls must be doing all this growing for attention; jealous of the time I'm spending on their youngest siblings.

That or they just really, really like the @Mars Hydro FC4800 and @Prescription Blend!!

Darn attention fiends trying to take attention away from the little ladies don't they understand the children are the future

 

[Krissi Carbone]

Sophia (AK) 36 hours of darkness:

Jasmine (Blueberry)

Bubs (Bubblegum)

G (G-13)

And just like that, only 3 in the tent...

Happy growing Tuesday! Thanks for coming by!

 

[Krissi Carbone]

You're welcome and isn't that the plan we all have here at community bigger, fatter and smelly I hope to have those issues I take that in a heartbeat

You have that 150% correct!!!!

Darn attention fiends trying to take attention away from the little ladies don't they understand the children are the future

They're girls.....what can I say

 

[420 Ceasar]

You have that 150% correct!!!!

They're girls.....what can I say

You don't have to say anything those big girls are speaking for themselves and might i add very loudly at that

 

[cjsbabygirl313]

Jeez girl - you’re totally rocking it! Sophia and Jasmine are super sugary looking - and the other ladies are headed in that direction for SURE! Damn those are some beautiful plants!

 

[sneekymofo]

Kriss - I’ve been gone for awhile and I just wanted to pass along that your positivity and enthusiasm is still so infectious! Great timing on Sophia - damn she gonna be good to you. Ever think of doing this professionally - you may be a plant whisperer……. I’m more of a plant ‘yeller’ like ‘Damnit….how‘d they get into the lights overnight?!?’

 

[Krissi Carbone]

You don't have to say anything those big girls are speaking for themselves and might i add very loudly at that

cruising now....

Jeez girl - you’re totally rocking it! Sophia and Jasmine are super sugary looking - and the other ladies are headed in that direction for SURE! Damn those are some beautiful plants!

They make my heart happy Baby G...let's me know I'm doing the right things. Thanks love