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Hi Chris -

I'd say that the reply you got back from that company would suggest finding someone more reputable would be a good idea. 

In my experience, Mycorrhizal Applications (www.mycorrhizae.com) is a good place to start.  They do research, thye talk to most of the other researchers in the biz, and they are connected to both Oregon State University ecto- and endo-mycorrhizal people.  They usually provide me with good data, test results and published scientific data where such data exist. 

There is a difference between sand and clay soils in regard to watering in.  When we've looked for spores (sorry, not published data) in sand, the spores move downward quite rapidly.  But in loam, or clay, very different story.  If there is organic matter in the soil, the spores hang-up on the OM.  I recall seeing published papers on this, but I couldn't track them for you easily. 

Do a CD-ROM search on Agricola, or see if Mycorrhizal Applications has references for you.  Or perhaps ATTRA (www.ATTRA.org).  Steve Diver often has already researched this information and will share his references with folks.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic


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