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Mycorrhizal Fungi with roses

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
     some of my plantings of soft fruit give me higher yields with larger fruit & better drought resistance when I have used it.


    Did you use it on half the fruit and leave the other half un"treated" to make a direct comparison?
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Yes.

    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Allotment Boy said:
    Yes.

    so what was the difference in yeilds?
    Devon.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I religiously used it when I first planted out roses, following DA’s advice/sales patter, then didn’t subsequently - and didn’t notice any difference at all in growth rate/health. I will use it to plant my new roses in place of old ones, re rose replant disease, which seems to be the main benefit of it. Adrian, as you grow in pots on a balcony and would be using new compost for a new pot/replacement rose, I assume, I don’t think it would do anything, as its the contact with garden soil, I think, that brings the (alleged) benefits. 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • celcius_kkwcelcius_kkw Posts: 753
    @Nollie Thank you for your advice. I too have not noticed any difference in mine, I did not use it when I first started planting roses and then as I learned on DA’s website about it I started using them. Frankly I did not notice any major difference just like you. I guess I kept using it anyway because I wanted to do everything to give my roses a good head start. Now that I’ve had a teeny bit more experience I start to question what I do rather than following advice blindly, thus my innumerable rose related threads ha! All of you have been so patient with me. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Cultivating patience is one of the most useful things a gardener can do 🌱 

    😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I’m in my fourth year of rose growing and have relaxed a lot since my earlier panic-over-everything days! This year for replanting, I’m trying a MF product called Symbivit:

    https://www.rozenlottum.nl/en_GB/c-5073463/symbivit/

    I’m sure they don’t mean ‘carrot’ dip, quirky mistranslation I guess.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • celcius_kkwcelcius_kkw Posts: 753
    edited March 2020
    @Dovefromabove I definitely need to cultivate some of that, having grown incredibly impatient now that spring is around the corner, with all my compost and numerous fertilisers/sprays ready at hand the minute spring growth starts. 

    @Nollie I guess that’s the beauty of experience isn’t it. 
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I have never used it before, thought about it but dismissed it as a marketing ploy. Then changed my mind as I am hoping to be able to move some roses out of their pots into open ground, also some shrubs which have been in pots far too long.
    Will be interested to see what happens.
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