Oddbean new post about login | logout Super easy to make just some eggs and msg and the original innoculant bottle or a source of bacteria from nature. You also need some sun I have been using it to prevent and treat phytophora aka root root. It retasks this pathogen into something that is beneficial for trees shrubs etc even to the point I can replant the same type of tree in the area of the tree that succumbed to the root rot. It can also feed in multiple different ways and helps plants grow in general which is why it's in 'effective microbes' found in the terra preta of the Amazon so it's likely in healthy people too. It's very useful in general PNSB is a term for these types of bacteria Rhodopseudomonas Palustris is a species of that term if you want to read more about it. There is another one in those bottles too but the Latin is escaping my brain right now.
Woah, so cool. I am just starting into my trees on my property. Thank you so much for all of this
Your welcome that's a useful video if you need it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qzNfCi8E4 What species of trees are you planting? Are you in the mountainous parts of canuckyland? As the biology for some trees can be a little different. Most of it still beneficial like the PNSB you just might want to change a few things if you are making full consortium of EM
I am South of Detroit, on fertile lake bed looking at fruit trees. I will look more into this thanks for the video
It will be just be the normal endo mycorrhizal fungi and wine/ale/bakers yeast (s.cerevisea) you want to use then. The alpine trees use lager related yeasts and that inhibits mycorrhizal fungi persumably to allow the ecotomycorhyzhal fungi to flourish at higher altitudes. If you don't want to make it all you can buy it in as EM and scale it up. I still think it's worth buying and scaling the PNSB yourself though as they can't guarantee it's still alive in the opaque bottle by the time it gets to you... If you need a source to scale up from you can buy it from algaebarn.com it's called PNS PROBIO and it's the same one I have used.