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HappinessStan
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Re: Spreading Liberty Cap Spores [Re: Joie]
#18984903 - 10/16/13 05:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bubbles85 said: I soaked the last 50 libs i found yesterday over night in about 2 litres of water. When i got up i put it all into spray bottles, jumped over the fence and started spraying the field 
I think your chances are decent. From past experience of a garden which sheep would sometimes get into, I believe areas that they have been in do fruit - at least that is my explanation for there being libs in years that the garden was being overrun. Whether they were spreading spores or fertilising idk. In the fields there libs did very well.
Anyway I meant to say nice one and good luck!
So definitely best to hit up sheep/horse fields then, I was also thinkg spore printing onto apple slices and feeding them to sheep and horses, it's all worth a try right?
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HappinessStan
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Workmans original thread ( I think)
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6926284
No grass planted on top, just placed in a grassy area and the grass naturally grew into the patch. 2 inches deep maximum manure depth. Fruiting was in spring and fall for a couple of years before the substrate was exhausted. I don't have photos of earlier work of more typical specimens. Patch placed outside in September will fruit a month or so later. Some strains work better than others with this technique.
-------------------- that's from workmans post, from here
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17236514#17236514
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knarkkorven
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Two years ago I made a spore slurry from the spores and bits of crushed gills that are left in big bags with dried liberty caps once they run out. I used about 1 gram and put it in a 2l PET bottle together with a table spoon of honey. After a few days I noticed it was fermenting, of course a lot of yeast went with the mushroom parts in the bottle. Doh! But I didn't feel like throwing it in the sink so I brought it to a nice habitat with no liberty caps but had the "right feeling" and squirted it out on a good spot. I didn't see any mushrooms the following autumns but a week ago I found 10 liberty caps. I only spread it on perhaps 50m^2 and on no other parts of the field, and there was no other liberty caps to be found. So I regard this as a successful experiment, especially since I noticed the grass in the habitat are of a species that is seldom associated with liberty caps.
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Bubbles85

Registered: 10/15/12
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Loc: England
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Re: Spreading Liberty Cap Spores [Re: knarkkorven]
#18985923 - 10/16/13 12:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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HappinessStan, Knarkkorven great input. Great to hear the spores you put down did eventually fruit to.
I like the idea of trying to put spores on fruit to feed to horse's and other live stock. Would be good to trial now for next years season. There are some great fields with horses in here about a 5 minuet walk from me, so i might give that a try.
I'm still soaking all of my lib finds to extract the spores and place in suitable fields that there's no actives in all over my local area. I'll keep my eye on them this season and over the next few seasons to see if there's any success 
I think every one who picks them should be doing all they can to give some thing back. Over picking and general ignorance ruins it for every one.
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RAziell
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Registered: 10/08/13
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Re: Spreading Liberty Cap Spores [Re: Bubbles85]
#19020579 - 10/23/13 05:27 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I came up with the Water Spore Extraction Technique, and am surprised that I haven't read about others using the technique anywhere else. It is really simple and does multiple things.
It cleans your shroom's.
It produces a densely packed spore solution (Remember to shake before you spread it about!). Also you can always dilute the solution, as it will contain 100's of thousands of spores if not millions in fact 
It enhances the chance of shroom's growing in an empty field in a year or two (as long as the field is suitable i.e isn't ploughed every year or so or sprayed or whatever).
Just be sure to use COLD WATER! Or else you will have one hell of a bowl of shroomy tea! 
I have consumed shroom's that went through this process, and they were still mighty potent!
Keep spreading the spore
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beforeIgetold
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Re: Spreading Liberty Cap Spores [Re: Bubbles85]
#19093505 - 11/06/13 12:35 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'd love to see someone do this as well on maintained grass that is fertilized.
The reason being that I have several golf courses around my area that are confirmed habitation of Liberty Caps. Apparently the high quality grass and the fact that they fertilize it a lot makes perfect conditions for Liberty Caps... even without grazing animals.
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