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On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Seed inoculation is a technique wherein you expose your seed to a mixture of bacteria and helpful fungi just before you plant them. You roll your seeds in the mixture. You can buy this online or, I think from the Holland or Wallace site. Inoculation of seeds is recommended by lots of agronomists but I don't believe it is widely used by tomato growers. Basically you are introducing bacteria and fungi to the soil which interact with the roots of your plants. Anyone doing this?

3/18/2021 9:01:30 AM

Norfolk, UK

Similar; a dry myco mix actually takes weeks to inoculate the roots of a plant. I have then previously inoculated sacrificial tomato seeds, a month or more before my actual sowing date. Ripped them up, and mixed the old and hopefully now fully active myco and old roots in a new mix and fresh inoculant for the ‘real’ seed. Hopefully a quicker attraction as a result.

3/18/2021 2:03:23 PM

Syracuse, NY

Around here, any info is good info - whenever i do a seed test run, like, checking to see what will or won't sprout, etc., what i FEEL is the Mycorrhizae is forming on the surface of the seed starting mix on pace or even sooner than the seeds i am sprouting; fuzzy, white hairish-looking media and recently i have sprouted AG seeds in WITH the fungus right there, as a BED for my AG seeds. i feel that if it's aLIVE, it will surVIVE - amongst the funGUY (me, lol) lurking about.
in re-reading your reply, Salad, I see you have a two-step process...and, i hate un-typing, lol;
SO, good to go, and may you have another and/or more records and newsworthy 'maters!---eg

3/18/2021 11:53:42 PM

Grittyville, WA

I've seen myco sprout too but I kinda figure the plants need to be under full sun before they can properly feed all of the symbiotic biology. There are many interesting things to consider and we should never assume anything. I dont know much but I do know the seed starter mixes dont usually come with enough good stuff in them.

3/19/2021 12:21:30 AM

Syracuse, NY

If you think that Mycorrhizae is waiting around for a sunny day to start attaching to a plant's roots, i completely disagree, with all due respect, and i will NEVER intentionally plant a seed without Myco in the mix on anything other than an experimental basis - by the weigh, shooting my own foot, here, but some seeds i planted experimentally with Daconil in the mix to KILL the Myco that was originally intentionally there have not sprouted yet @ 6+ days @ 93.4* F.

I think it's a matter of what happened to the seeds BEFORE i got them back from the buyer - probably in a bucket and getting soupy, but that's no one's fault as that commonly happens(!); i soaked the ('09) 6 seeds in 3% H2O2 6 hours, then in Daconil @ 1 TBSP./gal for 6 hours and then they went into the fungicided SS mix and a couple AGAR cups and i'll announce if anything comes up (yay?)---eg

3/21/2021 9:49:12 AM

Bethlehem CT

I found this product online, you can get it cheaper direct from the company that makes it.
https://www.amazon.com/Impello-Biosciences-Original-Phosphorus-Based-Concentrated/dp/B07C1THVNC

3/21/2021 1:37:36 PM

Bethlehem CT

As a generalization I have heard that bacterial innoculation is generally more essential than fungal for herbaceous crops, (It is especially important in N uptake.)
In trees and woody plants they depend more on fungal relationships. However, many pumpkin growers do swear by the use of the fungal Mycorrhizae for enhanced P uptake.

3/21/2021 1:41:30 PM

This is what one well known pumpkin grower says about the subject.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=287175

3/21/2021 2:25:05 PM