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[BubbleCat]

I found this wouldnt fit in the "edible & medicinal mushrooms" subforum.
So a really cool snippet of knowledge can be found here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoderma
and I was wondering:
Coco coir for example contains theese in high concentration by nature thus renering it very prone to fungal attack. Can we artificially collonise different media (compost, mineral woll, whatever) with Trichoderma (maybe in vitro and after sterilising) to set up the competition for any funghus that might show up ? Can we improve medias by making them favourable to Trichoderma so they will spread around more ?

[New Wisdom]

I use trichoderma in my potted plants. Mainly my epiphyte and pereskiopsis grafting stocks.

Just regular soil works. I add coco coir too which helps. 

You can find trichoderma innoculant on ebay and other places.

[BubbleCat]

Can you share the process ? Just get the innoculant and pour it over your medium, mix well and let it sit moist ?
So if Im not mistaking one could consider getting hands into mycology and also use a portion of innoculant to make a permanent culture and thus gain independence from buying innoculant ?

Mycology is really interesting just dont know where to start yet

[New Wisdom]

You just mix it with distilled water and saturate the soil at dusk. I do this a couple times in a month to collonize the soil usually.  And I kind of cheat by just taking colonized soil and mixing it in with new soil when repotting to collonize the new pots.  It's been working good for me.  Helps out pereskiopsis and other grafting stock a lot.

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