Experimenting with Mycorrhiza

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I am going to add some mycorrhiza spores to a few of my plants to see if that gets roots going stronger. For a while now, I have considered that the way "we" have been taught to re-pot, using videos, and explanations on line and in books, is actually the reverse of the experience of a "healthy" plant in a natural situation.

From anecdotes I have read over the last few years that I have belonged to this board, re-potting is a growth slowing , shock inducing situation for the plant, and sets it back. The closest analogy seems to be that the plant is thrown from a tree by a wind, and then left to fend for itself on the ground.

And then, there is the root clipping which would never happen in nature either. The roots of an orchid go through a life-cycle, and at the end of it become a "nest" to attract floating particles of organic material that could serve as fertilizer.

In a way, I wonder if it is because the roots are clipped off, or the potting soil has not broken down because of the action of decomposition. I also have considered the population of floating spores available to the plant, thus the interest in the micorrhyzia. These are basically mushroom/fungus spores.

If possible, some initial comments by people interested in this subject would be awesome.