Davenwolf

Has anyone seen these before? Tiny earth stars about 4mm diameter with golden spheres inside. I went back to get better photos and within an hour they were shrivelled up. Mid north coast, high humidity 20c growing on cow poo

Thanks everyone for the welcome

Here's a sample of my drums, well the big ones

Hi folks, just wanted to say hi and introduce myself a little. A Mid north coaster with various hobbies. Fungi being one on top of the list ATM. I've been growing and experimenting for a few years now but have been photographing fungi for quite a while. I had some successes but also a lot of failures but that's part of the fun. A few months ago I decided to ditch most of my collection and concoctions but now regret. So I'm going to start again. So I'm looking for edibles and other lovely fruiting bodies. I started out playing with creeping slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) then progressed from there. If anyone is interested in having a play with creeping slime mould I still have quite a bit of sclerotium and can send you some for the cost of postage or swap for mushroom cultures or prints. I'm a mad tribal drummer and drum maker and enjoy my time in the forest but I also love my motorcycle which I'm in two minds whether to bob or not. cheers Davenwolf. P.S. Davenwolf comes from "Dave & Wolf" in honour of a German Shepard I had for many years who when he died was old and grey and looked like a wolf.

I had quite an email discussion with Alison from Fothergills. I also sent her a small sample of complaints from a facebook page when the subject was raised. Here's a few Hey Allison, these are some comments that were posted by members of a mycology forum when Forthergills mushroom packets were mentioned. Each separate line is from a different member. Yep. It's a dud product. Return it for your money back if you can. Fothergill's 'Forest green mould kit' lol Thats all i got to. I tired them too and it was pretty much the same result I have had 100% failure with their products. I bought a few of these packets, and grew heaps of fowl mould. Not happy! Had hassles from them myself & they never made good on their promise of some replacement spawn...Both packs I bought were contaminated with nasty black mould. Yep same experience. Couldnt even isolate a culture from them. Class action, they should not be selling people stuff that has no chance of actually working. i've had mine for over a month, started to pin in the corner then stopped I got these out of interest to see if they would work. They all grew a black pin mold for me. I tried them on agar plates inoculated in a positive pressure laboratory. No sign of mushroom mycelium could be found. I took them all back. They're terrible kits. I routinely isolate sterile tissue from wild mycofruit and the grains on the kits were more contaminated than even wild mushrooms. Nothing in the kits was worth rescuing. Yeah i haven't personally tried them but I've never heard a positive experience. Unfortunately all the product seems to be doing is turning people off growing mushrooms. I have been busy helping people to grow there own from my cultures and from other mycologists. Andrew was one of those is now happily on the right track. Is anything being done regarding this product? and here is here response From: Allison Parrello <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 18 January 2016 5:26 PM To: 'Davenwolf .' Subject: RE: Mr. Fothergill's Seeds & Bulbs: User filled in Contact Us form! Wow.. that’s really bad. And embarrassing frankly. Good that we’re not selling it anymore I say! Ummm… thanks for sharing… I think Cheers Allison

Amscopes are great. I have two. one is for sale actually. If you checkout my youtube channel all the microscope videos are made with my Amcope microscopes. https://www.youtube.com/user/Davenwolf/videos