Thanks a lot for your explanations. This is the most complete and serious video I have seen so far about this topic, I saved it in order to follow your process when needed.
You are on the cutting edge, sir. I have followed you since the inocucor days and I have always had a great respect and appreciation to your approach and how open you are to share what you have learned. If more people followed your model we would live in a more productive and equitable world. One thing people are doing in this space is adding insects to the grain media... its very easy to get dried grasshoppers, mealworms, various beetles etc. In a perfect world you can use a trap to find a small amount of your target pest for screening and then amplify the culture that likes to eat your enemy the best.The hope is that this can select for strains that can digest insects better. You can also add various phosphates to your solid media to screen for the ability to solubilize phosphate, another quality of trichoderma.
@@Spencer_Plant_Projects Thanks Spencer for your kind words. I have been experimenting in adding minute amounts of the pathogens to the Trich. Complete new metabolites very interesting
Look for videos Preparing gain for Mushroom production. Lots of very good ones. I copy the mushroom community. Now I buy them at Etsy many sellers of sterilized grain, Rye, Sorghum, Mix oat and Milo are good. They come sterilized ready to inoculate
Basically, I use two grains, rye and sorghum. That grows well some of the strains I use. Others are very finicky and grow but not with enough spore production to make it worth my while.
@@markdenadventuretravelsfar4562 May be I think sterilized grain offer s cleaner method. i see people doing it but when multiplying micro organisms in sn open environment with unterilized materialscyou multiply the good and the bad
Thanks a lot for your explanations. This is the most complete and serious video I have seen so far about this topic, I saved it in order to follow your process when needed.
You are on the cutting edge, sir. I have followed you since the inocucor days and I have always had a great respect and appreciation to your approach and how open you are to share what you have learned. If more people followed your model we would live in a more productive and equitable world.
One thing people are doing in this space is adding insects to the grain media... its very easy to get dried grasshoppers, mealworms, various beetles etc. In a perfect world you can use a trap to find a small amount of your target pest for screening and then amplify the culture that likes to eat your enemy the best.The hope is that this can select for strains that can digest insects better. You can also add various phosphates to your solid media to screen for the ability to solubilize phosphate, another quality of trichoderma.
@@Spencer_Plant_Projects Thanks Spencer for your kind words. I have been experimenting in adding minute amounts of the pathogens to the Trich. Complete new metabolites very interesting
Thank you for sharing very informative. Biocontrol is the future!
thank you so so so so much I'm a research engineer working on biostimulants !
@@mouadhsaadaoui1824 Good for you biostimulands and biocontrols are the future
Excellent video, I saved it for future reference, thanks!
Can you please make a video about how was the sorgum substrate prepared for inoculation?
Look for videos Preparing gain for Mushroom production. Lots of very good ones. I copy the mushroom community. Now I buy them at Etsy many sellers of sterilized grain, Rye, Sorghum, Mix oat and Milo are good. They come sterilized ready to inoculate
What grain substrate you are using for inoculation?
Basically, I use two grains, rye and sorghum. That grows well some of the strains I use. Others are very finicky and grow but not with enough spore production to make it worth my while.
Great video. I have a question for you: in the case of trichoderma, is it better to grow it on grain than in liquid?
Grain is a lot easier I get a lot of CFU from a 3 lbs grain bag. Liquid is more complicated for me.
What type of trichoderma are grown in your video? (Veridis, harzianum etc ? )
@@sinergicus Harzianum and virens
tks you Sir.
Is effective if you culture trichoderma by means of molasses
@@markdenadventuretravelsfar4562 May be I think sterilized grain offer s cleaner method. i see people doing it but when multiplying micro organisms in sn open environment with unterilized materialscyou multiply the good and the bad
Grow avocado