Shrooman

Anyone in WA have spore prints for sale or giveaway for microscopy purposes? Looking to get back into mycology and start a collection after moving back to WA (everything's gone due to quarantine). Thanks.

I had bees over east, but nothing yet in WA, Id love to get back into it though in the future. Nothing better than fresh burr comb Good luck with it - it's addictive!

Looking to get back into mycology after moving interstate to WA. Anyone have any prints for sale or giveaway, got nothing to trade yet :/ Looking at starting a print collection for microscopy purposes. I'll search and post elsewhere but also looking to get a decent microscope for microscopy and gardening (checking soil, compost etc). Thanks

Metho (alcohol) is perfect for your alcohol lamp, and exactly what you want to use A spirit lamp is different, hence it uses spirits and not alcohol.

Now that's a sweet setup!

I have done the popcorn tec for growing out SRA myc a few years back and it grew REALLY REALLY well, however purely from a price point of view wheat and rye would probably work out cheaper, plus since wheat and rye grains are smaller they have a much larger surface area, therefore more points of contact with the substrate so you should get faster colonisation. That's the way I do it and works for both rye and wheat.

So did your blocks pin before you put them in the FC? I have 2 x 100% colonised blocks but no sign of pinning yet.....

So for your 100% straw Reishi you just heat pasteurised with hot water? I've been very successful using the lime soak tek for white oysters into plastic bags with holes poked in. Takes about 2 weeks from inoc. to pinning for a 2.5kg bag. Trying some Golden oysters using the same method now. Currently I just soak mine in a drum with a large weighted saucer form a garden pot on top, then a few bricks to keep it submerged. I might look at going the shower method with a small pump in the future - would also work well for heat pasteurisation with an inline heater element to keep the temp up. Kind of like a RIMS beer brewing system, but instead of being a "Recirculating Infusion Mash System" it will be my "Recirculating Infusion Mycological System"

Are you using the Lime Soak Tek for the Reishi as well??? I'll be stoked if you got those results using lime soaked straw!!!

Lookin good! Is that 100% straw? Pasteurised or steralised?

My FC at the moment loaded with POW with the new blue LED lights on the top level, and my old white LED bars on the 2nd and 3rd level:

Nice find, thanks

You can even go to Harvey Norman/Good Guys and get them from free if you can pick them up - they have to pay to get rid of them.

That's dam cheap heat shrink, care to share your source?

Looks great, I like the mesh basket! How do you get enough FAE in your fridge incubator?

Well I cut a length of the blue LEDs for my mini-greenhouse FC and ran that for the top level today, the 2 lower levels are still white. It was a weird eerie blue emanating from my shed this morning!

So I re-read your original post. I guess the heat shrink solves the mounting problem of flat LED strips onto round tube. I think I also read your post wrong. I initially thought you were using the tube to pump water to cool down the LEDs and extend their life, but are you running cold water to primarily cool you grow room? That sounds like a great idea.

Well the blue LEDs are nice and bright, now just need to get something to mount them on. I'm thinking of mounting to aluminium box tube from Masters/Bunnings. Have you found they get very hot Lindsay? How did you go mounting them on round tube? I would have thought that they wouldn't stick too well to a round surface??

Why millet for spawn? How do you find it compares to rye or wheat?

This is the White Oyster on coffee grounds:

Never tried the 2 side by side, but didn't notice any difference.

Very reliable fruiter: On steralised supplemented woodchips: http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,751.0.html On Lime-Soaked sugarcane: http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,749.0.html On steralised mix of woodchips and sugarcane: http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,753.0.html

I got it (white oyster) to fruit on cypress pine mulch, it's a great culture for starting out with!

This is where I ordered the 5m strip of blue LEDs: $13.75 incl postage http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/131189245330?var=430424713147&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Will let you know how they go.

Thanks Lindsay. Sorry, I was getting lazy not doing my research. I'm using cool white currently in my minigreenhouse, purely because that's what I already had for camping lights I guess the big advantage of running just blue would be using (or wasting) less power than white LEDs. I ordered 5m of cool white 5630s, plus 5m of blue 5630s on ebay today, so will see how they go. The blue will only be useful to me for mycology, but the white is useful for so many other projects as well. Interestingly I went through 2 of Stamets books and found a reference where he was saying that if the substrate has normal/high amounts of calcium then they are more sensitive to blue light, but in the case of very low calcium, then they were more sensitive to the red spectrum of light Interesting. Thanks again for this thread of yours, has been helpful and motivating for me