[compost_tea] Re: Sudanese switchgrass winter crop for mycorrhizal > innoculation?

From: B Blake <bbdallas100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:42:05 -0000

Patrick, They have had some good results with Strigolactones
but I don't know a lot about it. Chances are that it may be beyond
most people like specifically manipulated bacteria can be.
The plants can deal with it.

A common sense approach may be
"so goes the plant growth and the roots - so goes the mycorrhiza."

Crops can be speed-ed up but we get into the money that I spoke of.

The Internet is loaded with info. Here are a couple of simple links.
 
http://www.mendeley.com/research/strigolactones-stimulate-arbuscular-mycorr=
hizal-fungi-by-activating-mitochondria/

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Arbuscular_mycorrhiza

Personally I feel there are better ways to deal
with the soil end than Compost Tea but it depends on how much area.
To me CT is trying to do the job on the cheap but better
than nothing.

Taking the Foliar end of CT to new levels is probably where things are head=
ing for some excitement and growth.
The rest of it seems a tad played out lately.
We live in an instant society.
Why fight it?

As it stands today it's over $102 for overnight, morning delivery
of a CT sample to Oregon. Yet still a good 19 hours or so
until the sample hits the microscope. Perhaps there is an
East Coast Lab I haven't heard about yet.
Or perhaps this field has held air too long.
In any event no way can the game be played at the LeRoy level
with such an atrocity to the brew getting laid upon it.
Another problem with blinders.

Started foliar experiments in 1962. By '63 I was working summers
for a Master Landscaper from Germany who grew most of his
own Landscape field crops and Glass Greenhouse crops.
In '65 a couple of High School seniors got hired and my Mom
co-signed for a couple of trucks. For the most part it's been
a lot of OPM (other people's money) ever since.
I have put in some of the most elaborate and expensive raised beds
in the history of the Country. This in 4 of the richest Counties
over decades of time. There is no modest way to say it or I would.
This in addition to my own large test gardens and test greenhouses
in my day. Small gardens and a year round inside grow lab today.

Have a long history with CT and other goodies. I'm one of the original Land=
scape guys in the modern Trace Element Tribe.
I started using Azomite in the early 60's but have gone beyond it.
Not cost effective or comprehensive enough for me beyond a
10% - 20% taste of the multiple rock dusts.
I'm in the most Blessed Region in the Country if not the World
to get extraordinary Sands and Rock Dusts within
reasonable truck-able distances.

We had seminars on microbes decades ago at one of the huge dollar
nurseries. It's not new. It seems to have been big in foreign Countries bef=
ore here.

It's only 2010 that I started getting serious about CT.
For me it's the Crown Princess to King Foliar.
Before 2010 I just took CT for granted and working for many
millionaires that were well sold on the soil's value it was not really need=
ed very often.
Rather than just rap a good game I sold the
plants and trees to customers at MY COST which was Wholesale #1
or directly from a wholesale Plant Farm cutting the greedy
middleman out of the game.

Was it because I was a good Samaritan, disliked profit and
trying to live good? Flying around the Country and the world
touring greenhouses and indoor grow operations?

Not really.

At $3.90 to $7.90 per square foot for just the bed work plus walls or perma=
nent edge strip the only way I could get them to do things right was to sav=
e them a mint on plant material.

Than you had exclusive magic Stone Mulch's that I bribed the
Tractor Trailer driver's to bring in the middle of the night.
My Dad told me not to let my left hand know what my right hand was doing so=
 I did.
That special, unique stone dust was real added magic at up to
4 grand per 37 foot dump trailer with around 27 tons.

They were paying for the larger permanent Stone Mulch.
The magic dust was a bonus.

The old timer's at the special stone quarry had told me of
it's secret power long ago.
I had such a good time with them and learned so much at the bar
that I had to sleep in my car before driving back.

As with many phone conversations over the decades I only wore them out the =
one time. Occasionally I follow up with an email or a
Holiday present.
Depends if I'm well rested or not. Some have told me I should have been an =
industrial spy because genuine enthusiasm can be contagious.
It can also be magnetic but only when well rested with no breaks
in the mental train ride.

Anyway I do things my way as do many people in this group.
This is good.
I'm looking forward to learning but will leave most of the
microscope work to people better suited to it and who enjoy it.
Feel that some year round test plants are badly needed
to spice this deal up a tad.

Going to work for "the boy's and gals" will probably be my last gig.
They know who they are - the devil's.
Had a rest where I didn't much think about it for a while.
Some of it was forced on me.
Have always believed a way to really get into something is to
get as totally away from it as much as possible for a bit.


Bill




--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Patrick Kennedy <mixelpix86_at_...> wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> If I read you correctly, I can just stick with my usual winter crop and t=
ea regimen, no real huge benefit from buying potentially more expensive see=
ds.
>
> One more question about the sleeping Morehouse: how does one go about wak=
ing them up?
>
> I don't have much experience with microscopy but I do now own a microscop=
e. I know I've read some stuff here about it, will keep researching.
>
> Best,
> Patrick.
>




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