Re: [compost_tea] Re: brewing native microbes

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:52:21 -0400

Spores are rugged, that is true. Most dormant stages of organisms are rugged. They have to be able to survive adverse conditions, so tough outer layers are the order of the day when dormant.

So, as you suggest, banding should work. I believe there are several scientific papers in the literature where spores were placed below where the seed or seedlings were placed, and mycorrhizal colonization was improved significantly. Dry mycorrhizal products would probably best for this approach, although drenching the soil below the seed, or seedling roots, works as well.

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Before mycorrhizal inocula were available, I told people over and over about collecting spores from their own land or from existing plants and applying them to their new plantings or planting rows. Collecting spores from the habitat in the environment that matches the habitat you are trying to develop is not new by any means. The concept of having landscape plantings partly for the purpose of being a source of non-lab-culturable organisms was probably first suggested by Lady Eve Balforth. Not a new concept at all.

Still, showing people how to do things is important, and updates on the "how-to" generates new interest in the methods. I just would like less hype, or perhaps recognition that there is a long line of scientific development behind all of this.

Sorry, Kevin, the last two paragraphs were really in response to a previous post, that you were responding to as well. Don't mean to make you feel as if I am shaking my finger at you! I'm not!

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com

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