Opinion on mycorrhizae

Hi,

Do you use mycorrhizae and like what it does to your plants? If you do, and like it, how do you use it on adult plants? Also, where do you buy it from?

I will be cross posting this on couple of other forums to get some more answers, so you may read this a couple of times.

Thank you for your time.

Never heard of it so cant comment for you, sorry but, as you posted on the 9th May, I can only assume no one else has heard of it either, it is unusual on this site for no one to answer a posting even if it is like myself, just to say sorry cant help.
Good luck anyway, let me know If anyone replies with advice.
WeeNel.

WeeNel,

Thanks for your reply.

Mycorrhizae is types of fungi that helps roots of most plants to gather more nutrients. Do a Google search and there are tons of sites selling it. However, it can be expensive and wanted to hear from the users here about their experience first hand.

I started using it last year, on my siberian iris divisions. I bought the Soil Moist transplant formula with extended fertilization and the mycorrhizae.

The irises I used it on outgrew the other by at least 1/2. I don't know if it is the fertilizer component or the mycorrhizae, but it worked.

The packets of Soil Moist were less than 5.00, and did many, many plants.

I wrote a rather long letter to someone who inquired about this last year on the orchid forum. The thing about mycorrhizae is that they are plant specific in the case of orchids and so it seems that would be the case with other plants. When you buy the product you are getting assorted mycorrhizae but there are so many so how could you know which ones are companion, and therefore beneficial to your plants? One of the problems in reestablishing orchid stands in the wild is that the exact mycorrizae must be determined and placed in the area or the orchids won't establish. To that end there are botanical labs working on determining exactly which mycorrhizae benefit which plants so that rare and endangered species can be reintroduced and encouraged to self propagate in situ rather than just existing in botanical gardens and private collections.

From Soil Moist:

The new Soil Moist MycorrhizalTransplant formulas contain SoilMoist water-management polymersand a diverse 12 species mix of highly active spores of endo and ecto mycorrhizal fungi. It includes an effective bio stimulant formulation
making the product incredibly versatile – for trees, shrubs and plantsand in a host of habitats.

Here's a nice article on it from LariAnn here on DG.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/722/

Thank you for the pointers.