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johnuk
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Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae
#5752411 - 06/15/06 05:34 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I heard an interesting programme on the radio this morning that suggested one way we could slow global warming would be if we each plant about fourty plants (shrubs) to absorb the ~40kg of CO2 we emit per year.
They then mentioned that a lot of plants (70% I think) are actually grown with fertiliser, which is produced by the Haber-Bosch cycle - which requires the burning of fuel it's self.
I think the 70% estimate is taking into account for intensively farmed crops, which isn't really totally fair since trees and shrubs will grow without fertiliser.
But I was thinking... could this be achieved more effectively by purposefully infecting your 40 plants with mycorrhizae?
I have a lot of apple trees growing in the seedling stage at the moment and plant things for fun anyway. Is there any information already out there about the possibility of innoculating your plants with mycorrhizae? Surely farmers and argicultural departments must have already considered this to some extent?
I expect the process is somewhat similar to growing truffles, but hopefully easier.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: johnuk]
#5752418 - 06/15/06 05:39 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think 90% of plants? have these mycorrhizal relationships. They are infact very common. oo here you go...
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This little known family of beneficial fungi live in and around the roots of 95% of the earth's plant species, serving as a secondary root system, extending themselves far out into the soil. Mycorrhizae extract mineral elements and water from the soil for their host plant in exchange for the plant's sugars. Trees and plants with thriving "mycorrhizal root" systems are better able to survive and thrive in stressful natural and artificial environments.
I think in the forest industry they do this as standard practice, in the nursery. Might be wrong on that - I think that's how it works down here in NZ anyway. These fungi will be in soils throughout the world.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: johnuk]
#5752894 - 06/15/06 09:36 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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go to your local grow store they will carry innoculent in either liquid or powder form.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: durban_poison]
#5754174 - 06/15/06 04:38 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I used to use a product when propagating clones. I can't remember the name of it at the moment, but it had moisture gel crystals and like 8 different kinds of mycorrhiza in it. Foolishly I forgot which plants were my controls or didn't label them well enough, so I can't tell you if it had a whole lot of effect. I think it helped quite a bit though. It's only really important if you're doing clones though. If you're putting clones into sterilized potting soil they have no chance to develop symbiosis with mycorrhiza. Plants grown outdoors in normal soil will have no problem finding mycorrhiza to colonize their roots. They are all through the soil, so there is no need to do anything.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: fastfred]
#5756478 - 06/16/06 07:57 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have some in powder form that is water soluble, made by OGM. The root ball gets huge, its interesting to watch in an NFT system.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: johnuk]
#5756893 - 06/16/06 11:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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checkout www.fungi.com paul stamets has done a lot of research on using these mychrozial fungi to aid in plant growth, he also sells an inoculant...
i am thinking if you were to grow plants native to your area, or at least ones that could survive with out much help, just mixing in a cup of soil from the local forest in with your soil mix would add a bit of the local mychorizae
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: johnuk]
#6798268 - 04/17/07 02:05 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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A friend of mine alerted me to mushrooms growing on his jiffy peat pots. I took a look and sure enough, the jiffy pots were covered with a white growth (the fungus i presume) and the humidity from the jiffy pot terrarium cover allowed it to throw up a fruit. The tomato seedlings were growing like crazy as well.
The mushroom was dark brown with a cap around 10-12mm and a height around 35mm.
Makes me wonder if the spores were in the seed packets, the peat, or if the fungus was in some dehydration dormancy and was rejuvinated from the water.
Staments has a book about all of this on his website. Personally, I think he is in the pocket of the lichen lobby.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: synapticaxon]
#6798953 - 04/17/07 09:44 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fungus in nursery plants is extremely common and rarely mycorrhiza. RR
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: johnuk]
#23621186 - 09/07/16 08:40 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I harvest my own myc by placing a pound of brown ice in a nylon which is tied off and stuffed beneath a fat tree root in the forest, In three weeks it'll be pure white fuzz that is broken up and distributed to the roots of my plants.I take 3feet of 1.5" copper pipe , pushed down to root zone then pulled out ,witch leaves a hole to be filled with myc.Bottom line is mycohriza supercharges your plants health and vigor. oops I didn't notice how old this post was.But everyone should know you can make your own supplies rather than buying them. It just takes time to research methods.
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Re: Innoculating plants with mycorrhizae [Re: Pinpapa]
#23638342 - 09/12/16 12:05 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This thread is a decade dead man.
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