Ed Dunkel Posted March 5, 2002 What ever happened to the glowing fungus perti dish culture. Was it you Rev or Earthalchemist or someone else... E D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted March 5, 2002 Rev..... Reeeevvvvv...... REEEEVVVVVVV! I want some too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest saucer-like Posted March 6, 2002 We get those little glowing mushies around here alot. I think theres a few types in Aust' but these ones are the type that look like a proper regular mushroom. very cute and very bright they glow hard all night long and the biggest I've seen would be a little smaller than a 50c coin. They only grow out of rotting old logs on the rainforest floor and I've put some of the smaller logs in my terrarium but never had any further fungal growth. I could have a go at making a print if anyone wants one but I've never done it before and would need advice. I was also wondering how reliable it is to get prints of OTHER SPECIAL mushrooms growing wild since the proceedures seem to insist on being sterile but a wild mushroom wouldnt be sterile anymore would it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Dunkel Posted March 6, 2002 Get some paper and put it in an oven at 120ºC or a little higher (make sure the paper doesn't brown and degrade). Get a sterilised glass (washed and cleaned with isopropanol, bleach, peroxide etc....) and place it over the paper that has only recently been taken out of the oven. Now place the fresh mushroom cap with the stem removed with a sterile knife (use a sterile pin placed in the cap to move it around with) on the paper and put the glass over the cap and paper. Leave this for a day or so and remove the cap and glass and fold the paper in half. Cut all the remaining paper away with a clean pair of scissors and place the folded paper with spore print in a new ziplock baggie and Bob's your Marley. Otherwise read a mushroom cultivation manual found at http://www.shroomery.org/ or any other site. Good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
planthelper Posted March 6, 2002 hi, yes i saw those mushies, maybees fly eaten one...protected allways by dense forest wait a while and close to water.true i wrote a pallative poem about them. its Pixi stuff with glowin insects as well,bla,bla Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest reville Posted March 7, 2002 I still have the prints from EB2001 i grew a culture but i lost it during the year ill do another problem was that althugh i got a culture (the mycelium does not glow in vitro BTW) very easily it wouldnt take to the usual grain spawn technique It may need to be liquid innoculated - like a honey tek to the enriched sawdust of an appropriate rainforest wood The ones i had were coming out of a tussock of grass, my best guess is to go the same as some of these other grassland species and use ryegrass seed Ala Psilocybe mexicanna fruiting it is another matter... best to just do the first bit then put it back in the environment it came from old logs and rotting grass and hope BTW i found soem really cool ganodermas at Mt Coot-tha botanic gdns I think Ganoderma applanatum and - also i found wild G lucidum at the City botanic Gdns coming out of a water oak oh well it exciting for me one more thing Cordyceps sinensis (some of you may remember the caterpillar fungus from Christians' talk) sells for $150/ 37.5g in the valley in brisbane - however i hear the fungus can be cultivated in bioreactors an also on Brown rice.Go i wish it would eat cabbage whites or silk worms Share this post Link to post Share on other sites