Reddit reviews Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae (Science for Gardeners)

>After I managed to correct that situation, I also waited to see how the products cultivated. Thats right, Im growing the shit, just like everyone else is here too, but everyone acts like saying they are studying the pore under microscope is gonna save you if they raid your house...yah yah yah, whatever.

Or maybe it's because selling drug cultivation supplies would be a surefire way to get the community shut down on a website that doesn't allow my users in /r/snackexchange to trade a bottle of beer or a cigarette. Microscopy isn't some stupid "SWIM" cover by armchair lawyers, it's the only legal reason you should have those syringes. Your choice to break the law, however wrong it might be, and then brag about it hurts more than one individual vendor. The rest of us are just interested in microbiology and I don't know where I could source an isolated strain in the wild without risking contamination, making this an invaluable resource. And as someone who's purchased from MM666, the samples arrived within like two days and were better than the samples I'd purchased from actual websites before.

edit: Also, here you go. They're really neat organisms. Understanding them is important for reasons beyond the novelty of looking at something small.

No. To the best of my understanding this would just be more trouble than it's worth.

Please read the Mutualis dynamics part of this wiki page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

I assume that with enough study this could be possible. We may need to learn more about the physiology of this dynamic. Because the exchange made is carbs for the fungi and minerals for the plant theoretically you might be able to make this possible by setting up a concentration across a membrane.

However this might not work based on the way the mycelia naturally colonizes the root cells. As in, if the membrane doesn't resemble root cells accurately the mycelia might not be able to colonize the surface.

Another potential problem is that this process might not be passive diffusion. A live root cell might need to actively, costing energy, pass the carb to the fungi.

Of course the answers to all of the above could probably depend on species.

All of these are things that need exploring. By all means, dive in. If you can figure it out there's money to be made for sure.

I recommend this book as an intro: https://www.amazon.ca/Teaming-Fungi-Organic-Growers-Mycorrhizae/dp/1604697296?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc12-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1604697296

Whether or not your 'flush' was needed depends on what was in your fertilizer as you were using bottled chemicals and not organic inputs... Organic gardening relies on organic inputs decomposing in soil via microbial activity, broken down and fed to plants through a mycorrhizal fungal network. You don't need to use any sort of bottled nutrients if you are gardening organically. I'm no expert gardener, but I've worked in a few gardens and harvested a few plants, and I seem to see the healthiest, hardiest plants grown in plain soil with no bottled nutrients. Check out the book "Teaming with Microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and explore the soil food web http://www.soilfoodweb.com/ if you want to learn about organic gardening. If you want to learn more Jeff has written a three part series, the next book is Teaming with Nutrients and lastly Teaming with Fungi.