You could kill two birds with one stone with Down to Earth “Bio Live” which is a 5 4 2 organic fertilizer with the biologicals too.
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This is my Old faithful right here Trubiotics are premixed if you know Dr Earth products they inoculate a lot of thier product with micros now.
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You can DIY your own indigenous Mycos and rhizobacteria as well just by digging up healthy wild plants and using the dirt around their roots for yourself! You can even propogate/multiply your mycos by using that soil as a medium for a fast growing plant like wild grass
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Oh tight! Can’t believe I never bothered to read the bag. I got 36lbs of this in my closet. Now I only top dress once every 2-3 weeks so… can I just mix a tiny pinch in with water & water in…using it as recharge, or what’s your method?
Awesome thanks @ChongoBongo I’m definitely going to look into that as well.
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I’ve been measuring it out like one quarter less measurements than what the bag called for.Dr earth always comes in Hot on me I learned to use less that Alfalfa in there is loaded with nutes he uses really good shit in his product.I don’t do top dresses as much.I take my dirt guesstimate the volume add my measurements and add water and let it sit closed in the tote for 2 weeks when I repot I use the soil I just cooked and water with a organic Calmag supplement in my RO water that’s it.I try to make dirt as close to just add water as I can.
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I have been wetting the soil in the tote last week of cook with jar of marinated Mosquito dunks in RO to kill any gnat larvae it’s working so far
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This Purple Kush was the first plant I tried my recycling mix out and I even let the suckers grow just to see how much nutes would last as it’s been over 6 weeks since transplant and absolutely no sign of slow down.I can get in there clean up and take cuts now.She had absolutely no transplant shock not even so much as a burnt leaf tip.I will never use soil unless it’s been cooked for 2 weeks ever again.I do one top dress of DR earth Flower Girl the week of flip and I supplement with Fox farm Big Bloom and epsom salt and Calmag supplement till 2 weeks till chop then it’s just plain water.
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Agreed. Bio-Tone and Holly-Tone are very good, inexpensive, easily accessible products. They sell those at the hardware store near me. I’ve used them in my outdoor flower beds and gardens for years. Really good stuff
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I like Bushdoctor Microbe 1/2 tsp per gallon every feeding. Works like Champ. 
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Be careful with the pinch in the water that stuff is hot don’t let it fool you all you need now is a bag of Flower girl and your all set for the apocalypse
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I used the Tomato-Tone in my raised beds this year and the tomatoes were absolutely nuts, they never stopped growing until first frost and pumped out thousands of good sweet tomatoes that resisted the bugs, blight, and frosts well. I’m sold on it, I’ll use it every year now and I put a cup or two of it into my soil bins a while ago in the Magic Wand Factory. That one’s nice for weed since it’s got extra calcium mag and sulfur for the tomatoes, calcium helps prevent end blossom blight.
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In a similar vein, when it’s warmer you can cook some rice and put it out to get inoculated by indigenous microorganisms in a nice healthy forest under an old tree, I’m doing that this spring to get into my soil bins:
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imo just seemed like so much work for me 
going all the way from 1 thru 5…wowsers! I bet it works great though.
I like this guys style of using the rice to make a JMS/AEM/compost tea style brew:
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if that’s not an endorsement I don’t know what is! I’ll have to check that out now 
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To be fair, they were newly filled landscaping cloth and wire mesh beds, filled with a 70/30 mix of soil and compost from a local place that makes excellent thermophilic compost, and our local soil is silty clays from an ancient lakebed, so pretty ideal already for gardening and tomatoes especially. But the couple cups of tomato tone that I dug in after transplanting as spikes worked great too so I don’t think it’s hurting anything at all.
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I basically made giant weed smartbeds out of some wood I came up on from a construction site and $50 of stuff from the hardware store. They got filled as hugelkultur beds with a foot of dry and slightly decomposed old 4-6" logs that all snapped off the trees last winter in the ice storms, topped with a few inches of dry leaves and then dirt fill. It’s been going great, I can’t endorse it enough especially with a heavy fill like we got, it looks like iron clay in midsummer but holds water with the logs forever, and I think the extra oxygen to the roots really stimulated growth.
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I do use ReCharge, but do I think myco’s are a must have, no many of did just fine before we ever knew of them.
Now that I do understand them, I do use them, and can see what they do for us. Not magic, not needed, but they sure seem to soften my mistakes from tailed seed to cut flowers.
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I judge products by plant response. FAA, Recharge and plain rain water, all separate, are the Bees knees. These plants love em.
Just picked this up and will see how the ladies like it soon.
Peace
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I tried Recharge because I found the idea of having a bunch of thing in one powder very appealing. Unfortunately, my plants did not have the same positive reaction that I see using individual products. It did no harm though. Now I’m back to using BioAg Ful-Power and the Rootwise product line for microbes and enzymes. I add powdered humic when re-amending my soil and I use Xtreme Mykos when transplanting.
I also tried a free sample of Fish Sh!t and it did sh!t all. Maybe I got unlucky and my sample was all dead; I don’t know. I use Organic Gem now and have also had great results with Neptune’s Harvest in the past. Both have some N and P, so you can’t use them exactly the same as Fish Sh!t, but plants love them.
I once dropped a full bottle of Neptune’s Harvest Fish on the floor, in my bedroom. It shattered and got everywhere. Took me all day to clean and get the smell out. I laugh about it now, but I wanted to cry at the time.
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I do think this is the right attitude, there’s so many variables of genetics and grow styles and environments etc that in the end we have to start with the science and make our final decisions by plant responses. I still use Recharge because it makes my plants perk up after a watering, but I’m moving to AACTs because they have an even stronger plant response. I think that probably just brewing Recharge into a tea is a smart first step, but I also agree with some of the criticisms in this thread of all in one products and their limitations.
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