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    fantastic info guys.have been thinking bout recreating climate using modified fridge,apart from symbiotic relations with bacteria which is news to me has anyone noticed the white worms which are very common in subs from south west aus.they will eat your specimens in days if you dont start a preservation procedure rapidly.is there any info on the role these grubs/worms play in the sub life cycle,is this just a west aus occurance.mycellium growth is easy and rapid and appears to occur at higher temps the fruiting occurs in the wild.is the mycellium growth active as ive heard,there apperars to be sum confusion as to what we have in the south west aus,i will post some pics soon,im sure they are subs but taxonomy seems to shift rather rapidly

     

    If you're going to try and cultivate in a fridge you NEED to sterilize the fridge OCD style. Your fridge is the most contaminated area in your house. Chances are that you're talking about subs, there were a few different types of woodloving psilocybes but they've mainly been lumped into the sub category.

    Ie P. Eucalypta, P. Australiana... and such spelling aside.

    Here is a must have for sub cultivation info.

    http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/10748023#10748023

    Personally i'd take the agar approach from a wild specimen, either from spores, a fresh cutting or hydrated/cleaned dry mushroom.

    Something to note though... P. Subaeruginosa is really really hard to cultivate... imo stick with cubes till you're confident :)

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    If you're stepping into the wild world of cultivation take baby steps and start with Cubensis, Pan cyans are notoriously fussy and can easily contam/stall when growing.

    As for printing a wild mushroom, the most sterile way you can do so is to collect a mushroom that is stretching the veil but hasn't broken it yet. You take this home careful not to let it dry out too much or disturb the veil and put it into a glove box. You then use a sterilized scalpel to cut the stem and tear the veil. You then proceed to place the cap on some sterilized alfoil and cover the whole thing with a sterile glass/cup.

    Today's word of the day is STERILE.

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    Not many people have managed to get away with indoor sub cultivation, the best I can remember ended up doing it inside a shed during the winter period anyway, which I feel is where the main problems stem from.

    The easiest method for cultivating an outdoor patch from a wild specimen that i've seen has to be the hessian tek.

    Grab some wild mycelial growth, not too much as you really don't want to damage this stuff in the wild and spread it along a rolled out hessian sack. Then roll the sack up and bag it up. After a month or two in the optimal conditions the mycelium should spread along the sack, in which case you roll it out and cover it with the optimal substrate of hardwood/hardwood sawdust... maybe some vermiculite too. Then cover that again with a plastic tarp for some months... once the fruiting conditions have come round then you uncover and hope for the best :)

    For more detailed info try looking it up.

    Otherwise you're looking at growing out the myclium in quart jars or grow bags and spawning outdoors to the woodchips anyway.

    This is all very generic advice suitable for growing most non-symbiotic outdoor mushrooms.

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