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  1. worowa

    Mushroom growing course in Sydney

    Thanks Watertrade! I wish I had some help...you keen? The Canberra Enviro Centre are keen to host a course soon. Gets a bit boring working on your own, hauling 125kg sacks of rice hulls around etc., pouring hundreds of agar plates.... And my hops are ready if you want to do a mini-mash soon.
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    My trade list

    I have the following seeds for trade Anise hyssop-Agastache foeniculum...great for teas, and for bees Beans-purple kings, lazy housewife, scarlet runners Sage-Salvia officinalis Genovese Basil Snow peas Parsnips 6 sorts of Lotus Dill Tagasaste Lebanese cucumbers German chamomile Parsleys-almost ready Burdock-just seeding Hayfever plants-make a tea out of the conifer twigs S.Rue Also have plants/tubers etc. including Azola Wolfia Vietnamese mint Jerusalem artichokes Oca Pepino Globe Artichokes Hayfever plants-1 year old And various edible mushroom cultures King Oysters Tree oysters Shiitake Reishi
  3. I've got some Nelumbo nucifera seeds.
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    register of big trees

    I've got a few young plants (C.mitchellii)~2yrs old I think, still have juvenille leaves. Mine have survived minus several heavy frosts. I wonder why you'ld look for them on the Big trees list? You have to watch out for cabbage white butterflies-the grubs will hammer capparis-they're in the Brassicaceae Order. Check them daily, and squish any green grubs, at least until well established.
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    Horizontal vs. vertical laminar flow cabinets.

    I could be wrong, but I thought the vertical ones where for extraction, like when working with hazardous matter.
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    Edible Cultures Available In Australia

    "fairly cool here"-give me a break shortly... my fish ponds are frozen!! The job in the desert...one led to another...same mob, different location...much better horticulturally. I'll find out in August sometime. As it turns out, an old friend of mine is working there-small world, full of synchronicity. The current job..hard to tolerate the dregs that float their way up the APS...don't get me started. BTW, thanks for the shiitake spawn Punkin-I was getting nervous with a dead flow hood.
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    Looking for an awesome P. Ostreatus strain

    Did they have access to light? My best oysters form pins in the bag, then I move them outside, cut open the bag and they form beautifully. The gnats go for the mycelium, and leave the shrooms alone...at least here in Canberra, IME. Oysters in the dark go wonky...and high CO2 causes deformities. Leave some kings to fruit in the bag, and soon you'll get mushrooms pinning from the caps of others. I had some photos...too hard to find now. Cut off the duds as soon as you realise they're duds-a new cluster will form quickly. And cook those duds up-maybe not saleable, but still edible.
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    Edible Cultures Available In Australia

    Hi Punkin, I just put a new motor in my flow hood...huge difference in air speed. I've got heaps of cultures in the fridge, which I want to plate up to give away next weekend. Pretty sure I've got yellow oysters, plus I've got cystidiosus fruiting again-weird life cycle. You got any bags about to pin?
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    Colonised Spawn Bags For Sale

    Agar to wheat, then wheat onto sawdust (I've been using ecologs-don't use redheads, they're full of shipping pallets and assorted waste timbers that may have been treated) supplemented with either wheat germ or rolled oats or black strap mollasses. I pour boiled water onto the sawdust logs, then let them expand. Tip off excess water. Add oats (or other supps) at the rate of about 20% by weight of the dry sawdust. Add gypsum if you want/remember. Mix around, load into bags, PC for 2 hours, cool, add grain spawn, seal bags, put them somewhere they get dappled light and wait 'till they fruit in the bags. Cut bags open and allow them to get bigger.
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    Colonised Spawn Bags For Sale

    Hi Punkin, What sort of shiitakes? The plate you sent me was great...75 I think?
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    Mushroom Cultivation Course

    Hi Marcel, I copped the same "you look like that kid from the wonder years" back in the day. Benefits of ecologs...easy to make supplemented production blocks, no drilling/hammering/waxing/watering, quick to produce mushies using filter patch bags, can be used to make sawdust spawn for logs... Benefits of logs-cheap, long lasting, produce several crops, no need for filter patch bags, if you buy spawn-no need for a PC... I've tried using free sawdust from various sources with mixed success-these sawdust logs just make it a bit easier to replicate recipes as they're a standard size and no risk of contaminants such as sandpaper/furniture maker debris other than wood etc.
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    Mushroom Cultivation Course

    Hi Marcel, Yep, they're called ecologs. Made from eucy, mainly messmate I think... I got them from a place called Stratco-there's one in Penrith. Gecko or Speedy posted a tip about them somewhere.
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    Mushroom Cultivation Course

    Hi Watertrade, I'm still keen to do some workshops with you. You're more than welcome to come along to any workshops I run. Just scored about 1/2 a ton of sawdust logs-I pour boiled water on them, add some rolled oats, PC, innoculate, and so far have had heaps of shrooms, including a 107gm shiitake fruit-and lots of smaller ones, chestnuts (more irrepressible than oysters), lentinula tigrinus, abalone oysters and the other oysters, heaps of kings...We should catch up and I'll give you a bag of logs. I'll post some tutorials here after the course.
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    Calocybe indica

    I just tip it on the garden. I could be wrong, but I think it leads to faster coloniztion and better yields.
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    Calocybe indica

    Anyone have any recipes for substrates for this species? Mine has exploded into growth with the warmer temps-still on agar.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Ok, I've got some quotes... I can get 1000 no.14 bags for 20cents each, plus postage. By sea, takes up to 8 weeks, bags cost 35c each. ($145 postage) By plane, 10 days, 48c each. ($280 postage) That's in US dollars, about the same in Aus$ ATM. Then either arrange pick up in Canberra for free, or I can post them on. Anyone able to get a better deal? Let me know who wants what, and I'll order on Friday. Cheers, W
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    Calocybe indica

    Several soaks. I use a wheelbarrow, soak the coir for a day, drain off dark brown water, soak again etc. I do a minimum of three soaks...but with all the rain lately, some batches have had extra rinsing. I've tried to get clean coir (washed and steamed), but no luck yet. Apparently some coir has lots of salt from being treated with sea water-so a soak and rinse should remove some salts as well as tannins.
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    Calocybe indica

    Thanks-the video I watched used "magic dirt" or something similar, which looked like coir. I've had some good results with other species and coir, but I leach away most of the tannins first-seems to make a difference.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Still got a few hundred left.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Yes, I've actually saved some for everyone who indicated they wanted some. Just don't want people to miss out, because it's basically first in. I'm working this weekend, will PM people by Monday with bank details.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Better get in quick if you still want some cheap bags. So far 1 person has paid for their bags. I've saved some for Watertrade and Tripsis, but I'll need some $ before I post out to others.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Just arrived. I'll post out the first bunch of orders next Wed/Thurs.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    I had hoped the bags would be here by now. I emailed unicorn on Thursday, and they hadn't processed my order. They are being air-freighted, so hopefully they'll arrive before the end of Nov.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    As soon as they arrive from US, I'll post a message here.
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    Cheap filter patch bags

    Ok, I've updated my website, forestfungi, and now in the bag section, choose options, and you can get 100 bags (14s or T3s) for $50. That's about 35cents each plus express postage. Easier if you just order there, using Paypal. Unless you pick up from Canberra, in which case, 35c each. And they're coming by air now, so here in a fortnight.
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