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Forrester
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19336116 - 12/28/13 09:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yay mushrooms!
-------------------- Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. ------------------- Have some medicinal mushrooms and want to get the most out of them? Try this double extraction method.
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CAP_TURTLE
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: Forrester]
#19336244 - 12/28/13 09:39 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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How does that bucket smell? After 33 days and still that little colonized I'm willing to bet theres somekind of bacterial contamination in there.
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MObeek
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: CAP_TURTLE]
#19336541 - 12/28/13 11:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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No smell still. :-) And in spite of gnats feasting in there also. :-(
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19348607 - 12/30/13 09:05 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Day 35 Only one of two buckets has some fruits so far. Compared to my second modified laundry basket experiment, the buckets didn't produce much. Amazingly, the straw in the buckets still don't have any unpleasant smell.
 Biggest of the bunch.
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19348684 - 12/30/13 09:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Day 15 One of two modified laundry basket experiment #2 is showing a lot of pinning to 3 out of the four sides. There are at least 8 on this picture. This is the same basket where I skimmed the top to put in my woodchips monotub experiment. And so far, the mycelium in the monotub are also still growing.
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19348906 - 12/30/13 10:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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groovy on the basket. i guess you found your limit of spawn expansion
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Forrester
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: drake89]
#19348965 - 12/30/13 10:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I see some mega-clusters!
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: drake89]
#19349990 - 12/31/13 06:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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drake89 said: groovy on the basket. i guess you found your limit of spawn expansion 
Actually, I plan on pushing the limit even further. Come Spring, I plan on trying this:
http://www.alohaculturebank.com/gardening-with-mushrooms.pdf
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19365223 - 01/03/14 07:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is a comparison of the Grey Dove and the Blue Oysters. The Blue Oysters sure grow aggressively.
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19365291 - 01/03/14 07:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cool comparison shot. Yeah the blues really like to make a LOT of pins in each cluster, for some reason...
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: Forrester]
#19365682 - 01/03/14 08:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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From now on, I'll grow the blues then. I'll also try the Lion's mane someday. I just need to learn how to prepare the substrate and have my friend start making and selling spawns.
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19365849 - 01/03/14 09:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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MObeek said: From now on, I'll grow the blues then. I'll also try the Lion's mane someday. I just need to learn how to prepare the substrate and have my friend start making and selling spawns.
Not that it's necessarily better having more pins, having fewer mushrooms with bigger caps and less stem might be better, since the stems of oysters can get chewy. Just something to think about They're both fun!
Lion's mane, also fun. And easy! You tried wood fuel pellets yet?
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: Forrester]
#19367745 - 01/04/14 11:46 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I haven't tried the fuel pellets yet. I'm waiting for my friend to get his Lion's mane production up and growing. This way, I can buy his grain spawns at a less expensive price and I will know that his growing technique really works for our area.
Plus, if my experiments actually work out, then all I'll need later on are woodchip or straw substrates soaked in cold lime bath. In short, I'm trying to find the simplest and easiest way of growing and propagating mushrooms.
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Re: Third experiment using lime bath technique [Re: MObeek]
#19400038 - 01/10/14 04:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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 I've decided to harvest most of the blue oysters today. There were a lot of dried out pins from this batch and I think I should have done the same thing as I did the second attempt - putting a see-through plastic bag over the whole crate for increased humidity and putting slits for more FAE. I'll see if it's not too late to do that now.
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