mycorrhizal innoculants

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Subject: mycorrhizal innoculants
From: T* O*
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:38:44 -0400
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Hello All,

Has anyone used mycorrhizal innoculants on AG pumpkins? What were the results?

A mycorrhizal innoculant is a fungi that lives on the roots of plants, and reportedly;

Plants can better tolerate stressful situations, such as lack of water and salty soils
Plants can be transplanted into poor or marginal soils and do well
Plants require substantially less fertilizing and irrigation
Plants can bear fruit at an earlier age and support heavier crops

They claim that melons are greatly improved by having mycorrhizal innoculants, and they are destroyed by roto-tilling, and bare soil, as they need roots to survive in the soil.

Pumpkin experts, what does experience tell us regarding these things and AG pumpkins?

Thanks,

Tom
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5a

References:
- Re: Beware the groundhog!
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