squiresk

I was wondering whether anyone would be so good as to have a stab at an Id for me. It may not be a Psilocybian Species, but I have a feeling it is. The description. Slightly 'nippled' (Umbonate) Beige cap, turning to brown ring at the edge. Stain blue, dunno didn't try :-( ~5cm Brown Stem Cap diameter ~1cm Gilled Copraphillic, fruiting from Kangaturd! picture here. http://www.spew.kicks-ass.net/mushroom.jpg Kai. [This message has been edited by squiresk (edited 18 July 2002).]

King Bolete Favours, Conifers (Pine, spruce,fir) also oak and birch. Delicious to eat. Cook well, difficlut to digest. Pharmacology, dunno, try google, shroomery etc..

Good answer Rev. Incidently I'm waiting for Stamets' Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms. I gotta couple of questions, for you though if you don't mind. If you recall I was attempting to grow shiitake and oyster at the moment. I've placed some fruiting body mycelia in agar, (Nutrient Agar) and find the colonisation (too) slow. (i.e. somethings not quite right). Firstly do you use PDA to produce mycelium, and at what temperature do you use (roughly). I've always thought fungi were a colder ~25C loving group while the bacteria prefer hotter, like ~ 35C. So if your technique/apparatus/situation isn't 100% aseptic then if you incubate at lower temperatures, this provides the fungi with a better chance. 2ndly, have you tried any aseptic techniques? Like blending a bunch of oysters with water and pouring/spreading this through an unsterilised, Straw/Gypsum/Hardwoodchip mixture, then leaving it to nature? l8r Kai Kai.

""As far a A. maidenii goes you could get one of the Canberra chaps to nip over the botanic gardens in the right season and easily collect kilos of seed."" I dunno about a kilo though!

Anyone here grow these? I wouldn't mind having a bash at it. I have access to Oak/hardwood sawdust and an autoclave. I've had some experience in growing other mushrooms and found the 'whole' experience very enjoyable. Is it possible to inoculate a sawdust block using a sporeprint taken from 'supermarket' shiitake. Do they drop spores? If not, or this isn't practicle, does anyone how spores or sporewater, or even mycelium I could buy? I was gonna make a sawdust block from Oak, + 5-10% BRF, 1-2% sugar, stabilise the hunidity using a layer or vermiculite. Fruit it in an very clean fishtank, with water (+H2O2) soaked perlite. I noticed lighting somewhere. Is this important? Also how do you shock them, initiate the first flush, put them into light and the cold? How agressive is the mycelium, how quick are the fruiting. I'm patient, but wouldn't wait a year for fruit from logs! How does this sound? l8r kai. Oh, reville, if your reading this, how are your cordyceps coming along?

Thanks for your reply and help Rev. About a week ago a made an agar plate with some Oyster mushroom. Firstly, this is jsut plain Nutrient Agar, but I know it does grow everything, molds, bacteria etc.. No inhibtion. But it doesn't have a lignin or cellulose component. I could make some agar with added wood/paper pulp for next time, but anyway.. In this picture http://hometown.aol.com/sqrskai/myhomepage/photo.html you see the results. The dish on the left, on first impressions looks like a mold, but there is radial lines from the mushroom tissue. I dunno, but I think it is mycelium. The one on the right is totally different, just a small um, blob of white mycelium? They are both identical, no obvious contamaination, same agar, same time, incubated exactly the same, any ideas? One other thing, where do you guys get syringes from? l8r Kai.

Speaking as a pure capitalist.. (prolly inviting derision here but anyway, here goes) You do have a choice about where you work, and there is always the safety net of the dole. (Yeah, I know its not much but, keeps you alive) I don't like blatant exploitation, but there are Laws to fall back on. America has got itself in deep shit, basically coz its been breaking/dihonestly interpreting the laws. Now they are suffering. What goes around, comes around. If Torsten decides to pay slave labour wages to whoever, then he can't expect his projects to prosper. You are what you eat/employ etc.. As a shareholder in some (UK) compaines and shortly in CBA here, I am happy to see a company try and get as much profit etc. as possible. After all, this is what effecient market are all about. If a company does well, an employee does well, a student does well, whatever. they will tend to prosper. We can't all live off others charity. This drives progress. I'm against monopolies of course and artificial market influences of most kinds. I dunno, lets take something like fishing quotas. In the UK, the North sea used to be teaming with Cod (your basic staple whitefish), now its deviod. These huge trawlers are have stripped everything. They are now going outta business, huge ships to maintain, no fish/cash to maintain them with. This is good. Now in an effecient market, the other/small niches open up, other species become popular. the smaller co's prosper trawling where the big chaps can't get to. Its a cycle, things change, and the ones that are the best at things prosper. Nature (hopefully) catches up, and it leads to the folk who have a vested interest in anything to protect for their own futures, they learn to preserve and have a sustainable industry. I'm blabbing on, but anyway I see everything as a kinda of evolution. If we fuck up this planet well die, but IT will bounce back. I think every thing is like this, down to office politics, to companies, to industries, to countries, continents, whatever. Its always gonna happen, you just gotta live with it. If you feel you being taken advantage of, there a things you can do. Leave, better yourself, change jobs, whatever, Christ you have the the opportunities in this country. Buy one share in an whaling fleet company/ vivsection company and use your vote. Don't like the bank fees or the fact they are shutting up shops everywhere, buy shares in them, let them pay you back, they'll earn more from you, so why not earn some shite from them. l8r (from a possibly corporately brainwashed) Kai. PS A bit of relevance here, I believe some laws (like the war on drugs ) to be an artificial market infleunce and they generally fail.

Also, does HPLC indicate the ratio of the constituent (ie the actual amount of each)? My limited knowledge says no. Even if there is a ratio, of one isomer campared to another for example, this doesn't not translate into anything like actual compositions of you sample. Unless of course there is a very limited number of subtances present. ie <3. From what I understand, even if you had a 'pure' mixture of say DMT and serotonin then it will fragment into hundreds of peaks anyway. l.k.

Just browsing the Dukes amazing database. An example of the excellent stuff in there, from our friend P. Somniferum. ALANINE - Cancer-Preventive ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID - Immunostimulant ARGININE - Antihepatitic ASPARTIC-ACID - Neuroexcitant CODEINE - Antiviral NARCOTINE - Antiviral PAPAVERINE - AntiHIV SERINE - Cancer-Preventive THEBAINE - Antiviral Amongst many others. k.

I think he meant it contracted a human induced defoliaging syndrome. k.

Thanks a lot. You learn something new every day. k.

E.D. Good luck. So what I gather is: The stalk of a mushroom can grow like mycelium. I don't think I understand. Does the centre of the mushroom stalk, at the bottom of the stalk, placed on agar actually grow. You sure it was Shiitake, definatley not just another mold or anything? How close do you think the stalk was from the mycelium? Did the mushroom have a base, or remnants of the mycelium? Coz, the ones I've seen/bought have just been cut (across the stalk). I'll be having a closer look now though, cheers. Kai. Reville, I noticed on you myco supply site that you don't have any spores, just consumables. Are you intending to sell such items, like inoculum? l8r k.

"youll need a culture.refridgerated shrooms rarely drop spores" I'm trying just one cap at the moment, if I have no luck, could I pester you for some inoculum. I was intending to cold shock them. And yeah, I'd forgotten about the Gypsum. What is this for? pH buffering or do they require the Ca or sulphate? Would lime or chalk work? Any ideas "soak in water" and "Once birthed, i let them sit for a month then let them sit in water as Stamets suggested for 24 hours" Really, I always thought direct moisture was bad. Doesn't this 'yellow' the mycelium. I assume you just sit the block in (Sterilised) water to let the whole thing soak up water, rather than the humidity providing the mushrooms water needs. (From what bluemeanie says) I just assumed the lights would be an additional shocking mechanism. I may try an oak/eucalypt mixture. How much does the substrate influence the taste. anyway, thanks for the help so far. I think I'll be taking photos of the whole process, (if it works.) [This message has been edited by squiresk (edited 24 July 2002).] [This message has been edited by squiresk (edited 24 July 2002).]

Getting a headache yet Torsten? k.

Well my best guess is Panaeolus subbalteatus so far. Will take a spore print tomorrow, if they are still there, and see if they stain. I thought the dark ring around the cap would be distinctive. Bluemeanie, I'll pick a cap for you if you want it? Thanks anyway, Kai.

I didn't try and bruise it, so I don't know if it would have or not. Whats your first impressions? The nipple makes me wonder. It is in a sclerophyll forest, Black Mountain in the ACT actually). I could pick them, tomorrow and bag them and send them to you if you are interested. All I wanna know is what they are. Cheers Kai.

Seeing as Merck are having some problems over the pond, I thought I'd give them a bit of a plug, actually the second reference to them tonight. Good online medical dictionary here. http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/search.htm Hope it helps. l8r kai.

Actually its only 1%. But for things at work that have agar as part of its ingredients, it is normally 1.5%. i.e it had 1.5grams of agar per 100grams of other ingredients. I went to a Merck seminar a couple of months ago and remember the guy was talking about it and he reckons some manufacterers use crappier agar than others. Something about the cost of labour where they get the seaweed from(Off the NW coast of Africa) anyway, I'd go for about 5%, unless its pure agar, or just try a bit. Boil up 1-2 gram per 100mls of water and see if it sets. l8r kai.

I'll find out tomorrow for you if no-one else replies. Basically the Agar is only there to set your stuff. From memory I think 10% agar to water solidifies. But I'll find out tomorrow for sure. kai.

Just quoting you Torsten Anadenanthera colubrina Villca, Cebil Important legal information for Australian customers: The importation of Anadenanthera colubrina seeds into Australia is prohibited under the Customs Act 1901, Regulations, Schedule 4 (Drugs). The seeds offered by Shaman Australis Botanicals are grown in Australia. Kai.

Just waiting for the summer, Reville. Got some cuttings from Gomaos the other day. Gomaos, just wondering if you had any positive/negative reports concerning your supply? l8r Kai. For you Sydney folk, I think someone mentioned there is heimia in the botanic gardens, also http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/bgsearch indicates there is. I'm not saying you should rampage the poor bush, but.. l8r k.

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.as...9012&y=2002&m=6 The fly is making the canberra local news. kai.

Shitloads of Fly in Haig, Hague whatever, Park in the middle of Canberra. l8r K. Yeah, I know I'm the only sucker to live in the ACT.

Shitloads of Fly in Haig, Hague whatever, Park in the middle of Canberra. l8r K. Yeah, I know I'm the only sucker to live in the ACT.

"Does that mean if your gnome is having a bad trip you could give a heap of OJ to get him out of it torsten?" Yep, thats exactly the advice I have been given in Amsterdam. I think I have read it somewhere as well. Never needed to use the advice fortunatley. Dunno why or how, but maybe its antioxidant activity helps mop up nasty radicals and helps the brain recover its balance of its tryptamines. Anyone any other theories. While we're on the subject, anyone know how Thorazine stops LSD in its tracks? Kai.