Love the video. I’ve been using polyculture and mycorrhiza to reverse desertification in Arizona. I’ve transformed an area that was “beyond help”. It truly works. Great explanation.
Okay, you have my attention. I’m trying to turn a former adobe block/horse corral into soil again. Previous owner raped the place by scraping it bare as “weed control”. I’m headed to your channel after this video. Central NM, 5000’- yahoo!
Great video . I have been using Mykos for awhile now and I swear by it . When I transplant I always dust the root zone and the hole it’s going in . Always great results
This is so interesting. Once again something I have been practicing for years without having the knowledge. I don't turn my soil. I have a 1400m2 garden that mainly get rain water. We have hot summers and summer rain. Winters are dry. Because I have many large trees and keep the soil covered it does not heat up too much and I see that white stuff in my garden. This can explain why the whole garden is ok... Nutrients are being distributed..
Mix whole grain oatmeal in soil with added powder microrrihizae,, it will make the mycorrhizae go crazy it will be growing even on the top soil everywhere 🤷♂️.
If I wasn’t so invested in trying to make America a better place for everyone to live in, I would of moved to Canada years ago! Beautiful country with very kind people.
Love this. A neighbour insists on loading a bale of peat moss each spring to till it in...only to gripe and complain all summer long about her crappy soil. I am at the point of just smiling at her.
Wow you are so likable it brings tears to my eyes. Awesome info I just got some Mykos and Recharge I hope I don’t mess anything up. 💀 they say you can’t but don’t doubt me in my ability to f something up effectively and efficiently 🤪
Thank you for sharing! Your video is informitive, clear and very easy to understand! You save me hours to listen to the university videos. Keep up the good work👍 Bless you 🙏
Just found your channel and I love it so far! I'm building a tropical "jungle" greenhouse right now for plants and some animals. Creating a mini ecosystem with soil that will stay healthy for the plants and animals has been one of my main areas of concern and interest. Definitely going to be watching all your videos over the next few days and probably asking a lot of questions lol. Thanks for the great content!
I'm aware of this stuff, and I think about it, but I've never bought any of it. I compost in contact with native soil specifically to ensure that I have the spores around. I also move my composting systems to different places to get the spores from different microbiomes
Mycorrhizal fungi can have fruiting bodies for instance the chanterelle is a mycorrhizal mushroom. The Morel is another mycorrhizal mushroom. The word mycorrhizal means "mushroom" "root" referring to the symbiotic relationship.
Im in Long Beach CA and have Avocados, Mangos, Guavas, Pomegranate and Dragon Fruit Cactus. I planted everything before the pandemic and it all exploded in growth using mycorrhizae inoculation for every tree and I dug the holes out deep and wide and packed them out with several different types of wood chips. Just Home Depot junk wood chips, but the web filament was everywhere and my trees are all fully fruiting and doing amazing and I attribute that to the biodiversity from creating that layer of bark and organic material for the fungi and microbes to feast on. I also use EM-1 microbial inoculant and fertilize with fish and kelp all year round to feed the soil.
That would be very nice. I used to do that in the field but it’s so hard to know how much root mass you were able to capture when you’re pulling it out. So we used to test upper biomass weight and concentration
No dig it awesome and agree. The method I want to explore is where we just layer up the soil with carbon then nitrogen and to it in thick layers to create new soil underfoot.
Ashley, this was so awesome! I came to your channel to get a young soill scientists thoughts. This in my opinion is by far the most interesting video you have created! Love that are sharing your knowledge with us simple gardeners! Merry Christmas.
I am not endorsed by the company but the "White Shark" mycorrhizae is one of the best product out there used by professional growers as well amazing product. A little hint when you use the any kind of mycorrhizae products best to use it with some black strap molasses.Most commercially available potting soils claim to contain mycorrhizae is a gimme.
Love the video, very informative. I have a question though now. I have a lot of left over mycelium blocks from when I grow mushrooms, if I toss them in the soil and break it up nicely will that actually speed up the mycelium network with forming in the soil bed? Thanks :) I love trying new things, and I have seen a improvement when I do this in my plant. But you seem to understand the science. So I figured ide ask why, if that is why actually lol. Surely it can’t just be the added nutrients from the block thats helping all of my plants. It has to be what your talking about
I have yearly used a bucket of the top 2 inches of topsoil from a wooded area near me to mix with the area where I plant. After raking back the top most layer of leaves, using a square point shovel I skim the top 2 inches until I have a five gallon bucket that is nearly full, then rake the leaves back over the area. The soil is lightly covered with leaves and after sunset the same day or before sunrise the next morning, I distributed it in an area of 40' X 50' and 'rake it in' then water it unless it's already raining. Potatoes, tomatoes and peppers seem to benefit the most from this treatment.
Actually mycorrhizae is becoming popular in the cannabis community. Would love to learn more about a “no dig” garden too! Thanks for another awesome vid!
@Adam Gibson I had some white hair-like thing attached to some of my seedlings and I thought it was mold (fungi?) too.... is it? 😅 I really can't tell if it's a good or bad thing..
Thanks for these awesome videos ! I was hoping for some guidance…I just planted some bougie roses with mycorrhiza fungi on the roots but then I watered with a high- phosphorus, organic 8-16-8 plant booster…I did with with some other plants as well that I placed in both the ground and some plants. Do you think I really shot myself in the foot with this and how can I do better for the future ?! Thanks a million for these videos. Happy Spring !
I knew a little, but had no understanding. Thank you for explaining. I use a lot of rotted manure (sheep). Always have. I have been using it too, in my pots. I have noticed that when I use manure, I do not have to fertilize those pots as much. I guess I am doing something right. Also, could you maybe comment on the use of alfalfa cubes in the garden. Some people are using them to add more phosphorus and potassium. It apparently offsets the increased amounts of nitrogen, which tends to be higher in soil, then the other two, thus better allowing plants to bloom, especially higher feeders like Dahlias and large bloom Chrysanthemums. Thanks!
great info Thank You,, I grow orchids as a hobby,, I am a retired Canadian biologist in Australia,,,,,, any idea which product of Myco which may benefit orchids ?.. I am testing 4 brands at present,,,, Thank You .... Bill
You are my favorite UA-camr! I am a retired physician and am enamored with improving our soil. One thing confused me in this video when you said MR fungi provide sugars to the plants. My understanding is that plants provide carbs and sugars to the fungi, whileMR fungi give N, Phos, Fe and other elements to plants. Is it different in Zone3? I’m in 9a. Or do different types of MR fungi do different jobs? I live in Oak Chaparral land in California. I’m looking forward to your answer. Warm wishes! Bonnie
You are correct Bonnie the plant exchanges carbohydrates (sugars) to the MR fungi, which in exchange improves the plant’s nutrient status, water absorption, growth, and disease resistance. (How they accomplish each one of those is fascinating and could each be a separate video!)
Another video idea would be the usage of organic fertalizers in: compost, fish fertalizer, chicken manure etc to using fertalizers high in non organic salts like the blue quick boost fertalizer you mix with water and the relationship between fungi and microbes. Alot of YT gardeners state that Miracle grow products and of the like kill your soil life and create plants that are "drug addicts" as on Youtubber states.
Great vid thanks for the info. Gets me thinking that maybe outdoor plants in the ground at a cottage with old forest around would be perfect. Also shows a disadvantage to growing in a pot above ground.
I tested Mykos WP on some rice substrate when also collecting local soil to create IMO. The Mykos grew red, pink and purple fungi while my local soil grew white fluffy fungi on the same substrate stored in same location/time. I've heard the red/purple fungi is not to be used. What does this say about Mykos WP?
Hey Ashley thanks for the video. When you say cooking the soil is bad or heating the soil is bad for fungal growth and health, is that just from trying to heat up the soil ourselves? I thought the soil heating up and “cooking” was the microbes and bacteria thriving and making the soil heat up? Is that also bad for mycorrhizal? Thanks again for the video, sorry if I’m confusing two different things :p
Good presentation and I love it, Thank you. I am small time agricultural enthusiast, and my question is how to get rid undesirable and unwanted weeds that is eating away the nutrients that I put in the garden?
I fell for the soil sterilization trend for indoor plants and seed starting. I ended up with more mould and fungus gnats than I had without doing that. So I sprayed peroxide on the soil. It helped but I’d much rather get a balanced community of microbes in there taking care of things for me.
I'm not a mycology 3xpert but there's other reasons to do crop rotation, nutrition depletion and disease. I think this fungi is so important and undervalued.
Hello I'm 70 and have been gardening conventionally my whole life. I enjoy trying new things. I'm going to dedicate part of my garden to a no till area. Does the micorrhiza depend on a living root to live year round? I'm going to put down a 4-6" layer of wood chips and plant through it. As the bottom of the wood chips rot it will will feed the soil. Will this continuous rotting process keep the micorrhizea alive, or do I need to plant a winter crop to provide a living root? I live in zone 7b, the piedmont area of north carolina. thanks ahead. Woody
Thanks for watching! This was so highly requested I have decided to make this a two part video to cover everything you’ll need! Check out the playlist if you haven’t! ua-cam.com/play/PLqYTfQkKTvqr67CqJC9pqz8RT_x99dkgC.html
Isn't the perennial garden wonderful? Especially when the conditions are at prime levels. The foliage looks greener and the blooms extra vibrant, just inspiring. I have found there is a reduction in pests with increased top dressing of compost. I used to apply once per year, now it is twice . I have lilies that were constantly ravaged by the scarab beetle. I have not eliminated them totally, but their numbers have dropped dramatically over the last couple of years. Which gave me time to tend to other plants. We must change our outlook a little when it comes to composting. We get in a groove of composting as a means of waste reduction, and achieving it as fast as possible. The only way to attain those mycorrhizae are by composting fibrous residues, the woodier the better. But, yes there is a but, it is difficult to differentiate between mycorrhizae hyphae and Actinomyces . To the naked eye they look similar but one is a bacteria. I think...not so well educated, just idle, layman research .
I try to get these structures started by growing them in a gross bucket. It seems to work. If i keep the bucket aerobic and smelly it starts to smell like fungus at some point. Dilute and pour. I mix other things in there kelp ect but it seems to grow really quickly and bond to my grass and herbs.
I'm a little confused at your wording, but I think I get it. By mycorrhizal in this case you are only referring to Glomus fungi, which is the order of fungi that produce mycelium but no mushroom like you say. There are Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes that also form mycorrhizal associations with plants, many of those relationships taking forms other than the endomycorrhizal arbuscules that Glomus specializes in. Now i see another comment mentioning a couple examples like chanterelles (basidiomycete) and morels (ascomycete). I actually found a big yellow morel growing in my garden one year, it was quite a surprise! Nice to see other fungus enthusiasts paying attention Lastly, a fun fact about glomus fungi, they are known to transfer genetics with each other, glomus fungi have been found with over a hundred distinct cell nuclei within their cells!
So if the mycelium takes years to develop, do you need perennials in your garden bed for it to develop? And will it connect to annuals within that one season that the annuals are growing for?
i saw mycrorrhizae thrives in the plant roots where hardwood saw dust used as the soil amendment, moreover those plants are healthier, vigorous than other plants.
Awesome and super informative! I am looking forward to part 2! Great job! Thank you so much. I do have a question about how to fight the fungus gnat population while simultaneously protecting the mycorrhizae in the soil ?
Very easily with biological control. Biological control is actually a lot more effective as well. So I like to use predatory nematodes (you can’t see them) I did a video on these suckers actually ua-cam.com/video/ZsfFt0udleA/v-deo.html
i've been interested in hugleculture and have been told to add a type of mycelium to the soil to break down the wood. i've also understand that the wood, tree limbs decay better on top of the soil do to the natural elements and sun. any thoughts on this?
Thank you sharing this valuable information, I found your channel while I was searching for information about photo synthesis bacteria ( PSB) and what effect is has on soil structures. Would you be able to cover this topic at sometime in the future, thank you.
I did know this existed! But I didn’t know too much other than the cursory google search. My boyfriend and I spend most weekends planting trees in riparian flood zones with his nonprofit Excel Events. Mycorrhizal fungi is something new we encountered and wanted to learn more. I’d love to learn what you know about the networks as related to native trees in PA.
Hey! Prince Albert SK? And yes that entire area is filled with myco. You actually wouldn't even need to inoculate because the soil is relatively undisturbed there and will form a symbiosis pretty dark quickly. The entire boreal forest area PA and north is a ginormous network with some break ups in between.
A question on the beginning when you mention crop rotation. Wouldn’t it be good to have a strain dominate an area if you aren’t using crop rotation? Like if I’m only growing tomatoes in this spot then why not keep growing tomatoes there every year wouldnt it be the perfect environment with the perfect strains? How is that bad?
In a no till garden, does pulling up weeds also disturb the fungi too much to be good in the same way twice turning the soil or tilling does? I have a lot of creeping Charlie... Can't leave that there!
Hello from Belgium, Europe. I read somewhere that (italian) cypress uses both endo- and ectomycorrhizae. Maybe typical for evergreen mediterranean conifers. Pine trees only use ecto.. true
Can you use this on root harvest crops like Ashwaganda? Am I able to eat and process this in the same way I can regular roots? Wouldn’t the medicinal composition change?
Hi Ashley, I just found your channel! Very good stuff, and looking forward to watching a lot more of your videos. Keep up the great work! Greetings from a fellow UA-camr (also a Canadian, but living in Ireland). Bruce
I'm trying to grow veggies so I'm trying to drop soil. Doing no tilt much as Charles Dowling teaching, QUESTION? Would a drill and auger set me in the wrong direction or should I use a hand trowel????? Thanks for your teaching
The issue I have with the no dig method is fungi need to remain arobic. Compaction even from snow and rain can cause a silt loam soil to compact. I know you have mentioned this before so I'm not "calling you out" just wanted to know your thoughts / recomendations. Love your content it forces me to think.
I know I’m a year late but for other people who might see this. If you have compact soil you should first look into plants with long tap roots that break up compact soil assuming you’re committed to no dig. If you have strong fungi cultures you could also start adding larger woods to your compost, roots and woods will rot over the years and leave large aeration pockets in the soil. Lastly there are tills that don’t actually till up and destroy the surface layer but instead have deep prongs that penetrate the soils allowing air and water flow.
In zone 9a, what would be a good process to encourage growth amongst the whole garden? You said add manure, would a manure layer with mulch on top be beneficial? Thanks for any help. Great info also.
Any sort of organic material would work well not exclusively manure and then a mulch will as well. In a warmer environment such as yours you will want to make sure you keep the soil moisture up so regular watering and mulch will make a huge difference.
Very informative videos! Question - do you have a link to a list of compatible plants and mycorrhizae? I am specifically looking for the species that wild huckleberry needs. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
doesn't every plant with weak, shallow roots need it? But then again, I don't know a lot.. I'm only getting into this fungi symbiosis just recently to promote -soil health- plant absorption.
@@GardeningInCanada oh yeah. Got that covered... pet rabbits and their bedding, plus my worm bins, aged sheep and cow manure mixture... with a bit of soldier fly frass to boot. Consistent top dressings and green manure (mostly red clover and alfalfa but I do usually throw some other things like radish or barley). I am all about variety. Lol. I also have a few decomposers living within the tent as well such as rove beetles and predatory mites.
Love the video. I’ve been using polyculture and mycorrhiza to reverse desertification in Arizona. I’ve transformed an area that was “beyond help”. It truly works. Great explanation.
That’s awesome!
hey Choas I just watched your video on desertification! Awesome job
Okay, you have my attention. I’m trying to turn a former adobe block/horse corral into soil again. Previous owner raped the place by scraping it bare as “weed control”. I’m headed to your channel after this video. Central NM, 5000’- yahoo!
Elaine Ingham did an interesting project near Dallas you might enjoy watching. 😉 Soil Food Web School
That’s awesome
Yay! An expert., finally, instead of unprepared people who simply say mycorrhizae are good. I'm following!
Haha I’m glad you enjoy the science
You explaint in academic way, I love it.
Thanks so much glad you enjoyed
It's the control of cannabis that keeps microbes doing the grunt work .Don't believe intentetional ? Look what cannabis got humans doing.😅
Great video . I have been using Mykos for awhile now and I swear by it . When I transplant I always dust the root zone and the hole it’s going in . Always great results
This is so interesting. Once again something I have been practicing for years without having the knowledge. I don't turn my soil. I have a 1400m2 garden that mainly get rain water. We have hot summers and summer rain. Winters are dry. Because I have many large trees and keep the soil covered it does not heat up too much and I see that white stuff in my garden. This can explain why the whole garden is ok... Nutrients are being distributed..
Thanks for sharing!
Science!!! Omg! 😱 Run!
Hahah very very quickly 😏
Love using Mycorrhizae with everything💚
Woohoo ❤️
Mix whole grain oatmeal in soil with added powder microrrihizae,, it will make the mycorrhizae go crazy it will be growing even on the top soil everywhere 🤷♂️.
You know you are in Canada when you watch a UA-cam video and have nearly 0 down votes. Much love! Thank you for the great info and tips.
Thanks so much let me know if there is anything you want specifically
If I wasn’t so invested in trying to make America a better place for everyone to live in, I would of moved to Canada years ago! Beautiful country with very kind people.
@@camrillem Sure until the globalist lockdowns kicked in. Now it's just like Wuhan China with people being locked (welded) in their homes
Haha yea.... it’s getting ridiculous here
It is ❤️ our governments have gone a bit crazy lately but other then thst
Your delivery of this information made it easy for me to understand and absorb. Thank you! Looking forward to part 2.
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!! Gold.
Well thank you for watching & leaving a comment! It means a lot I don’t think you understand how much it helps.
Love this. A neighbour insists on loading a bale of peat moss each spring to till it in...only to gripe and complain all summer long about her crappy soil. I am at the point of just smiling at her.
Hahah yea that would do it.
Wow you are so likable it brings tears to my eyes. Awesome info I just got some Mykos and Recharge I hope I don’t mess anything up. 💀 they say you can’t but don’t doubt me in my ability to f something up effectively and efficiently 🤪
Haha you’ll do amazing! And thanks so much for the complement
Thank you for sharing! Your video is informitive, clear and very easy to understand! You save me hours to listen to the university videos.
Keep up the good work👍 Bless you 🙏
Nice videos :) More Soil Science please
Hahah it’s all I know so I promise you years to come of more
Just found your channel and I love it so far! I'm building a tropical "jungle" greenhouse right now for plants and some animals. Creating a mini ecosystem with soil that will stay healthy for the plants and animals has been one of my main areas of concern and interest. Definitely going to be watching all your videos over the next few days and probably asking a lot of questions lol. Thanks for the great content!
Hello and welcome to the crew! you will not regret it. Be sure to ask lots of questions it helps me and other people on the channel
Where is this? I would love to visit your paradise in the making!
I'm aware of this stuff, and I think about it, but I've never bought any of it. I compost in contact with native soil specifically to ensure that I have the spores around. I also move my composting systems to different places to get the spores from different microbiomes
Mycorrhizal fungi can have fruiting bodies for instance the chanterelle is a mycorrhizal mushroom. The Morel is another mycorrhizal mushroom. The word mycorrhizal means "mushroom" "root" referring to the symbiotic relationship.
I dumped free ground up wood chips three years ago...i got lots of this in my walk ways..lol..learned my lesson.
Im in Long Beach CA and have Avocados, Mangos, Guavas, Pomegranate and Dragon Fruit Cactus. I planted everything before the pandemic and it all exploded in growth using mycorrhizae inoculation for every tree and I dug the holes out deep and wide and packed them out with several different types of wood chips. Just Home Depot junk wood chips, but the web filament was everywhere and my trees are all fully fruiting and doing amazing and I attribute that to the biodiversity from creating that layer of bark and organic material for the fungi and microbes to feast on. I also use EM-1 microbial inoculant and fertilize with fish and kelp all year round to feed the soil.
Wow, so educated and well spoken. Thanks for the to-the-point presentation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for your time, absolutely loved the video and info. Much appreciated!!!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid without any marketing and brand specific bro science. Need more of this kind of knowledge out there. Thankyou for sharing.
Glad you enjoy! Let me know if there is anything you want to see
yeah, would love to see examples of plant and root size with and without application.
That would be very nice. I used to do that in the field but it’s so hard to know how much root mass you were able to capture when you’re pulling it out. So we used to test upper biomass weight and concentration
Oh, you definitely got a thumbs up for this. (Also, a subcription) You are exactly what I've been looking for.
Yay!
No dig it awesome and agree. The method I want to explore is where we just layer up the soil with carbon then nitrogen and to it in thick layers to create new soil underfoot.
Ashley, this was so awesome!
I came to your channel to get a young soill scientists thoughts.
This in my opinion is by far the most interesting video you have created!
Love that are sharing your knowledge with us simple gardeners!
Merry Christmas.
Thanks so much! ❤️ only way forward is better. Cant get worse ☺️
Thank you for all the invaluable information
Hey Ashley! Love your videos. Which video do I watch for part 2 of this please?
I am not endorsed by the company but the "White Shark" mycorrhizae is one of the best product out there used by professional growers as well amazing product. A little hint when you use the any kind of mycorrhizae products best to use it with some black strap molasses.Most commercially available potting soils claim to contain mycorrhizae is a gimme.
Can you say more about this? How would you use black strap molasses and why? Thanks in advance
Such a cool channel! learning a lot. Also have to let you know how much I've enjoyed your appearances on Canadian Prepper! very informative!
Glad you enjoyed!
Love the video, very informative. I have a question though now. I have a lot of left over mycelium blocks from when I grow mushrooms, if I toss them in the soil and break it up nicely will that actually speed up the mycelium network with forming in the soil bed? Thanks :) I love trying new things, and I have seen a improvement when I do this in my plant. But you seem to understand the science. So I figured ide ask why, if that is why actually lol. Surely it can’t just be the added nutrients from the block thats helping all of my plants. It has to be what your talking about
I have yearly used a bucket of the top 2 inches of topsoil from a wooded area near me to mix with the area where I plant.
After raking back the top most layer of leaves, using a square point shovel I skim the top 2 inches until I have a five gallon
bucket that is nearly full, then rake the leaves back over the area. The soil is lightly covered with leaves and after sunset
the same day or before sunrise the next morning, I distributed it in an area of 40' X 50' and 'rake it in' then water it unless
it's already raining. Potatoes, tomatoes and peppers seem to benefit the most from this treatment.
Been using for almost a decade now. Great stuff n a lil goes a long way.
Ncie
Actually mycorrhizae is becoming popular in the cannabis community. Would love to learn more about a “no dig” garden too! Thanks for another awesome vid!
Will do! I’m going to start transitioning to more of the bed types and agriculture types here in the new year.
@Adam Gibson mycelium
@Adam Gibson I had some white hair-like thing attached to some of my seedlings and I thought it was mold (fungi?) too.... is it? 😅 I really can't tell if it's a good or bad thing..
It WORKS I smoked some really dope dope.
Thanks for these awesome videos ! I was hoping for some guidance…I just planted some bougie roses with mycorrhiza fungi on the roots but then I watered with a high- phosphorus, organic 8-16-8 plant booster…I did with with some other plants as well that I placed in both the ground and some plants. Do you think I really shot myself in the foot with this and how can I do better for the future ?! Thanks a million for these videos. Happy Spring !
I knew a little, but had no understanding. Thank you for explaining.
I use a lot of rotted manure (sheep). Always have. I have been using it too, in my pots. I have noticed that when I use manure, I do not have to fertilize those pots as much. I guess I am doing something right.
Also, could you maybe comment on the use of alfalfa cubes in the garden. Some people are using them to add more phosphorus and potassium. It apparently offsets the increased amounts of nitrogen, which tends to be higher in soil, then the other two, thus better allowing plants to bloom, especially higher feeders like Dahlias and large bloom Chrysanthemums. Thanks!
Very useful & insightful information.
Glad you enjoyed
great info Thank You,, I grow orchids as a hobby,, I am a retired Canadian biologist in Australia,,,,,, any idea which product of Myco which may benefit orchids ?.. I am testing 4 brands at present,,,, Thank You .... Bill
This was so informative! Thank you for sharing!!
Outstanding presentation! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed
I love your channel! Super informative and well organized. Your personality and delivery make it super easy to listen and learn! Thank you
Thank you so much!
You are my favorite UA-camr! I am a retired physician and am enamored with improving our soil. One thing confused me in this video when you said MR fungi provide sugars to the plants. My understanding is that plants provide carbs and sugars to the fungi, whileMR fungi give N, Phos, Fe and other elements to plants. Is it different in Zone3? I’m in 9a. Or do different types of MR fungi do different jobs? I live in Oak Chaparral land in California. I’m looking forward to your answer. Warm wishes! Bonnie
Yes would like an answer to this as well, also in CA!
You are correct Bonnie the plant exchanges carbohydrates (sugars) to the MR fungi, which in exchange improves the plant’s nutrient status, water absorption, growth, and disease resistance. (How they accomplish each one of those is fascinating and could each be a separate video!)
Molasses is good too for feeding the fungi in the soil especially mycorrhizae
Absolutely
Another video idea would be the usage of organic fertalizers in: compost, fish fertalizer, chicken manure etc to using fertalizers high in non organic salts like the blue quick boost fertalizer you mix with water and the relationship between fungi and microbes.
Alot of YT gardeners state that Miracle grow products and of the like kill your soil life and create plants that are "drug addicts" as on Youtubber states.
thank you!
Great vid thanks for the info. Gets me thinking that maybe outdoor plants in the ground at a cottage with old forest around would be perfect. Also shows a disadvantage to growing in a pot above ground.
I tested Mykos WP on some rice substrate when also collecting local soil to create IMO. The Mykos grew red, pink and purple fungi while my local soil grew white fluffy fungi on the same substrate stored in same location/time. I've heard the red/purple fungi is not to be used. What does this say about Mykos WP?
Great video great way to break it down . Thank you
Glad you enjoyed!
I live in Texas and its the summer. How do i buy Mycorrhizae's that haven't been exposed to alot of heat? I cant find info on this anywhere.
Great information. Well done.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey awesome info, thanks for answering my questions!
Anytime! I think then next video is also going to be helpful for you.
Thank you for sharing, learned alot. Highly appreciated 💚
Anytime! 😊
Great video. What type should we use for growing a great lawn? Thank you.
Hey Ashley thanks for the video. When you say cooking the soil is bad or heating the soil is bad for fungal growth and health, is that just from trying to heat up the soil ourselves? I thought the soil heating up and “cooking” was the microbes and bacteria thriving and making the soil heat up? Is that also bad for mycorrhizal? Thanks again for the video, sorry if I’m confusing two different things :p
Good presentation and I love it, Thank you. I am small time agricultural enthusiast, and my question is how to get rid undesirable and unwanted weeds that is eating away the nutrients that I put in the garden?
Blew my mind! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hopefully in a good way
@@GardeningInCanada absolutely in a good way!
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing. I didn’t realise crop rotation actually helps the fungi.
I fell for the soil sterilization trend for indoor plants and seed starting. I ended up with more mould and fungus gnats than I had without doing that. So I sprayed peroxide on the soil. It helped but I’d much rather get a balanced community of microbes in there taking care of things for me.
i completely believe that!
I'm not a mycology 3xpert but there's other reasons to do crop rotation, nutrition depletion and disease. I think this fungi is so important and undervalued.
Hello I'm 70 and have been gardening conventionally my whole life. I enjoy trying new things. I'm going to dedicate part of my garden to a no till area. Does the micorrhiza depend on a living root to live year round? I'm going to put down a 4-6" layer of wood chips and plant through it. As the bottom of the wood chips rot it will will feed the soil. Will this continuous rotting process keep the micorrhizea alive, or do I need to plant a winter crop to provide a living root? I live in zone 7b, the piedmont area of north carolina. thanks ahead. Woody
This is such amazing information thank you so much for pursuing this wonderful path and sharing what you have learned!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😍
I’m glad you’re enjoying!
Thank you soooooo much for this video. Superbly explained.
Awesome! Hopefully the next one is equally as useful
Thanks for watching! This was so highly requested I have decided to make this a two part video to cover everything you’ll need! Check out the playlist if you haven’t! ua-cam.com/play/PLqYTfQkKTvqr67CqJC9pqz8RT_x99dkgC.html
Thanks for the good info on fungi. Got some white furry growing on the soil surface of my seedlings, cool to know more about it.
If you want to remedy that a little bit. Try using some vermiculite on top. I do find that it helps. I’ll make a video on this for you
Wonderful information...Thanks for sharing.
This is great info.
QUESTION: How do we know if our bag contents is still viable? Is there a test we can do?
Thank You.
Mike
Isn't the perennial garden wonderful? Especially when the conditions are at prime levels. The foliage looks greener and the blooms extra vibrant, just inspiring.
I have found there is a reduction in pests with increased top dressing of compost. I used to apply once per year, now it is twice . I have lilies that were constantly ravaged by the scarab beetle. I have not eliminated them totally, but their numbers have dropped dramatically over the last couple of years. Which gave me time to tend to other plants.
We must change our outlook a little when it comes to composting. We get in a groove of composting as a means of waste reduction, and achieving it as fast as possible. The only way to attain those mycorrhizae are by composting fibrous residues, the woodier the better. But, yes there is a but, it is difficult to differentiate between mycorrhizae hyphae and Actinomyces . To the naked eye they look similar but one is a bacteria. I think...not so well educated, just idle, layman research .
Yes! It is difficult to tell the difference
I try to get these structures started by growing them in a gross bucket. It seems to work. If i keep the bucket aerobic and smelly it starts to smell like fungus at some point. Dilute and pour. I mix other things in there kelp ect but it seems to grow really quickly and bond to my grass and herbs.
Nice!
I'm a little confused at your wording, but I think I get it. By mycorrhizal in this case you are only referring to Glomus fungi, which is the order of fungi that produce mycelium but no mushroom like you say. There are Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes that also form mycorrhizal associations with plants, many of those relationships taking forms other than the endomycorrhizal arbuscules that Glomus specializes in.
Now i see another comment mentioning a couple examples like chanterelles (basidiomycete) and morels (ascomycete). I actually found a big yellow morel growing in my garden one year, it was quite a surprise! Nice to see other fungus enthusiasts paying attention
Lastly, a fun fact about glomus fungi, they are known to transfer genetics with each other, glomus fungi have been found with over a hundred distinct cell nuclei within their cells!
My gosh you're wellspoken!! ;)
Thank you so much! I don’t feel like it some days 😂
Soooo interesting!!
Thanks so much I’m glad there are other plant nerds out there
Any value to adding leaf mold from forest to garden beds?
Yes! That’s a good idea
So if the mycelium takes years to develop, do you need perennials in your garden bed for it to develop? And will it connect to annuals within that one season that the annuals are growing for?
It’s likely to connect the annuals so long as the number of spores have been built up in the soil through proper management.
I swear everytime I hear your intro I like "wow a soul scientist"
i saw mycrorrhizae thrives in the plant roots where hardwood saw dust used as the soil amendment, moreover those plants are healthier, vigorous than other plants.
Can you go into more detail on the specific strains each plant requires, maybe some common examples?
That’s a good video idea! My microbe video maybe helful
Would using a systemic granular kill the fungi? Would using a reptile heating pad under seedings kill fungi? Thanks
hi great vid, so i have a garden that i am not going to till, but i am making biochar, how would i get this into the ground?
Awesome and super informative! I am looking forward to part 2! Great job! Thank you so much. I do have a question about how to fight the fungus gnat population while simultaneously protecting the mycorrhizae in the soil ?
Very easily with biological control. Biological control is actually a lot more effective as well. So I like to use predatory nematodes (you can’t see them) I did a video on these suckers actually ua-cam.com/video/ZsfFt0udleA/v-deo.html
i've been interested in hugleculture and have been told to add a type of mycelium to the soil to break down the wood. i've also understand that the wood, tree limbs decay better on top of the soil do to the natural elements and sun. any thoughts on this?
That is very true. The lack of air and heat under the soil surface can slow the decaying process
Excellent informative video! I couldn't help but anticipate you mentioning mulch. I am interested in your input, if you don't mind.
yea! i have done a few videos on this actually
Thank you sharing this valuable information, I found your channel while I was searching for information about photo synthesis bacteria ( PSB) and what effect is has on soil structures. Would you be able to cover this topic at sometime in the future, thank you.
yea!
I did know this existed! But I didn’t know too much other than the cursory google search. My boyfriend and I spend most weekends planting trees in riparian flood zones with his nonprofit Excel Events. Mycorrhizal fungi is something new we encountered and wanted to learn more. I’d love to learn what you know about the networks as related to native trees in PA.
Hey! Prince Albert SK? And yes that entire area is filled with myco. You actually wouldn't even need to inoculate because the soil is relatively undisturbed there and will form a symbiosis pretty dark quickly. The entire boreal forest area PA and north is a ginormous network with some break ups in between.
Wow you taught me a lot today about microbes I didn't know that
A question on the beginning when you mention crop rotation. Wouldn’t it be good to have a strain dominate an area if you aren’t using crop rotation? Like if I’m only growing tomatoes in this spot then why not keep growing tomatoes there every year wouldnt it be the perfect environment with the perfect strains? How is that bad?
In a no till garden, does pulling up weeds also disturb the fungi too much to be good in the same way twice turning the soil or tilling does? I have a lot of creeping Charlie... Can't leave that there!
So I need to mulch my soil to prevent overheating in order to keep the fingi alive?
Hello from Belgium, Europe. I read somewhere that (italian) cypress uses both endo- and ectomycorrhizae. Maybe typical for evergreen mediterranean conifers. Pine trees only use ecto.. true
Does broad forking damage the soil?
I would like to ask you a question about this amendment one is this amendment applicable for orchids such as phalinopsis cattalyas vandas
Can you use this on root harvest crops like Ashwaganda? Am I able to eat and process this in the same way I can regular roots? Wouldn’t the medicinal composition change?
You can no issues if you wanted to be extra careful I would go with an ecto variety over an Endo
Great video. What’s the alternative for outdoor potting soil in high heat to mycorrhizae?
that i am not sure exists. regular stuff works just reduced volume.
Hi Ashley, I just found your channel! Very good stuff, and looking forward to watching a lot more of your videos. Keep up the great work!
Greetings from a fellow UA-camr (also a Canadian, but living in Ireland).
Bruce
Thanks so much! And I’m jealous haha always wanted to go there
@@GardeningInCanada Hey, perhaps one day you could visit. I was curious about where in Canada you are based (I am guessing south western Ontario).
Nope Saskatchewan 👩🌾
I'm trying to grow veggies so I'm trying to drop soil.
Doing no tilt much as Charles Dowling teaching,
QUESTION? Would a drill and auger set me in the wrong direction or should I use a hand trowel?????
Thanks for your teaching
Go ahead and us the drill and auger! its going to make your life easier and yeilds much higher.
The issue I have with the no dig method is fungi need to remain arobic. Compaction even from snow and rain can cause a silt loam soil to compact. I know you have mentioned this before so I'm not "calling you out" just wanted to know your thoughts / recomendations. Love your content it forces me to think.
Yea i know you can try rotating in crops that can help break the soil up
I know I’m a year late but for other people who might see this. If you have compact soil you should first look into plants with long tap roots that break up compact soil assuming you’re committed to no dig. If you have strong fungi cultures you could also start adding larger woods to your compost, roots and woods will rot over the years and leave large aeration pockets in the soil. Lastly there are tills that don’t actually till up and destroy the surface layer but instead have deep prongs that penetrate the soils allowing air and water flow.
In zone 9a, what would be a good process to encourage growth amongst the whole garden? You said add manure, would a manure layer with mulch on top be beneficial? Thanks for any help. Great info also.
Any sort of organic material would work well not exclusively manure and then a mulch will as well. In a warmer environment such as yours you will want to make sure you keep the soil moisture up so regular watering and mulch will make a huge difference.
Interesting reason for crop rotation, otherwise I wouldnt tend to bother
Will it able to fuction and multiply for water plants like lotus & water lily?
Yea so it can but it would have the same hyphae setup
Thanks@@GardeningInCanada
Very informative videos! Question - do you have a link to a list of compatible plants and mycorrhizae? I am specifically looking for the species that wild huckleberry needs.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
doesn't every plant with weak, shallow roots need it? But then again, I don't know a lot.. I'm only getting into this fungi symbiosis just recently to promote -soil health- plant absorption.
I do start corn in cells and pot up before planting in containers. I have been lucky, I guess. I have to grow them in a greenhouse. I live in Alaska.
Wow, i just ordered Saccharomyces Cerevisae, Candida Utilis, and Aspergillus Oryzae not even an hr before you posted this video.
That’s wild! Hahaha the timing is good. I love that spread, is it going into potting soil or ground soil ?
Got any other ideas to add? I have also made a "tea" from undisturbed leaf litter in the forest near my place (Niagara)
@@GardeningInCanada A potting soil... I have made that was initially made using garden soil from outside years ago. Lots of recycling the soil
Possibly a manure or compost just something to feed everything. The more / higher diversity in “food” the stronger/more diverse your colonies will be.
@@GardeningInCanada oh yeah. Got that covered... pet rabbits and their bedding, plus my worm bins, aged sheep and cow manure mixture... with a bit of soldier fly frass to boot. Consistent top dressings and green manure (mostly red clover and alfalfa but I do usually throw some other things like radish or barley). I am all about variety. Lol. I also have a few decomposers living within the tent as well such as rove beetles and predatory mites.
Where could I get my hands on that list of Micchorizal strains? I would love to have one.