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katbusa
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P. Stipticus primordia
#19232177 - 12/05/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have a few test cultures of P. stipticus growing on aspen in 16 oz deli containers. They are fully colonized and healthy. They have clusters of small primordia showing but seem to be taking a while to grow to maturity.
Temperatures are in the 70's during the day and high 60's at night. Humidity is in the 80's.
It is common for P. stipticus to take a while to grow mature mushrooms?
I have looked up some reasons for slow primordia growth for P. stipticus and have only been able to find that water content seems to play a factor in it.
I was hoping I could get some advice from more experienced people.
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Re: P. Stipticus primordia [Re: katbusa]
#19233523 - 12/05/13 07:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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They like it a little cooler.
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katbusa
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Re: P. Stipticus primordia [Re: falcon]
#19233592 - 12/05/13 08:03 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ok that is a start Ill drop the temps by 5deg slowly to see what happens. So far they have been in the FC for 3 weeks and this is what I have so far. Don't mind my mess. This FC was literally just thrown together. I have used it a few times but it needs to be tuned. For now it seems to be working.
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Re: P. Stipticus primordia [Re: katbusa]
#19234349 - 12/05/13 10:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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In the wild they can go from pin to mature in a weeks time. I haven't played around too much with fruiting them inside yet. I think that in imperfect conditions they will stall for a bit before continuing growth. I have seen completely dry fruits come back to life after a good rain and begin dropping spores again. I think that if you tweak the fruiting environment you can dial it in to the needs of the mushroom. If you can try to get the temperatures in the 50s to 60s. They grew early this year when the temps were 70s in the day and 60s at night, but I think they were triggered by a week long cold snap.
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katbusa
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Re: P. Stipticus primordia [Re: Mrcloudy]
#19234610 - 12/06/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Back when I was in the Boyscouts in the mid '90's we took our yearly trip to the ohiopyle and stayed at the Heritage Boyscout camp. This was in late August. After a really wet day and partial rain early evening we decided to play tag in the wooded area no too far from the camp. There was glow in the dark fungus all over everything to the point you could make the outline of fallen trees and standing trees everywhere. I believe this was P.stipticus. From what I remember the temperature was on the cool side. I have a cool greenhouse for some of my plants. I think I might put the FC out there in a shady location to see what happens.
I'm glad you brought that up cloudy because I would of forgotten about the temperature from that night. What I saw that night is the reason why I jumped on buying these glowing little beauties.
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