Culture (in the form of colonised grain) generously shared by Fabio from FSP (www.freesporeprints.org).
- Grain put to agar, agar wedges used to make liquid culture.
- WBS inoculated by LC.
- WBS spawned to final fruiting substrate in large filter patch bag. Substrate was made up of composted horse manure (~50%), coir (~15%), cardboard (~15%), weetbix (~10%), torula yeast (~5%) and gypsum (~5%). Colonisation took less than 2 weeks, but it was a long time ago now, so I'm not entirely sure.
At the time of putting it into fruiting conditions, I was in the process of packing up the house to move. As a result, the conditions were far from ideal. As the room was heated, all the delicate aerial mycelium died, so I cased it with 50/50 peat/verm. The entire casing became colonised.
After several more days, I decided that it wouldn't fruit in a heated room, so I moved it to the laundry, where it was badly neglected. During this time, the entire surface of the casing became a sea of hyphal knots, but pins would not form. I realised that a cold shock was needed, but didn't really want to initiate fruiting until after moving.
After weeks of neglect, I finally moved and cold-shocked it in the fridge overnight, submerged in water. A few days after putting in back into fruiting conditions, in still less than ideal condition, pins began to form.
The fruits took around a week to mature.
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They were absolutely delicious.
Hopefully I'll have a second flush in a couple of weeks.
