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I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me
    #15994721 - 03/25/12 04:03 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Hello guys.

I really need some advice from you. I would like to get started in learning mycology but i don't know how.  I ordered a book (fifth kingdom), but i found it very hard to read because i don't understand some words. I think i need to read a biology book first. I learned some things in the school but i was not so active and i didn't care about it whatsoever. But now my appreciation of fungi grew to a very high level and i'm very interested in it. I would like to devote most of my free time to learn . What books should i read?? Is there any mycology course in Amsterdam?? thank you for any help. Any advice appreciated

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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: eLeSDenes]
    #15994752 - 03/25/12 04:09 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

There is a glossary of terms on the shroomery that should help you read that book. I found it very useful when I started. As for books, Ive heard good things about Mycelium Running but I haven't read it yet


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Eric Cartman]
    #15994791 - 03/25/12 04:16 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This website is more than enough to help u understand how it works and what it is and how to grow it.

if u want in depth then u go to college for it :smile:


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Eric Cartman]
    #15994821 - 03/25/12 04:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Like anything, it just takes time and a fair amount of dedication.  60% of my mental framework for mycology has been from stumbling around this site and reading lots of threads, regardless of the direct connection to my project at the time.  Later on, when I'd have mold problems, or pins weren't initiating, or growth was slow, I recalled previously read threads.  Be an information sponge, eat a hot pocket, and simply peruse the vast wealth of information on here.
30% was from my biological education.
10% From misc. sites and texts.

Read, read and read some more.  The only way to get comfortable with dense text is to keep at it, transitioning into the new vocabulary and understanding the new/strange concepts.


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Treefeeler]
    #15994903 - 03/25/12 04:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Thank you for your answers. I wouldn't like to just grow or learn how to grow them. I would like to understand every aspects of their life. I would like to know what is happening on the microscopic level:) i have found some lecture videos on the site i started to watch them. If anybody knows a good book about mycology which is easy to read and understand and is very informative please let me know. Thank you

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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: eLeSDenes]
    #15996716 - 03/25/12 10:50 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

umm.... this website you are on may very well be the largest repository of information on cultivating fungi on Earth.  Can anyone think of a bigger one?

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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Amanita virosa]
    #15996961 - 03/26/12 12:03 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Growing gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stametes, for the general science and technique, Mycelium Running is awesome for general information and neat-o concepts, and of course Shroomery, which represents millions of man hours testing techniques and methods for fungus cultivation, about everything anyone can think of has been tried, and if failed well documented.


Shroomery is da :female:

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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me (moved) [Re: eLeSDenes]
    #15997690 - 03/26/12 07:52 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.

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Not an advanced mycology topic.

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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me (moved) [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #15998586 - 03/26/12 12:27 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Two words : Paul Stamets.

Get his book, "the mushroom cultivator". The techniques described in the book are old but tried and true. But the real gem in that book is how clearly he explains the life cycle of fungi and how it relates to cultivation.

"Growing gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" by Paul Stamets is good too, but more specific. And we know that studying anything should begin with the general and move into the specific.

That, in conjunction with the information available here is more than enough to start learning about these fascinating creatures.

Also, give some brf cakes a shot. Watching them grow gives you a "feel" for their life cycle and growing parameters, plus it's just really neat to watch those babies spring forth from almost nothing. Oysters and P. Cubensis can both be easily done very cheaply using the "pf tek" or "brf cake" method.


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: eLeSDenes]
    #15998605 - 03/26/12 12:30 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

eLeSDenes said:
Thank you for your answers. I wouldn't like to just grow or learn how to grow them. I would like to understand every aspects of their life. I would like to know what is happening on the microscopic level:) i have found some lecture videos on the site i started to watch them. If anybody knows a good book about mycology which is easy to read and understand and is very informative please let me know. Thank you




The microscopic pics Stamets has in "the mushroom cultivator" are amazing! And he explains it all in fascinating detail in a manner that is easily digestible for the common layman.


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: RyeOverHarrde]
    #15998629 - 03/26/12 12:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

also watch RR's video's


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
    #15999012 - 03/26/12 02:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Mycology will be an expending field of study in the next 10-20 years

The potential that they have for antibiotics discovery, as models for cellular signalisation and system biology are just mere expamples

If you plan to study em, i suggest you to continue to study in higher education, even tho i favorise the autodidactic approach of learning, the teachers can often point you out in interesting directions or give you opportunities to do some lab work with em. Things that you wouldnt get by learning alone in front of your computer.

Also, listen to the tips that the others have provided


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Amphibolos]
    #16196963 - 05/07/12 08:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I bump this post because some people might find it useful


MIT free online classes

For those of yo that are interested in biology, but cant afford the fees, this is an alternative. I think that the university of standford also made some classes public


You have no reason to stay misinformed now :grin:


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Re: I'd like to get started in mycology. Please help me [Re: Amphibolos]
    #16197039 - 05/07/12 09:07 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)



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