I have used it on the roots of bare rooted plants I thought needed help to re-establish in new mix. I have not lost any plants where I used it but do not know if using it helped. It is expensive and I would not use it on any regular basis. Al

I have..It doesn't work for me..:-)

There are different strains of myco and if you use it correctly will work wonders.

I use endo which is specific to vegetables (with certain exceptions)and I use it for container growing. It produces a larger and more complex root system. I had posted pictures of my chile pepper root system couple yrs ago. Pepper leaves on bottom third of plant grow much larger than top. I only put the myco underneath the roots at each transplant time. I assume if I mixed it thruout that result would be different.

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I trialed various myco products a few years ago and selected Actinovate. You can order it at Worms way for about $20.00 plus shipping. You should get about 3 year's use from one package:

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As evidence, the Snow Peas in the far right EarthTainer were my "control" with no myco treatment. The 'Tainer on the far left was treated with Actinovate. It produced approximately 20% more Snow Peas:

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You be the judge,

Raybo

Raybo, that's interesting. I have Actinovate, Biozome and Myco . I mostly use them in ground planting mainly because the house was built in 2005 on razed lot and the soil was very compacted so I figured I'd get soil biology going with these to help out plants. I'll try them on trees growing in the container and see what happens.

Thanks. An interesting mix of results. In another forum (fruits and orchards) there was not much enthusiasm from the several who had tried them, but those were in true soil that may well have already had these fungi present. Scraped soil (with A-horizon gone) or container "soil" is where the best tests probably will be. I have some for an experiment with pawpaws and will use the remainder in a few tests such as with the peas above.

I tried it last year on very young plants that I was "holding" in a container until the container I was to plant them in was ready. I had a few other plants the it wasn't used on that were in a different container.

What I found is that it initially gave the starts a larger root system than those with out it. I didn't end up growing the ones that didn't have it, so I don't know if that would have mattered over the course of the season. I didn't notice much different between the plants because it was only for a few weeks.

I fully expect that any continued benefit would be lost because the container temp would kill the myco as the season progressed. As I understand it, that is part of the problem with using anything like this in a container; ground temp and the temps in a container are very different. High and low temps temporarily kill/stop organics from working, so you can't count on them working.

ACTINOVATE is not a mycorrhiza innoculant. According to the Worm's Way website, ACTINOVATE is Streptomyces Lydicu, a beneficial bacteria strain to kill fungal diseases. It is basically an instant version of compost tea, without the water soluble nutrients.

It may help plants, but it is a bacteria not a fungi.

Would a decent-quality compost used as a container mulch provide mycorrhiza?