Yes we missed you glad you are back
This is, simply, not correct.
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Hey Hyroot! Good to see you back, and commendable, your initiative to start this thread
Seeing one of your goals is accuracy, I hope you don't mind my saying a few words about the microbes:
This is, simply, not correct.
Root exudates feed bacteria and fungi and in this way promote their population growth.
Depending on the nutrients the plant needs at every moment of its life, the exudates it produces will be composed differently and thus cause different groups of microbes to proliferate, mine whatever is their favorite food more intensely, and store the nutrients in their little bodies.
This in itself will not feed the plant. There need to be predator species that will eat the bacteria and fungi, and excrete excess nutrients in that desired plant available form, just at the right time.
Lots of exciting things are being discovered regarding the fungi, but they do not regulate the uptake of nutrients for the plant, the plant does that.
I don't know in how far this also applies to saprophytes (fungi who sustain themselves from the mineral and organic matter of the soil vs being hosted by a plant as mycos are), but Jeff Loewenfels describes in Teaming with Fungi how it has been found that at the fungal tip, up to 40% of the fungal DNA is actually bacterial in nature (what they do with that, is yet to be ascertained
In other reasearch it has been found that fungi secrete their own exudates to culture bacteria that will assist them enzymatically with their digestion processes. So the fungi have their own little flock of helpers to get their job done.
As far as is known so far! haha
Knowledge in this area is being gained in leaps as we write
Cheers!
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Oh. I'm so sorry you're going to make a "who's right" thing out if it.
I was hoping for dialogue, which is so desperately needed in the face of the many many mysteries we have to manage in practice.
The texts you posted actually reflect what I was saying.
What you wrote however does NOT correspond to the text. At least I found no passage in there (or anywhere else to date for that matter, in my studies specifically on the soil food web over the past year) that says anything close to what you are maintaining.
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Protozoa, now increasingly denominated as protists, are NOT fungi.
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Bacteria and fungi do have interactions and relationships (as I was pointing out by a few examples), but what makes the nutrient cycling spin is when the microbes from the higher trophic levels come and eat the bacteria and fungi. It's expressly said so in the first paragraph of Teaming with Microbes page you so kindly posted.
You may have read the books, but I'm not sure you understood.
And since you seem to be totally closed to revision, I can only wish you good luck.
Too bad you're now going to perpetuate exactly what you set out to remediate with your thread: misinformation.
Cheers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus
I never contested that. I do contest the second half of your original sentence, as I tried to show you in my previous post.
Oh I know nothing, something anyone who has tried to truly learn something in this area is aware of.
Kelp meal, neem cake, karanja meal, basalt, gypsum gro kashi, worm castings, compost and barley seed all have potassium. The crab shell meal is the only amendment that does not have potassium.
yup
I just felt like I was chasing K and opted to add some potash and wondered if others had a similar experience as myself
