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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Interesting point.  I grow stuff on land that's been mostly  
undisturbed for 50 years.  I tried mychorizal fungus a bit when I  
started, and then I decided that if it had worked, the stuff must  
still be in the soil and would "infect" whatever else I put there.  I  
didn't do a good controlled test, but I certainly didn't notice any  
difference when I started or stopped using it.

Ginda Fisher
eastern MA, zone 6
crocuses just starting to bloom, and the buds on the apricot and  
cornus mas are swelling.

On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Anton Callaway wrote:

> Ever seen what they do to the soil to "develop" a subdivision?
>
> Mychorrizal inoculations are worth it.  I was skeptical until I did  
> a side-by-side comparison on several rows of potatoes.  Pretty  
> impressive results.
>
> Maybe in lightly disturbed soil, there would be no diff.  But where  
> the bulldozers have wreaked havoc, some help is noticed.
>
> Zone 8
> Pears starting to bloom.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Mar 21, 2009 1:16 PM
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: [NAFEX] mychorizal fungal rip off?
> >
> > When I was in hort school the research on mychorizal relationships  
> > was still
> > pretty fresh and I was enthralled to the point of reading a lot of  
> > it in
> > their library just out of curiosity.  It was amazing to think that  
> > all the
> > trees in the forest are connected by these fungus which makes the  
> > whole
> > forest seem to be one organism.
> >
> > When the products came out touting the benefit of applications of  
> > these
> > organisms I assumed that it was just typical marketing BS.  The  
> > research I
> > read indicated that these fungus aren't very species specific  
> > beyond trees
> > not having relationships with the same species as prairie plants.   
> > The
> > conclusion was that anywhere trees grow there are already plenty of  
> > M.
> > fungus in the soil, tree compatible, unless it is in a strictly  
> > prairie
> > environment or where strip mining has been practiced.  In these  
> > sites a few
> > shovels full of forest soil would accomplish any needed inoculation.
> >
> > Is there any reason to think anything different?
>
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