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If you're after the best germination the paper towel method is the best thing I've found. Maintain the temp at 24 Celsius, one the seeds have a root out, plant them in perlite at the same temperature. Keep them moist. Once the first leaves open take them out of the trays and plant them however you like. This has been a great method for me.

Thanks!

That's great to hear, enjoy the berries!

Tomatoes is my mission for this year. We'll see if I learn anything.

You're welcome!

You're welcome!

6.2 if memory serves is where I have the best results. Then I go a bit more acidic if I find the berries are tart. I've heard a few people mention southern ag but I haven't tried any of their products yet.

I was thinking fungus might be a thing for s while but since no other plants in the grow had anything, I questioned that being it.

@ yeah, however fusarium wilt is slightly different, there are certain strains that will effect tomato crops but leave peppers growing perfectly fine. As for the strawberries, they can’t get fusarium wilt from tomatoes either… may be causing some of the confusion

I'll have to look into this, thanks for the recommendation and the method of use. I have thought about adding silica, what made you choose to make the addition?

This happened in the grow room today, I have swapped to a tomatoe formula in the Dutch Buckets, I'm with you, I think it was a nutrient or ph problem. We'll see how it goes.

They were bone dry due to me and the wife both being busy I'm actually surprised all of them made it.

I did this in a different trial and my space is limited to run one every time. It might happen in the future.

Heyoooo welcome to the channel!

Once planted in the garden they were all inoculated by mixing with water and watering them in, this part is not shown.

Once planted in the garden they were all inoculated by mixing with water and watering them in, this part is not shown.

I learned this lesson the hard way.

I'll have to take a look, it's literally just an H D L for housedadlife with a plant ring, hmm, here I thought I was original.

Cold stratification is a game changer prior to planting as well, that with a 24 degrees celcius germination location, gold.

I have no horse in the race, I'd love to use nothing other than nutrients, but I have root problems without great white, so I use that.

@@HouseDadLifeGrows I understand, I wouldn't eel good about masking the root issues your experiencing though. The Mycorrhizae products are pretty expensive, I bet we can solve you root zone issue pretty fast for less if not free. Are you in soil? if so, is it just a mixed like a super soil? Or fully composted? Organics take, ore that microbes and fungi to break down, the need moister heat and time before it should used be fully. First is pot size, never use a vessel to much greater than you're root size, you can pot up as needed, Try and inert mix like promix or coco coir and top-dress small applications of soil and water onto it. PH your water and test your run-off. Adjust your water PH as close to 6.0 as you can, and water till your run-off PH matches. Let it stand till its nearly dry but not dried out, before you water again (repeating the PHing process. You should be good to go full soil after the plant's vegetation reaches the volume of the size of the pot you're using.

Appreciate the feedback, this trial did continue into the garden, I didn't video it, because in my mind the video was done, I just wanted to know for myself. After seeing results it's why they got put into the end of the video on the upload, it was footage I could get.

Happy growing!

Thanks for chiming in, would you know it I just recalibrated my PH meter, it was out, too soon to tell right now but you might be right.

@@HouseDadLifeGrowsalso a novice, recently heard Cal-Mag could be the solution for leaf curling in fruits as well

In this case I know what happened. I was away at work, and my wife was busy, the plants got sooooo bone dry, they almost ended up dead, they were all lying flat and limp when one of us finally got to them. Amazed we actually didn't even lose one.

Lol, keep looking, tell me when you find the plants.

Yes it is also an Innoculant, stop spreading false Information. As a gardener with 30 Years of experience plus studying the Cultivation of Ornamental plants in a German University for 3 years, i can assure you, a Compost Tea is made of the same stuff as these Powders, and all of these 3 products contain: Bacillus species, Trichoderma fungi, Myccorhiza fungi. Also people often confuse Trichoderma and Mycorrhizaes, they are different species of fungi, Trichodermas are parasitic and produce powerful enzymes which break down crop residues but also attack pathogens like Pythium, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia where as Mycorrhiza fungi is symbiotic, Endo Mycorrhizae attaches itself to plants Rootszones and Ecto Mycorrhizaes grow in Soil, both together build the fundamental fungi net which connects entire Forests.

Once plants hit the garden I did inoculate them all according to the recharge instructions. I didn't include it at the time because in my mind the experiment was done, I was just fixing my own curiosity. I did have footage of the end of year results which is why this reupload of this video included it. I figured it may help others.

@@HouseDadLifeGrowsthese are great tests . Please keep up the great work

Where are you from my Friend? If you can somehow get your hands on this product: Tyroler Glückspilze Mykorrhiza Soluble. You will be amazed. Ive tried everything in my 3 decades of gardening, nothing can compare to it.

There is a trial I have in mind but I'll have to wait until spring time, This way it's not hear say, it'll be video documentation.

I think that might happen, I've read that research as well. The trial might have to go on longer, and I'll have to give that some thought as to how I can make this fair.

Rootwise and recharge are totally different products than great white and dynomyco. They should not be compared

Exaclty…it’s mycorrhiza vs compost tea 🤔 Atleast that’s what recharge, I’m not familiar with roots wise

@ Rootwise and recharge are microbial inoculants, great white and dynomyco are mycorrhiza.

Gutters would be the most ideal, the reason I have buckets is I constantly swap for whatever I produce I want. Use seascape strawberries in a gutter with a net cup, nutrients at around 600ppm ph ideal 5.8. I'm betting you'll have massive success. I recommend a once a month great white dose in the reservoir, I could never keep bad root microbes away without it. Let me know how it goes for you, and correct me if I'm wrong.

I think if I ever go coco mix, it'll be 30% coco and 70% perlite, I think the plants would like it. I'll keep your test suggestion in mind. Thanks for the idea.

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it!

To get scientific you're 100% right. My ultimate goal is just to get solutions for the regular joe (me). If it works great in a sterile environment, but not with reused perlite, I know it's just not going to work me as an example.

My initial thought

You got it! And with the right name.

If you do a search for Housedadlife on youtube you'll find my other channel, you can see automation done on hubitat and homey pro there if you like. Good luck!

Great to hear that you have your products figured out, I remember starting out there's such a variety, to find what works for you in your setup has lots of value. Good luck with your grows.

All the content posted here so far is from my channel House Dad Life, the viewers there requested that the grow content be it's own thing. So as of right now these videos are just re uploads, once everyone moves over here I'll stop posting the grow content there. I'm also taking some time off which lets me catch up TH-cam.

For the most part, I just don't have the real estate to do a control as well. It might be coming in the future, I've been looking at what I can do in my grow room to make that happen. Thanks for sharing your method, I've done that in the past as well, I can say your method works well for me as well.

@@HouseDadLifeGrows yea youd really need like a flood and drain table to REALLY dial in things, even a gutter system (nft) i would assume the first plant in the gutter would get more nutes.

I've seen this technique used by other growers as a way to multiply fungal colonies however you're risking introducing fly gnats

Thanks for sharing your method, makes me think I was totally using recharge wrong. I wonder how this would work with great white. Do you ever bubble the mix?

That's exactly what I was thinking about this test.

I've gone powder only, I like having the option to really customize nutrient levels, it's also nice to be able to have more nutrients on hand. Liquids take up a ton of room.

They are under the same light, to make sure there were no hot spots or plants getting nor light they were shuffled every day.

@@HouseDadLifeGrows your on top of it! was thinking that could make a slight difference in a close battle. i know my plants to the outside defs dont get nearly the same amount of par as those close to the center. I use a par meter to take measurement

Glad you enjoyed!

You're welcome! Welcome to the channel!

You're welcome, and I think you're right. As I rewatch how the test went, I think their are things I could do when testing to get a clearer result. Welcome to the channel and thanks for the feedback.

Why add the bark or the coco?

@HouseDadLifeGrows iirc the bark holds water between feedings.

That might just happen.

As i review my tests, I wonder if there's a few here I should be redoing.

@HouseDadLifeGrows a good test should be multiple runs. In my opinion.