Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: IL
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Yesterday I did an Azos treatment on all my babies. Now do I wait until I transplant them to give them the soil drench with the Great White, Biota Max, Actinovate trio? Or am I missing something?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Cheektowaga, NY
Posts: 2,466
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Good question, and I think you'll get different strategies here.
The way I do it is I start inoculating with mycorrhizae at potting up since it takes a few weeks for the root association to take effect. So when it's transplanting time, I'd hope to already have mycorrhizae colonizing the roots. I'll also reinforce with a root dip containing mycorrhizae at transplanting. Great White has mycorrhizae plus beneficial bacteria and trichoderma fungi, so you could start with a drench now and then the full root dip later at transplant with Great White, BiotaMax, Actinovate and more AZOS. That's just my strategy, but I don't think there is any wrong way to do it otherwise. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E
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Azos (Azospirillum Brasilense) is a helper bacteria and in doing so does increase nitrogen uptake of the plant. Definitely either do a root dip or drench the plants on plant out. Ami
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Cheektowaga, NY
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This is a interesting article on Azospirillum Brasilense from this year.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: IL
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Thanks everyone I will hit them with some great white today.
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