To Mulch, or not to Mulch?

[Bundle 2]

  David Humphries said:

..................Oh dear !!!

 

  Fungus said:

David,

With a well developed whitish ring with yellow scales at the lower side once the cap has opened up, this could also be the necrotrophic parasitic Armillaria mellea s.s. Without traces of a ring or "veil" it would probably be the saprotrophic A. lutea.

 

Oh bugger ! ( said in a fast show stylee ! )

[David Humphries]

  Bundle 2 said:

Oh bugger ! ( said in a fast show stylee ! )

 

Time to uncork the Armillatox then

 

 

 

 

 

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[RobArb]

  David Humphries said:

Time to uncork the Armillatox then

 

 

 

 

 

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Does that work??

 

Do fungicides work in general?

 

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[David Humphries]

Another fung from the same mulch bed today.

 

Stropharia aurantiaca perhaps ?

 

 

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[David Humphries]

  RobArb said:

Does that work??

 

Do fungicides work in general?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

 

 

If you're not too bothered about the rest of the local ecology they can....................so i've been told !

 

 

 

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[RobArb]

What if it were to save a champion tree perhaps, but would the killing of everything be detrimental anyway?

 

Also, I'm no molecular biologist our geneticist but, would it be possible to create/induce an allelopathic reaction in tress that deal with (kill) the bad guy fungs?

 

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Edited November 15, 2011 by RobArb

[David Humphries]

  RobArb said:

What if it were to save a champion tree perhaps, but would the killing of everything be detrimental anyway?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

 

 

 

Not overly experienced in that Rob, but in a garden/arboreta (in terms of saving a specimen) then i would think that may be a (last) option that could be succesful.

 

Would have thought that worms & mycorrhiza would not be too happy

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

  David Humphries said:

Another fung from the same mulch bed today. Stropharia aurantiaca perhaps ?

 

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[David Humphries]

  Fungus said:

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thankyou once again Gerrit

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

  David Humphries said:

Time to uncork the Armillatox then

 

Wonder why they have banned Armillatox from The Netherlands and the testing of the extremely toxic product on the continent toke place in Belgium.

Could it be because it kills all macrofungi and on the long run the tree too ?