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My Azure project
#13739277 - 01/06/11 03:10 AM (14 years, 14 days ago) |
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Finding Psilocybe Cyans this year made me want to try my hand at expanding out some woodlovers. The goal is to keep some tubs and some planter boxes on my balcony year round.
I've got a bunch of Cyan mycelium going on another project, but here's what I have going for the Azures.
First, I started with one Azurescens Syring. I inoculated 5 WBS half pints and 1 Karo LC half pint from the syringe. The WBS jars were left alone and fully colonized within 3 weeks unattended. The LC was spun on a homemade stir plate for a few hours to spread spores, which by anecdotal evidence does seem to have helped their initial expansion. The LC has been used in quite a few jars now and while it eventually contaminated I was able to make a number of new good LCs from existing jars.
The project porn:
The initial LC with stir bar

A fully colonized half pint. Notice that the mycelium seems the strongest right on sunflower seeds. I'd be interested in actually trying an increased number of them in the future.

A pho soup container with PC's woodchips. I eat a lot of pho, so I have quite a few of these running right now. I've inoculated these each with a half pint of WBS and I hope they'll expand and hold their shape. I have...plans.

Here's a peek inside one of them.

Here's a group shot of some of the jars currently running Azurescens mycelium

And finally a tub with colonizing woodchips. I keep adding more chips and spawn and it keeps colonizing more and more. I added a new bag of alder chips to it tonight.

I'm pretty much done growing any cubensis anymore, I have a grip of edible cultures I'd much rather do. My plans are to expand these out for another month or so then leave it be until fall.
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I will bite... What other edible cultures
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Re: My Azure project [Re: unitoo1]
#13739336 - 01/06/11 03:30 AM (14 years, 14 days ago) |
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I have
Oyster Yellow Oyster Pink Oyster Reishi Shiitake Torqs Lions Manes some bioluminescent (not edibles but fun) and a set of Shiitake plugs I need to use I gotta use them within a few months and I don't trip so there's no real reason to want to keep growing anything I won't eat unless it's for a project or challenge.
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I established the culture in 2011 and have still never planted it. I added chips every few years but have kept the culture indoors in a tub ever since, I just haven't had a nice place to plant it. Today I broke the culture up a bit and added a large amount of alder chips and shavings. As I broke the old chips up, I could see them visibly bruise blue. I'm going to plant them this coming spring, who knows if this old culture will ever produce a fruitbody.
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How large is the tote that you are using for the wood chips?
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Re: My Azure project [Re: tathlyn]
#25577565 - 10/29/18 10:02 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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tathlyn said: How large is the tote that you are using for the wood chips?
27 gallons, mostly full. The old mother colony is spreading, if a little whispy. I have another fresh culture and a fresh cyan culture on the side because I finally know the best place for them.
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tathlyn said: How large is the tote that you are using for the wood chips?
27 gallons, mostly full. The old mother colony is spreading, if a little whispy. I have another fresh culture and a fresh cyan culture on the side because I finally know the best place for them.

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Sunflower seeds have high lignin levels, so it would make sense if they prefer them being woodlovers no?
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Re: My Azure project [Re: Rowboat]
#25583081 - 10/31/18 11:51 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fresh azure culture, just in case.

Probably unnecessary, my 'always a bridesmaid, never a bride' culture seems to still be strong after 8 long years without fruiting.
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She is definitely a woodlover. I set the tub outside tonight and covered it with red maple leaves just in case she can fruit this season. It's overly optimistic, but she's been left out under worse conditions.
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that's pretty funny in an amazing way that you have an azure culture from 2011 that you're waking up and the original was doc'd here. i don't know what else to do besides watch and a little.
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Re: My Azure project [Re: Rowboat]
#25595844 - 11/06/18 10:48 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Rowboat said: Sunflower seeds have high lignin levels, so it would make sense if they prefer them being woodlovers no?
interesting. i'm going to experiment with an ovoid culture.
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