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Grittyville, WA

He doesn't mention the importance of boosting calcium and balancing the other cations, but other than that its a good video on dealing with clay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWcU8r6sxVo

Soil moisture monitoring/not overwatering would be the final concern.

4/2/2026 3:30:59 AM

C N Y

Good video and I wonder if Googling

does mycorrhizae help plants with flooding?

will be of assistance. I was glad to see that it very well

may, butt I've no side-by-side comparisons.

PS---I can remove this if a hijack has occurred.

eric g

4/2/2026 9:22:51 AM

Grittyville, WA

I suspect that flooding does NOT help mycorrhizae and that it really prefers things slightly on the dry side of field capacity. But I've not looked into the science.

4/2/2026 12:38:13 PM

C N Y

Rather, butt not to re-word the Google attempt:
>Does Mycorrhizae help plants to survive if flooding is at-hand.<
Replace Mycorrhizae with 'life jackets'. Same idea and my seedlings
that have Myco as the starting medium are still doing just fine with
only Myco and 24-8-16/H2O that they have been submerged in and at
various levels of floodage.
eg

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4/2/2026 3:27:21 PM

Grittyville, WA

Hmm what about some tests using your patch soil and varying the levels of moisture. Presumably the soil moisture that grows the best myco also grows the healthiest plant.

4/2/2026 3:54:42 PM

C N Y

As one, so the other (maybe the 1st time that's been said, lol, if I were to be so bold...); Nah, too much like work - the testing, that is. I'm just saying that (deeply-) Mycorrhizae-amended soil may be more likely to help plants survive in a waterlogged circumstance than non-Mycorrhizae-amended soil; I earlier today added a half inch of 24-8-16 water to The Disadvantaged Ones, lol. I'd better get some pics in my Dairy about it. My 166s seem to 'like' a blue, smelly (when swirled) watery mess and it'd be a hoot to plant them out as any others when the time comes. eg

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4/2/2026 6:43:19 PM