Re: [compost_tea] Re: Mycorrhizal spores on market

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:29:37 EDT

More on Mycorrhizal fungi -

Typically what you want in tea are the mycorrhizal SPORES.

Those are dormant stages, and they are not harmed by pumps.

So, add your inoculum of mycorrhizal spores into the tea just before you
spray it out, and there's no problem.

It takes a minimum of 4 hours for the spores to begin to wake up in a good
tea. So, don't put hte spores in at the beginning of the tea brew, put them in
at the end.

Trichoderma is a different story. They germinate and grow (not reproduce,
ok? They don't sporulate in tea) in tea and are hardy to the point that few
pumps harm them even in vegetative growth phase.

And yes, Trichoderma isn't the best thing to put on the leaf surface, UNLESS
you have a fungal infection taking over your foliage. And then, you NEED to
have the ACTIVE stage of the Trichoderma, not the spores.

Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institue Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Hilversum, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho




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