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Aurornistoday at 12:36 AM4 repliesview on HN

Do you mind sharing which product you use? Every time I look into this I have a hard time telling which products contain useful amounts of good strains.


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tastyfreezetoday at 3:53 PM

Really the best you can do is with local mycorrhizae. Collect it wild and inoculate your yard. But, if you don't even really need to do that. Make the environment hospitable to mycorrhizae and it will appear.

My_Nametoday at 12:54 PM

The RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) sells little packets of mycorrhizal powder that you can put into your garden if you feel it is lacking beneficial fungi. Another more natural route is to bury a kilo of cooked white rice near a very healthy tree, where the soil is soft and 'healthy' then retrieve it after a week. It will be mouldy, but with the right type of mould. Mix that into compost, grow tomatoes in that compost, then when they are finished, chop up their roots, mix it into the compost again, add fresh compost from your compost bin to make seed compost. Mix that seed compost into whatever you want to 'infect'. Some people grow just the fungus using sprouted barley and add the mouldy sprouted barley to their compost.

flenserboytoday at 1:57 AM

No problem! Myco Bliss has worked well for me.

willio58today at 2:26 AM

fwiw I got one of the first products listed on amazon when you search mycorrhizal fungi and I'm seeing the same effects stated by the grandparent comment