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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #25455192 - 09/12/18 03:13 PM (5 years, 4 months ago)

Gorgeous outdoor beds man! So much inspiration to get moving on outdoor beds for some allenii and cyan's around my house... :takingnotes:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #25468587 - 09/17/18 11:03 PM (5 years, 4 months ago)

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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.







As I already posted, the sterilized chips noc'd with King Stropharia did great, and were used 5 days after noc'ing to spawn a new wood chip path. The bucket however started to mold on top, so I quickly dumped it into some older chips. They both seem to be doing good in there new outdoor homes. First pic is the sterilized chip spawn, the second is the bucket spawn.




The two year old M. rufobrunnea grain spawn contaminated in two jars, but two seem to be looking good. They get to stay in the house until they show signs of contamination. The M. rufobrunnea and M. importuna buckets went outside too do to early contamination signs. The two M. importuna buckets seem to be recovering, but the rufos aren't showing much sign of recovery. Will wait and see...



And finally, all four sterilized chip jars noc'd with 2 year old H. erinaceus seem to have recovered VERY nicely. Might be a bacteria contam in one, but again we wait and see.



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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #25468596 - 09/17/18 11:09 PM (5 years, 4 months ago)

:fuckinawesome:
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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: cronicr]
    #25468604 - 09/17/18 11:14 PM (5 years, 4 months ago)

Well, between the late feeding of chips and our screwy weather my allenii bed did not fruit this season.


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] * 2
    #27578859 - 12/12/21 03:32 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Hard to believe my allenii bed is still producing after over 3 years of complete neglect, and almost 8 years since I first built it. I was able to clone these two, and so far the culture looks clean. As long as it stays that way I'll spend the winter expanding culture to install a new bed come spring.

I'm always looking for good clean spores of P. azure and/or Ps. cyan. Every print/syringe I've gotten has either been contaminated or just never survived long enough to colonize a bed.



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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27578868 - 12/12/21 03:39 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Thank you for you great write up. It was a pleasure to read and very helpful. Amazing results.


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: MysticMycologist]
    #27581630 - 12/14/21 08:39 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

You're welcome. :alientransform:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] * 1
    #27596067 - 12/27/21 08:30 AM (2 years, 1 month ago)

So I decided to rip out my last remaining P. allenii bed. I built it in 2013, and tbh have neglected it for the past few years. I think the last time I fed it with fresh mulch was 2018, yet the culture has continued to hang on. Back a couple months ago I decided I was done composting-in-place, and am finally ready to plant out the flower bed with flowers (shocking, I know! :lmafo:).

To block the weeds that come up every year I need to put down landscape fabric, but didn't want to just cover the culture and hope it transfers to the new mulch after installing the fabric. So I decided to mine what I could beforehand. Since most of the mulch had already been turned in to soil, I put down a thick mat of straw hoping the culture would leap off. And boy did it! Once the temps got right for fruiting, I removed the mat, which was so colonized I was able to just roll it up like a carpet, leaving bare soil behind. I did leave a small section in place so that I could harvest some fruits to put to agar, and have a couple clean dishes to build spawn from during the winter. I've got two fruits left that I'll be putting to agar as well within the next couple days, then down goes the landscaping fabric. I'll be leaving the small patch of straw under the fabric to see if it colonizes new mulch through it, which I assume it will.

I used all the colonized straw to inoculate a new bed, which currently is just straw and leaves. Will be mulching it in the next few weeks though, depending on the weather. To be honest I'm shocked the original bed has lasted as long as it has... My next experiment is going to be creating mushroom beds in the IBC tote wicking garden beds I'm building this winter. I plan on leaving the plastic lip from the totes about 5" above the cage rail so that I can install my electric slug fencing on each wicking bed. If you haven't used or seen electric slug fences, go check out the one I built on this allenii bed a few years ago.

I'm still looking for prints or proven culture of Azzies and Cyans, for some reason every time I get prints of those species the culture always dies out when I put them outside...



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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] * 3
    #27596355 - 12/27/21 01:53 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Getting ready to slum it with the ole' SAB. :awesomenod:



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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27596408 - 12/27/21 02:59 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Nice jake, glad to see you still kicking it :rockon:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #27596409 - 12/27/21 02:59 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

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Nice jake, glad to see you still kicking it :rockon:




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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Forrester]
    #27596434 - 12/27/21 03:20 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks guys, glad y'all survived Covigeddon. :lmafo:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27596489 - 12/27/21 04:13 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

I had an uncle die today from covid. Real talk. He was a good man RIP.


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #27596556 - 12/27/21 05:14 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Sorry to hear that.


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] * 1
    #27597526 - 12/28/21 02:54 PM (2 years, 30 days ago)

Found a slant of my allenii from 2015 harvest in my cold storage. Guess I'm gonnja try getting that culture going too. :smile:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake] * 1
    #27598882 - 12/29/21 04:51 PM (2 years, 29 days ago)

I'd like to take the time to give a shout out to my awesome DIY flowhood. This baby has been in my life now longer than any woman has. In fact I've gone through 3 women since building it. :lmafo:

Constructed in 10-2013.




1st set-up used a side-flow configuration. I used it this way from when I first built it until I moved it out of the lab in my basement to the mushroom farm building in 2016.




The 2nd set-up was in my rented space I had for my mushroom farm. Can't find the pics right now, but when I do I'll edit them in. For it I used a back-to-front flow configuration. I shut the farm down 6 months after opening it, so the flowhood went into storage for a couple years.


The 3rd set-up was in 2018. Built a large sterile workspace addition for the flowhood, still using a back-to-front flow configuration. The link to the build for this is in my signature. This worked great and gave me plenty of space to work, but it just took up too much room in my house. With the table needed to hold the flowhood and the table that held the workspace, it took up a 6'x6' space. I had done this in an attempt to bring me back in to mycology, but alas that only lasted a few months before I faded away from it again. So, back in storage it went again.




Which brings us to Lab 4.0... Since a myco-friend recently committed suicide, I've been using his death as a catalyst to get back in. We lost an avid mycophile, so I feel I have to step back in to replace the loss in our mycommunity. It's working so far, and I feel the passion creeping back in. I nostalgically used my ole' SAB from 2013 yesterday to do some agar work, but today I tackled something I've wanted to do for years now and never got around to. I finally flipped the flow to a proper top-down configuration... Yes the workspace has been reduced to a mere 2' cubed, but the footprint has also been reduced to 2'x3', so it's not taking up anymore space than it was just sitting on the same table tucked in the same corner for storage. 

The legs are just screwed right to the flowhood, then once I flipped the flowhood up I screwed the legs to the table from underneath to hold it secure. I then used the legs as the base frame for the FRP panel workspace walls. I used small brass nails to secure the FRP panels so they won't rust or catch on paper towels as I wipe the walls clean, then caulked all the joints in the workspace with silicone. Next I scavenged the front viewing window from the workspace attachment, made a few modifications, then installed in on the front of the new workspace. The last addition will be a light, but for now the magnetic flashlight in the pics works well enough. I'm so exited to use my new compact efficient lab set-up that I'm gonna have to do another batch of agar real soon just to try it out. :smile:

       


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27622944 - 01/17/22 08:33 PM (2 years, 10 days ago)

Kind of excited right now. I found a culture slant of my allenii culture from 2015 and decided to try and revive it and mix it with my 2021 clone culture to add genetic diversity back into the new bed. The culture has gotten to where they don't produce spores much.

And I got it revived, after 6 years in the fridge. 😎




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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27623166 - 01/18/22 04:10 AM (2 years, 10 days ago)

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ghiajake said:
I'd like to take the time to give a shout out to my awesome DIY flowhood. This baby has been in my life now longer than any woman has. In fact I've gone through 3 women since building it. :lmafo:





If you put in a prefilter and replace it often, your women will last longer ...


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: Haywire]
    #27626664 - 01/21/22 06:19 AM (2 years, 6 days ago)

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If you put in a prefilter and replace it often, your women will last longer ...




Nah, I'm old. No prefilters on the market for me that fit, I'm an outdated model. :strokebeard2:


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Re: Ghia's Easy Outdoor Mushroom Beds [Re: ghiajake]
    #27630430 - 01/24/22 01:42 AM (2 years, 4 days ago)



nonsense! get these cut-to-size rolls :wink:


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