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Originally Posted by bower
One thing that makes no sense to me, is the worry that the necessary microbes are not available to do their job, in any soil anywhere that hasn't been poisoned. I have googled and read about Trichoderma harzanium natural habitat etc. and it is basically found everywhere, worldwide. It is found in every 'organic' garden compost (meaning no poisons added). Sure in a farmer's field which has been sprayed with this or that chemical, they might be deficient. However, whenever you add a good compost you are adding these beneficial microbes to the soil.
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Trichoderma will feed on ecto/endo root colonizing populations. At the same time, it has great advantages in regards to creating a systemic barrier to various problems.
One of the reasons I include so many bacterial and fungal spores in my mixes is because they start as generally sterile. My compost piles usually get above the temperature thresholds in which many of these organisms can exist, so I like to replenish them.