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While I was at the hardware store the other day I came across a bag of Espoma Bio Tone Plus. The product has both ecto and endo mycorrhizae. After some research I found some info from the label-

Non-Plant Food Ingredients:
Contains 5,678,688 colony forming units (CFU’s) per lb. (378,579 CFU’s per lb. each of the following 15 species):
Bacillus subtilis
Paenibacillus polymyxa
Bacillus licheniformis
Pseudomonas alcaligenes
Bacillus megaterium
Pseudomonas chlororaphis
Bacillus marinus
Pseudomonas putida
Bacillus coagulans
Acidovorax facilis
Bacillus thuringiensis
Arthrobacter agilis
Bacillus pumilis
Rhodococcus rhodochorus
Bacillus lentimorbus
Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: 44,200,000 propagules/lb. of the following 8 species:
Pisiolithus tinctorius (40,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Scleroderma Citrinni (1,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Scleroderma Cepa (1,000,000 propagules/lb.)
Laccaria Bicolor (200,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon Roseolus (500,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon Subscaerelescens (500,000 propagules/lb.)
Rhizopogon villosuli (500,000 propagules/lb.)

Endomycorrhizal Fungi: 1,200 propagules per lb. of the following 2 species:
Glomus aggregatum (600 propagules/lb.)
Glomus intraradices (600 propagules/lb.)

How does this stack up against the other mycorrhizae products out there?
Is this a possible workable lower cost solution or simply fools gold?
Has anybody ever tried this stuff and had noticable results?

3/25/2009 6:57:21 AM

Fairport,NY

I used it last year.Could'nt really say for sure that it helped it did'nt hurt but if you where purchasing it for the Myco i would really consider getting it from Tom. It has some of the beneficial myco but a smaller percent than the unbeneficial. Take a look here for the good stuff
http://www.extremepumpkinstore.com/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=Symbios&sid=25e3sm6c83sybm1g42j19w144j5k8p6l

3/25/2009 7:19:46 AM

South East

the ecto fungi are no good for you , your pumkins need endo. Theres produkts with greater variety and numbers.

3/25/2009 7:23:22 AM

Minnesota

Giant pumkins use acertain kind of myco, hollandsgiants.com also sells it, or check with a organisation, club, they buy it in bulk.

3/25/2009 8:28:12 AM