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[rockyfungus]

That's one odd berry.

Found a small section of clean myc on one of the ovoid plates!

[Arathu]

It'll make you earn it.......   

 

There's an intense spirit there....

 

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[Arathu]

Poke-berry-salat.......the country folks made it here when I was a kid......my gut says it's poison.....like eating under cooked morels.....PURGE CITY....

 

Woodlovers eat it down to almost a complete liquid state.....spores germinate on the fluffy pith......

 

Easily spotted from last year's growth...... 

 

I like the knotweed better, it's denser and runs almost as fast.....I'm going to trial some edibles on knotweed blocks this year....

 

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[hyphaenation]

I was experimenting a bunch years ago with pressing knotweed and such into substrate blocks. It was amazing how well it worked considering it was a hot summer and i all but neglected them. Eventually some started fruiting with cyans. I want to try this some more this season...

https://mycotopia.ne...e-4#entry569426

In the pics you see some pucks I made with colonized cyan spawn mixed in. Kind of like mini-beds...
 

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[Arathu]

One of the the really nice things about having dense mycelial masses like those pucks is the bed size can be literally one puck or whatever number you need to fill in your particular bed size and shape......

 

In place of breaking them up use a dozen or so that are fully colonized and basically one solid mass evenly spaced in the new bed......Islands of fungus that will definitely run....

 

Four fully colonized shoe box's flipped, like a big Woodie bunt-cake, over onto a piece of soaked cardboard lining the bottom of a hole in the ground with fresh substrates filled in around them (same as has been discussed here many times) and soil mix will make pretty quick work of bed construction.....

 

I love seeing pucks throw out those HUGE fruits.....

 

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[Jrotten]

Has anyone fruited from jars? I have about 3 weeks of decent weather but no time for colonizing tubs this year. I’m not real sure if woodlovers work like tropical and subtropicals that just want to fruit.

[Arathu]

Has anyone fruited from jars? I have about 3 weeks of decent weather but no time for colonizing tubs this year. I’m not real sure if woodlovers work like tropical and subtropicals that just want to fruit.

Not with much success, the nice thing about woodies is you make a tub or bed and let it go.....

 

Fruiting woodlovers can be tricky and letting mother nature induces the pins seasonally is probably the most reliable method..... YET.....

 

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[YoshiTrainer]

These guys have outgrown their bacterial grains and are not looking back! They are on to straw and bark that came straight from the bag and was soaked in hose water with a pinch of plant fertilizer. The straw and bark were allowed to drain on an old cardboard box, no pasteurization. The layers were done at separate times, first small bark then after that was 1/2 colonized I added soaked straw, then back to a layer of small bark. The Ps. Serbica on the left is not nearly as aggressive as the Ovoids on the right. Both are in 5C containers for now. Here in a month or two when I'm 100% sure they're not going to surprise me with a single fruit (pleeeeaaaase!) I'll start some bigger tubs with them.

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[Arathu]

These guys have outgrown their bacterial grains and are not looking back! They are on to straw and bark that came straight from the bag and was soaked in hose water with a pinch of plant fertilizer. The straw and bark were allowed to drain on an old cardboard box, no pasteurization. The layers were done at separate times, first small bark then after that was 1/2 colonized I added soaked straw, then back to a layer of small bark. The Ps. Serbica on the left is not nearly as aggressive as the Ovoids on the right. Both are in 5C containers for now. Here in a month or two when I'm 100% sure they're not going to surprise me with a single fruit (pleeeeaaaase!) I'll start some bigger tubs with them.

You just keep doing what you're doing man......those look good.......woodies will heal up a bed, actually I think they're just co-existing with all manners of organisms, and do their things anyway....

 

Time and letting em run their course......

 

Very nice Yoshi.....

 

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[rockyfungus]

Disposed of my allenii & ovoid plates and re-streaked. May need to play with antibiotics.

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Cyans are looking clean on germ and t1, moving along quickly too. (mea & oat soak, pretty equal in growth).
Thinking I'll soak my grain in wood water instead of coffee water...
 

[coAsTal]

I added a few alder sawdust pellets to my grain boil and left it in there when I PC'd-- So far Pans, Semperviva, and Aucklandiae are eating it without incident

[LoneRanger]

It's been a busy couple of weeks for me but I have been able to mix in some fresh alder chips and Fox Farm Ocean Soil/vermiculite into my colonized containers. I neglected to get any pics of the containers before I added the new chips/soil    Oh well. The colonization has been running well and I'll get some photos this weekend. I'm already seeing myc peeking out at the top of a few of the containers!

 

I had two of the reusable grocery bags with chips transferred from a colonized patch and alder chips/hydrated fuel pellets mixed in. The bags are clear and I thought it would be fun to be able to view the progress as they colonized. They were started around December 20th and didn't seem to be doing well after two months. I finally put them in a large tupperware and washed off most of the sawdust from the pellets, I then separated the chips and sawdust that had been colonized to start new shoe boxes. They seem much happier now. I also mixed in some fresh alder chips and soil/vermiculite with those as well. 

[coAsTal]

Finally put my colonized quart of Cyan spawn (alder sawdust, papercrate, rye) with 2 quarts of mulch and chips today-- sandwiched the spawn layer right in the middle of the mulch quarts in a 6qt shoebox.

[coAsTal]

Here's a pic today-- the mycelium is already starting to recover-- I'm very excited to spawn this into a large tub when it's full completely colonized

 

[rockyfungus]

That's one odd berry.

Found a small section of clean myc on one of the ovoid plates!

One small piece of clean myc later....I'll look into that antibiotic sometime...

I know there's other ways to clean a nasty print, but I enjoy surgery...Largest gauge needle time or maybe even my lightest guitar string. (usually I can sucker the lady into the more "surgical work")

 

 

 

 

[Arathu]

Surgery is fun....six or seven transfers sometimes...what ever it takes.....antibiotics are cool to have around

 

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[ItBeBasidia]

We've got pins on the UK cyans! A bunch of blue myc too.

[YoshiTrainer]

Awesome job Basidia!

[Arathu]

Very nice Basidia! Gotta love some woodies........

 

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[Jrotten]

So I’ve got twigs, detritus, and paper colonized in several jars. No grain, though I have a pint of grain each also. This is Allenii and Gym Purpuratus (left to right). I missed my season. It’s time to try my hand at outdoor cubes before it gets really hot if that tells you where my weather is. So that leaves me trying to keep some tubs alive indoors for the next 6-7 months. I’m starting to realize why no one here even tries with wood lovers, but here we are. So my questions is related to tubs. Obviously I want to stick with actual wood and nothing very nutritious to keep the contaminants down. I also want to keep the tubs as low maintenance as possible because I’m going to forget anything stuck off in a corner somewhere.

How much substrate is reasonable to add to what’s colonized? Equal amounts? Double? Half? Do they need much air for this phase? There’s just no way they’ll make it in a hole in the ground outside in the summer here without digging a tiger pit. Are they pretty resilient to starting in smaller tubs and expanding as needed like potted plants? Are they good about sitting colonized and waiting for food?

I apologize for all the repeated questions, but this is a bigger commitment than I’ve tried and I know the odds are against me.

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