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  4. Posted

    It's delicious to eat. I haven't experimented with ZPBG's strain that's aggressive on agar. I don't know how it compares. I do know that my strain is a proven commercial strain and sets quite a number of pins:

    Here it is...it's go so many fruit it doesn't know which ones to enlarge:

    http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,832.0.html

    and here it is previously on straw:

    http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,537.msg3120.html#msg3120

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  5. Posted · Edited by NSF

    No I've never tried it on either eucalyptus or logs, but it loves oak sawdust and pretty much every other substrate that people have thrown at it, including conventional compost.

  7. Posted

    Just buy the Filter Patch bags...the ones with the collars aren't so great for beginners in my opinion. Well, they have a slightly higher chance of contaminants...which is more devastating when you are new to cultivating.

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  9. Posted · Edited by NSF

    Yellow piss = exudate.

    Orange for oysters

    Dark brown for shiitake

    Black for auricularia.

    I've never seen it on agar either but I have seen Agrocybe, shiitake and morel cultures drastically change mycelium colour with age.

    Those reishi antlers are incredible! What temp are these fruiting at?

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    I guess that's why we add lime and gypsum to our substrate mixes...now I'm going to have to invest in some blue lights. I had cool white, they died and got replaced with more cool whites, they died. Then all I could get my hands on was warm white. I'd very much like to go back to cool white...although it sounds like I should be getting blues.

    Shrooman, please let us know, when the lights arrive, which vendor you bought from and whether you could recommend them.

  11. Posted

    Tangich...please explain a little more, I'm missing something. The stype, sure, it's smooth in this specimen not rough like shiitake but the gills look a match to me. This specimen appears to have a viscid cap which shiitake do not.

    Basically, please explain how the gills are so vastly different.

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    Have a look at Cordyceps...I think militaris might attack termites. From there, look into Beauveria bassiana which is a natural insect defense you can use.

    I find that I seem to attract a lot of slugs to my shrooms, them and tiny gnats...not much in the way of ants. Do termites tend to live in mulch beds anyway?

  17. Posted

    culture swap NSF could be possible,. here is what I am still on the hunt for

    nemeco- pholiota nameco

    black poplar- agocybe aegerita

    turkey tail- trametes versicour

    hypsizygus ulmarius

    any cordyceps

    That's an amazing set up, well, it's superb that for the money you have so little to do. Although you certainly would be busy producing enough blocks to go into it.

    Culture swap, I've got a couple of strains of Ag. a, I have T.v and a Hyp.t - not an Hyp.u though. Are you sure you want Hyp u though? Are you wanting to plant it in the garden? True Hyp.u won't grow in soil, Stamet's incorrectly IDed Hyp.u is really an oyster (note the decurrent gills). Tessulatus has adnexed or sinuate gills, closer to free.

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    I try to never move pics once they are uploaded and I have a specific account just for fungi...but yep, I agree with your frustration. I do try as hard as I can to keep them on reputable free services. No guarantees they will hang around forever though.

    Sometimes you might want to load the same image to more than one forum though. I guess you still can, it's just a little slower.

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    Or don't upload them to the forum at all. Open yourself a photobucket account (or picasa or flickr or whatever) and then just post the 'direct image link' here in the forum. I do that, that way I 'own' the image still and can post it to any forum. I also don't lose the image if the forum goes down or changes software or some such.

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    probably was a kinda defensive response i do apolagise

    yesterday was not a good day for me

    i guess the way you questioned it came across a little more like why would i bother as if you knew better when you were asking advice

    then you went with my idea anyway i was confused

    i dunno dude i cant think clearly had a real shitty couple of days ya know just ignore my comment

    my arguments as to not using that would be there are far to many holes in it and theyre big holes keeping up humidity would be almost impossible

    its white so the only light getting in there is going to be from the holes

    and it has no lid you dont wanna be fuckin around with some glad wrap lid

    buy a clear storage tub drill a shitload of holes in all sides including top and bottom and your done

    that thing would be more work than drilling holes in a tub

    so yeh thats just my 2 cents and again sorry for being a rude prick :)

    I'm not a SGFC pro but don't guys cut fewer but larger holes that they fill with polyfill, so they 'filter' the air going into the FC?

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    I worry about all the holes in SGFC Lately I can get a first flush clean then pretty much the whole thing turns green on me.

    Heartbreaking.

    Any ideas what could be causing this?

    First post! ;) hi.

    My guess is they were not fully colonised when you went to birth too early. After the first flush and weakened mycelium, the green had a field day.

    I'd look to include a little lime the substrate. I haven't 'proven' it to be beneficial but it seems to help my grows. Then again the lime I use isn't the pH altering kind.

    Do you take the blocks out of the SGFC between flushes? Sometimes drying the surface can keep mold at bay. Take it our for a day or so and then rehydrate either with a brief (hour or so) submerge in water or spray the surface more regularly. You could put 1% of bleach in your spray water too.

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    I can't speak for others but I'd be more than happy to look at the photos you post and try and figure out exactly what you've got popping up. Sounds like you live in some kind of rural paradise.

    Remember, take a photo of the mushroom/rooms before you pick one, so we can see not just the cap but also whether they grow singularly or in clumps. Then pick a mature and immature specimen and photograph the underside of both (in the one pic is best). Then if you are being really thorough cut each in half down the stem and photograph that. Also, list what the mushroom is growing on/near. Is it in grass? On dead wood? On a live tree? Under a tree? What kind of tree? Is there likely roots of a tree under the soil where the mushroom is growing?

    Also, does the picked/harvest specimen bruise?

    These are just some of the basic questions.

    You could also try using the field ID sheet in post 9 here: http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,245.0.html

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