Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

[MrFista]

It's bound to assist in breakdown ML, was there a zygomycete already present on the leaves though? I'm having trouble with the leaves 'making' spores.

 

[CT Guy]

thx mrfista, my understanding is that fungi dont grow well in tea, the enviornment is to volatile. But we can make drenches to feed the fungi present. That combined with a fungal mulch should do the trick dont you think?

Fungi do just fine in a liquid environment, just look at my profile pic. Fish hydrolysate is an excellent food source for fungi.

Make a balanced tea though. You want nutrient cycling, not an overabundance of one set of organisms. Put it all out there (bacteria/archea, fungi, protozoa) and let the plant be in control based on the exudates it's putting out.

True, plants prefer a bacterial or fungal dominant soil, but the plant controls this, not us with the balance in our teas.