Trichoderma Production: Grain Cultivation, Liquid Culture, and Long-Term Storage

The future is Biological:
I've crafted this video to illustrate to growers the safe cultivation of bio-controls and bio-stimulants. This endeavor entails discovering and pinpointing local strains that effectively regulate pests. To achieve this, it's imperative to foster a robust partnership between local scientists, who aids in identification and isolation, and farmers, who ensure the safe production of these bio-controls through a modest investment of time and resources.
I want to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Romina Gazis and her team at the Plant Clinic, Tropical Research and Education Center, University of Florida in Homestead. Their unwavering commitment to listening to growers and advancing avocado research is truly invaluable. Without their expertise and dedication, this endeavor would not have been possible."

[@robertnadia8777]

Thanks a lot for your explanations. This is the most complete and serious video I have seen so far about this topic, I saved it in order to follow your process when needed.

[@mouadhsaadaoui1824]

thank you so so so so much I'm a research engineer working on biostimulants !

[@GraftingAvocados]

@@mouadhsaadaoui1824 Good for you biostimulands and biocontrols are the future

[@Spencer_Plant_Projects]

You are on the cutting edge, sir. I have followed you since the inocucor days and I have always had a great respect and appreciation to your approach and how open you are to share what you have learned. If more people followed your model we would live in a more productive and equitable world.
One thing people are doing in this space is adding insects to the grain media... its very easy to get dried grasshoppers, mealworms, various beetles etc. In a perfect world you can use a trap to find a small amount of your target pest for screening and then amplify the culture that likes to eat your enemy the best.The hope is that this can select for strains that can digest insects better. You can also add various phosphates to your solid media to screen for the ability to solubilize phosphate, another quality of trichoderma.

[@GraftingAvocados]

@@Spencer_Plant_Projects Thanks Spencer for your kind words. I have been experimenting in adding minute amounts of the pathogens to the Trich. Complete new metabolites very interesting

[@michaelv5546]

Thank you for sharing very informative. Biocontrol is the future!

[@vinhtruongbuiduy4817]

tks you Sir.

[@polaria.coronel-gt2762]

Excellent video, I saved it for future reference, thanks!

[@sinergicus]

What type of trichoderma are grown in your video? (Veridis, harzianum etc ? )

[@GraftingAvocados]

@@sinergicus Harzianum and virens

[@sinergicus]

What grain substrate you are using for inoculation?

[@GraftingAvocados]

Basically, I use two grains, rye and sorghum. That grows well some of the strains I use. Others are very finicky and grow but not with enough spore production to make it worth my while.

[@markdenadventuretravelsfar4562]

Is effective if you culture trichoderma by means of molasses

[@GraftingAvocados]

@@markdenadventuretravelsfar4562 May be I think sterilized grain offer s cleaner method. i see people doing it but when multiplying micro organisms in sn open environment with unterilized materialscyou multiply the good and the bad

[@CorbeilleJungle]

Grow avocado