How to grow Truffle Trees

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1. What an adorable old man!
2. perfect video. Thanks!
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4. Nutrient-poor soil? Check.
5. Truffles are a class of fungi known as mychorrizal fungi. Their spores germinate (underground in nature) and a structure similar to a plant root calls a hyphae emerges. It seeks out the nearest root it is capable of infecting, in this case, only trees. Other species are very useful to increase the rate of growth and drought tolerance of crops, been using the stuff for years on my plants.
   
   Also I'd have to disagree with the farmer in this video, I have a lot of experience (perhaps not as much his regarding truffles) with the relationship between mycorhizae and plants, and a healthy, well fed tree is certainly not detrimental to the growth of the fungi's mycelium. The symbiosis occurs regardless of the health of the nutrition of the soil, the fungus itself lives off of sugars produced by the roots, they increase root volume of the tree and allow it to access pockets of water/air/nutrients otherwise not accessible with its microscopic hyphae. If anything, mycelium mass becomes larger and healthier the healthier the soil is, because there are more roots acting as potential hosts.
   
   Keep in mind when I say nutrition, I am not referring to synthetic fertilizer, the salt ions left behind when these are absorbed are very toxic to any fungi, but especially sensitive mychorizae.
6. Cheers for sharing
7. Truffles are a fungus -_-
8. Truffles are a fungus -_-
9. winter is coming...