Guy Meilleur
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THe Maaster said on Halloween:
Mychorrizall fungi are like wood decay fungi in that if conditions are good they will grow. Funny how a dead branch can fall on the ground and decay away, even though nobody added wood decay fungi. Similarly, when growing conditions are right for mychorrizal fungi, they too will grow.
Mike, fungi from the same general are both decay and mycorrhizal. That's why the best place to spread chips from a tree's dead branches is under that same tree--completes the natural cycle.
"If you are really worried about the presense of spores, it would be much wiser to look around your neighborhood for a healthy mature tree of the same spieces as you are planting, and take one good shovel full of soil from the base. Take that back and mix it in your planting pit. Its free"
Good plan, and it works the same for vertical mulching of established trees.
the micros in Mycor are native, not exotic, to most habitats.
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"I didn't give Mycor permssion to dig in my yard to collect fungi, heck they might not even have come to Dousman, or Wisconsin for that matter. They may not even have been in the midwest collecting one of the 25,000 or more spieces."
Maybe I'm still carrying spores form when I lived there.
Or maybe by using Pisolithus tictorius and others that have been verifed through good research, the odds are a beneficial microflora will be colonized.
"Some of the studies done where they inoculated sterile soil with plantings and set them outside, ended up having greater presense of native mychorrizall fungus, from airborne spores floating in, than from their inoculations. What does that tell you?"
By itself, not a lot. It's not the presence of spores but the how well they grow and persist. I agree that fresh, native populations are good sources, but adding the commercial varieties can up the odds of boosting root function.
Mychorrizall fungi are like wood decay fungi in that if conditions are good they will grow. Funny how a dead branch can fall on the ground and decay away, even though nobody added wood decay fungi. Similarly, when growing conditions are right for mychorrizal fungi, they too will grow.
Mike, fungi from the same general are both decay and mycorrhizal. That's why the best place to spread chips from a tree's dead branches is under that same tree--completes the natural cycle.
"If you are really worried about the presense of spores, it would be much wiser to look around your neighborhood for a healthy mature tree of the same spieces as you are planting, and take one good shovel full of soil from the base. Take that back and mix it in your planting pit. Its free"
Good plan, and it works the same for vertical mulching of established trees.
the micros in Mycor are native, not exotic, to most habitats.
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"I didn't give Mycor permssion to dig in my yard to collect fungi, heck they might not even have come to Dousman, or Wisconsin for that matter. They may not even have been in the midwest collecting one of the 25,000 or more spieces."
Maybe I'm still carrying spores form when I lived there.
Or maybe by using Pisolithus tictorius and others that have been verifed through good research, the odds are a beneficial microflora will be colonized."Some of the studies done where they inoculated sterile soil with plantings and set them outside, ended up having greater presense of native mychorrizall fungus, from airborne spores floating in, than from their inoculations. What does that tell you?"
By itself, not a lot. It's not the presence of spores but the how well they grow and persist. I agree that fresh, native populations are good sources, but adding the commercial varieties can up the odds of boosting root function.
