Epiweb and Beneficial Microbes?

[AlexS]

Originally Posted by Anastasia Beverhausen

Hi Alex, just wondering which product you bought that had all of those strains in it, and if you found a difference or would recommend it? Please lmk your results, thank you in advance!

Hi, Anastasia
The product I chose is produced by a British firm, The Nutrient Company. I got the liquid inoculate, but they also do a powdered version https://www.thenutrientcompany.com/p...y/trichoderma/. I don't know if they ship outside of Europe though. The same species of Trichoderma , along with a number of bacterial strains, are also found in this product GrowBigger which is available in the US. The rot was only recently uncovered, and the TNC Tricorr arrived in this morning's post, so I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I will be happy to provide any information I can about it's benefits, assuming there are any, if people are interested. However, as mentioned, since I don't have any control plants it won't be a truly worthwhile experiment.

Kindest regards,
Alex

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Coupe of questions for Ray and Nexogen, if you don't mind.

Ray, in an earlier post you mentioned that Inocucor contained fungi other than Trichoderma, are these species known to be beneficial for orchids? Is there anything in the results you see with Inocucor that you can attribute specifically to the fungi?

Nexogen you mentioned AN's Piranha and Great White Premium Mycorrhizae. I don't have any in depth knowledge of the subject, but have done some reading so I have a layman's grasp (fingers crossed) and I understood that Orchid Mycorrhizae formed their own group and showed a very high level of host specificity. Furthermore I believe that these same fungi can be highly pathogenic to other commercial crops, so I have always thought that commercial fungal inoculates, excepting Trichoderma, were of limited use with orchids. That being said I have read some posts on various forums from members who have been using mycorrhizal on terrestrials with some success. Are you using these products on terrestrials? I only grow epiphytes myself, and a few lithophytic species, and wondered if you had tried these same products with epiphytes and had had any obvious success with them.

Apologies for the barrage of text and endless questions.
Thank you in advance for any information you can provide.

Kindest regards,
Alex

[Ray]

Originally Posted by AlexS

Ray, in an earlier post you mentioned that Inocucor contained fungi other than Trichoderma, are these species known to be beneficial for orchids? Is there anything in the results you see with Inocucor that you can attribute specifically to the fungi?

As I said earlier, there has been very little study about the interplay of specific species with orchids, but in this case, there's lots of anecdotal evidence that the Inocucor product is effective.

It has several stable consortia of microorganisms making up about 18 different "critters" in it. I have no idea how you'd tell which one did what, but by using such a stable, multi-specific solution, I suppose it's sort-of a "shotgun approach".