To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mychorizzal amendments
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:19:51 -0700 (PDT)
I have maintained all along that commercial preparations are not the best way to go. I wouldn't add a mix of broadly adapted mycorhyzzae unles I was in the bare subsoil of a new development. Even then I would probably innoculate my trees with those that produce edible fungi.
From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:24:16 AM Subject: [NAFEX] mychorizzal amendments
If anyone wants to see evidence of the inefficacy of mychorizzal amendments- here's the latest where 8 different products were shown to have no affect on accelerating establishment of mych. relationships. Sorry I was unable to download study, but you can probably find it. It was mentioned in this months Hortideas.
Wiseman, P.E., K.H. Colvin, and C.E. Wells. 2009. Performance of mycorrhizal products marketed for woody landscape plants. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 27(1):41-50.