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psylosymonreturns
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Mushrooms and bonsai revisited with success!!!!

#14498786 - 05/23/11 12:21 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

well folks we had a discussion last year here in the medicinal forum about wether or not it is possible to grow mushrooms with a bonsai tree.

one problem with the idea is that mushrooms require more moisture than the roots of a bonsai can handle. causing root rot. using soils that retain to much moisture is the number one killer of a bonsai tree.

so with this really really old yew tree that i dug up from an old farm, i made my own soil using 75% small sharp rocks to keep it drained well, and a mixture of wood chips and peat for the reamaining 25% to retain some moisture . so this has been training in this training potensai box for about 6-7 years now .

last year after we discussed the possiblily of combining mushrooms and bonsai, i filled up the rest of the box with some wood chips and put in a small handful of SRA spawn. it colonized aggressivly.

2-3 weeks ago i realized these chips are faaaar to moist and i was in trouble of killing this beauty tree. so i scraped all the colonized chips out and planted them somewhere else. what i noticed was the myc had colonized the soil and little bits of wood in the original soil mixture.

i went and checked on my trees yesterday and was blown away to see 4 small fruits!!! :grin:

how cool is that!!!

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arago
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Re: Mushrooms and bonsai revisited with success!!!!

[Re: psylosymonreturns]
#14499074 - 05/23/11 01:25 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

That is very cool! However, I am quite surprised to see that you could grow anything in Niburu... :cool:

bonsai.

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psylosymonreturns
aka Gym Sporrison

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Re: Mushrooms and bonsai revisited with success!!!!

[Re: arago]
#14499142 - 05/23/11 01:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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arago said:
That is very cool! However, I am quite surprised to see that you could grow anything in Niburu...

I bonsai.

ya i would be hard wouldnt it. i am actually in B.C.

I :heart:

bonsai too, do you have any ?

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NeuroFunk
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#14499371 - 05/23/11 02:25 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Lovely project.
You know, if you could cultivate chanterelle using bonsai trees, and turn it industrial scale, then country of Norway would award you with 10000€, because chanterelle is their national mushroom and no one has managed to cultivate them commercially. If i remember it correctly...

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psylosymonreturns
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Re: Mushrooms and bonsai revisited with success!!!!

[Re: NeuroFunk]
#14499394 - 05/23/11 02:30 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

well you know what i did? last fall i let a handful of winter chantrelles rot into one of my spruce bonsai. these things took like 3 months to rot but a few weeks ago i lifted up some dead leaves that were in the pot and it looked like there was some mycelium! :shrug:

i will let you know if anything happens. i am very interested in getting mychrozial mushrooms to match my trees! :smile:

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zayd
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#14507964 - 05/25/11 01:00 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

haha thats awesome. good stuff :laugh:

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Mycomush
Spawn of the Mycelium

Registered: 03/15/11
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Re: Mushrooms and bonsai revisited with success!!!!

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#14528188 - 05/28/11 08:45 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Nice work! Thanks for sharing your approach to growing mushrooms without killing the bonsai. That's pretty sweet :smile:

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Artman223
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#14528227 - 05/28/11 08:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

That is awesome man! I have never seen anything like that! Hopefully those chantrelles work out for you!

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Humility
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#14529359 - 05/29/11 03:31 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I think you just got me into Bonsai.

I love that when growing mushrooms you can take a rocky terrain, add a small amount of substrate and spawn and can literally create what Paul Stamets referred to I believe as an "oasis of life" (X ways mushrooms can save the world video).

Seeing the yew, a bit of moss, the mushrooms, wood chips, rocks, etc. is very aesthetically pleasing and very calming to me.

The only thing missing imo is a little insect world.

Is Bonsai very selective against introducing insects due to the susceptibility of the small plants to damage?

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