Hello my friends welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today we continue on with our study and our journey into

Micuriza my chorizal fungi and what it is and why it's important. So yesterday we talked

about literally what mycorrhizal fungi are and how they interact with plant

roots in the soil and that's of course just a very bare bones

overview so let's go ahead and talk about a couple different things that that sprout up from

these relationships the first question is kind of why don't plants

defend against it?

We know that plants have defenses against many different types of pathogens

and pests and diseases, et cetera,

but why don't they have one for my chorizal relationships?

Well, the most simple answer is that plants don't need to because it's a beneficial relationship.

Both partners receive something in exchange

for that connection that they're making.

Plants are transferring things like carbohydrates through the

high fate of the fungi. So the fungi are getting food from the plants because

fungi are non-phytosynthetic. They cannot generate their own food like that. A plant can just take some

sunlight and generate energy out of that, right? A fungi cannot. The fungi, in return, say thank you for that

food, I will now colonize the root surface and I will drastically increase the ability for you to uptake water and nutrients.

To go a little deeper into that, Micisae will increase mobilization and uptake of phosphate, the

P of NPDK. Now a lot of people will say, hey, don't fertilize with phosphate or phosphorus because there's so much in the

soil that you don't need to dump even more in. And that is true in the sense of if you do have strong

healthy soil and good microrozzal relationships with your plant roots,

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