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An intentional mistake to explore... GT on Aspen, BRF and Verm
    #19473114 - 01/25/14 05:32 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

So I have been out of the Myco scene for a few years. I had several successful grows with cubes on cakes, but wanted to try shittakes on cakes with aspen wood shavings, verm, with a touch of BRF. Unfortunately, my shittake culture was contaminated and boned the six jars I inoculated. I knew it was the culture and not the jars/substrate because the jars I didn't inoculate were still good a month+ later.

So today, I mixed up some GT spore syringes, but didn't feel like mixing new substrate. I guess I am curious of my potential success rate with this strain on this odd mix of aspen shavings, BRF, and verm. I figured with the BRF I have in the cakes, there would be SOME myc growth, but it wouldn't be too strong or be able to fully and tightly colonize unless the GT took a liking to the shavings. I just inoculated three jars today as an experiment to see what happens.

Any suggestions, hypotheses, or comments?


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Re: An intentional mistake to explore... GT on Aspen, BRF and Verm [Re: prozak812]
    #19473500 - 01/25/14 06:56 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Aspen is a pretty shitty substrate for shiitake.  They'll do OK on regular brf cakes without any sawdust, but if you do want to sub half the verm for sawdust, use alder, oak, elm, etc.
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Re: An intentional mistake to explore... GT on Aspen, BRF and Verm [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19475656 - 01/26/14 07:54 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Good to know for the shittake- and that explains my lack of success. What about Golden teachers on aspen sawdust, verm and BRF- that is kind of the experiment I'm running. My intuition says aspen is a bust. My laziness of not wanting to mix another substrate seems that now I'll have to mix a plain ole sub AND make new syringes. 

Laziness = more work.

Ahh, the layers of lessons mingled in mycology.


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