lindsay
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lucky i dont stand in that.
the younger this mushroom is the more it looks like wombat poo.
a solid green when its at the button stage.
also found these growing on about 50 trees, could have filled a ute.-
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had 50 grow around a birch tree this year. they put on a display for a over a month.
in first flush, there was a dozen in a 4 square meter area. after that they poped up
all around the tree.
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yep that's one of the draw backs of wheat, having to wash it so much. but
if soak for 1/2 hr, before washing it, saves some water .
when cooking, stirring from the start and more often will give a more even
hydration and lessons the chance of grains splitting.
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with wheat, soak 24hrs with gypsum (1 table spoon gypsum per 2 litre of dry grain) then heat to almost boiling point.
Then kick back to a simmer until the grain is fully hydrated (about 10 min). this is when the white in the grain goes from dry flour to
moist. then dump in a sieve while still hot and toss until the steam disappears. then grains will be dry on the outside
and moist on the inside.
2 1/2 litres of dry wheat easily fills 4x 1/2 gallon jars.
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gypsum works, but making sure the grain is also dry before you jar up and presser cook is a must.
I use wheat, and have no trouble with clumps or sticking together. except for when I got a bad bag,
that had a heap of broken damaged grains, 20% I guessed. the sugars leach out when cooked, stuck
to the outside of the grains and made shaking jars a nightmare. the bags was marked premium, more
like premium crap. well next door got 2 free bags of wheat for there chooks and the feed supply mob
let me open bagsto check now.
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5 different strains, can give you a variety of different growth, faster slower thicker woollier. even in the
same type of mushroom.
I would number the jars, keep notes, it may helpful selecting good strains of this mushroom again.
maybe one just got off to better start.
maybe contam, may not,
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saved a crow today and I felt good about it. ok before anybody says "what a crow",
no a raven. ravens are the smartest bird in the sky. they are smarter than pigs and dogs
and as smart as monkeys. well this guy was not that smart today. found him in the bottom
of a 200 litre plastic drum we keep milk in for the calves, up to his shoulders in milk,
looking like a drowned rat. He must have been getting the dry crusty bits of milk that was
sticking to the sides and slipped in. he was looking quite tired and greasy from fat in the
milk. so i grabbed a bottle of water from the car, that had warmed up from sitting in there
all day and washed, what crap of I could off. still to wet to fly I sat him on a fence post to
dry in the sun and get his energy back.
I am not going into this cool give away because A. i have no proof and B. there are cooler
things to be done. like selling or giving away fresh vegies out of a car boot in Woolworths car park.
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Yes very nice work luke
real sexy looking flush.
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glove boxes can be hit and miss, at the best of times. and this depends on
how they are constructed and how you manage and work in them.
lets assume your pressure cooker is getting to pressure and your jars are
getting the time in there for the size of jar you use. scalpel also goes through
the cook wrapped in foil. so every thing in the cooker until the cooker drops its
pressure is sterile the cooker as it cools will be sucking in air from out side and
the jars will be doing the same, but through a filter. using some polyfil soaked
in isopropanol or Metho wrapped around the release valve can stop contams
being sucked in.
glove boxes can be totally sealed with gloves taped in them or unseal with holes
you slip you arms into. remember once you arms are in these unsealed types and you
pull you your arm out just a little bit, air will be sucked in equal to the volume of arm
you pull out. having positive air pressure pushed in through a filter can stop this.
vacuum hepa filters work well for this, (8-10 bucks ebay).
my procedure was to load every thing in, to one side then when my hands were
in and cleaned I would spray a air spray disinfectant all around. one side of the
glove box is clean down first, then all items were cleaned one by one and placed to the
clean side. then the other side is cleaned down. another spray with that air stuff and
another wash of the hands and I was good to go.
avoid any fast movements that may stir up any contams into the air.
in my opinion it would rare that disc filters or polyfil filters being were the contams are
getting in. its more likely to be the environment, technique or the original culture.
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I use the filter discs that Migraineur uses, as well for all my grain jars. what they are made of
I don't know. polyfil worked well back when I started, I would drill a 6-8mm hole in the lid and
then roll up a tight wad and shove it tight in the hole. Disc are quick and ezi and can be used
for, almost forever.
wow 40% cantam is high.
do you use a flowhood and do your filters go into autoclave?
hope we can pin point were your contams are making there way in. so you can enjoy more
fruits of your labour.
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tea tree in its self has long lasting anti bacteria properties. it is the main
active ingredient in the Proactive product. put a bit of tea tree neat, on the
end of your finger and rub into the pimple or any you feel coming up.
the ancient Egyptians used honey as far back as 3000 BC for
treatments of wounds. Have we missed something the last 5000 years?
it has shown to be effective against Staphylococcus aureus, E coli, and
coliform bacteria and has anti fungi properties.
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here is a talk he gave in Australia, some time back, were he spoke about the agaricon and other
healing mushrooms. a amazing talk, with a standing ovation at the end. really worth watching for the
members here. it is 90 min long but.
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extreme sorry, I meant over the top.
I like to aim high, but over the top I am not. I am a realist and mug bean.
do you desire a place to live or have little or no money???
Sounds like a induction to a cult, that prays on people that have no place to live
or a doing it hard.
have fun with the organic permaculture when poultry are free ranged in the system.
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even introduced species like foxes have a role to play???? what the F?
I suppose cats will fit in just fine too hey. What role do foxes play. Sounds like a whole
heap of extreme tree hugging hippy shit.
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Nice, well done.
the peastraw would start fermenting very quickly too.
fried oyters and onions, tossed in hokkien noddles with soy source, mmmmm.
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how does facebook know u are a fake.
are they checking up on you.
I don't do facebook, but my advice is dump them.
stick to emails for real friends and family and join
forums for like minded people.
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3rd flush is looking to be as good as the others.
will pick tonight. should be close to the last pickings in weight.
I think I will go a 4th round.
update: 1.5 kg picked-
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I am thinking of making a jig, to drop say 6 or so dowels in and then drilling a hole
through the side of the dowels at top 1/3 to meet the cambium layer. maybe several holes?
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just pm the dowel supply site to you Waterboy . there supply looks low so
I didn't post here, its first in best dressed. post here, if there is any left after
you buy. 20 bucks seems a good price. this will be the first time using dowels.
I got access to a heap of poplars between 6-10 inches dia. so I am having a
crack at it with a few species.
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importing wood dowels would have customs jumping up and down, and treatment would
mean chemicals. I think I will go with fluted dowels.
I am looking at some Tasmanian oak, 500 for 20 bucks.
cheers everyone.
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anyone here know were I could source spiral dowels from?
looking for a 1000 or so.
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a little less stem, but more cutting to harvest. not complaining though.
the third crop is happening. a good even pinning all over the basket top
to bottom. plenty of small pining groups and single pins, giving plenty of light
between them. should give less stem again. and the light intensity is a
little higher now than at the start. the temps forecasted the next 3 days
are 25, 27 to 31c. looking forward to see how they perform.
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here is the 2nd crop picked 2 days back, its more evenly spread. the mushrooms were
just a little smaller. the first pick weighed 2.5kg, this pick was just 5 grams
less. so 5kg off the basket so far. I will give it a good soak tonight and see what
I can push out for the final crop.
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most of the reishi in sawdust blocks were climbing up the sides of the bags.
there was a lot of condensation in side the bag, that caused this I think.
when I cut the bags down to the substrate level for fruiting, I cut back
the mycelium as well. some were several inches above the sub. a lot of
the fruiting came from these cut sites. other blocks that were not climbing
up the walls I just waited until the top surface looked a little raised or bumpy.
different strains may behave differently, I can only speak from what I have
learnt from this one.
if they look fully done I would try starting one bag first. if it gets good warmth
you should see it start bubbling up in 2-4 days. keeping the humidity really high
or keeping the surface wet with a hand mister works well.
I use the water from the hot water tap before it gets hot because I am on rain
water. reishi is so resistant to contaminants anyway it almost bullet prof.
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This section needs a "show wild finds" thread
in Mycology
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yep there are some yellow and orange ones.
this is the closest to purple, i have found. this afternoon in fact.