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"I'd lick you,
and I'd like you to like me to lick you,
but I don't need you,
don't need you to like, me to lick you,
If you pleasure turned into pain,
I would still lick for my personal gain,
La la la,
La la la.
(Momus, from "Ping pong" the album.

I have a friend, Rabbi Ariel, who is friends with Stamets, and has been to his place many times. Although he is not suppose to discuss these species to the general public, he does not consider her general publis and he makes hints here and there for her. But the way he does his outdoor beds of azures and p. cyans is with a layer of alder chips, then cardboard, then more alder chips, with a little local NW fertile soil mixed in. Just a little FYI for you.

What little work I have done with the p. cyans, I did find them to colonized pint jars of finch seed in about 7 weeks. One important note, since they are a temperate species, you will need to have them at cool temps of at least 55f-65F just to get them to germinate. Same goes with azures.

One last note.. for anyone that lives in a region that is not extremely hot most of the year,, and you have the outdoor resources to make a patch of azures, and your willing to give them the TLC and water they need in the dryer months, such as summer, I highly recommend giving an outdoor patch a try. The high from the azures is beyond words, they are incredable. And of course I woudl recommend going to The Spore Works for your azure spores.

-peace-

[This message has been edited by Ryche Hawk (edited January 04, 2000).]

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Visit the Captains Spore page at: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/4448/spores.htm

During the past 30 years I have never ever found them around or under blackberry bushes because the bush is to thick and crowde tfor anything else to grow. Like Ivy, they take over everything in the surroundiing growth area. Oh! Here are some images of P. cyanescens growing indoors.

Now here is a batch growing outdoors, originally fruited on soaked corrigated cardbopard and then layered with steer-co wood chips from Sawdust Supply on Harbor Island.

and here are several variations of P. cubensis, P. cyanescens and P. azurescens in cultivation.

These above shrooms as well as a strain from Cambodia may soon be purchased from my friend Rich Gee author of "Cubensis Aquarium Gardening: Workshop Edition."

I will keep you all posted on this information of cultivation of these above species.

Mj

As for these other pics by Rich, there very very nice. I have several of the strains he has here, and both me and my partner have not been able to produce the giants he is producing. So we've come to the conclusion its not within the strain. From the information I've gathered from talking with MJ, is Rich uses a deep layer of his compost, then another deep layer of colonized rye berries, then another deep layer of his compost again. Once the compost has finished colonizing.. these monster mushrooms are produced. I've tried several of these strains with deep layers of finch seed as well as my partner trying them on various substrates, and we just got average 6"-10" mushrooms.
So there is something very positive to be said about compost. I have some of his compost and will be trying it this week again. My first attempts with it were unsuccesfull and it only contaminated. Although its not suppose to need any further pasturization, I would recommend it.

-peace-

later,
tweedy.

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"I'd lick you,
and I'd like you to like me to lick you,
but I don't need you,
don't need you to like, me to lick you,
If you pleasure turned into pain,
I would still lick for my personal gain,
La la la,
La la la.
(Momus, from "Ping pong" the album.

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. . . and all the people gathered in their secret place, deep in the forest, to share the wondrous fruits of the roots . . .

. . . and they knew the glory of being.

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I'm only two people away from having a menage a trois!