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Re: [SANET-MG] BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Researchers hail organic potatoes



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spores can be commercially purchased . to me spores mean they raise and dry it and u just add water and the spores come back to life. is it like they are sleeping till they get the water like they do in nature? now your saying that now not only will the fungus help in the ground doing what it does but u want to spray it on the plants . I always thought it was best to put it in the hole before I plant because it come in contact with the root of the plant am planting and am hoping it infects that plant. I thought that kind of beneficial fungus had to meet the roots and getting it down to roots was the idea. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Hinds" <cedecor@GMX.NET>
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Subject: Re: BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Researchers hail organic potatoes


After being asked where I was going, I said:

Toward biocontrol of Phytophthora using the beneficial fungus
Pisolithus Tinctorius, which produces substances with antibiotic
activity contra Phytophthora, according to sources I found in
Medline (if I recall - I was using Uncover, I believe), a
biomedical database, in 1998. (I don't have the details on this
computer).

Sal then asked:

where do you buy your beneficial fungus and any other life forms
your raising when you make the tea

Pisolithus Tintorius can be obtained from: Plant Health Care, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, PA <www.planthealthcare.com/> (They sell: MycorTree PT
Spore Spray)

There may be other sources available.

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jun2003.html
 Pisolithus tinctorius is a mycorrhizal fungus, which means that it
 gets its nutrition in a mutualistic association with the roots of
 trees, mostly with conifers, but sometimes oaks. Remember that in a
 mycorrhizal association such as this, both partners benefit. This
 fungus is very useful in reclamation and reforestation of disturbed
 and poor soils, such as strip mines. It can survive low pH (high
 acidity), high concentrations of heavy metals, and high soil
 temperatures in the summer, along with the accompanying drought. It
 is also useful in the restrictive environment of nurseries. It seems
 to be a "super-mycorrhiza," and inoculum of "P.t." in the form of
 spores can be commercially purchased. So even in the "world's
 ugliest fungus" there is still some good.

what do you feed while brewing.

what all goes into the tea?

I haven't got that far yet.

--

Douglas

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