Where do you get your inoculants / which do you get? I'm a mere dabbler in growing cactuses, but very curious to hear what worked for you
I currently use a product called MYCO+ but I’m always looking for potential other options. From what I’ve read and researched Glomus and Trichoderma strains are the most beneficial and found to populate within cactus and succulents environments. Contrary to some opinion/online advice , the bacteria can remain healthy even in a dry environment for extended periods of time. Also, if your interested in growing welwitschia mirabilis (a prized collectors plant) I have found it to be astoundingly helpful in helping them thrive (don’t ever let these plants dry out though).
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.