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Hi all, I'm building an over the top fruiting chamber for testing environmental parameters on species/ cultivars. So far its a co2 monitor connected to a fan to maintain ~700ppm I'm trying to keep it self contained so have opted not to attach an ultrasonic humidifier. Any suggestions on how I can maintain humidity. Have people had reliable success with perlite or puppy training pads for moisture on the bottom of the tank? I also have an aquarium heater which I can submerge in a glass of water as seen here. I'm a bit unsure on what the heater in water achieves? Temperature or humidity or both? If one parameter reaches ideal conditions and shuts off, I lose the other lol. If I only use it for humidity it could raise my temps through the roof, it gets pretty hot. I'll attach a photo of the chamber in the morning, I have a bag of lions mane almost ready to fruit. Cheers all!
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Hi all, I have a few sterile water cultures and slants (ready soon) and slightly overgrown plates to trade, looking to build a long term genetic library Please DM me for details on what I've got to trade and trade offers. Mush love!
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Hi all, When cloning mushrooms, which flush is preferred to take clones from? I have an average understanding of genetics but I can't understand why cloning from a mushroom fruit would promote growth similar to the cloned mushroom- surely you are cloning the whole organism ie. the mutation is in the organism not just the fruiting body? Assuming I have this all wrong, which flush should I clone from? Second flushes are usually a lot more prolific but 3+ are big chonkers in my limited experience. Cheers all:) (Open to spore and culture trades )
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Hi all, Just had a thought on agar transfers that I haven't really seen anyone try or advertise. Why do people typically cut a section of agar to transfer to clean plates rather than scraping mycelium and transferring, similar to liquid culture? I just transferred colonised agar onto a number of plates and keeping the transferred agar in once place was a nightmare. Had to wait a few days before I inverted them too. Does anyone prefer this technique?
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Hey all! Refrigerated some of my colonised jars for a few months but they're quickly springing back into action. I noticed this anomaly in one of the jars (the largest ). I'm assuming its yeast (but hoping its primordia forming lol) thankfully isn't present in any other jar. I'm planning to fruit it in a separate small tub as I'm told yeast contam can prevent fruiting. What are your thoughts on this? Have you seen these spots before and is it consistent with yeast? Thanks so much everyone!
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Looking for a Panaeolus cyanescens Spore Print within Australia preferably NSW. Heavy compensation. please DM me. Strictly for microscopy purposes Cheers
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Hey all, I am 95% sure I am taking spore prints of wild cubensis found growing out of a cow pat outside of Newcastle but a couple of things are stumping me. The stipe (not pictured) has a purple/black annulus present although with no blue bruising and the dried caps are papery, thin and spongey. Is this consistent with your experiences of wild cubensis? Cheers guys! I love the spore prints from these
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Hey all! Woke up to this in the monotub can anyone confirm my suspicion of cobweb mould?? Cheers all! I'm just obsessing over the possible contam EDIT: I'm a hypo (myco?) chondriac
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Hey all! Haven't seen much on splitting a colonised but healthy monotub and mixing with fresh substrate... Is there any reason this wouldn't work? Cheers!
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Hello! Just wanted to start a thread for any potential mushroom enthusiasts that might be on here from Canberra or surrounds? Me and a friend have been trying to do research and foraging for a while but to no avail and we would definitely use a bit of guidance!
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Hey all! I on the 25th i inoculated some agar dishes with a summer fruiting mushroom. After 8 days i have seen no growth (mycelial or other) on the plates. The spore prints were dated 2019 and i followed pastywires tek. They are being incubated at ~24oc Any knowledge and wisdom would be greatly appreciated!
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G'day, on a long shot looking for some Pan Cyan spore prints within Australia will compensate generously. Strictly for microscopy purposes Pm me Cheers
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Hey all! Its been 24 hours since i added colonised grain spawn to the pasteurised substrate. It seems like the mycelium is having a hard time migrating to the straw (hay?) Any idea what's going on? Edit: dark spots are seeds from the grain (not sure what grain was used possibly bird seed)
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Hey all! Unfortunately my first shot at cloning my oyster spawn has failed It seems something must have gotten in going from jar to jar. The bag of straw substrate is going strong and my jars of King stropharia look healthy and vigorous! For some reason the grain never took off like the KS is Any tips would be greatly appreciated Cheers guys!
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Hey all! Im getting into cultivating and am very confused about buying cultures. For example these prices are ridiculous: $150 https://www.newgenerationmushroomsupplies.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&path=101_120&product_id=229 This in the middle: $40 https://forestfungi.com.au/collections/agar/products/white-oyster-petri-dish Compared to this which is very cheap: $15 https://www.miltonmushrooms.com.au/store/p10/White_Oyster_culture_(Pleurotus_florida).html Am i missing something? Where do you recommend i look for mushroom cultures in Aus? - Cheers all
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Hey! My garden sufficiently lacks mushrooms, I have access to pine needles, pine wood chips and eucalyptus chips. My idea starting from the ground up A layer of potting soil or just your normal Bunnings stuff. Then a mix of pine and eucalyptus chips (preferably old and rotting) Then finally some pine needles on top which should decay fairly quickly. I could even try this small scale in a large plant pot To inoculate this i would get my hands on some pine loving edible or even just decorative fungi prints and start them off in wet cardboard (I could start on agar but i love being low low caveman tek) Then bury them once they start to take off. The idea of this is to diversify the ecosystem in my modest (Tiny) garden and maybe just get a bit of food from it Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Hey! I'm looking into Tyndallisation to fill the space between getting a PC. I was wondering what kind of successes and failures (Learning experiences ) People have had. I know it's a pain in the arse but is it worth it for small scale projects before committing to a good pc? - Cheers all!
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Hey all! Its my first sub season as a hunter. Has anyone had any issues with strolling along pine plantations whist hunting? There's not a lot your average person can do to a acre of pine trees, unlike a field of cows. Does this change farmers attitudes towards the act? -Thanks all
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Here are 2 discord channels Shaman Australis unofficial discord server https://discord.gg/UYaH6QT TripTeam https://discord.gg/PUvEpH6 Despite the name is all mushroom discussion, again, edibles and actives, supposedly created by willymyco, theres a lot of users but most are beginners unlike in fungus amongus. the servers share about 60% of the same users. This server though features a fairly stocked "show and tell" channel with now thousands of grow pictures. In tripteam, experimental methods are more tolerated than on shroomery and fungus amongus, deviation from the teks and such, but accuracy of information is still very much moderated. For those unaware, discord is like IRC but you can upload photos like in Facebook or skype, and also everything is saved up to a point i think, so you can always check back on stuff. In my opinion its way better than IRC. It also features voice channels, and soon will apparently have features for live streaming or screen sharing (it was originally built for gaming).
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Am a huge fan of commercial Trichoderma spp blends as a liquid fertiliser addition to my home garden. The commercial products are usually sold as dry powders- spore mixes treated for storage. I have run right out of these and need some soon. I have Trichoderma spp cultures in my library, and I can easily do liquid cultures based on my standard fertiliser blend. Would the shock of throwing a growing but otherwise sterile culture, even at log phase, into the wild to compete with other organisms potentially any advantage? What sort of optical density of the LC Trichoderma would I need as a fertiliser base, to add as 10x, 100x or 1000x. Can I wing it or do I need to switch the spectrophotometer on? Anyone had any experience trying this?
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Discussion is mostly cultivation of mushrooms, so basically cubes, pan cyans, and talks about wild psilocybes, but most are knowledgeable about a great many non actives, and it usually comes up once a week or so. https://discord.gg/Qh2V2rK Its called fungus amongus Shaman Australis Botanicals discord https://discord.gg/UYaH6QT discussion of mushrooms, plants, etc, any kind, active or non active, edible, etc Also has a picture gallery like tripteam There is also a sister server called tripteam https://discord.gg/PUvEpH6 Despite the name its serious discussions almost entirely about cubensis and nothing else as most of the users there are just starting out, fungus amongus has more educated or serious members, they do however share about 50% of their users, but no more than that because tripteam is quite tolerant of innovation, improvisation, creativity and in general deviating from the teks. In other words its a less serious otherwise identical server. Both are active all the time with at least 2-3 users actively talking somewhere, and tripteams gallery is full of grow pics entirely by the members, nobody really chats on voice chat in either. Also users are from all corners of the world so, theres generally no sleep periods. In perticular theres a good handful of australian members (including myself) who came over from shaman australis forums, if anyone wants to ask about locating resources in australia. So far ive found nearly everyone in either server who is growing from grain is willing to give anyone else a free print now and again to help them get started, though trades are more common (for prints or anything except money) everyone is really helpful. since the start of the year both servers have only been getting more members. Theres no signup requirements and no nsfw stuff outside the nsfw channels, actually everyone is pretty well mannered, i dont think the mods have ever had to kick anyone. -
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Hi every one I am new to Shrman Australis and i was wondering if any one could help me out with some P.Cubensis spore prints , for microscopy purposes only. I am starting over again as i lost all my sores prints when moving house. unfortunately i have nothing to trade for them but I am happy to pay for them. Any and all help is appreciated. Cheers
