I used to work in an organic microbe inoculant producing company, my department produced Trichoderma fungus which is a very wonderful fungus (strangely not many 'experts' talk about it, most just talk about Mycorrhizal). It is: -a saprophyte (digest dead stuffs), -mycoparasite (it attacks disease fungi), -it stimulates plant defense system (plants that are 'infected' become more resistant against other fungi) -and perhaps most amazingly it's like a personal VAMPIRE BODYGUARD for plants (it attaches to roots and becomes one with the plant, the nutrients it gets from attacking other fungi will be channel back to the plant it defends!) Mind blowing isn't it? Makes we wonder why would we ever use a fungicide if we could have such a wonderful fungi on our side.....
That's fantastic! What an amazing job. I bet it was really interesting? I know Trichoderma well. It's often used to help 'eat up' mildews. You're right, it isn't mentioned that often.
Because there are very sick malevolent entities that are poisoning the soil air water to prevent the human bodies to become our truest selves. If people only innerstand that the human bodies are fungi and bacteria the very principles of PH soil health. Our gut health...
I use Recharge by Real Growers that contains 2 strains of Trichoderma. Are you familiar with it and are these strains in line with what you posted? t. Reesi and t. Harzianum
Knf or Korean natural farming has a great technique. Instead of taking anythibg kut of the forest, you bring a wood box with open slats, you will fill it with cooked rise, and bury it in the ground in the forest. When you come back weeks later all the beautiful kinds of fungi will have colonized the rice. And now you have a diverse and healthy fungi species to get directly into your garden.
What this video calls "intercropping" is discussed in a number of CZcams videos by Dr Chrisitne Jones which at various times has been called biodiversity, plant diversity, etc. She doesn't talk about crop rotations which is serial monocultural crops, she talks about planting as close together as possible as many diverse plants as possible based on any characteristic you can think of... short, tall, in ground, above ground, different species and so on. According to her studies and a variety of demos she references, every different plant you grow in close proximity of another synergistically shares its own root biome system with all the other nearby plants so the more the merrier. A jungle of diverse crops is healthier, more resistent to pests, uses less water and generates all the nutrients and microorganisms needed for the community of plants to grow. She says that the diversity enhances growth of the fungi soil network, too but is less clear to me how it works, supposedly transporting the microorganisms longer distances.
Your soil, no matter how terrible it is probably contains 100s of 1000s of fungi and microbe species, no need to inoculate it or add more, its at capacity at all times, you want to boost numbers, FEED them, and thats by adding organic matter
I live in a built up area in Scotland with limited sunlight during the early part of the year. One thing we are not short on is carbon rich soil with leaf fall and plenty of fungi which is pure rapture for alliums and bulbs however back sowing peas/beans as covers and obviously for return has made me sit up and take notice. Fantastic results and I have even started using urine (10%) for added flush during good light. Just before the growing period (March) I add some cheep flower and sugar to kick start the fungi, Amazing results.
I really appreciate your video which you talk on 3 exact principles to achieve fungally dominant soils. However, just my opinion, your use of words make it less effective as a communicator of ideas, for example, excessive use of general jargon and filler words make it sound like you have not gone through them yourself, still trialing as such. Let say the 3rd principle is plant diversity, then it isn't jargon like crop rotation or planning ahead. I find Matt Powers to use words that are so clear to listen and concise. Just my 2 cents.
You can use "MALTED BARLEY" blended to expand surface area. Adds over 300 species of fungi. Adds enzymes and (2x amylase only barley) Barley has all nine essential amino acids The malted barley is actually stored carbohydrates now and is food source. By the way, enzymes are the natural chemical reactions that speed up the rate of acceleration by 1 million to 1 billion times faster than if not present at all. If you have a worm bin use malted barley flour and sprinkle it lightly distilled the top as food source and watch your compost convert faster and healthier.
Thank you for sharing and describing so well. I have not tried malted barley yet. When you say it adds over 300 species of fungi, do you mean it adds them or do you mean it provides nourishment for over 300 species (hopefully already in the soil)?
yes, from my readings, grains and legumes would be great for the soil - complex carbohydrates, particularly if fermented. would you be able to share documents - how to, principles, links to/about your practices? mygreathanks and blessings🙏
if you need an audio post pro expert, to sound like a pro - just holla back. your room resonances are quite a lot... ;) - thanks for the awesome content!
I'd imagine Mushroom compost would be a great fungal addition to any garden, going to test with a microscope to see what kind of improvements it gives, because for the price point it's pretty fantastic hahah
I like to put bokashi on the top layer of soil and then some mulch. I will also grow mycelium on top of some worm castings and compost to do a fungal dominant tea. There is a product called Bio-Phos from a company called Rootwise that works real nice as well.
Hey !! Unfortunately they aren't my own worm castings. To inoculate the mycelium I use some oat flour and some glacial rock dust on top of the moisted compost.
If it’s possible to make a fungal inoculant, I have many questions. How rapidly do fungi replicate? What do you feed them? I look forward to any insight you can offer.
It does look like doing a video on making your own Fungal inoculant is the way to go. Covering some of the other questions that you ask along the way - it makes sense to cover these in that video as they are core to the process of making inoculants. Thanks Ty.
Converting to the natural look was tough, but now I am proud of mimicking mother nature. My favorite amendment is Jadam Microbial Solution made with potatoes, sea salt and leaf mold. It covers 3/4 of an acre and costs less than a dollar... @GardenLikeaViking breaks down the recipe perfectly
Ive noticed fungi growing inside bark on rotting logs, a white mycelium. I wonder if that and some leaf mold from the yard mixed with some molasses wouldnt make a good innoculant? What do you think? I figure if a fungi is already eating dead wood it makes sense that it would help digest the wood chips in my soil mix. Thoughts?
A really great way to make your own innoculant thats has loads of beneficial fungi in it is called IMO1. (Indigenous Micro-Oraganisms) It's one of the key principles to making your soil efficient at nutrient cycling and protection against peat and pathogens. It's part of a farming methodology called Korean Natural Farming. Check out Chris Trump, he had loads of videos with in depth explanations of how to culture your own innoculant! I think it's leaps and bounds ahead of organic growing
Another thing is, you wanna avoid using foul language around the garden. Those kinds of fungi are very austere and modest, and excessive swearing will discourage their god damn growth. And rap music is completely out of the question.
@noeditbookreviews well, they like the trippy synth and guitar and powerful or weird lyrics, but anything with a weird time signature will work, so jazz fusion is worth trying
I see a lot of growers have stopped crop rotation, some trials are years long - I wonder weather a dedicated brassica bed with a more bacterial dominant soil might be a good way to go, allowing the rest of the beds to build a fungi dom soil without the knock back from brassicas.
That's an interesting thought. It would be good to see a more recent trial I think. My instinct tells me though that deliberately breeding out diversity is not the way to go and even though the brassicas might impair the fungal communities in the short term, long term, with a bit of care, it is possible to rebuild and have a resilient soil for other crops.
Use azos or mycos ? The coverage can attract bugs especially indoors? Cover crop is better and a good mix of soil and coco and perlite mixing …. Make living soil
Making living soils is an interesting concept and very popular with certain groups of very technically competent growers. Cover crops can also be a very useful tool.
@@Simonsoil As we need an insight in microbiology if we deal with soil... we can never have enough details. But too less informations are bad then you make mistakes.
Soil life (microbiology) is such a key part to the interactions and processes that happen in the soil. It really should be on everyone who deals with the soils radar.
So, I've asked before in other CZcams comments without an answer yet and will ask again here... Does anyone know how and why fungi might be considered so important or only in the absense of earthworms? We have known for a very long time that worms are a sign of high quality topsoil and we mix vermicompost (castings) with soil to produce the best kind of soil you can use as an amendment for planting. But, worms love to eat all microbes including fungi. If you have a high worm population, it stands to reason that your fungal network and population will suffer. Maybe not mentioned in this video, but for any video that recommends high fungal population and worms, I've asked how that contradictory advice works, is fungi or worms more important, or perhaps is fungi highly desirable in the absense of worms or is the answer something else?
From what I understand, vermicompost/ worm castings are made by various " wiggler" type worms that live shallow... just under the surface of the soil... or more likely within the leaves of the forest floor ( in their natural environment, as they are composters, hence natural fungi) Earthworms, on the other hand, live deeper and are the "tillers" bringing up elemental nutrients from further below. Hope this info helps a bit. I am uncertain where " nightcrawlers" fall into this realm, they used to pop up out of nowhere after major rains when I was a kid. I see few of those now, as I live much further South.
Both of them is important. you will hace warm farm ofcourse you will not have fungi in the warm farm but you will have compost. But if you do a small lake with warm farm rany water than you will have a fungi. Bİnggo you have warm, warm casting, compost and fungi in your garden. You will use your fungi via compost tea which made from warm farm with rain water.
You want to have the full soil web. You can Google Elaine Ingham's work to learn more, but you want 75k+ species in your soil, and the two main building blocks of those species are bacteria and fungi. Worm castings are great because they have both, but you don't want meh soil + castings, you want a full biome in the soil, so yes castings are going to help a lot but if you till in castings every planting you aren't allowing the soil to develop the complexity it can if left un-tilled.
It's because fungi gives the plant nitrogen in the ammonium form and not nitrate. Otherwise if you have only bacteria you will have nitrogen in the nitrate form. Nitrates promote vegetative growth, while ammonium promotes reproductive growth. Plants need a balance between both. When they don't have the right ratio, it's the beginning of the cycle of pest and diseases because it's not balanced for that specific plant. Earthworms don't eat fungi per se they eat organic matter. If you feed them dead leaves, wood chips or ither fungal foods, you will promote fungi way faster in the soil. You will have spores in the worm castings. Some of the most fungally dominated composts are vermicomposts.
Yes, worms, particularly red wiggler worms commonly used in vermicomposting, can consume fungi in vermicompost. While worms are generally known for breaking down organic matter, including fungi, it's essential to note that they may not consume all types of fungi. Red worms may eat fungal mycelium, which is the root-like structure of mushrooms. However, the extent to which worms consume fungi depends on various factors, and not all fungi are necessarily consumed by worms during the vermicomposting process
Where was this information when I was a little kid and they made me eat cabbage. Finally now I can say NO - I am boosting my soil fungi - NO TO ALL BRASSICAS!! Thank you - good stuff - Learned a lot. Er..... what is good veggies for soil fungi then? 😂
Nothing about PH? Why? Nothing from this video will work if PH is less than 7.Almost nothing. In Poland farmers say, if you can't afford fertiliser, buy lime. Maybe soils in UK are on alkali side of the PH scale and you don't have to worry about? Iceland, with its volcanos and sulphur, is not that far away so you supoosed to have acidic rains. Sometimes, at least.
I used to work in an organic microbe inoculant producing company, my department produced Trichoderma fungus which is a very wonderful fungus (strangely not many 'experts' talk about it, most just talk about Mycorrhizal).
It is:
-a saprophyte (digest dead stuffs),
-mycoparasite (it attacks disease fungi),
-it stimulates plant defense system (plants that are 'infected' become more resistant against other fungi)
-and perhaps most amazingly it's like a personal VAMPIRE BODYGUARD for plants (it attaches to roots and becomes one with the plant, the nutrients it gets from attacking other fungi will be channel back to the plant it defends!)
Mind blowing isn't it? Makes we wonder why would we ever use a fungicide if we could have such a wonderful fungi on our side.....
That's fantastic! What an amazing job. I bet it was really interesting?
I know Trichoderma well. It's often used to help 'eat up' mildews. You're right, it isn't mentioned that often.
Because there are very sick malevolent entities that are poisoning the soil air water to prevent the human bodies to become our truest selves.
If people only innerstand that the human bodies are fungi and bacteria the very principles of PH soil health. Our gut health...
👍
Soil health and human health are one of the same.
I use Recharge by Real Growers that contains 2 strains of Trichoderma. Are you familiar with it and are these strains in line with what you posted?
t. Reesi and t. Harzianum
Will trichoderma multiply in an aerated brew?
Knf or Korean natural farming has a great technique.
Instead of taking anythibg kut of the forest, you bring a wood box with open slats, you will fill it with cooked rise, and bury it in the ground in the forest.
When you come back weeks later all the beautiful kinds of fungi will have colonized the rice.
And now you have a diverse and healthy fungi species to get directly into your garden.
Called an IMO box
What this video calls "intercropping" is discussed in a number of CZcams videos by Dr Chrisitne Jones which at various times has been called biodiversity, plant diversity, etc.
She doesn't talk about crop rotations which is serial monocultural crops, she talks about planting as close together as possible as many diverse plants as possible based on any characteristic you can think of... short, tall, in ground, above ground, different species and so on. According to her studies and a variety of demos she references, every different plant you grow in close proximity of another synergistically shares its own root biome system with all the other nearby plants so the more the merrier. A jungle of diverse crops is healthier, more resistent to pests, uses less water and generates all the nutrients and microorganisms needed for the community of plants to grow. She says that the diversity enhances growth of the fungi soil network, too but is less clear to me how it works, supposedly transporting the microorganisms longer distances.
Your soil, no matter how terrible it is probably contains 100s of 1000s of fungi and microbe species, no need to inoculate it or add more, its at capacity at all times, you want to boost numbers, FEED them, and thats by adding organic matter
Try white sugar and cheap dry dog food on a rainy day... will soak into the ground and feed both the fungi and earthworms.
I live in a built up area in Scotland with limited sunlight during the early part of the year. One thing we are not short on is carbon rich soil with leaf fall and plenty of fungi which is pure rapture for alliums and bulbs however back sowing peas/beans as covers and obviously for return has made me sit up and take notice. Fantastic results and I have even started using urine (10%) for added flush during good light. Just before the growing period (March) I add some cheep flower and sugar to kick start the fungi, Amazing results.
Great video! I’m very interested in learning a diy fungi inoculant
Cool. Thank you for the feedback!
@@Simonsoil Me too!
I really appreciate your video which you talk on 3 exact principles to achieve fungally dominant soils. However, just my opinion, your use of words make it less effective as a communicator of ideas, for example, excessive use of general jargon and filler words make it sound like you have not gone through them yourself, still trialing as such. Let say the 3rd principle is plant diversity, then it isn't jargon like crop rotation or planning ahead. I find Matt Powers to use words that are so clear to listen and concise. Just my 2 cents.
You can use "MALTED BARLEY" blended to expand surface area.
Adds over 300 species of fungi.
Adds enzymes and (2x amylase only barley)
Barley has all nine essential amino acids
The malted barley is actually stored carbohydrates now and is food source.
By the way, enzymes are the natural chemical reactions that speed up the rate of acceleration by 1 million to 1 billion times faster than if not present at all.
If you have a worm bin use malted barley flour and sprinkle it lightly distilled the top as food source and watch your compost convert faster and healthier.
Thank you for sharing and describing so well. I have not tried malted barley yet. When you say it adds over 300 species of fungi, do you mean it adds them or do you mean it provides nourishment for over 300 species (hopefully already in the soil)?
yes, from my readings, grains and legumes would be great for the soil - complex carbohydrates, particularly if fermented. would you be able to share documents - how to, principles, links to/about your practices? mygreathanks and blessings🙏
@@paulbraga4460 Beer?
@@burnoneortwo7791 yes, beer which can speed up your compost pile's heating up...blessings
if you need an audio post pro expert, to sound like a pro - just holla back. your room resonances are quite a lot... ;) - thanks for the awesome content!
I'd imagine Mushroom compost would be a great fungal addition to any garden, going to test with a microscope to see what kind of improvements it gives, because for the price point it's pretty fantastic hahah
Great podcast, thank you. Interested in a video on inoculants.
I would love to know how to make my own final inoculant! Thank you!
I like to put bokashi on the top layer of soil and then some mulch. I will also grow mycelium on top of some worm castings and compost to do a fungal dominant tea. There is a product called Bio-Phos from a company called Rootwise that works real nice as well.
Hi Gabriel. Thanks for sharing. Are they castings from your own worms? What is your source of starting mycelium?
Hey !! Unfortunately they aren't my own worm castings. To inoculate the mycelium I use some oat flour and some glacial rock dust on top of the moisted compost.
Sounds good. Oat flour is useful in more ways than one. 😁👍
fungal innoculant video would be great!!
Hi Jonny. Thanks for the feedback. A fungal inoculant video is on the cards now for the not too distant future. 😁👍
Has a video on making an inoculant been made? A link? Thanks.
If it’s possible to make a fungal inoculant, I have many questions. How rapidly do fungi replicate? What do you feed them? I look forward to any insight you can offer.
It does look like doing a video on making your own Fungal inoculant is the way to go. Covering some of the other questions that you ask along the way - it makes sense to cover these in that video as they are core to the process of making inoculants. Thanks Ty.
Research dr Elaine Ingham the soil food web, there are innoculants and fungal compost teas you can do at home
Converting to the natural look was tough, but now I am proud of mimicking mother nature. My favorite amendment is Jadam Microbial Solution made with potatoes, sea salt and leaf mold. It covers 3/4 of an acre and costs less than a dollar... @GardenLikeaViking breaks down the recipe perfectly
Ive noticed fungi growing inside bark on rotting logs, a white mycelium. I wonder if that and some leaf mold from the yard mixed with some molasses wouldnt make a good innoculant? What do you think? I figure if a fungi is already eating dead wood it makes sense that it would help digest the wood chips in my soil mix. Thoughts?
Thank you
You're welcome. Thank you for following the channel 😁👍
YES, Yes and yea to inoculate, please a d thank you...
Fab. Thanks Weldon 😁👍
Fungal inoc? Definitely interested.
Cool! Thanks Carl. I'll add this to the content plan. Thanks for the support 😁
Great channel.👍
Thank you Teresa.😁 Glad you're enjoying it.
yes inoculant video thanks
I,d like to know more about making innoculants
Thanks Lorelei. It's on the content plan 😉👍
A really great way to make your own innoculant thats has loads of beneficial fungi in it is called IMO1. (Indigenous Micro-Oraganisms) It's one of the key principles to making your soil efficient at nutrient cycling and protection against peat and pathogens. It's part of a farming methodology called Korean Natural Farming. Check out Chris Trump, he had loads of videos with in depth explanations of how to culture your own innoculant! I think it's leaps and bounds ahead of organic growing
Thanks for sharing Kyle! 😁👍
I used woodchips.👍🤠🍄
Another thing is, you wanna avoid using foul language around the garden. Those kinds of fungi are very austere and modest, and excessive swearing will discourage their god damn growth. And rap music is completely out of the question.
😂😂😂
My mycorhyzae respond well to progressive metal
@@gildedvibrations8927 I would guess mycorrhizae would prefer fusion of some kind, since they're symbiotic.
@noeditbookreviews well, they like the trippy synth and guitar and powerful or weird lyrics, but anything with a weird time signature will work, so jazz fusion is worth trying
As a New Jersey landscaper, this comment strikes a nerve. 😁
have you tried this experiment with FPJ and how can we get an even amount of fungi and bacteria
I need to add fungi to my soil. I have plenty of bacteria nematodes. I need fungi
I see a lot of growers have stopped crop rotation, some trials are years long - I wonder weather a dedicated brassica bed with a more bacterial dominant soil might be a good way to go, allowing the rest of the beds to build a fungi dom soil without the knock back from brassicas.
That's an interesting thought. It would be good to see a more recent trial I think.
My instinct tells me though that deliberately breeding out diversity is not the way to go and even though the brassicas might impair the fungal communities in the short term, long term, with a bit of care, it is possible to rebuild and have a resilient soil for other crops.
10:47 I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣
Use azos or mycos ? The coverage can attract bugs especially indoors? Cover crop is better and a good mix of soil and coco and perlite mixing …. Make living soil
Making living soils is an interesting concept and very popular with certain groups of very technically competent growers. Cover crops can also be a very useful tool.
Wow cool thanks 👍🏼
No worries. Glad you found it useful. 😉👍
@@Simonsoil As we need an insight in microbiology if we deal with soil... we can never have enough details. But too less informations are bad then you make mistakes.
Soil life (microbiology) is such a key part to the interactions and processes that happen in the soil. It really should be on everyone who deals with the soils radar.
Sir my apple orchard have root rot problem.... Plz tell ne how to manage my orchard to prevent it plzz reply
Ours were always pretty good if I remember correctly Simon.
Your memory serves you will Phil. Good soils and lovely food! 🤩 Hope you're well!
You are a fun guy talking about fungi
So, I've asked before in other CZcams comments without an answer yet and will ask again here...
Does anyone know how and why fungi might be considered so important or only in the absense of earthworms?
We have known for a very long time that worms are a sign of high quality topsoil and we mix vermicompost (castings) with soil to produce the best kind of soil you can use as an amendment for planting.
But, worms love to eat all microbes including fungi. If you have a high worm population, it stands to reason that your fungal network and population will suffer.
Maybe not mentioned in this video, but for any video that recommends high fungal population and worms, I've asked how that contradictory advice works, is fungi or worms more important, or perhaps is fungi highly desirable in the absense of worms or is the answer something else?
From what I understand, vermicompost/ worm castings are made by various " wiggler" type worms that live shallow... just under the surface of the soil... or more likely within the leaves of the forest floor ( in their natural environment, as they are composters, hence natural fungi) Earthworms, on the other hand, live deeper and are the "tillers" bringing up elemental nutrients from further below. Hope this info helps a bit. I am uncertain where " nightcrawlers" fall into this realm, they used to pop up out of nowhere after major rains when I was a kid. I see few of those now, as I live much further South.
Both of them is important. you will hace warm farm ofcourse you will not have fungi in the warm farm but you will have compost. But if you do a small lake with warm farm rany water than you will have a fungi. Bİnggo you have warm, warm casting, compost and fungi in your garden. You will use your fungi via compost tea which made from warm farm with rain water.
You want to have the full soil web. You can Google Elaine Ingham's work to learn more, but you want 75k+ species in your soil, and the two main building blocks of those species are bacteria and fungi.
Worm castings are great because they have both, but you don't want meh soil + castings, you want a full biome in the soil, so yes castings are going to help a lot but if you till in castings every planting you aren't allowing the soil to develop the complexity it can if left un-tilled.
It's because fungi gives the plant nitrogen in the ammonium form and not nitrate. Otherwise if you have only bacteria you will have nitrogen in the nitrate form. Nitrates promote vegetative growth, while ammonium promotes reproductive growth. Plants need a balance between both. When they don't have the right ratio, it's the beginning of the cycle of pest and diseases because it's not balanced for that specific plant.
Earthworms don't eat fungi per se they eat organic matter. If you feed them dead leaves, wood chips or ither fungal foods, you will promote fungi way faster in the soil. You will have spores in the worm castings. Some of the most fungally dominated composts are vermicomposts.
Yes, worms, particularly red wiggler worms commonly used in vermicomposting, can consume fungi in vermicompost. While worms are generally known for breaking down organic matter, including fungi, it's essential to note that they may not consume all types of fungi. Red worms may eat fungal mycelium, which is the root-like structure of mushrooms. However, the extent to which worms consume fungi depends on various factors, and not all fungi are necessarily consumed by worms during the vermicomposting process
subscribed, nice video.
Aerated compost tea including fungi and innoculated Biochar.
how do u male aminos?
Adding food to the soil surface sounds like a good way to ensure you have a botrytis reservoir in your greenhouse.
and remember too much phosphorus will knock back fungi populations!
Make IMO (Indigenous Microorganisms)
Hi Ianeea. That is another really good suggestion 👍👍I'm collecting ideas for doing a video on making your own inoculants.😁
JMS & JLF would also be great to demonstrate. Many people don't know about JADAM/KNF.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have a look into that 😁👍
DIY fungal inoculation saves the nation!
Thank you for the feedback Dr Froghopper. It's now on the content list! 😁👍
All you need is some, Recharge by real growers! It works wonders!
I'll be sure to look that up!
Dr earth "life" or bio-live by DTE also do the same thing as recharge.
Nature does not crop rotate.
Bro. Calm the F down...
Where was this information when I was a little kid and they made me eat cabbage. Finally now I can say NO - I am boosting my soil fungi - NO TO ALL BRASSICAS!!
Thank you - good stuff - Learned a lot. Er..... what is good veggies for soil fungi then? 😂
Nothing about PH? Why? Nothing from this video will work if PH is less than 7.Almost nothing.
In Poland farmers say, if you can't afford fertiliser, buy lime. Maybe soils in UK are on alkali side of the PH scale and you don't have to worry about?
Iceland, with its volcanos and sulphur, is not that far away so you supoosed to have acidic rains. Sometimes, at least.
Probably the most boring video on this fascinating topic I have seen