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Tea is good - add lime (optional) most HCl brews of anything ive tasted are shite, use citric perhaps or you just simmer 15 minutes, take out leaves and reduce to a resin and eat tastes bad? gel cap it Or skip it all, grind to powder, gel cap and swallow. The beauty in this one is the lack of need for elaborate processing. It has plenty of alkaloid and SFA nasties (Tannins, cyanides, gritty bits ) And its imbibed not smoked so no need to process to a complicated form It seem to me to be one of the few alternative plants you could get good use of as an addition to an indoor growroom because its the leaves you want, it reshoots vigorously and appreciates warmth, lots of nutrients and loves hydroculture and ive never seen any sign of root rot from waterlogging and my attempts at indoor were always half arsed. Fluoro, MH, HPS all good. Mines looking just fine outdoors now. If it starts to purple and bronze bring it indoors or to a greenhouse Watch for scale and aphis - its worst pests but only a matter of observance and hygiene

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Temps? but spawn run for related species ranges from 18 to 24 degrees - think autumn soil temperatures. They then need a cold shock followed by warming in temp to fruitCleanliness comes in degrees. The material need not be sterile, however it should be free of competing fungi - You dont for example want a stray galerina in your patch - and free of insects So i suggest a hot water pasteurisation - very simple - fill a large tub with fresh chip and submerge in water off the boil- 100 degree water hits the chips and very quickly falls to about 80 degrees and then drops slowly from there over a few hours - a nice pasteuriation tek - a bulk neglect type Drain and innoculate with either virgin spawn or sawdust spawn and bag up indoors in perforated plastic bags for 2 weeks to 2 months depending on species and spawning rate. if you start off with only a small amount of spawn - say 300mL virgin spawn then only expand that by 5 to 10 at first to help speed up the colonisation of the substrate. Then use that to spawn 10 times its volume - so 300 ml to 3L to 30L of chips.Because its not sterile he possibility of contamoinanats getting in during the expansion process is higher espeially with this virgin spawn. If using a clean culture you may want to use grain spawn bags to inoculate 10 times their volume of oven pasteurised sawdust so 1L grain to 10L sawdust to 100L chips to 1/2 a cubic metre of chips - which is a fair bit of mushroom substrate. Timing is an issue. If you want an outdoor bed by next winter you want to start soon as woodlovers are a bit slower than many others - not all though. Cloning and growing spawn, innocuating sawdust, then chips so all thats finished by late summer and in early autumn you can innoculate the outdoor premoistened chips at a rate of 20% and case with fine pinebark - you may then get fruiting early winter, cant say for sure Of course this is all given as a guide to the cultivation of closely related species to yours and not actually recommendig you cultivate subs [ 03. June 2003, 06:55: Message edited by: reville ]

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Any chance of a saffron cap print - i want to have a play with it on agar. <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png

hey mescalito can you tell mne about that im interested in the wider shroom growing potential of that

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[ 23. November 2004, 01:21: Message edited by: reville ]

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Hi Guys Sure the AFSR still exists [ 23. November 2004, 01:21: Message edited by: reville ]

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Surely the best way to assist this risk is to build beds on private property? Hows the rsearch on this going - surely it cant be any harder than building a mulch bed of any other woodlover

Maybe thatd work A recent post elsewhere on the net was a report of a guy smearing a piece of A4 with spores, tearing into tiney pices and mixing in with mulch as he walked the dog i think Anyway it worked My own experience with several woodlovers is that they will germinate on cardboard or you can take wild spawn sandwich it between moist cardoard and tease off mycelium that makes it through to the other side and put on Peroxide agar. Of course the easiest way is to take a small a,ount of he wild spawn underneath the patch and mix this plus the stubs of the picked mushroom into a new area of mulch. The fragments regrow quite quickly.

No moralising to do - your own body is your own body and people make a choice What would be interecting for neuro science and for being able to tell women the full story whne they make these decisions would be to look at the experiences of psyhedically experienced women and their relationship to the natural birthing experience as opposed to those who opt for painkillers and even amongst those painkillers - opiates vs epidurals. Some lessening of the pain would be advisable but a complete numbing of the area below the base of the spine? Childbirth is a deadly occupation but surely its also a rite of passage and as such is bound to be an ordeal. Itd be ideal to find a drug that could desensitize the Peripheral nervous sytem to a tolerable degree and yet leave full Central nervous system function, and not be able to cross the placental blood barrier

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Hey vins i have seed if you need it

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yes there is a succession of species, ive read of waste from domestic mushroom farms attracting other species I think itd be great if research shows up a simple way to remix agaricus compost with fresh straw and extra nitrogn and pateurise it for use with other Agaricus species Of all the Mushroom agaricus frustrates me the most <___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_sad.png Easy on Agar, easy on grain - and you can fruit it straight off grain but thats not very economical. Ive read lots of texts on how it can be done but thats beyond the scope of the public - there has to be an easier way. The answer may lie in other species Ive accidentally innoulated Agaricus bitorquis into my garden in perth by burying a piece of colonised substrate when ii dug in ahep of straw, dead grass roots, paper and sawdust. I had massive fruitings. Anyway...much more research to do