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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: daz01]
    #16286526 - 05/26/12 02:43 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I have those in my cactus tub, I have no clue.

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: Inconspicuous]
    #16287470 - 05/26/12 11:48 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Take a pic if you can so we can see , never seen them myself but in nature must bugs and insect die off in colder weather where the myc can still handle the temperature . Would your tubs fit in the fridge for a over night stay ?

Like I stated never tried this but that would be my first attempt or isolate some wood chip in a small container with mites in and place in the fridge and see if the die off .

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: mandrax360]
    #16287768 - 05/26/12 01:02 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

If it's getting infested with bugs, but still fairly colonized, I would personally take it out of the tub and put it in some mulch outside in the ground. Giving it new places to colonize/retreat can make a huge difference in saving a patch/tub. I've had a problem with bugs once, (Armadillidium) and all it took was putting it outside in the ground and letting nature do it's thing. This is just a personal account, and in no way textbook advice, just what worked for me in one instance. If it's getting bad, and depending on what's actually happening (is the mycelium really getting consumed by the bugs, or are they eating some other insect/organism) might not hurt to give it a 12 hour soak in water too, helping to drown most of the pests.


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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: NeoSporen]
    #16292258 - 05/27/12 12:51 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I'd say with confidence the buggers are consuming the mycelium. Certain mycelium strands were looking a bit woren and patchy, with some completely missing their end and front parts while a little middle section was remaining.
I took a photo and checked them last week with not one of these little fuckers in them!
Little white things, quick fuckers, jumping all over the place when I flooded the tubs with water!!! jajajaj! die!!! Shoved them in the fridge, hope it kills them all off!


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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: daz01]
    #16305992 - 05/30/12 12:39 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

just had a little rummage around in my pots and found this just under the surface. reckon I need to give them some more food as they're hungry buggers. :laugh:



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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16335569 - 06/05/12 11:21 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

quick questions my fellow cyan lovers:

I've seen slugs and snails buggering about on the woodchips, and buzz them in the beer traps, but with approx 5litres of chips in each pot, do you think I have to take extra precautions?

I know come fruiting time I'm gonna be out there 24/7 with a sharp stick and a torch, but will they be ok at this stage?

many thanks!

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16336512 - 06/05/12 02:49 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

The odd one or two shouldn't hurt, just leave some traps laying around.

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: Inconspicuous]
    #16337239 - 06/05/12 05:30 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

cheers sir! :cookiemonster:

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16339233 - 06/06/12 01:02 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

You can wet the outside of your pot and dab it with salt sort of like a margarita. A few slugs should not harm your grow .

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: mandrax360]
    #16339535 - 06/06/12 03:14 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

cheers mandrax, that's a good idea (when it's dry, that'd be a lot of re-applying of the salt at the moment though eh? :lol:
:grrr: damn you rain!!)

I have little tables made out of planks of wood with legs made of 125mm nails, which I put my plant pots on to protect from the slugs. the magic comes from the copper piping I put around the nails, which keeps them fucking slugs off my flowers.
So perhaps I'll make one of them for the pots come fruiting time

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16355058 - 06/09/12 04:26 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

so I hope you all don't my me posting in here with my myc porn :smile:



was having a poke around in the pots and unearthed this. literally everything under the surface is myc! that's probably about 8 litres of wood chips in there
:awedance:
this stuff is fucking hungry!
so i gave them a couple more inches of shredded rhododendron/ aspen / random pet shop wood chips, soaked for a week in a bucket outside.

I'm very excited!:cookiemonster:

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16359795 - 06/10/12 06:38 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

That looks good, nice and rhizo.

My 6 pints of grain spawn has now almost colonised about 40L of chips. It's amazing how it goes from a loose bed to a solid block - I mean you can literally lift it out of the tub and hold it by either end! And it smells lovely :-)

I think I'll double that up once more and then clean up an old rubbish bin I have outside to get to something like 250L by the middle/late summer, then lay out some beds...

I've also squeezed out and scattered the contents of my last two jars (after making GLC) onto a dead tree/old sticks and rotten fence at the bottom of the garden. Just got to keep it moist.

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: ACorvus]
    #16359808 - 06/10/12 06:47 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

so you think breaking it up and laying it out into beds is the best idea?

I was just gonna let them fruit in the pots...


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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16359911 - 06/10/12 07:52 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I suppose it depends what/how much you are aiming for. If you have the space then beds might be more productive, but of course there is increased risk of slug/bird/animal attack.

I have also noticed many posts saying that contact with soil and grass often provokes fruiting, including having some grass and other plants growing amongst and even on top of the substrate.
You can take all of this with a pinch of salt as this is my 1st attempt at any mycoculture.

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: ACorvus]
    #16360003 - 06/10/12 08:33 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

col fella, thanks for getting back :smile:

well if I get a medium to low flush from these pots, considering potential potency means I won't need a lot of them, I'm gonna be cool with my current amount :smile:

I'd seen someone's pots with soil and weeds growing on the top
so I'd like to get some forest humus and possibly mix it with a bit of compost, then whack that on the top of the chippings. probably an inch layer. I'm definitely going to experiment with planting difference plants on the top and wondered if there were any flowers etc that might be harmful to the myc? with an inch of soil it's probably going to be herbs or tiny flowers, something without big tap roots on it


any thoughts would be warmly welcomed. cheers folks!:awedance:


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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16360228 - 06/10/12 09:50 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I would imagine that anything you might find in a wooded/partially shaded/moist area would be ideal. In fact, given your 1 inch of soil I would have thought moss and grasses from boggy/damp areas would be perfect, both of which you could probably take some small examples from the wild without causing any problems. I you can't find any such habitats near you (unlikely) then I'd imagine some of the posher garden centres might have such things, or maybe aquatics/amphibian places.

There were some beautiful shots on here of Cyans growing through moss but I can't remember where I saw them! Moss in itself is really cool too, IMHO.

The one thing that I am always nervous about is people saying they use Rhododendron chips, with some even saying they "smell of marzipan" - this is because they actually release cyanide! Maybe it breaks down quickly, but I personally wouldn't feed something I'm going to eat with rhody chips. The cyanide is part of the reason you virtually never see any other plant able to compete with rhodies (that and the fact they block out all the light). I've seen bushes in Sutton Park in the Midlands over 8m high and 30m wide, and underneath it's really dark even on the brightest July day.

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: ACorvus]
    #16360415 - 06/10/12 10:37 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

right, ok well looks like I'm going to have to do some research on cyanide within rhodedendron plants. the chippings have been exposed to the air/ rain for 3 months or so, and I did start off boiling it for a hour or so, but then moved to leaving it soaking for a week...

jesus, can you imagine having cyanide laced mushrooms? that'd suck arse! This seems unlikely however due to all the statements I've heard about mushrooms not picking up contams from spills, and being able to break down oil and chemical waste (Staments)
but perhaps as it's a simple molecule, not some long chain polymer, perhaps it could be absorbed readily...

anyone know anything about this at all?

cheers for your input though, I'll go hunt out some cool mosses and stuff :smile:

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16360459 - 06/10/12 10:46 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

If you boiled the chips you would have removed most if not all of the cyanide. It's the same as Cassava (Manioc), which is delicious but needs to be boiled for a long time prior to the subsequent cooking to release it. Probably weathering would do it too but I'd never add them raw to a mix.

Mmm... Manioc fried in red coconut oil - had it in Brasil - really delicious but was awake for 3 hours in the night with stomach cramps as the European stomach just isn't used to that oil, so rich!

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: ACorvus]
    #16360537 - 06/10/12 11:07 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

well I've been doing research, and there's certainly bad shit in Rhododendron chippings. roughly 4 toxic chemicals which have killed when in concentrated forms (via honey made from rhodi flowers...)

so more research to do there.

Also, it seems like cyans grow naturally under Rhodi trees in the wild (which I'd heard was a good place to search for them, so when I had the chance to grab the chippings, I went for it) in fact Psilocybe cyanofbrillosa as called the Rhododendron Psilocybe as it grows closely, so I can't think the Psilocybe cyanofriscosa which I'm growing will differ too wildly from that... sound plausible?

damn, now I'm concerned... more research...

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Re: OFFICIAL U.K CYAN DISTRIBUTION THREAD [Re: keeno]
    #16360599 - 06/10/12 11:23 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Cyans don't really grow "wild" anywhere. They only thrive in mulched areas where conditions are perfect. They are picky bitches. They can mat out a 20'X20' area and still not be satisfied. Rhodie wood is just fine to use for them. Try checking gout this chart, and the higher up in weight& BTU's, the better the wood is. Try to stay away from anything that's oily, like cedar, cyprus, spruce, ect. Friscosas are the same as cyans, but aren't quite as picky. They will mat and fruit in one season, where as cyans will sometimes take 1-3 years until they feel comfortable to fruit. Cyans are just picky. I've seen mats of cyan mycelium run into some cedar mulch and straight up stop and start going the opposite way. Picky eaters, like kids that are spoiled.

http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm


Also, P. cyanofibrillosa is grossly mislabel and misunderstood. They do grow around Rhododendrons, but more often than not, I find them in the same areas as stuntzii and baeocystis. They do eat mulch, but have a much easier time growing in lawns and grass. I have a thread here full of information on that species, which is easy to search for.


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