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This is a pretty useful list of trees that can be near truffles and those that can't. http://www.trufflesandmushrooms.co.nz/A%20list%20of%20ecto-%20and%20arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20plants%20plus%20families.pdf We can also use it to determine trees we should innoculate and those we shouldn't consider.

I had a look at that link to the NZ farm but their website reveals nothing about what they are up to. It certainly doesn't discuss how they are doing it. Did i miss a page?? EDIT: Ah the newspaper article about them features a little more information. It'd be great to know where they are sourcing their trees from. Maybe they are getting them from the Forest Institute http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003807177990021X Oops, no, more than likely they are getting them from here: http://www.trufflesandmushrooms.co.nz/Lactarius%20deliciosus%20web.pdf

Punkin: I think I've still got some of your abalone on grain in my fridge. I'll try and put some grains to agar and see if I can get anything clean from it. I've got some slowly colonising some substrate somewhere, so maybe once they fruit I can keep it going from a tissue culture. I'll try and get a dish happening and get it to you.

I've put some 'spent' eryngii bags outside and the outdoor fruits look like they be awesome but the earwigs, millipedes and slugs have definitely beaten me to it. The fruit are a swiss cheese holy mess whenever I go and check on them. I'm not growing outdoors so I don't mind too much, it's just my waste. But it would be interesting to experiment and try and control these pests. I can offer up a Grey Ostreatus strain. I am yet to fruit it, it's colonising quickly (even in the cold) and I got it from a commercial grower. It's more than likely a commercial strain but nothing is confirmed. Let me know if you are interested.

Undergrounder: I've had the same problem, wondering whether I'm throwing away delicious arvensis, just presuming they are xanthodermus. It doesn't seem to be easy to differentiate the two. Unfortunately, xanthodermus is so widespread and successful that whatever I find is more than likely xanthodermus. Even more likely it's A.x than campestris I haven't yet had the pleasure of eating any arvensis though. I tend to only trust pink staining/bruising/discolouring when identifying campetris.

Hey shortly...I think I've got an old laptop in a cupboard somewhere, but I'd love to know what program he used to turn things on and off via USB. Would you mind asking him how he did it? Or what did it?

migraneur: I've got a similar one to that. Same concept really, just a different panel on the front. Mine is a bit more fancy, which, is a bit of a problem. It's got electric buttons and a built in turn off timer, which is useful. But the electric buttons aren't, it means I can't run it on a timer. When the timer turns on the mister is on, just in idle. It needs a physical button press to make it mist. The one you have doesn't have that. I'm spewing they are out of stock or I would have pounced and bought a second one. I'm still very keen to avoid fanning, which is why I bought one of these: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/eziAIR-100MM-LINE-HYDROPONIC-FAN-240V-21W-/280571959784?pt=AU_Seed_Starting_Hydroponics&hash=item41536459e8 Although, maybe i should have got a 90mm version. 90mm plumbers pipe seems substantially cheaper than 100mm. But I cannot find a timer to control it (1 min on, ten minutes off). Any suggestions welcomed!

Tripsis...does this system run on a timer? How long on? How long off? I haven't yet got a hold of a fogger (any links?) so at the moment my fan comes on for 15 mins (smallest increment on the timer) every two hours. The 100mm fan dries out the blocks AND it's not enough FAE, I still have leggy shrooms. So it's lose lose. I can't find a timer to do 1 minute on, 9 minutes off, 6 times an hour. Stamets suggests Phoenix need 6 FAEs per hour.

Boletus Edulis was mentioned before and i wanted to add something. So it seems B.e is weak and others colonise roots better BUT i've read that B.e only grows on trees that are 25-30 years old. Has anybody else heard this? And if yes, what would be the reason it only grows on mature trees?

I just found some interesting little shrooms out my parents back door (yarra valley, within sight of mt dandenong). Very happy with the find. So yep ZPBG, good year for fungi.

LM...wow. It is amazing the difference RAW and a tripod makes! Are you unsharp masking in photoshop? I thoroughly enjoyed your last photos but these are some of the best i've seen! Did i mention previously that you should contact (google) Alison Pouliot and then ask to see her online archives. Although i think you are now bettering her. The time you take to find various species, the time you take to compose your photos and then the time taken to classify them. These posts are a true gift. Thank you so much!

I've heard drying is the way to go also. They can later be used as a C grade bolete in food. Apparently much better dried than fresh.

Any chance you can edit that post and put in numbers beside every image?!

*shakes fist at occidentals* Damn you!

Cody is definitely in the market for a hood, i imagine he's keen as! I emailed him in the hope he gets it on his phone because i'm sure he'll spew if he misses this. Yeah dude, i'm happy to wait to see how you go. So long as i'm at the top of the list if you don't sell the bulk lot. Or maybe i can even throw some money to Cody and together we can buy the lot. Shipping of the jars could be spastically expensive i guess.

Are you prepared to ship some of the smaller items because I've got the funds transfer hot right now! I'd love to grab those jars, lids and the scalpels, syringes etc. Although how much do you want for those sterile tools etc?

I completely agree with Distracted.

It does look like you found some kind of oyster though. Whether it's ostreatus or australis well I can't tell from those photos (maybe i couldn't ever tell from photos alone).

You don't HAVE to grow on straw, lots of other things work well, head by your nearest Shell serivce station and out the front of the shop where the cages of gas bottles are, near the firewood there's generally bags of sugar can baggasse. Oysters enjoy growing on this pretty much as much as they like straw.

Hey punkin, So you've put some Shiitake to grain? I've put some of your shiitake to grain, which firstly I didn't do very well, the grain that is. I prepared it poorly. So I opened the bottles of both ferulae and shittake grains and did a grain to grain transfer. I also did some grain to agar for the Ferulae because I'd contammed it badly. ANYWAY...the shiitake has gone aerial. I don't think it's cobweb. I don't know why but I just don't think it is. It doesn't look like what normally festers in the fridge or compost bin. Have you had shiitake do this?

Bogong moths do fly to Southern NSW and Northern Vic (Mt. Bogong) in summer, then they head back to Western NSW and the Darling Downs in QLD. But despite what most of us think they are a pretty small moth, well, about an inch long. I don't think they have a caterpillar as big as the ones those cordyceps have invaded. They're more than likely going to be Emperor Gum Moths larvae. (bogong moths do pupate under ground though) I'm only guessing that their caterpillar wouldn't be very big, but what do I know?! A quick google search says caterpillars are up to 5cm long.

It's not out of season in Greece.

I don't know what the mulch is, but there's mulch, wattle debris and some kind of pea, again from an acacia/wattle.

Hey LM, Well I hit up one of your spots, seeing as I'm so close to it, and I found a few species...I clearly don't possess many camera skills though. Still, any help with IDs would be hugely appreciated. It looks different in the dry