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[Hippie3]

i think soliver also reported small stones that were a pain on popcorn as well, some time ago.

[reverend trips]

Is that last pic your breakfast?
nice pics :)

[python]

nice work trout

like you said the grass seed is so much better, especially RGS

[TVCasualty]

Sweet grow. Appreciated the pics, inspired me to put my tamps back on the To Do list...

I made P. tampanensis sclerotia once with a mix of rye grass seed and wheat (grain). I used no vermiculite, and after 3 months just dumped out the 'philosopher's stones," dried the surface moisture off, then put them in bags in the fridge. Tasted kinda lime/citrus-like. Yum.

I rinsed the seed thoroughly with hot water, cooked the grass seed and wheat in different pots (boiled 1hr), then rinsed both again (makes a much cleaner substrate; gluten from wheat is washed away so long as there aren't very many exploded grains- grain quality is key for sclerotia). I mixed the two 50/50, added more hydrated lime than I thought they should have (I was being tutored at the time), PC'd and inoculated in narrow-mouth pints filled halfway topped with plastic lids and filter disks. I intend to try it again some day; I'll post it as an actual 'tek' if I do...

It's amazing that sclerotia aren't more popular as there is no casing, humidity, or air exchange issues to worry about and the yield is very high compared to amount of substrate used. Plus, they just look like jars of something nasty that had been forgotten about. Post-harvest they could pass for some odd kind of snack food if packaged properly (I used packaging from snacks bought at the local Oriental Food market which were entirely in Chinese).

Almost forgot: My jars incubated in the closet in their original boxes. I was taught that darkness is VERY important. TOTAL darkness, otherwise yields are lower. Check growth with red light.


Sclerotia Rocks!

TVC

[blackout]

It's amazing that sclerotia aren't more popular as there is no casing, humidity, or air exchange issues to worry about

It has always puzzled me too.

[anticheffy]

you could dip it in chocolate and I still wouldn't put one of those things in my mouth...............yuck!

lol

[troutlips]

Just a few details I neglected to mention.
For this thread, I harvested two quart jars of popcorn and one quart of grass seed (second flush). The 77 grams I harvested dried down to 42 grams.
After the jars were harvested, I spawned the remaining colonized grain to a
straw/castings/coir/verm bulk sub that was PCed.
I'm going to try to fruit it.
Below the pics are the yeild on a scale, the blue tray is the mexi a, the yellow tray is some PRs I spawned to the same sub.
When the grass seed jar was opened for harvest, I thought the remaining seed would be tossed. It was still quite moist, so I put it back in the jar and stuck it in a cupboard and promptly forgot about it. All with bare hands, no measures taken for cleanliness.
Much to my surprise, I got a second flush. Not as many or as large as the first flush, but who knew you could get a second flush? :greenboun

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[waylitjim]

:bow: Nice work Trout! :bow:
Now lets see some mushrooms!

[Landogarner]

This is so the lazy mans tek. :bow:


I am all over this for my next run. Thanks trout.

[bassplar99]

Troutlips, how do you store these for consumption? Rodger did a grow log of the Mexicana A strain also, does anyone have the link? I would hate to be asking the same questions twice. This link has also inspired me to try it out, I kinda threw it on the back burner and never got back to it.

[Hippie3]

anyone got more pix, reports on mexicana in bags perchance ?

[Hippie3]

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[Invitro]

2 quarts of rye berries shot with a live culture made from
a single stone then as soon as colonized it was flatten to
increase the surface area since Mex-A makes more larger
stones on the outside than it does in the center of the grain .

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[Hippie3]

huh, that's flat alright.
plz update as fruiting begins.
thx

[Landogarner]

Is it possible to clone the sclerotia? That would make a single syringe last much longer since they are so hard to fruit.

[wayback]

I recently took a gaze at 3 qts of Mex A that are dated 5/27/05, and they are definately starting to grow stones. First, some of them got rather yellow, then came the brown. Now I'm waiting until it warms up here to see if the stones will grow much larger. If not, I'll take some of the mycellium off the top of one of the jars and tranplant to bags, but I'm going to crush my stones to make bags.

At this rate, maybe in another year or so I will divulge some pics of bags with stones. Of course, luck providing. Peace.

[Hippie3]

:lol:
it's already almost been 1 year so far...