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What fungi is in your compost is what you add or what is naturally found in your area, so long as spores are able to find a suitable home there. There are two base types of fungi that you will want in your compost. the 1st is a saprophytic type. these are decomposers. they break down the raw dead matter and turn it into yummy goodness. the other type that you are looking for are the mycorrhizal's, both endo (in) and exo (out). these fungi help the plants uptake nutrients. the problem with this in a tea is that the hyphal threads cannot live in a water environment. Yes they need water, but they can not live in it. You would either need to be using a TLO type soil that has this mycelium in it, or use as an additive which has the spores in suspension which will then run out thru your soil. If you really want to learn about fungi and all the great things about them i highly encourage everyone to get a copy of Paul Satmet's "Mycelium Running, How mushrooms can help save the planet". Highly informative book that deals mostly with myco-restoration techniques but also delves into mychorrizal associations.
What fungi is in your compost is what you add or what is naturally found in your area, so long as spores are able to find a suitable home there. There are two base types of fungi that you will want in your compost. the 1st is a saprophytic type. these are decomposers. they break down the raw dead matter and turn it into yummy goodness. the other type that you are looking for are the mycorrhizal's, both endo (in) and exo (out). these fungi help the plants uptake nutrients. the problem with this in a tea is that the hyphal threads cannot live in a water environment. Yes they need water, but they can not live in it. You would either need to be using a TLO type soil that has this mycelium in it, or use as an additive which has the spores in suspension which will then run out thru your soil. If you really want to learn about fungi and all the great things about them i highly encourage everyone to get a copy of Paul Satmet's "Mycelium Running, How mushrooms can help save the planet". Highly informative book that deals mostly with myco-restoration techniques but also delves into mychorrizal associations.
Here is his website, guy is a master in his field. Name was misspelled so I got you a link to his site.http://www.fungi.com/
Here is a video on the TED website. http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
whats the mechanism that causes carbohydrate products to only promote bacterial colonies but not any fungal populations?
It fully depends on the type of fungi you are talking about. Presence of carbs have no effect on whether or not there is a presence of fungi. Im not completely familiar with the feeding habits of fungus but i would speculate that the bacteria convert the carbs to sugars which are consumed by the fungus and passed along to the plant host.
so how do you feel about using simple sugars to begin with particularly d-ribose(deoxy ribose) i feel this is possibly a useful compound and maybe would promote both bacterial and fungal populations just theory though.
I dont think the addition of sugars will have any effect on fungi. I dont recall ever seeing any sugars added to agar or spawn material to facilitate expediting the mycelia growth rate.
You are dealing with two vastly different topics here ....bacteria and fungi. They can both live independently and together and have vastly different needs as far as food sources go. Seems like it would be a good food source for bacteria which may have a secondary effect on the fungus though.....if the fungi are feeding on bacterial waste.....more bacteria=more waste=more food for hyphal growth......but if the fungus is feeding off the bacteria rather then in an mycorhizzal situation with the plant, id think you are using the wrong type of fungus.....this is all speculation on my part though.
Regardless i love the topic and embrace these hypothesis!
Very Well Put! MahaloToo much sugar or carbs can cause bacterial blooms, which will lower the dissolved oxygen content in the compost tea and can result in the tea being contaminated anaerobic bacteria. Also bacteria will always out-compete fungi if they have enough food as they multiply very rapidly where as fungi grow and multiply much slower. If you want a fungal dominant tea, don't use molasses or other sugar sources as this will give the bacteria too much of a head start. For bacterial dominant or balanced tea however, small amount of molasses is a great additive and recommended as a compost tea ingredient by many experts and scientists such as Dr. Elaine Ingham, founder of Soil Food Web Inc and author of the Compost Tea Brewing manual.
From what I read, Kelp will at first slow the process of bacteria and fungi from reproducing for around 24hours? So if it is added first, you will need to brew a 48 hour tea for it to be balanced?to my knowledge, compost teas need no activator. people used to add molasses, but you do not need to. plus, i do not want to spray sugar on my plants, it is not good for them. i add a little bit of maxicrop's soluble seaweed powder at the end, once the tea is already brewed. if you are going to add anything extra to your compost tea, it is better to do it at the end.
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