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  3. Posted

    Hi all,

    Unfortunately the time has come -many little mixed tricho seedlings are beeing evicted from the garden due to family/landlord issues

    Free! To good homes

    Some are a bit neglected but with some love and care which I can no longer provide them, most will come good!

    Unfortunately I dont have time/$ to organize pack npost so pickups from western Sydney only sorry

    Pm for details- will be worth your while!

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  4. Posted

    sorry, my comment about sterile spawn was simply to illustrature the potential virility of contaminants in a closed environment such as a bag.

    i did not mean to do this on sterile chips or some such, as yes the original mycelium is not from a sterile environment anyway.

    didnt mean to cause any confusion. lol

    Gnome82 has provided some great info, and yes if you wish to follow it up refer to mycelium running by Paul Stamets.

    It's probably me causing the confusion my appologies I was not disagreeing only trying to suggest and encourage that not having sterile spawn for outdoor patch is ok ,

  5. Posted

    Spawn from an existing outdoor patch is stronger and more resilient to competition than sterile spawn if continuing to live outside

    Maybe try spreading your eggs to multiple baskets, half of those chips could start a miny patch in the shady spot, will do best there! If you wanted more spawn just dig it up every month and expand by adding more chips

    The top layers will dry out so the key to success is layers...something like an inch of chips, layer of moist cardboard, more chips maybe 2-6 or more inch of chips then another layer of cardboard moist and than an extra inch or 2 of chips on top for insulation. This top layer will most probably dry out but will keep everything under the top cardboard moist, the top inch or two directly under the top cardboard may even be too moist so place spawn below this

    Mycelium also loves Hessian, Stamets did not lie, try experiment with layers of this if you can, u will not be disappointed in combinations with the cardboard

    4-6 well colonized clusters or chips will easily colonize a one liter takeaway container in 3-4 weeks

    Moist corrugated cardboard on bottom, then Hessian then chips then a top layer of Hessian,

    Both cardboard and Hessian can be pretreated with boiling water then cooled just in case

    Some pics of king stropharia (SRA) colonizing woodchips in non sterile conditions in takeaway containers

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    And another unknown showing some sublime growth

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    post-11208-0-43577900-1419576564_thumb.j mycelium on hessian

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  7. Posted

    Hi Luke,

    The easiest way to get Bsf larvae is to start a composting worm farm, guaranteed come summer your worm farm will get overun with Bsf larvae!

    Have not been clever enough to build a proper self harvester that works myself, but they are definitely still resident in the worm bin

    Could dig out a few for ya but they aren't exactly swarming at moments as its winter

    Also im not sure a few larvae will help, as the trick to success is attracting the flys back to the chamber to lay eggs, eggs is what your really after

    Hopefully someone else has more experience with this to help, if not drop us a pm

  9. Posted

    . Also What can/does a spore print tell you?

    Thanks

    Macroscopically the colour of the spore print will often be a very important indicator in distinguishing between similar looking species,

    Under the microscope it is my understanding that spores alone can often identify between species as each will differ like unique fingerprints

  10. Posted · Edited by gnome82

    seems like i am unable to add pics,

    Thanks

    there may be some restrictions on posting (like private msgs)until you have made like 5 or 10 posts?

    Somebody pls correct me if wrong

    Edit-I'm think I'm wrong there must be something else going on. Because I just saw somebody with one post post a pic

    Try using the 'more reply options' button where you can attach files (pics) by uploading them and then attach to post

    u shouldnt have to make an album

    hope this helps

  13. Posted

    Any luck with these sally?

    would love to hear any succes stories

    found this... http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20130280791

    a patent on using dehydrated mycelium/fibre pellets to form custom molded products to replace styrofoam

    so in theory these products must work?

    its a shame to hear about the high contam rate- wondering if the culture is contam before dehydration or the spores just arrive through the not even sealed paper packet

    grain is probably not the best for this, wood/cellulose pellets probably more resistant to contam

    this is what grew for me...post-11208-0-01865500-1401930783_thumb.j

    got a feeling its not pleurotus mycellium though!

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    well there was just no stopping these pinspost-11208-0-13549100-1401597303_thumb.j

    2 layers of clingwrap wasnt enough to slow growth, not havin a go ace, just reporting progress

    fortunatley there was also mycelial gowth aswell as pinning, which on first transfer appears to be continuing to grow without pinningpost-11208-0-03594800-1401597515_thumb.j

    now I could be wrong but I thought this was on the lighter side of recommended nutrient,
    just trying to eliminate possible causes

    appologies if this came across as pretentious, my comunication skills are poor at the best of times

    there probably should have been a question mark in there or something as i was trying to check wether the agar mix was too nutritious or not

    anywayz, am loving H202 agar, no more f*#kn glooveboxes!

    for the first time i do not resent the awquardness of agar work,

    but obviously this will make starting from spore somewhat challenging

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  15. Posted

    Yes agreed need to try something,

    the premature pinning must be using energy better put towards mycelial growth at this stage

    will try couple layers of clingwrap hopefully enough

    have read 10 micrometer garbage bags are permeable enough to allow gas exchange

    Am using h2o2 in agar, will this be a source of excess oxygen?

    the mycelium must need some o2 though

    The agar mix was 12gm malt and 5gm sawdust 1gm yeast and powered milk per Litre

    now I could be wrong but I thought this was on the lighter side of recommended nutrient,

    just trying to eliminate possible causes

  17. Posted

    Hiya all,

    So I have tried this several times now no luck,

    According to Stamets pleurotus can produce half thier dry weight in spore!

    Have attempted to print both coles and woolworths varieties with no luck,

    This doesn't seem to be problem for agaricus

    Was hoping someone could shed light on why they will not produce spore?

    Id imagine this is commercially desirable

    I do have two theories, 1- a non spore producing strain possibly gmo?

    this does not make sense though as it is the purpose of mushroom fruitbody to produce spore

    2-low temp storage ceases spore production?

    Interestingly they do seem to revert vigorously back to growth mode mycelliating the paper they are supposed to be printing on! This has led to many experiments, but the rapid growth seems to stall after about a week

  18. Posted

    An Italian company Funghi Mara does a similar product,

    currently am trying to rehydrate some pleurotus eryngii on h2o2 agar and also hessian cloth, no luck yet

    the Hessian is showing signs of at least 5 diff color contams-not looking good so far =(

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  23. Posted

    True dat, you can never have enough "strong psychedelics". lol, because 'obviously' I’ve never hallucinated before, ya tripper. But seriously, over the years I’ve also seen all the mental illness, psychosis and even suicides that occur around the psychedelic scene when individuals start to take it all to seriously, fair warning rookie!

    Ok so i should have known better than to get involved in an arguement about religion...

    And my condolances go out to anybody that has experienced mental illness or suicide but it is not true to point the finger of blame for these tradgic parts of life purely on psycadelics.

    Im sure you will find these horrible circumstance are not mutually exclusive to the "psycadelic scene" and are in fact rife right throughout society in general, and thus it has to be concluded that there is usually an underlying social or emotional problem, although it is true that it can be accelerated with prolonged substance ABUSE not to be confused with sacredmental plant use.

    In fact it is this kind of attitude that will only assist the authorities to ban our beloved plants, claiming they only lead to mear 'halucinations' followed by mental illness and then suicide.

    It could also be said that modern society itself is psycotic and suicidal, given the evidance of the insatiable need for the current unjust economy to spiral out of control, consuming and turning every last available resource into product to feabily try and satify its never ending need to grow, without any care of the damage being caused to the people or the very planet we rely on for survival.

    Peace Love rookie out.

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