Snu Voogelbreinder's Garden of Eden

[Snu Voogelbreinder's Garden of Eden]

$12 is ludicrously cheap - I am very happy and very proud to now have at least a digital copy of this; still keeping my eyes peeled for a hard copy though!

[amanita muscaria find + questions]

Sun dry immediately after picking them. Throw away any decaying or maggot filled mushrooms.

Cut them up ultra thin and space the pieces away from each other, so that you can maximize surface area for necessary decarboxylation. UV light converts ibotenic acid into the more favourable and less neurotoxic muscamol.

If you're like me and live in an area with very little sun - slice them up fine and dry them until cracker dry in a dehydrator (for the mushroom enthusiast, these are absolutely worth the $30 -$50 AUD for a cheapie).

Store them in an air tight container with desiccant sachets until summer, and then leave in the sun to decarboxylate.

Non decarb'd Amanita muscaria can be a really unpleasant experience.

[My purple cactus (A.K.A. Peruvian fingerlings)]

This is really awesome and really easy - no one can possibly say they don't have enough room to grow spuds at home.

[Growing Banisteriopsis caapi in cold climates]

once i was told diplopterys cab sold in london for £350 and turned out to be alicia LOL, which were a few dollars as seeds

 

from world seed supplt

MY goodness, I bet you're glad you didn't splash out on that! One can't tread too carefully sometimes.

[Growing Banisteriopsis caapi in cold climates]

I reckon you could keep them alive in the bathroom through winter, but I don't know if it would be worth the trouble. I'd wait a few months and then buy them and get them straight into the greenhouse.

A heat pad would help if you do get them now, or keep the pots on a piece of polystyrene foam or something insulating so they aren't in contact with the cold floor. Just be aware that they will dry out quite fast on a heatpad.

Thanks for the advice - I think I will get some now, just for the sake of an experiment.

They won't survive in a cold/unheated greenhouse for me..... I can get what I think are more sensitive plants through. If you're in a city (edit - or on the coast) it generally doesn't get as cold as out in the boonies (heat island effect), so it could be worth a go.

The rapid changes in a cold Tassie bathroom probably gunna be no good for them, but if might be worth an experiment...don't sit it close up on the window glass

All in all , IME I've found it to be a not so easy feat.... but that said I tend not to baby things through and watch them struggle.

Edit - I have got em through before...but lol I am over it

In the city, so all good here.

I think I will get some now and give it a shot - if it doesn't work, I will buy more after winter (give a shot at germinating too, as I have some seed).

Question is, I don't mind baby sitting them for a year - but I will be going overseas for about a year (leaving early to mid 2015) and will have to get someone to look after my plants and would like to know if after one year of growth the b. caapi will need to be continually baby-sat.

I don't have any plant crazy friends, and my only expectation is that they water it, give it enough diffuse light, and let me know if anything weird happens to it (pests etc).

If this looks like it's going to be a multi-year baby sit saga, it may not be worth pursuing at all until yet another couple of years

Thunder Horse:

That is exactly the lengths in which I'm prepared to go, but due to my travel "restraints" (lol, I'm going to South America...) I may need to wait until I am a bit more well established where I'm living, either here, or the UK.

Awesome, awesome photos - I am mad jealous/inspired. Great job!

[What did you do in your sacred garden today?]

This thread needs a "Envy/Aspiration trigger warning".

[Citrus Growers Manufacture Huge Amounts of DMT]

Letter of the law vs Application of the law.

If everything becomes illegal, it's just a matter of law enforcement picking and choosing what they would like to bust you for.

[Growing Banisteriopsis caapi in cold climates]

Quite simply, I'd like to know if this can be done.

I live in Tasmania and know not of anyone else who has tried this. I was thinking I will order some plants from SAB (live plants... this is likely a quarantine issue, right?) and keep them in my bathroom over winter because apparently these plants will love the shower humidity - also, my bathroom is quite bright, but not in direct sunlight. I could keep them in the bathroom through winter, and as things start warming up later in the year, move them to my greenhouse - potentially just keeping them under my potting table.

Does anyone think that these young plants will survive the winter? Should I invest in a head-pad?

I've been searching around for information regarding cold-climate B. caapi but haven't found very much. I know people have had success in Melbourne, but it doesn't seem to of have been talked about very much.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[new book: A field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi]

I have it in authority that the authors included my almondy agaricus.

If anyone has this guide can u please let me know what it says about agaricus species.

I imagine you may already have a copy of this marvelous book, but anyway:

Agaricus 'marzipan' - A species with a pinkish brown scaly cap (to 5 cm diam.) that bruises orange-yellow, pale brown gills and a white stipe (to 5 cm long, to 1 cm wide) that bruises yellow. It has a strong odour of almond essence.

Has been found nearly all year round, except September, and has most commonly been found in March, April, May and June.

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Anything else you'd like to know?

[WBs Fungal Finds (when he has a camera....)]

Nice finds waterboy

[Brown Birch Bolete]

very cool.

[Can anyone ID these caramel coloured mushrooms]

Same too GHBeer - I literally need to start paying more attention to the road when I drive, because my eyes are constantly scanning the roadsides looking for mushrooms. I think I'm becoming obsessed.

[Can anyone ID these caramel coloured mushrooms]

We sure do If I'm entirely honest, I can only see two species in the photos I took.

One species in the first 8 photos (I imagine that one with the upturned gills is the same as the others) and the other species being in the final four photos (excluding location shot).

It's cool how those last 4 seem to glow with the sun behind them.

[Brown Birch Bolete]

Photos? I'd like to compare them to the Bolete I found yesterday.

[Can anyone ID these caramel coloured mushrooms]

Darn, back to square one then after looking at more photos of M. oreades, I now see that M. oreades has a more creamy/off white colour - not so caramel-like. Better keep them out of biscuits, soups and stews for now.

[Can anyone ID these caramel coloured mushrooms]

I think you are right - I'd say it's almost certainly Marasmius oreades - apparently interesting to cook with due to it's sweet taste.

Sorry I forgot to rotate my photos!

[Can anyone ID these caramel coloured mushrooms]

After my day of mushroom hunting yesterday ( http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36644&p=462540 ), this is the only one I'm really curious about. I can't find anything about this mushroom in my field guide and I found hundreds of them.

These ones seem quite similar but grew straight from moss, I don't think they are the same but I honestly don't really know

They were found in an area that looked like this:

[This section needs a "show wild finds" thread]

Went for a big wander around some local spots yesterday and found all sorts of interesting things, thought I would share my finds. I'm no expert, but I do my research so I'll try to name things when I think I can:

Geastrum saccatum - The Rounded Earthstar

Also, this solitary one in another area - I'm not sure if it is the same species however.

Not sure about this one - possibly a Mycena viscidocruenta, At the time of photo, I failed to check for the tiny hairlike structures coming from the top of the cap (I certainly don't see any in this blurry photo) and I didn't look under the cap to look at the gills.

This one looks very similar in colour and size, but I think it is a different species. Note the lack of 'grooves' on the cap (I don't know what the term is for these 'grooves'). I believe it could be Callistosporium - "dry red".

My buddy found this intense one. It is clearly some form of Bolete and bruised blue very rapidly - but it doesn't seem to be "Bolete 'rapid bluer'.

It could be Leccinum scabrum - a Birch bolete - as it was found near a huge crop of Amanita muscaria, funny thing is, I could see a single Birch anywhere. I couldn't even work out why the A. muscaria were in such abundance.

This solitary and mutilated Amanita Muscaria was in a very different spot - I'd never seen these grow in this condition before - again, no Birch trees were near.

No prizes for this one. Can be seen pretty much all year round - super pretty and always a pleasure to find.

Mycena interrupta

I have no idea what this is, this big slimy thing was a shock to come across and the fortunately the only one I found.

[Snu Voogelbreinder - Garden of Eden]

I've been emailing Snu, and I thought I'd better post this here so he isn't inundated any further with emails asking the same questions.

From Snu:

I read that thread... nice to see the book is appreciated. I was puzzled by comments on the low profile to some extent, because when it came out there was a thread on those same forums full of people going on about the book and how they loved it. On other forums I have regularly seen people quoting from the book, usually falsely (ie people attribute something to my writing that I didn't actually say, and that has been misinterpeted). There has definitely been some web awareness of it over the last few years, but it didn't tick over as I'd hoped; part of the reason I didn't do anything much to publicise it is because I thought the 'community grapevine' would do that, and I didn't ever want any big glaring lamp of attention shining on it. There are good reasons to keep this info fairly low-key and underground, and I certainly don't want any fame out of it in the wider world.

Btw, there were 500 copies made, not 100, and even that small number took 3 and a half years to sell, which is one of numerous reasons I'm not in any hurry to do a reprint. Also, I had so many problems with the printers (and the binders they subcontracted) there is no way I would use them again, and it'd be hard to find any local companies with similarly green ethos to the printers I used. Also, people don't realise what a huge pain in the arse it is to publish a book of this size. It is not a matter of simply getting the money to do it!

E-book options are enticing, but I would want a proper printed book out as well if I were to do a second edition. Unfortunately, it would have to be even bigger than the first edition, straining the limitations of size and durable binding, and many colour photos would be cost-prohibitive. In the meantime I will get around to making the first edition available as a pdf; just have to figure out the mechanics behind setting up an automatic payment and download thing on the web page, and decide how little I'm prepared to charge ;-)

best wishes, Snu

[(SOLD)FOR SALE - Garden Of Eden by Snu Voogelbreinder(SOLD)]

Oh I can't believe I missed this.

[Snu Voogelbreinder - Garden of Eden]

Hey Prioritse, not after anything in particular actually- just became aware of the book and really wanted a copy to add to my arsenal. I really appreciate the gesture

Simhanada, 300 is mega steep and I've spent a lot of money recently - but if you've still got the link, please PM it to me - I'd like to check it out.

[Snu Voogelbreinder - Garden of Eden]

Greetings all,

I'm trying to track down a used or secondhand copy of Snu Vooglebreinder's mammoth reference tome that maybe someone here lucky enough to have a copy would be willing to sell.

It's entirely out of print, and not for sale secondhand anywhere as far as I can find - I didn't even realise this books existence until only recently, which I think was compounded by the confusing lack of presence, references or discussion about the book online.

I have been in correspondence with Snu, and he is not aware of any used copies for sale and that there are no plans of a reprint at this stage. Also, he has given me his consent to photocopy if I find someone who would be willing to lend.

I understand that this book is prized possession for many - and understandably so considering its rarity - but if anyone is considering a sell, or a lend, please let me know.

Edit: wow, is this really my first post? I spend far too much time here to be such a non participant (shame-face).