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    root rot in coco and soil

    for the past few months i ve had two issues that i recently discovered are the same issue just causing different problems, i had big healthy plants that got potassium deficient when i switched to flowering, leaves curl and die in just a few days and i thought it was the nutrients i was using, i learned how to mix my own hydro nutrients (soooooo cheap) but didnt really solve the problem. now the second problem started a bit before and was all my clones dying before they root, i tried everything temps, humidity, dome no dome, rooting hormone, coco, aloe. oasis foam. i finally stumbled upon pythium, the most damaging and destructive of the root rots. the tell was the funky smell from my coco, after some research i got some Trichoderma harzianum. watered 2grams per liter and within a week my potted plants are recovering and growing big healthy roots. i mix a pinch with the water i soak the oasis in and im back to 100% rooting rate.

    like most things, this fungi its not very well documented on cannabis but its the holy grail of fungicides in the agricultural scene, think about it as a mycorrhizae that not only feeds the roots but also kills all other fungi (its a parasitic fungi) and colonizes the medium very quickly to allow for extremely fast and healthy root growth. even when you dont have a root rot problem its works just like mycos but it will prevent any other fungi to thrive. i guess this is important and useful enough to tag NebulaHaze because this info should go into the main site and if possible in the newsletter so people is aware that this exists and works like a charm. btw its algo pretty cheap, i got it for 25 bucks per kilo and if you dont have a rot issue you can use it once a week. much love to everyone

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    and i forgot to say, i never saw seeds germinate so fast or so healthy than when i added a bit trichoderma to the water i soaked the seeds in

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    #3
    In time you may learn simple neem oil $2.50 bottle
    would do the same and faster its systemic and organic
    perhaps sold near you as leaf shiner

    good luck

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    • JohnEmad
      JohnEmad commented
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      Interesting subjects.
      Appears "neem" if properly made through a cold press method seems to be an effective agent for controlling many things but it is not nearly the same as "trichoderma".
      I would say they both have their uses and are not always interchangeable.

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