Right now I'm growing several plants using The Rev's method - bottom watering reservoir, a grill, growrocks, super soil, light soil, grains & fruit, hemp bedding for mulch.
Fungi need to be fed calories and carbon, and stable moisture. The hemp provides the carbon, the grains and fruit provide the calories (well balanced in fat, protein and starch, including sugar). The fungi absorb the nutrients, and feed them to the plants.
The plants are doing fantastically, and are growing as fast or faster than in hydro. And no leaf burn whatsoever - all the nutrients seem tot get filtered through the fungi.
Also, the hemp bedding comes with it's own hemp specific mycorrhizal fungi - which produces a small caramel colored mushroom. There are also mycorrhizal fungi in: buckwheat hulls (ink caps), alfalfa pellets, worm compost. All you need to do is protect and feed them, like trees do.
Making carbon and calories available not only stimulated the mycorrhizal fungi, but also the endophytic fungi, which protect the plant from disease and insect attack.
Interesting article:
Fungi need to be fed calories and carbon, and stable moisture. The hemp provides the carbon, the grains and fruit provide the calories (well balanced in fat, protein and starch, including sugar). The fungi absorb the nutrients, and feed them to the plants.
The plants are doing fantastically, and are growing as fast or faster than in hydro. And no leaf burn whatsoever - all the nutrients seem tot get filtered through the fungi.
Also, the hemp bedding comes with it's own hemp specific mycorrhizal fungi - which produces a small caramel colored mushroom. There are also mycorrhizal fungi in: buckwheat hulls (ink caps), alfalfa pellets, worm compost. All you need to do is protect and feed them, like trees do.
Making carbon and calories available not only stimulated the mycorrhizal fungi, but also the endophytic fungi, which protect the plant from disease and insect attack.
Interesting article:
- The most dominant species was Penicillium copticola
- We observed 11 distinct types of pathogen inhibition
- We observed 11 distinct types of pathogen inhibition
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13225-012-0216-3
Fungal Diversity
May 2013, Volume 60, Issue 1, pp 137–151 | Cite as
Endophytic fungi harbored in Cannabis sativa L.: diversity and potential as biocontrol agents against host plant-specific phytopathogens
Abstract
The objective of the present work was isolation, phylogenetic characterization, and assessment of biocontrol potential of endophytic fungi harbored in various tissues (leaves, twigs, and apical and lateral buds) of the medicinal plant, Cannabis sativa L. A total of 30 different fungal endophytes were isolated from all the plant tissues which were authenticated by molecular identification based on rDNA ITS sequence analysis (ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2 regions).
The Menhinick’s index revealed that the buds were immensely rich in fungal species, and Camargo’s index showed the highest tissue-specific fungal dominance for the twigs. The most dominant species was Penicillium copticola that could be isolated from the twigs, leaves, and apical and lateral buds. A detailed calculation of Fisher’s log series index, Shannon diversity index, Simpson’s index, Simpson’s diversity index, and Margalef’s richness revealed moderate overall biodiversity of C. sativa endophytes distributed among its tissues. The fungal endophytes were challenged by two host phytopathogens, Botrytis cinerea and Trichothecium roseum, devising a dual culture antagonistic assay on five different media. We observed 11 distinct types of pathogen inhibition encompassing a variable degree of antagonism (%) on changing the media. This revealed the potential chemodiversity of the isolated fungal endophytes not only as promising resources of biocontrol agents against the known and emerging phytopathogens of Cannabis plants, but also as sustainable resources of biologically active and defensive secondary metabolites.