How to grow trichoderma - we breed a useful mushroom at home

Tell me how to grow trichoderma and is it even possible at home? For many years now, greenhouse tomatoes have been suffering from late blight. I tried many different drugs, then Trichodermin gave the best effect. While there were few bushes, I bought it, now I plan to plant the entire greenhouse completely. I thought it was a little expensive. You can make such a remedy at home and how is it right?

Both gardeners and gardeners are panicky afraid of fungi. Did you know that some of them, for example, trichoderma spores, can provide invaluable help and save your future harvest? Some craftsmen have long appreciated the properties of a useful fungus and even know how to grow trichoderma. In garden stores, a ready-made drug Trichodermin with mycelium of the fungus is sold. It is used to prepare a working solution for spraying and watering plants. It is, in principle, inexpensive, but one package is enough to prepare 5 liters of solution and one-time treatment of an average of 10 bushes. Agree, this is nothing, because we grow much more crops in our garden beds. In addition, they often have to be processed more than once. It is much more profitable to grow Trichoderma yourself. From one "starting" pack you will receive a dose of the drug 30 times more, moreover, you can use part of it for further mycelium growth.

What is Trichoderma for?

Trichoderma is a non-toxic and harmless fungus that feeds on and grows from other pathogens. It populates the harmful mycelium and parasitizes on it until it completely kills it. As scary as it sounds, in this way Trichoderma manages to destroy the spores of pathogenic fungi that live on plants. At the same time, Trichoderma itself does not accumulate either in the soil, or in the fruits, or on the crops themselves, and is absolutely safe for both humans and animals.

In appearance, Trichoderma is similar to yellowish moldwhere green spores are visible.

Medicines with a beneficial fungus are successfully used to treat many diseases. Trichoderma has a number of useful properties:

• destroys various types of rot, including root rot;
• blocks the reproduction of harmful fungi;
• can live and develop on surfaces infected with the pathogen.

How to grow trichoderma

A homemade mushroom is no different from a store drug and has the same properties. To get it, purchase one pack of Trichodermin and pearl barley. The further procedure is as follows:

1. Rinse the cereal several times until clear water.
2. Soak it overnight.
3. Drain the water in the morning.
4. Sterilize the 0.5 L can.
5. Pour pearl barley into the container
6. Microwave for 10 minutes to steam to eliminate any yeast spores.
7. Let the grains cool and add 2 tbsp. l. Trichodermina.
8. Cover the jar with paper and tie it with string.
9. Place the workpiece in a dark and warm place.

White mold (mycelium) should appear in a couple of days. Let it cover with green spores completely and you can use it. You cannot close the jar with a lid - the fungus needs air. Also, you can not take boiled cereals. You can use whole, unpolished oatmeal instead of barley.

Store the resulting drug in the refrigerator, but not more than 3 months.If necessary, you can freeze or dry it - Trichoderma will retain all its properties.

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