Wanted: Spore Syringes.

[Benzito]

Finally got a pressure cooker, Kat gave it to me for my b'day. So, I'ma grow some mushrooms!

Anyone got a spore syringe of some cold weather edibles they want to sell/trade?

Maybe some Oysters or something like that? I'm not really picky, just keen to try growing mushrooms for the first time, and looking even more forward to eating them.

FunkyFungus has agar cultures ATM, but I don't want to have to make a syringe myself....

[worowa]

If you can get "Shimeji" from the supermarket, it's probably Hypsizygus ulmarius, the White Elm oyster. I bought some, chopped the shrooms off the butt stem, and ate them. The butt that was left, about the size of a golf ball, I shoved into a pop corn and wheat mix, that was left over from earlier. It had a blob of mold in it, so I pulled out the mouldy lump. In less than a week, mycelium was all over the grain, no further contamination probs. I'm also growing this species on my used coffee grounds-I put some colonised grain in a used yoghurt container, and every day I top it up with yesterdays coffee grounds. The mycelium are visble each day, having made their way through the coffee.

Hope that helps.

[AndyAmine.]

I think I have a spare one for ya Benz, Oyster I think.

[Benzito]

Cheers Andy, I sent a PM.

Anyone else got anything else to offer along those lines?

[Benzito]

I would like to say that AndyAmine and Watertrade are both really cool guys.

I should have enough cultures to keep me growing for a while now. I am going to be eating well too!

[watertrade]

I would like to say that AndyAmine and Watertrade are both really cool guys.

I should have enough cultures to keep me growing for a while now. I am going to be eating well too!

Thanks Benzito,

if anyone else wants to do some trades for fungi let me know !