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Corn and soil response to MycoApply® Superconcentrate
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News Posts – by Dr.Mike
Testimonials from our customers
| “We have been using your product since 1983 and continue to incorporate mycorrhizal inoculations as a standard practice for several reasons. First we can reduce our fertilizer applications by 20-30% on treated seedlings because of their enhanced root systems and access to nutrients. Also we have observed a significant increase in growth on our 45 acres of timber land with mycorrhizae treated trees compared to controls.”Ken Riskin – President, QUALITREE INC. Containerized Tree Seedling Nursery | |
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| Thanks. I think your MycoApply may be the reason for improved success with some of my weaker-rooted natives, especially the Tx Madrone Arbutus xalapensis. It’s surprising, given our extreme climate, that a number of natives have very fragile root systems, and seem to depend on mycorrhizal colonization before they will do anything. That, of course, takes time in our high temperatures, where organic matter burns out very quickly.E. E. “Mitch” Mitchamore Hill Country Natives |
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| “After inoculating our maple seedlings with your product two years ago and watching their subsequent growth, I noticed a startling improvement over past years. Our Acer grandidentatum averaged 18 inches tall and in the past had only been 6 inches tall. Our two year old Acer tataricum grew 36 inches tall as opposed to 24 inches before.”Scott Skozerboe – Fort Collins Nursery, Colorado_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Good afternoon Mike,
I just wanted to thank-you once again for the mycorrhizae that you sent over for the treatment of our 185 flower baskets that we had hanging thru-out downtown Grants Pass this past summer. As you know we had one of the hottest summers on record. Even in the heat we still were able to reduce our water by 18% and the fertilizing by 78%. The baskets were more beautiful than ever and dozens and dozens of comments that the flowers baskets were more colorful and larger than ever before. The water soluble made for easy application. I’m now you biggest fan and looking forward to next season. Thanks again.
Cliff Bennett at Chets Garden Center
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February 19, 2009
I thank you again for the MycoApply® product you gave Greenleaf Industries this past winter. Established in 1981, Greenleaf Industries is a private, non-profit corporation, serving as the Northwest’s largest horticultural training center, providing training and employment opportunities to twenty (20) men and women who have varying developmental disabilities plus Greenleaf partners with several local high schools that bring over part-time students who have developmental disabilities.
The results with MycoApply® so far have been quite impressive. I began using them in my plug mix with pansies, snap dragon and petunias. The best pansy plugs I have ever grown over the past 25 years of growing plugs. I have going a little experiment, planting my first snap dragon crop (3 varieties) in two different soil mixes. Actually the same soil mix but one with MycoApply® and one without. We planted 40 flats each variety in each group. All groups started out with the inoculated seed from plug mix – (approx 1 1/2 cups/10 ft³). Seedlings were transplanted two weeks ago and given same greenhouse environment. After two weeks you can see a difference in both plant height and leaf size in the MycoApply® treated flats. Two more weeks should see an even better growth response.
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David James
Executive Director
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I first started using mycorrhizae in 1980. Our family owned Glass Mountain Forest Tree Nursery in the Napa Valley. What we were looking for was a larger healthier plant that would out perform the seedlings we had been growing since 1965. Once I inoculated the nursery seed beds, immediately I noticed larger healthier faster growing root systems and top growth. For us this was important because we seeded the nursery in April or May and harvested the bare root seedlings in the winter, January through March. We only had a short period in which to get the seedlings up to the specified sizes under contract to the lumber companies in California and Oregon. We noticed our cull rate went from 30% down to 10%, and the caliper of the seedlings all exceeded the minimum required 5-mm caliper and a 5 inch top. We immediately noticed greater financial returns on our net profits. We also found the fertilizers were working much better and were able to reduce the purchases by 35%. Our fungicide costs reduced significantly. From a nurseryman’s perspective and with a Scottish banker for a Father –things were looking up. But what we found in later years when the trees were out planted in the forests of the Pacific Northwest was really where the benefits showed their prowess.
Recently, I performed a trial in a grape vine nursery in our area with VA mycorrhizae. I inoculated 2000 plants in paper pots known as Zip Sets. Also I left 2000 as control plants for the trial. The plants were growing in a greenhouse environment typical to the industry at the time. I received a call from the nursery owner with what appeared to be terrible news. The greenhouse had a power failure during an extended holiday, the greenhouse reached temperatures too high for any life to live for several days, no cooling and no water. I went into the greenhouse to view the plants and they all looked as though a blow torch had hit them, all dead, or so it appeared. I instructed the nurseryman to continue with watering the plants as though nothing had happened. After several weeks the inoculated plants were all green again pushing new shoots and visually recovering, however, the non mycorrhizal plants were brown and as it turned out through time was a complete loss. Now, we know about the benefits of mycorrhizae from a drought tolerance and resistance standpoint, but this result was so compelling that again, I was a believer even more so as to the benefits of mycorrhizal plants.
Here at Genesis we not only have the knowledge, but have found a source of the world’s best inoculum in our association with Dr. Mike Amaranthus. For all the reasons that I have experienced in my 28 years of application of this magnificent gift, I have seen so much that is positive and not one single negative.
Today after three years of trials and tribulations we are seeing the ultimate in our results, as evidenced by the photographs and field data that we have accumulated.
I must stress, (just kidding), we have gone beyond my wildest expectations of what this process is capable of doing for the long term health and viability of my very favorite industry, the wine industry.
“Drink up, enjoy”!
Bruce Coulthard
Genesis Soils
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