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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: RandomFX] 2
#20796605 - 11/05/14 12:56 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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So here is my first harvest of P. allenii. The pill-bugs are eating them, so I picked these before they could eat more. Doubt I'll be able to get prints since the bugs eat the caps when they get big enough to print. I am taking a few clones from this cluster though. Picked 84g wet.
 
My natural Pleurotus pulminarius logs (Willow) are fruiting too. Either the slugs or pill bugs are eating them, but I do finally get to clone some of them now. Picked this pin cluster to clone from.
  
Edited by ghiajake (11/05/14 01:09 PM)
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#20796681 - 11/05/14 01:15 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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 rocking that outdoor world!!
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#20796766 - 11/05/14 01:35 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: YOmamaPr0] 1
#20801530 - 11/06/14 01:52 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just picked another 84 grams.
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#20804788 - 11/07/14 07:41 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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So great to see all your effort paying off! This has been one of my favorite threads to check in on. Great job and I wish you more success
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Pineal Crust]
#20804904 - 11/07/14 08:33 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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very nice Jak
dont pay attention to me! lol
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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: cArcace-x]
#20809328 - 11/08/14 10:05 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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I dosed 5 people on them last night, including myself. Me and the GF are in Columbus at a gaming con she goes to every year. Gaming nerds on shrooms for the first time is rarely interesting
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#20929905 - 12/04/14 07:50 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Excellent write-up bro and thorough picture documentation. Thank you for this and I will be following
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Acquario]
#25001180 - 02/17/18 11:48 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hello everyone. I'm back from my hiatus and ready to start spawning again. Stay tuned to see what I'll be up to this year.
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#25001183 - 02/17/18 11:49 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#25001219 - 02/17/18 12:06 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
ghiajake said: Hello everyone. I'm back from my hiatus and ready to start spawning again. Stay tuned to see what I'll be up to this year.
Good to see you back man
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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Pastywhyte]
#25001228 - 02/17/18 12:10 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thanks. Good to be back.
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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#25432124 - 09/03/18 02:52 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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So the Ps. cyan spores I had were contaminated with some type of unknown yellowish mold, so no new species beds this year. I have new spores on the way though. I am however doing some work on my remaining allenii bed, which just celebrated its 4th birthday a couple months ago. I haven't added any wood chips since building it, but I've fed it a 12" mat of fallen leaves every year for the past 3 winters. It's turned about half of it all into soil, but there is plenty of colonized hardwood chips still left.
I am doing a treated landscape lumber border, and adding new chips after leveling the bed once down with the border. I wil also be finally installing an electric slug fence around the bed to protect my fruits from slugs. Once the slug fence is installed, I will be making low-profile row cover hoop frames so that come season I can cover them with plastic to hold humidity and protect against frost on the coldest nights. I will be trying to find a semi-transparent blue plastic to cast blue light on the fruiting surface to help stimulate pinning. If I can't find the blue plastic, I might run a string of blue LED rope lights on the inside of the row cover and run it for a few hours a day on a timer.
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] 1
#25436659 - 09/05/18 02:26 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here are pics from my refurbished P. allenii bed. I raked the old colonized wood chips (and compost) away from the edges and installed 8' treated landscape timbers. The allenii will eventually eat them too, but it'll take a few years... I filled the gap between the timbers and block foundation with "all purpose" sand to keep slugs and bugs from living in the gap. After installing the timbers, I raked the old wood chips back out flat and compressed them by walking on a sheet tray over the wood chips to distribute my weight more evenly. After watering the old myc thoroughly, I then added around 3" of new fresh hardwood chips on top, mounding to the center of the row. Finally, I thoroughly watered the new chips.
Next, I built the frames for my row covers. I will be installing a drip line down the beds in the next couple weeks, so the row covers will help hold humidity in and give me better control of overall moisture content of the bed and fruits. They will also protect the fruits from being beaten by rain, keeping them much cleaner and less bruised. It will also protect them from frost damage.
The frames are made from 6' wooden slats (10 for $10 at Lowe's), and 9-gauge galvanized steel wire. My bed's inside dimensions are 29.5'Lx21"W, so using a cloth measuring tape I cut the arches at 38". This length was perfect for the right height and enough spring resistance to use retention to keep the frames in place. I used a few screws on the timbers to help lock the frames in place in case of strong winds. To attach the arches to the wood slats, I just drilled holes in each slat (18" spacing) and pushed the arches into the wood slats. Once the temps start to drop I'll finish skinning the covers with plastic, and build removable end caps to help increase CO2 levels for taller fruits. Come season I will also be hanging an outdoor set of blue LED lights from the peak of the row hoops to help stimulate pinning, which will be ran on a timer for a few hours before dawn every morning.
Now, to the part I know you all have been waiting for... The electric slug fence! If you haven't seen these yet, crawl out from under your rock and YouTube that shit. If you have heard of them and have held off on building one, stop waiting and build one ASAP before season! They are the most humane and efficient means of slug/snail control, and by FAR the funniest!
Over the past couple nights since I built it there hasn't been one slime trail on my new chips. If they get trapped on the inside somehow you can easily flip them out of the bed and they won't go back in, hence why I built it early enough that I can get rid of any baby slugs that hatch before season when pinning begins.
After I got all the row cover frames in place (for spacing), I ran the ground wire on the outside of the top of the timbers and the positive on the bed-side of the timbers. Tried to keep the spacing around 3/4"-1", using a staple gun and small hammer to anchor the wire to the wood. If you need more instruction on how to build one, YouTube it. There are many videos, including mine.
           
Here's two vids, one of the bed that explains the fence too, and the second is the fence working and how I built it.
Edited by ghiajake (09/07/18 03:05 AM)
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#25438115 - 09/05/18 05:13 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dude, that is fucking hardcore. I love it. I hope you do a write up when get some rest.
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Asura]
#25438128 - 09/05/18 05:18 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Absolutely fabulous work, that slug fencing is a trip!
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: bearcreek]
#25438163 - 09/05/18 05:37 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Awesome bed dude.
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ghiajake
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Zero Nowhere] 1
#25441676 - 09/07/18 02:44 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks folks. I edited the post above, so go back and check it out. I'm taking this allenii bed serious now, and will be building all future beds (edible and psily) this way. My goal is to supply allenii prints after this season to spore distributors. I used to supply my P. galindoi to a reputable one, that I'll not name because I don't know if they are still a sponsor or not. I want to build a pole barn next spring, so prints are how I'd like to make the bulk of the funds. With a slug-free "greenhouse" grow I should get PLENTY of good specimens for printing, and my culture has been verified by Alan doing a genetic test on it years ago for me.
Speaking of doing new edible beds...
I've got a few more outdoor bed projects started. First are 3 species, two of which (M. rufobrunnea and H. erinaceus) are 2 year old grain spawn that has been chilling in my culture fridge. The King Stroph culture is that old, but it was revived a few months ago and this spawn is fresh. I sterilized half gallon jars of mixed hardwood chips so that I could see what grows out from the old spawn without it having to compete with anything from the chips. Each chip jar was noc'd with 1 pint of grain spawn. If successful, these jars will spawn one bucket each per two jars of pasteurized chips for more culture expansion.
 
I also did a 3 gallon bucket packed full of boiled wood chips, spawned with 2 quarts of SRA grain spawn. The high spawn rate is because I'll be using this bucket to spawn a mulch path in my yard in a week or so. Within 30 hours the SRA myc had already transferred to the wood.
 
And lastly (for tonight), here is another resurrection project. These two sawdust blocks (M. importuna and M. rufobrunnea) were spawned on Christmas of 2015 and have been in my culture fridge since around Valentine's Day 2016. I decided to try a different prep for the chips this time. My hot water heater pumps out at about 140-145F, so I filled them up with just hot tap water and added 2oz of bleach and a couple drops of Dawn dish soap to each bucket. Used two bricks on top each bucket to hold the chips submerged and to retain some heat longer. Tomorrow after work I'll drain, rinse with hot water, then spawn each bucket with half of a sawdust block (2.5 lbs). If it recovers, these bucket will be expanded and premium beds built before winter.

Edited by ghiajake (09/07/18 02:59 AM)
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] 1
#25441955 - 09/07/18 06:48 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Couldn't sleep, so I finished off the the morel buckets. The sawdust spawn smelled just fine.
M. rufobrunnea
 
M. importuna
 
Finished buckets.
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
#25451184 - 09/10/18 10:40 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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After 5 days of vigorous colonization, I decided to go ahead and spawn these four jars of King Stropharia to the walk path. Only had enough chips left to do the connecting path through my gate, so the bucket of spawn will have to wait for the next truck load of chips.
    
Also checked my allenii bed and the myc has woke up and is running!
Decided to grab some of the new chips that the myc has transferred to and do a tubberware grow to get myc for agar in case the bed doesn't fruit due to the late summer feeding. Then I decided to tap the bed while the temps are low for the next couple days, to hopefully help the myc colonize faster.
 
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