Living Soil Q&A

[Persianfarmer]

Greetings Farmers,

I thought that I could start this thread for people that are interested to raise questions and others with more experience could help us find answers.

I will take the first initiative. I make my own Lacto B. and try to cultivate beneficial microbes and fungi.

For the first time, by pure luck, I managed to fungi my Lacto B and was wondering what type of fungi I have created, could it be Penicillium as it is very green with a yellow outer ring?

Anyways i fed it in my soil which is developing its own wild cover crop.

Would love to hear from you

Peace & Respect
PF

 

[acespicoli]

I think this is interesting
The first thing that comes to mind in identifying fungi is a plate wall poster for comparison at least a book with slide sample for picture comparison.

The L. B. Is a relatively safe specimen to experiment with it does produce peroxide which keep the soil and plants free of things like Powdery Mildew.

It's also easy to obtain for culture by making your own from scratch or Greek yogurt, scomby, kaffir multiple sources right?

Along the same lines may be beneficial organisms so you have a healthy aerobic environment going and the bacterial also then certain beneficial fungi and multicellular organisms of course it must always be kept moist warm and aerated.

Then there is feeding the cultures and trying to keep it all in balance in a small contained area.

That said the end results of your plants health can be fantastic !

I have found that a organic, organic mineral hybrid system is far superior than one or the other.

Promix bx and Epsoma tomato tone
contain some things of interest.

Great thread thanks for sharing

Best >>>

 

[Persianfarmer]

I think this is interesting
The first thing that comes to mind in identifying fungi is a plate wall poster for comparison at least a book with slide sample for picture comparison.

The L. B. Is a relatively safe specimen to experiment with it does produce peroxide which keep the soil and plants free of things like Powdery Mildew.

It's also easy to obtain for culture by making your own from scratch or Greek yogurt, scomby, kaffir multiple sources right?

Along the same lines may be beneficial organisms so you have a healthy aerobic environment going and the bacterial also then certain beneficial fungi and multicellular organisms of course it must always be kept moist warm and aerated.

Then there is feeding the cultures and trying to keep it all in balance in a small contained area.

That said the end results of your plants health can be fantastic !

I have found that a organic, organic mineral hybrid system is far superior than one or the other.

Promix bx and Epsoma tomato tone
contain some things of interest.

Great thread thanks for sharing

Best >>>

Hiya Ace,

I am glad you came along with such text. Then I would like to thank you for your feedback and putting the time to reply

Well to summarize. From a big garden I was confined to an apartment that forced me to be organically efficient if i may say. I am forced to recycle 50-60% of my soil. And living soil was the solution.
As you know many make the mistake to think that we need to feed the plant, but how does a plant feeds when it cannot absorbe the nutrition directly. That is when rizospheric environment comes into play and via microbes and fungi that make the food available, the plant feeds itself. So that is why the most important aspect of organic, is to mainly focus on beneficial organism.
My space is confined and thus controllable . I constantly feed my soil before planting, with microbe serums and fungi. Then as you so well pointed, you need to feed now the organisms, and I do that by introducing carbohydrates in form of rice wash, pasta water, fermented beets, and molasses.

Also I like that you pointed out that I should look into cataloging the specimen by comparing them to other studies or pictures. I will try my best to do that and thanks for bringing it up.

I have a tendency to think that it might be penicillium, as I would cultivate it with rotten fruits and I know that it can also grow on dairy. Also it kinda looked like it.

I also super charge my vermicompost in a semi aerobic environment, and had explosive fungi growing.

Hope we can have more discussion my dear friend

 

[Persianfarmer]

Hello all again…thought i should share

Went to check on my secret weapon! The super charged vermicompost Persian farmer style…. Turned her once and after a few days again Fungi forming … Shit is STRONG can feel it… we shall see… letting her cook!!!

Also fed the compost with my own recipe of microbe serum, wheat molasse, fermented beat juice, lacto B, and rice wash), shit if the microbes and fungi do not relish on this caviar, then I do not know shit and have to go to Living Soil basic classes