Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Grow Bags   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have?
    #15376556 -

Hi guys,

I might have the opportunity to meet one of the leading truffle/mycorrhiza experts here in Australia, and I thought that it might be a good opportunity to ask some questions from the community. Here is one of his papers, he seems to have been in the game a while. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2432170

So do you guys have any questions you'd like answered? - I'll post the responses I'm given pending his approval. :grin:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Feelers]
    #15376584 -

We can haz psychedelic truffles?


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: audiophoenix]
    #15376636 -

Ummm you already have them.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Feelers]
    #15376645 -

Well I personally don't, and I would like some :tongue:


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: audiophoenix]
    #15376781 -

Not to be a dick but this is a good opportunity. I'm going to be asking him about agar recipes, and the inoculation procedure he uses. These things are quite hard to find on the net.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Feelers]
    #15376956 -

i am curious too about whether it is possible to make truffle spawn, or should one just do liquid culture injection near the tree roots? I some friends who own a christmas tree farm that would were very interested in me helping them inoculate their farm. I was gonna try picking up some fresh specimens from the mountains here in the spring, but if i can't find anything you can pick some up here
fresh truffle

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Feelers]
    #15378761 -

Thank you for taking the time Feelers.

I will think about a useful question, but look forward to what
he has to add in any case.

Take care,

JD


--------------------
Boyd Rice told my brother that life is a corny pack of freesakes

Myco-tek.org

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Javadog]
    #15379978 -

Please ask him what advances have been made in artificially culturing truffles.  Have they made any progress toward growing them without the symbiotic relationship?  Im sure they have but its a huge industry and I bet its kept secret.


--------------------
'Life, liberty, and the pursuit of intelligence'

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: FungiWrangler]
    #15379983 -

Are  their any good truffles in NY?


--------------------
The mushrooms just keep following me

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Hashbuble]
    #15381653 -

As a fellow Aussie i'm very excited to hear about you meeting this guy.  I wonder whether he's the mycologist who discovered the first truffle in the Amanita family.

I'd really lile you to ask him about whether trees need to be a certain age to start bearing truffles (might be more relevant for porcini).

Is it possible to treat an existing tree to attempt to remove other fungi and then introduce truffle spores? 

Yes, how does he produce large volumes of inocullum?  How does he get it to the roots of the trees? At what age? In what soil? In what sized pots?

What's the best way to tell inoculation has been successful and to determine it's truffle mucelium, not some foreign unwanted fungi?

Ok i better take a breath and calm down!


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: NSF]
    #15383587 -

Orchid seeds depend on mycorrhiza to grow in nature but in the lab we use knudson c agar to germinate and grow them for 6 months.

I used the same media on mushrooms and it worked like a dream.

5 day old portabella clone on right PDA, left two is orchid media.
Question is...
Can't we just soak sawdust or straw in this media to grow micorrhizal mushrooms? Or perhaps spray it daily.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: sparkle]
    #15400849 -

does artificial fertilization affect mycorhization?

what are the best fungicides to use on the leaves when they get mildew?

is the optimmum pH 7.9 and what is the best calcium level?

what is the optimum Aus truffle tree planting density?

that's all that i cna think of for the moment, hope i'm not too late.


--------------------
One of these days all the answers will be revealed until then we learn from each other!

www.mushrush.co.za

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: solumvita]
    #15402446 -

lots of good questions :popcorn:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: Feelers]
    #17925196 -

Was this thread just to come up with a bunch of truffle cultivation questions? I didn't learn anything here.

Anyone know more about the questions posted in this thread?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: I'm Meeting a Truffle Expert - what questions do you have? [Re: bigbrad]
    #17925413 -

I'd be interested to know more about the relationship between truffle diversity and fungivory in animals?  For instance, in the Pacific Northwest USA truffle diversity is pretty darn high and you have a subspecies of the Northern Flying squirrel that feeds almost entirely on truffles and the occasional above ground fungi.  On the East coast in the central Appalachia's, we appear to have way less truffle diversity and the Northern Flying squirrel subspecies (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus and coloratus) are, maybe, less dependent on truffles, but may supplement their diet with the occasional insect, staminate pollen tube, etc.  With Australia's incredible diversity of truffles, how many known obligate fungivores are there?  In the face of global warming and changing precipitation regimes, drought prone areas may be able to maintain truffle dependent species to a greater extent. 

Great opportunity you have.


--------------------
~So Neglect Becomes Our Ally

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Grow Bags   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Truffles found in Australia psyconaut 1,499 11 01/13/03 06:14 PM
by zeronio
* truffles white_rabbit 1,775 6 01/13/03 04:34 PM
by ToxicMan
* Truffle Production Team
( 1 2 3 all )		 Eightball 11,134 46 02/09/16 02:36 PM
by Thisisntreal
* truffles CleverName 2,663 18 09/03/03 01:15 PM
by comario2
* Truffle ? Anonymous 1,228 2 06/08/01 07:26 AM
by Anonymous
* Growing Truffles?? dizzim 4,155 15 06/15/03 05:35 PM
by Bi0TeK
* truffle cultures heytheresmoker 2,308 14 01/14/03 12:42 PM
by Anno
* Re: Truffles egolesss 2,610 14 04/28/01 11:42 PM
by egolesss

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: RogerRabbit, cronicr, Pastywhyte, Forrester, Stromrider, SHROOMSISAY01
1,453 topic views. 0 members, 106 guests and 3 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.027 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 14 queries.