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So ive already touched on mycorrhizae in previous posts and its benefits are already well documented basically alover the net. But there is anther beneficial fungi/bacteria/microbe that is well documented and being used in farms growing other plants and vegs but we do not hear or see it being used as much in the cannabis scene and thats Rhizobacteria. Its true that all soils have some % of Rhizobacteria but could there be something as too much or even better how do we introduce it and its benefits into a soilless setup such as coco? Well after a couple of days of research i was convinced to try a product called Rhizo PGPR and will begin inoculating it in my grows from now on But what is Rhizobacteria you may ask. Well below is an article taken from Zamnesia & Frontiersin which better explains the benefits of it on many different plants aswel as on cannabis which is what we all looking for "Cannabis growers often associate bacteria with plant diseases. However, some forms of these microbes dramatically improve plant health and performance. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria enhance almost every aspect of cannabis plant physiology, from nutrient uptake and pathogen defence to cannabinoid levels and drought resistance. Far from a lifeless substance, soil contains millions of microorganisms. While some of these small critters are a threat to the cannabis plant, many of them form alliances with the roots and boost plant growth, vitality, and yields. Various species of bacteria, fungi, and nematodes patrol the rhizosphere—the slither of soil that surrounds cannabis roots. Although we often associate these microbes with decomposition and decay, many of them actively promote growth. Cannabis plants are innately intelligent. They appear static to the human eye, but, in reality, they are constantly moving and have a lot of control over their environment. The herb essentially “farms” microbes in the soil. By releasing sugars into the rhizosphere, it attracts beneficial species of fungi and bacteria. In return for these tasty carbohydrates, the microbes mine the soil for nutrients and release growth-promoting plant hormones. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are soil microbes that help to enhance cannabis cultivation. Learn how to harness these tiny members of the rhizosphere to achieve the biggest possible harvests. WHAT ARE CANNABIS PLANT GROWTH-PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA (PGPR)? Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria is a term that includes several species of soil bacteria that enhance cannabis plant health. The term “rhizo” relates to “roots”, referring to the location where these species choose to reside. What attracts PGPR to the roots? Compared to the bulk of the soil, the rhizosphere offers a rich source of nutrients that microorganisms are drawn to. Known as exudates, these sugar molecules are released by cannabis plants to attract beneficial microbes. Species of PGPR are divided into two main groups: symbiotic species and free-living species. Symbiotic species live inside plant tissue, where they swap beneficial chemicals with plant cells directly. Some species live in the space between plant cells, whereas others penetrate the cells and live inside of them. Others take things a step further by merging their biology with the plant, forming unique structures made of both plant and bacterial parts. In contrast, free-living rhizobacteria exist on the outside of roots, where they work to increase yields and protect plants from the stresses of flooding and disease. Free-living species colonise the outside of cannabis roots. They form patches of communities that cover anywhere between 15–40% of the root surface, clinging to root hairs and the gaps between cells. In the presence of enough nutrients, they cover the entire root surface and form a thick layer of bacteria. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF RHIZOBACTERIA FOR CANNABIS GROWING? Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria boost cannabis plants in several ways. They help to enhance fertilisation, stimulate root growth, minimise plant stress, and even clean up the soil. Rhizobacteria also give cannabis plants a helping hand by defending against disease and assisting them in competing for nutrients. HOW DO RHIZOBACTERIA PROMOTE CANNABIS GROWTH? Growers can use PGPR to enhance the growth of their plants. Just as cultivators use different nutrients, training techniques, and lights in an attempt to boost yields, influencing the rhizosphere produces similar results. Some of the key ways in which rhizobacteria help to promote plant growth include: Growth hormones: PGPR produce several plant hormones that stimulate plant growth. These molecules drive plant development by promoting cell division and cell growth. Nutrient uptake: Rhizobacteria enhance the ability of cannabis plants to uptake nutrients. The plant relies on a fine balance of macro- and micronutrients to fuel growth, drive photosynthesis, and make other metabolic processes possible. Security: These helpful microbes also enable optimal plant growth through their “security services”. By preventing diseases from attacking the roots, they put an end to any attack that might slow down growth and threaten yields. Flower quality: Cannabinoids and terpenes make up the prized molecules within cannabis buds. By influencing nutrient movement and stress control, rhizobacteria increase these compounds and the overall holistic and recreational quality of cannabis flowers HOW DO RHIZOBACTERIA PROTECT CANNABIS PLANTS? Although kind to cannabis, PGPR wage war against other species. By fighting other microbes for resource dominance, they help cannabis plants to stay healthy and strong. Aside from fending off living organisms, they also embolden plants against the elements and adverse weather conditions. Rhizobacteria are truly invested in the health of their host cannabis plant, as it secures them a steady source of food and shelter. In return, they offer protection against various threats. Here's how PGPR protect your weed plants: Produce antibiotics: Not all bacteria in the rhizosphere work well with cannabis. Many species pose a threat to the roots—perhaps the most vital aspect of the entire plant’s anatomy. By manufacturing antibiotic compounds, PGPR kill off the bad guys. They lead plants into battle: As well as producing their own pathogen-killing molecules, rhizobacteria prompt plants to produce their own. By triggering a state of systemic resistance, they signal the cannabis plant to produce its own metabolites designed to fight off pathogens and parasites. Environmental defence: Cannabis plants produce the best results when treated to a stable environment. Sudden extremes, including surges in temperature, droughts, and floods, can negatively impact cannabis, damage plants, and stunt growth. Rhizobacteria increase tolerance and resilience in plants and help them deal with these threats much better. Powdery mildew: This fungal disease plagues growing operations every year, resulting in contaminated flowers. PGPR defend against this crop-destroying fungus. HOW AND WHEN TO APPLY RHIZOBACTERIA? Growers can protect their crop and enhance yields by using PGPR to inoculate their plants. Farmers across the world are starting to use rhizobacteria as a biofertiliser to replace conventional pesticides and chemical fertilisers. Cultivators can inoculate their plants at several stages throughout the growing cycle. Inoculating seeds with cannabis-compatible rhizobacteria will give your seedlings the best start in life. Simply add around 1g of rhizobacteria into the hole when sowing seeds. If you've already started growing and want to take advantage of these microorganisms, use the same product to make a soil drench to inoculate the root system. Thoroughly mix 1g of rhizobacteria per litre of water. Apply this formula once every 21 days to keep the rhizosphere thriving with beneficial life. You can also include rhizobacteria in your transplanting strategy to help plants recover from the stress faster. Sprinkle 1g into the hole before introducing your plant to its new home. More on the subject can be read HERE SO! Has anyone ever used RHIZOBACTERIA especially in a soilless medium and if so was there any visual improvements?

So this thread also got away from me, but never the less closing it off. 6 phenos and 6 different directions this line will take going forward. There is enough seed from this run for me to continue hunting, and I will make a few available to testers.

Yeah thanks bud. Surprise myself sometimes. Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

Check out @ORGANinc.post. He is selling a 240w QB for R2800. It’s a bargain.

Thanks for the cake day wishes all! The White wedding is looping mooi

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 So i added the milk to the infected rice water and let it stand for 4 days. As you can see, there isnt much difference between day 3 and 4 so tomorrow moring I will tap off the whey(500ml) and add that to 9L of water and mix in 500ml of Molasses After it is mixed, letbit sit for a week. After that you mix it 100ml/10L water. Will post pic tomorrow to show final step...

Daaaaaamn Dave!

I'd pop that bad boy in the ground because the amount of root space you'll need in order to take it through veg from now until Autumn is going to be rather insane. Also, if you do take it all the way to next year, remember to trim regularly. Outdoor plants get mega bushy in this African sun! Also, it will save you 1000 hours of work come harvest time. Maybe also treat the plant for pests like with an Efekto spray and then also try treat for powdery mildew with some beneficial bacteria and you should be good. Would be absolute balls to do all the work to take it through veg only for mold and aphids to come destroy your work.

Amazingly broad Indica shaped leaves. The serrations on the edges look quite peculiar. Good luck with the grow man.

1 will already be on its way to Mr @donnob, got 1 left

I just got some cuts of it again the other day. I smoked it again the other day after a 4 month cure. Dit het my gat geskop.

Day 67. With the load shedding and opportunistic night dweller's digging up power cables our power supply gonna be unstable for the next few weeks. So with a heavy heart I grabbed the snips. Was hoping on another week. To all the sponsors @Totemic, @Light It Up, @Aeradix, GSR Seeds, @Cannabist, Green Grow Room, @ExploGrow, @Golden-Goose, The High Co and @Futurama Hydroponics thanks for making this possible. Then let's not forget @420SA for pulling this together. Had a great time and most of all I learnt so much so shout out to all you out there. Looking back I ended up investing some on grow equipment and my little tent kitty has already been started. T3 the entrant that could have been.

Got them from Simply Souvineer seeds from UK. Accidentally soaked the seeds for 36hours, they germinated and pushed taproot.. Keen to document my grow.

Been enjoying all the different flavours! Flower tent is filled up again, all clones from previous batch. Just installed the net, tucked a few tops and moved a few branches around. About to flip these girls maybe give it a few more days, though I will not be documenting this batch. Got a couple clones in the veg tent, they're all going to new homes soon. My focus is on the Deluxe Sugarcane cuttings inside of the dome on the heat mat. Got a cutting from a forum member a while back, grew her out a bit and made a few cuts for my next batch. Will be documenting the DS grow when they take off

Been getting real gerook on this Tortoni.

@420SA Are we going to have to wait for this madir to kla flowering before we get judged?

I spent a lot of my days picking out the thinest of papers, untreated, organic papers, hemp papers.... it's only logical, right? No, it's all bullshit. I believe we're being taken for a whatwhat by the marketing sector. BIG RED FLAG FOR HEMP BASED ROLLING PAPERS BIG RED FLAG FOR ANY CELLULOCE BASED PAPERS BIG RED FLAG FOR ANY WHITE PAPERS Here is a video to help some understanding how to look at rolling papers before buying and not only to read the name on the box

My go-to is RAW, and then alternatively OCB, but when I was a young warthog Rizla was good enough!

Im a big fan of RAW. Check youtube for the burn test vs other papers. Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk

All 3 of my plants have had the weird light and dark colours on the leaves and I wondered if it may be a deficiency. I was spraying with Epsom before flipping to flower but thought I should stop. I've also now just read that low PH could cause Magnesium deficiency so I'm thinking I should calibrate my pen to be sure it's not that. I can't really tell if it's getting any worse or better because I've seen it throughout my whole grow and I think I look at them too often . I appreciate the advice, will definitely look in to it.

Looks to me like it's re-vegging?

Good day fam! So I'm back up and growing again! This time it's 4 x Loud Cake (seed) and 1 x Dirty Kush Breath (Clone) They all started in some freedom farms starter and then moved into CannaPro and started feeding Mega Solutions. They struggled a bit for the 1st 2 weeks while I was getting conditions in order, they don't like anything under 18 degrees but since Temps are more stable they are growing nicely. I've topped them already and they responding well. There's one loud cake that's standing out with growth and structure but excited to see how they turn out. They currently under 2 x 120w Modugrow I'll turn on the 240w QB in 2 weeks and then add another 90w later. I'm hoping to flip the 1st week of October

Ja out of stock so they probably did pull it but how can Motherland charge R300 for 10 reg while B&B charges R500 for the same item?? Someone undercutting or someone taking the piss with their markups? I personally have never had any issues with Motherland. Don't know the whole story but when i see shit like this it makes me think twice who to support.

I thought B&B pulled all the stuff from Motherland after the drama ?? Wouldn't be supporting Motherland at the moment anyway dude... I've seen a lot of bad things about this guy the past few days on Instagram, I even saw Totemic said they are not longer a distributor for his seeds.

Female - extremely early signs of sex

Thanks man. I just need the reassuring. Reading threads about it making me a bit worried.

All I'm seeing is new growth ???

My question is what type of microbes are those brands using, for example Biodyne and moss blend by umya do not state anything besides dosages and I've used a few others with no mention either. I can see how redosing can be a waste in soil and a thriving environment. But what about soiless? Will it than be beneficial to inoculate or is it possible to maintain a healthy environment for the microbes to thrive?

I have seen it before, never tried it. My thing is, how does this compare to other microbe inoculations? Products like Biodyne, EM pro soil, ExploGrow etc? Perhaps a little off topic, but a lot of these products all recommend redosing throughout the grow - if one is providing feed for the microbes, surely they should be happy and thriving and multiplying and not require another inoculation? Perhaps it is for those who do not provide food for the microbes.

What a recovery!!!!!!

Shot bud. Gained a lot of knowledge on indoors from looking and learning during the course of the comp. And forum input [emoji1690] Got a few cuttings I'm gonna put through a West Coast summer outdoors shade house now. Cutting T2. Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

Doesn’t look like you need to defoliate yet bud, I would wait to stretch settles, you can however clean the lowers leaves that you are certain are not receiving light. And then it seems you may have a magnesium deficiency. But some phenos do that even with the addition of magnesium, for instance I had the same thing happen with a deluxe sugarcane pheno. So maybe a Epsom’s drench 1/2 tsp per 5l will do okay, if no changes don’t stress about it. Maybe do it another 2/3 applications. And then you can atleast be sure they have adequate magnesium

That plant is re-vegging, hence the weird leaves.

@Naughty.Psychonaut, if its something benificial to the garden then I'll add it, but 1st need to see what it is. Thanx for the help

Day 66 12/12. Water day today so girls got some 15 minutes or so sunshine. Plants drying out a lot faster now. Gonna have to Jimmy a drip tray in the cabinet for my next grow. T3 has inspired me to grow one plant in 20l using a net in my 900mm x 900mm space. Or buy a tent, they come with drip trays don't they. Next year maybe.

So I cleaned up the Tortoni, banana Mac and Slurricane, flipped them yesterday under the qb. I am afraid I have left them get too big but I do have some space left if they really stretch, mainly worried about the slurricane.(Pics below) I moved the remaining 3 moms to the smaller veg tent, and have 4 established clones going, but going to take more soon. (Pics to Follow) My outdoor clones are all established and the roots are growing out the bottom of all of them so have some hard graff to do this coming week with the light hours moving pass the 12 hour mark, it's time to get my outdoor veg on! (Pics to follow) Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

I just can not stand the taste though.. It was all I knew for a long time and even got parros when I bought them.. Those were the days.. Die "omkyk twak" dae.. But once I tried pure hemp.. Never again.. The mid size OCB is also cool..But then again.. Grand Pa papers came in handy in lock down..

In order from the top is my favorite at the moment. Can't comment on Raw as I haven't come across them yet. Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

1. OCB hemps 2. OCB Ultimate slim / slim ultimate, whatever its called 3. Platinum Blunt wraps

I also always used to go for OCB Slim, but lately rolling with RAW. Recently I bought a pack of RAW with gerrick papers included, and man that gerrick paper is perfect too.

This girl is resilient. Thanks again for the help, guys.

So I have been going clone crazy on these moms, got about 20 going at the moment and 4 established clones from my homemade protein tub cloner lol 2 weeks with a light 0.2 ec nute solution, then they go straight into moist coco and don't get water until they start basically dying/wilting. Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

T2 is getting chopped today. This is the first to come off.

They've put on a lot of chunk the past few day's. Smelling absolute bonkers stuff man, I don't have the ability to describe terps like Jesus's sweat and 2-stroke on a rainy day, so I'll rather just say it's like nothing I've smelt before. @Totemic The seeds are fire yo, doubted the one plant all the way and now she is the most beautiful, spear shaped harddd branches of dagga. Tortoni #2 TORTONI #1 Tortoni #1 TORTONI #2

Nightshots They have been grown organically, just to repeat that, because my ladies a bit uglier than yall salt feeding ninjas. Would love a thc compare test end of grow like last time @420SA Has @Aeradixresponded on the request as yet?

The smell coming off the Tortoni that was second, is truly standing out now. Through veg she looked sad, but holy hell is she happy in flower, and vice versa on the other Tortoni.

@CreXyou can send your details to @420SAfor delivery. Good luck

@CreXall good. I will arrange with @420SA