Re: [compost_tea] Re: fungal or bacT dominant plants

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:27:37 -0400
To the best of our knowldege (ie., reviewing the database), healthy blackbe= rry and raspberry are in the shrub category, and like the soil on the funga= l side.  Somewhere between 5:1 to 2:1 fungal to bacterial ratios. = ;

Which suggests a couple approaches to making the soil not-good places for t= hese plants. 

Push the biology much more bacterial, or MUCH more fungal.  Your choic= e. 

With perennial plants, you may want to cut the aboveground part of the plan= t off, so the plant has no energy to respond to your soil treatments by alt= ering the foodweb back in the direction the plant wants/needs.

OK?

Elaine



In a message dated 7/12/2004 4:39:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "dkemni= tz2000" <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com> writes:

>--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
>> What kind of brambles are you asking about?  
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>Blackberries and black and red raspberries.  Dennis Kemnitz
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>> In general, early successional plant species are very bacterial, <= BR> >> mid-successional grasses are somewhat bacterial dominated, late >successional grasses and
>> row crops are balanced fungal to bacterial, shrubs are slightly >fungal,
>> deciduous trees are fairly fungal, and confier old growth extremel= y
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>> Elaine R. Ingham
>> Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
>> Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
>> Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
>> Soil Foodweb Institue Cambridge, New Zealand
>> Soil Foodweb Inc., Hilversum, The Netherlands
>> Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
>> Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
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Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
SFI Culiacan, Mexico
SFI Jerome, Idaho
http://www.soilfoodweb.com


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