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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs Knockie" data-source="post: 1206774" data-attributes="member: 2076"><p>From what I understand bacteria and fungus use different 'food', bacteria do not feed fungus, and it is the predators (Protozoa/nematodes) that then eat the bacteria/fungus and release the nutrients for the plants. Fungus prefer complex 'woody' food whilst bacteria use simpler, green material. Hard to try to explain in a few lines, I'm still trying to get my head around it all - if you see that plants appear in succession (from weeds to trees), I understand that soil biology also follows a succession from bacterial to fungal. And soils can get 'stuck' along the line, or be knocked backwards by various factors. The trees that are not thriving - could they have been planted into a bacterial soil, and trees need fungus to support them. If I was planting trees now, into a grass/cropped bacterial soil, I would ideally like to apply a highly fungal compost to help move the biology along in the right direction and give the trees the best chance of establishing. Could it also be that as the environment is a bit harsher higher up, perhaps trees need a more 'ideal' soil condition to allow them to thrive than trees planted at lower levels, so although planting into those soil conditions at lower levels may work, it might not when they are stressed by the local 'climate'?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs Knockie, post: 1206774, member: 2076"] From what I understand bacteria and fungus use different 'food', bacteria do not feed fungus, and it is the predators (Protozoa/nematodes) that then eat the bacteria/fungus and release the nutrients for the plants. Fungus prefer complex 'woody' food whilst bacteria use simpler, green material. Hard to try to explain in a few lines, I'm still trying to get my head around it all - if you see that plants appear in succession (from weeds to trees), I understand that soil biology also follows a succession from bacterial to fungal. And soils can get 'stuck' along the line, or be knocked backwards by various factors. The trees that are not thriving - could they have been planted into a bacterial soil, and trees need fungus to support them. If I was planting trees now, into a grass/cropped bacterial soil, I would ideally like to apply a highly fungal compost to help move the biology along in the right direction and give the trees the best chance of establishing. Could it also be that as the environment is a bit harsher higher up, perhaps trees need a more 'ideal' soil condition to allow them to thrive than trees planted at lower levels, so although planting into those soil conditions at lower levels may work, it might not when they are stressed by the local 'climate'? [/QUOTE]
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