Mycorrhizae are the filamentous This ancient connection between fungi The most familiar effect ofbodies that fungi form under-ground and plants can be exploited to the benefit mycorrhizal fungi in homeas they grow from spores. These of soil-based and hydroponic gardens, gardening applications is thewhite, rope-like strands are commonly whether indoors or in a greenhouse. fungi’s ability to increase theseen holding together clumps of To understand the benefits of using availability of nutrients in theparticularly healthy soil. In addition mycorrhizal additions, it’s important substrate. Mycorrhizal fungito increasing soil stability, these fungi to understand the basic nature of the achieve this by exuding enzymesare known to associate with the root relationship these fungi form with into the area surrounding theirsystems of 95% of all plant families. different substrates and plants. root-like hyphae, which serve to break down these compounds soONCE THE MYCELIA COLONISE THE PLANT’S they may be absorbed. Essentially,ROOT SYSTEM, THE CONNECTIONS THEN LINK they externalise their stomach andTHE PLANT’S ROOTS TO THE REST OF THE collect the pieces of “food” after theMYCELIAL NETWORK UNDERGROUND.” enzymes break them down. This serves to increase local nutrient availability because the fungus does an imperfect job of absorbing the nutrients this process generates. These “leftovers” constitute a small amount of nutrients generated and mostly serve to benefit bacteria in proximity to the reactions taking place. Plants benefit most from this process because of the relationship formed between the mycelia and the plant’s root system. Upon encountering your plant’s root system, mycelia begin to cover the roots in fungal cells, either surrounding them on the outside or also penetrating through the cell wall into the cytoplasm of the root cells. This gives the fungus either indirect or direct access to the roots of your plant, allowing for the exchange of nutrients. While this might seem like a bad thing, with the fungus now sapping away the fruits of the plant’s labour, in reality this association creates a two-way exchange of nutrients between the fungus and your plant that is of mutual benefit. Once the mycelia colonise the plant’s root system, the connections then link the plant’s roots to the rest of the mycelial network underground. Compared to roots without them, these connections serve to increase the surface area for nutrient absorption enormously. Mycelial filaments are many times smaller and more prolific than any plant’s roots and as such are much better Maximum Yield | July/August 2015 51
MYCORRHIZAEat finding and extracting the water WITH MYCORRHIZAL ADDITIONS TO COCO,and other nutrients present in their THE PLANTS NOTONLYABSORBMORENUTRIENTSsurroundings. In return, the fungus FROM THE SOLUTION THROUGH THE MYCELIA, BUTgains access to a steady supply of THEFUNGUSISALSOCAPABLEOF DECOMPOSINGcarbon left over from the plant’s THE COCO ITSELF AND DIRECTING THEconversion of atmospheric CO2, NUTRIENTS IT DERIVES TOWARDS PLANTS.”which can then be used to expandthe mycelial network into new areas. coco, the plants not only absorb garden and should alleviate someThe benefits of this relationship are more nutrients from the solution of the need for supplemental CO2not limited solely to the increased through the mycelia, but the fungus over time. Additionally, portions ofacquisition of nutrients. Mycorrhizae is also capable of decomposing well-colonised coco and soil can bealso protect plants against drought, the coco itself and directing the reused to inoculate future crops withchanges in pH and pests. In other nutrients it derives towards plants. mycelia as they possess the ability towords, they serve as a barrier for the The only gardening method where form a completely new colony fromplant against environmental stressors. mycorrhizal additions provide no a single cell and form an aggregate The benefits of using mycorrhizal benefit is a flood and drain system as they encounter other mycelia ofadditions depend on the method using expanded clay pellets because the same species as they coloniseof gardening. Soil-based gardeners the fungus has no time to establish your substrate.derive the most benefits from these itself before being washed off the Mycorrhizal additions can domycorrhizal associations because this roots and out of the substrate. much to improve the quality andtechnique most closely mimics the One other factor for consideration yield of your plants, includingnatural environment in which these is that fungi also respire in the increasing surface area for nutrientassociations originally developed. same way humans do—breathing absorption, generating moreIncreased soil stability, nutrient oxygen and exhaling CO2. As such, nutrients to be absorbed, creating aabsorption and stress protection a well-established mycelial mat protective layer against drought andare all achieved through the use serves as an oxygen sink for your pests, and emitting CO2.of mycorrhizal additions in soil-based gardening. Similar benefitscan be derived through the use ofa coco-based hydroponic system.With mycorrhizal additions to52 Maximum Yield | July/August 2015
10 FACTS ON…VENTILATION BY PHILIP MCINTOSH1. The word ventilation comes from 6. Fans can be coupled with wetted cooling the Latin word ventilationem, pads, which can lower the temperature meaning “an exposing to the air.” of the air moved by the fan.The original use of the term ventilate was in Ventilation (exchanging the air in a room) is 7. not the same as recirculation (moving the air2.relation to tossing grain in the air to remove chaff. in a room without exchanging it). It is used to remove unpleasant smells and excessive3.The first use of the term ventilate to moisture, introduce outside air, keep mean “provide fresh air to a room” is interior building air circulating and to believed to have occurred in the 1660s. prevent stagnation of the interior air. 4. A Google search for ventilation Recirculation systems can 8. fans returns 6 million pages. be generally classified as parallel or series.5. Ventilation fans provide no direct cooling. The impeller of a fan actually imperceptibly 9. A parallel recirculation system warms the air as it passes through the fan. uses fans that are next to each other, such as along a wall, to move a mass of air across a room. 10. Series recirculation is characterised by fans arranged in such a way that the output of one fan is directed toward the input of another. Maximum Yield | July/August 2015 53
GROWERS KNOW Hydro Masta: Industry pioneersby Raquel Neofit The crew at Sydney’s Hydro Masta certainly aren’t couch potatoes when Above left:it comes to promoting hydroponics to the Australian public. Whether it’s in the retail Trevor at Theor education sectors, staff are constantly out in the community expanding the public’s King’s Schoolknowledge of all things hydroponic. Raquel Neofit recently caught up with Trevor Holt hydroponicfrom Hydro Masta to delve a little deeper into two of the company’s most recent projects. garden. Above right: Close- up of The King’s School sorel bench.Situated in Seven Hills in Sydney, New South Wales, Hydro the MLC building at Martin Place. Although the companyMasta provides a broad range of products and services for has installed hydroponic units in Sumo Salad chain storesthe hydroponics industry. The company installs and manu- in Queensland and New South Wales, this unit is the first offactures hydroponic systems for everything from schools and its kind. The Sydney store features a 4-m-long, four-deckedretail food chains to community gardens and commercial salad farm with leading-edge technology, including LEDfarms. Here are two recent projects generating some buzz grow lights and an online, automatic dosing system.about this cutting-edge company. Raquel: What does the Sumo Salad hydro wall mean forThe Sumo Salad Green Wall the hydroponics industry?To the awe of consumers in Sydney’s Central BusinessDistrict, Hydro Masta joined forces with Sumo Salad to Trevor: Hydroponic techniques are now well-established ininstall a bold, living green wall of hydroponic produce in global food production and many other types of horticulture.54 Maximum Yield | July/August 2015
They’ve gained The King’s School Hydroponic Gardenacceptance by The basement of the science building at The King’s School in Sydney is no longer just your ordinary wastedconsumers as a space. Thanks to Hydro Masta, it’s now a fully func- tioning indoor growing environment featuring a largesafe, efficient and hydro room along with a number of crops growing in various conditions, and some pretty happy fish in annutritious source of aquaponic system, all living under energy-efficient LED lights. Staff installed 4-m tables and students are cur-food. But just a tiny rently growing salad greens, herbs, broad beans, chilies and strawberries. Each table boasts two Web Masterpercentage of those 600 lights. To keep education front and centre, Hydro Masta staff have produced a series of hydroponic educa-people have any tion DVDs so the students learn everything they need to know to produce a high yield of fresh, quality produce.direct experience Raquel: What prompted you to develop awith hydroponics hydroponic program for local schools?other than buying Trevor: We soon realised that if the industry as a wholeproduce in their local The King’s School salad bench.supermarket. Hydro is to expand, the general public needs to understand the benefits of this technology. Where do you start?Masta has taken a The young, of course! They in turn will take what they have learned home to their parents who might,small but significant step towards changing that. Now, every in turn, look at hydroponics as a way of growing their own veggies at home.weekday in the centre of Sydney, hundreds of people stop at Hydroponics can be worked into the curriculum in many areas: plant growth, chemistry and the physicsthe Sumo Salad bar and see a working hydroponic farm in of light, fluid dynamics, and temperature and humid- ity control. We’ve found doing these school programsaction. Even better, the Sumo staff can ask them, “What herb very engaging and of course the demand has also grown over the years. We now have approximatelygarnish would you like on that?” Then they have the unique 32 schools on board with enquiries coming through from other schools on a regular basis. Hydro Mastaexperience of watching a fresh plant go straight from our is also planning to expand this program to include adult training courses in hydroponics in the future...soliving wall to their plate! watch this space, as they say.So, in short, Hydro Masta has brought the hydroponic farm To learn more about Hydro Masta and check out videos of these projects as well as some educationalinto the food hall. Every day, Sumo staff are questioned articles, visit hydromasta.com.au.about the hydroponic wall farm and it goes another step Harvesting greens from the Sumo Salad hydro wall in Sydney’s Central Business District.forward in widespread understanding and acceptance of Maximum Yield | July/August 2015 55hydroponic food growing.“ We soon realised that if the industry as awhole is to expand, the general public needs to”understand the benefits of this technology.Raquel: What hurdles did you have to jump to get thisproject over the line?Trevor: Let’s say the real innovation has been happeningover a period of years, and that’s the development of cost-effective LED lighting, and particularly its application asgrow lights for plants. Without these, the project wouldhardly be feasible because of the cost and heat issues alone.Raquel: Where did the inspiration to build a hydroponicgreen wall in a fresh food store come from?Trevor: If I said from plastic plants, would you be puzzled?Well, it did...originally. The original founder and managingdirector of Sumo Salads, Luke Baylis, wasn’t too happy withplastic plants as decoration in his chain of salad bars, and tocut a long story short, he eventually found Hydro Masta. Ourfirst innovation was to rip out the plastic plants and provideliving walls of lettuce and herbs in passive systems, which arepretty much just for display. As we developed the designsto extend the plant growth indoors, and developed simplemanual watering systems, we reached a point where Luke’svision of an actual growing farm wall could be realised.
TALKING SHOPA-Grade Hydroponics A-Grade Hydroponics in Cheltenham, Melbourne, is a family owned and operated business whose staff have a whole lotLocation: of passion for helping gardeners achieve success in their endeavours. Jason Gibson and Tom Forrest share a few details.Factory 39/148 Chesterville RoadCheltenham, Melbourne, VIC 3192 Like most start-ups, A-Grade Jason and his business partners Hydroponics was born in a small secured the business and domainPhone: living room, where Jason and Jasmine names in January 2013, almost 10 Gibson sat huddled over a laptop, months before the shop opened,03 9555 0228 flirting with Google while having and they used that time to educate a couple of beers. Working out of themselves about the hydroponicsWeb: their living room, and occasionally market as well as the multi-layered at the local pub, they dreamed big, facets and intricacies of runningagradehydroponics.com then planned, planned, planned. a small business. “The first year of The seed of the idea to open his own trading was like being in a crazyE-mail: hydroponics shop was first planted reality TV show!” remembers Jason. when Jason, who has gardened all his “Most days were a frenzy of [email protected] life, discovered hydroponics. After calls and paperwork, administrative finishing his horticulture studies, gymnastics and lots of leg work.”Motto: he got hooked on seed propagation The day he first opened the shopInspire Change. Plant The Seed. when he successfully germinated doors is still the fondest memory 60-year-old, rare grass seeds. he has of the business, not because56 Maximum Yield | July/August 2015
there was a rush of customers (there product selection and staff training. mainstream society. “We want to showweren’t any), but because it was the Tom is the marketing and advertis- the art and science behind the practice,first tangible product to come from ing Jedi whose tireless efforts towards as well as the infinite potential for envi-his years of dreaming and hard work. business and social media development ronmental sustainability,” says Tom.The shop, although rudimentary in have seen AGH go from strength to Over time, honest, loyal relationshipsdesign and décor, symbolised he was strength. Tom joined the team about with each other, their customerson his way to changing the social a year ago after completing a range of and their suppliers have become thestigmas on hydroponics. business, marketing and media quali- backbone of the business. “We know While the first day was slow, to say fications at university, and he has now the majority of our customers bythe least, word began to get out begun studying production horticul- name, and sometimes their partnersabout A-Grade Hydroponics. “Happy ture at the National Precision Growing and children, too!” says Tom. “Ourcustomers told their friends, who Centre while working four days a week successes come from our clients’told their friends,” says Tom Forrest, at the shop. Alex helps with warehouse stories and the positive feedback wethe shop’s marketing and social and stock management whenever he receive. The most rewarding memoriesmedia guru (and Xbox champion). isn’t studying horticulture at TAFE. “We are not sales-related, but rather when a“With our attentive and personalised are lucky to have a team of contractors customer comes in to say thanks or toconsultation services, customers walk share stories of their recent successes.”away knowing they have purchased we can out-source Staff frequently receive gifts of homeproducts that fit their unique to,” adds Jason. cultivated, fresh fruits, vegetables andneeds. Our product knowledge and “They provide herbs grown in the shop’s custom-expertise in the field has come from everything from designed hydroponic systems.first-hand experience. We made it a web-design to copy- Jason is most proud of maintainingmandate that we wouldn’t stock or sell writing, graphic the integrity of the business during thatanything we wouldn’t use ourselves.” design to business first year of trading. “There were times The range of hydroponic supplies mentorship. AGH when it would have been far easier toand equipment at the store represents wouldn’t be enjoy- have cut corners on either productsthe best local and international ing the current or service, but the fact that we’re stillcompanies that staff have discovered success without around is the proof in the pudding,”so far. “We love our Australian them.” One says Jason. His goal in the near futuresuppliers like HY-GEN, OZI-Magic and thing the whole is to continue doing what he loves, andROCK,” says Jason. AGH also provides AGH team has in provide a comfortable place for col-a comprehensive range of tents, lights, common is the leagues and customers to explore andglobes, lamp holders, reflectors, desire to change learn about all things related to thehydroponic systems and propagation the negative views beautiful art of horticulture.tools, and custom-designed packages of hydroponics inand growroom systems. The team at AGH includes Jason, thefearless leader, who is responsible forday-to-day shop operations, as well asAlex, Tom and Jason Maximum Yield | July/August 2015 57
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