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hjalmar
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growing mushrooms from commercially obtained sclerotia
#19076114 - 11/02/13 05:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I was wondering if it is possible to buy sclerotia of a Psilocybe species from a Dutch supplier, and use them to grow the fruit bodies?
As a sclerotium is a state the mycelium takes to go dormant, I can't see why this wouldn't work? If one were to make a suspension of the sclerotia and add it to pasteurized straw or similar substrate, it should colonize the substrate, wouldn't it?
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Re: growing mushrooms from commercially obtained sclerotia [Re: hjalmar]
#19076128 - 11/02/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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RogerRabbit said:
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DDAWGG said:
Hey buddy, don't be such a dick. I am fully aware that this was a ghetto technique...I expect high contamination rates. The point of the post is to illustrate that dried sclerotia remain viable, information which I could not find on this forum prior to posting this.

It's a well-known fact that the evolutionary purpose of sclerotia is to allow the mycelium to dry totally out during adverse weather conditions and then rejuvenate once the weather returns to a more suitable state.
I and others have posted many threads showing how sclerotia can be used as inoculant for agar. You cut from the center of a freshly broken piece of sclerotia to reduce the ambient contaminant load. Once transferred, anything you see within 48 to 60 hours is a contaminant, so you're growing 100% contams.
It takes much longer than that for the dry sclerotia to hydrate and become active again. RR
This question gets asked all the time. With 200+ posts I'm surprised you couldn't find the info you were looking for from the search engine.
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hjalmar said: If one were to make a suspension of the sclerotia and add it to pasteurized straw or similar substrate, it should colonize the substrate, wouldn't it?
No that would be complete fail. You'll need to isolate on agar or all the contam spores that have made there way to the truffles you bought will grow before the mycellium will.
Edited by Trusted cuItivator (11/02/13 05:13 PM)
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hjalmar
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Re: growing mushrooms from commercially obtained sclerotia [Re: bodhisatta]
#19076286 - 11/02/13 05:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am sorry for my laziness, you are absolutely right, I should have used the search engine.
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