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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

Well, maybe not their entire lives.  I’ve had mixed luck with beneficial inoculants, but the successes are enough to make me continue regular applications.

 

~ Stephen

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Scott Smith
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:10 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Mycorrhizal Inoculants (was Dennis's oil spray advice)

 

Kevin, I experimented with one of these inoculants and the only effect I could clearly observe was that my wallet was $50 lighter.  I did not do any careful study, but after using the stuff on a couple hundred trees I stopped adding it since I was not noticing any difference between the things I used it on and the things I didn't.  From the little reading I did my conclusion was that there were already enough of these fungi in the soil, and that made inoculation unnecessary.

 

Scott

 

 

> I haven't experimented with the trees most Nafexers seem to grow. I'm too far south, but it seems to me that innoculating your trees with endomorphic and mycorhizal fungi should protect it from other fungi for their entire lives without the need for expensive fungicide sprays. The trees would be more resistant to environmental stresses and produce better.