Hi thanks for the video, I've recently started into soil biology with JADAM and KNF farming in my back garden, been educating myself with the great Dr Inghams work and bought an Omax microscope, its fascinating, I've left my job of over 30 years and all I'm interested in now is growing stuff and looking at things in the microscope, I'm a mechanic. Your videos are amazing I love them and can't wait for your next stuff, it's a pity people didn't realise how important and interesting your work is with the mess of most soil, I'm in Ireland and its grass everywhere, depleted soil which has been fried with fertiliser for decades, I get all my stuff from forests and introduce the microbes with JMS and IMO, the results are incredible, its unlocks the true power of nature.
Thanks! Couple of quick questions. What would you do for this soil? Or is it fine and no need to improve? Second, what would you recommend for a microscope if I wanted to view it on a screen/computer like you do?
My main concern is the clear strands that I think are Oomycetes. From what I heard over watering can be a cause of them and they way to deal with them is more beneficial fungi to out compete them. So more compost extract with a lot of spores would be best, or even top dressing with leaf mold. Other than that it looks good and on its way, but the goal is 50/50 fungi to bacteria so need a lot fore fungi to achieve that.
And for the scope I'm decently happy with my Swift 380T microscope but already want more quality and lighting options but think I will need to spend a lot to step it up from that scope. The camera is the hard part. Can easily get one of these 5MP microscope cams, if you want to hook up a crop sensor DSLR they have some inexpensive mounts, but I had to pay twice the price of the microscope for my full frame adapter/mount/lens!
Bought a microscope last fall, I have a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at, but not completely sure. Can you recommend a book that identifies the soil microbes at the level we are looking at them.
Not much out there surprisingly, that's a big part of why I started this channel! Can find some stuff on google images with "Microbial Morphology". Good pictures are hard to come by with our level scopes and even more rare of actual soil.
Hi thanks for the video, I've recently started into soil biology with JADAM and KNF farming in my back garden, been educating myself with the great Dr Inghams work and bought an Omax microscope, its fascinating, I've left my job of over 30 years and all I'm interested in now is growing stuff and looking at things in the microscope, I'm a mechanic. Your videos are amazing I love them and can't wait for your next stuff, it's a pity people didn't realise how important and interesting your work is with the mess of most soil, I'm in Ireland and its grass everywhere, depleted soil which has been fried with fertiliser for decades, I get all my stuff from forests and introduce the microbes with JMS and IMO, the results are incredible, its unlocks the true power of nature.
Thanks! Couple of quick questions. What would you do for this soil? Or is it fine and no need to improve? Second, what would you recommend for a microscope if I wanted to view it on a screen/computer like you do?
My main concern is the clear strands that I think are Oomycetes. From what I heard over watering can be a cause of them and they way to deal with them is more beneficial fungi to out compete them. So more compost extract with a lot of spores would be best, or even top dressing with leaf mold. Other than that it looks good and on its way, but the goal is 50/50 fungi to bacteria so need a lot fore fungi to achieve that.
And for the scope I'm decently happy with my Swift 380T microscope but already want more quality and lighting options but think I will need to spend a lot to step it up from that scope. The camera is the hard part. Can easily get one of these 5MP microscope cams, if you want to hook up a crop sensor DSLR they have some inexpensive mounts, but I had to pay twice the price of the microscope for my full frame adapter/mount/lens!
Bought a microscope last fall, I have a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at, but not completely sure.
Can you recommend a book that identifies the soil microbes at the level we are looking at them.
Not much out there surprisingly, that's a big part of why I started this channel! Can find some stuff on google images with "Microbial Morphology". Good pictures are hard to come by with our level scopes and even more rare of actual soil.
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