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Katharsis
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Woodlover grow log 1
#20083439 - 06/04/14 02:20 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been lurking around on this forum for a while and figured I would share my woodlover project with you. 
It began around january 2013 when I bought a Ps. azurescens syringe. I used it to inoculate some grains. I spawned the grains to some alder chips and cardboard and proceeded to make more spawn until spring.
A couple of months after I had bought the azurescens syringe and got a taste for cultivating woodlovers I bought a Ps. cyanescens print which I started both on agar and directly on grains. The grains contaminated a short while after which wasn't a suprise, but I performed some surgery on the contaminated jars and salvaged the healthy mycelium.
When spring arrived I made one outdoor patch for each species.
This is a picture from when I was making the azurescens patch.

This is the cyanescens patch in the making.

I dug an approximately 10 cm deep hole filled with mostly alder chips from a pet store, as well as some aspen chunks and twigs. Some leaves and twigs were put on top and the patches were watered throughout the summer to keep them moist.
A few fruits which I at first thought was azurescens popped up around the bed.
 Which grew to be this.
 It didn't bruise blue and had a rusty brown spore print so I'm quite sure that my azurescens has some galerinas as neighbours.
During the summer I made an additional azurescens patch, and made an LC made of the water from boiled woodchips. I used it to inoculate a jar of alder chips that colonised entirely without any contaminations. I used the rest to pour over a flower pot.
This is the jar colonizing last summer.

The flower pot was brought in during the winter as well as some azurescens mycelium which I put in a tub with some alder chips. The flower pot colonized nicely, but the tub got infested with a shitload of fungus gnats.
Moving on to the present.
The cyanescens LC jar was eventually spawned to a tub of woodchips which now looks like this.

I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it. Either I'll make another patch with some kind of wall around it to keep slugs away, or I'll break it up and make 2-3 ~20l flower pots.
This is azurescens patch #2 which is basically just woodchips on the ground surrounded by a lot of grass, blueberry bushes etc.

All my patches seem to have survived the grim Swedish winter, which wasn't very grim this year.
The mycelium looks healthy underneath the straw layer I put on top last autumn.

The cyanescens patch today.

Azurescens underneath a rhododendron bush.



I have this pile of branches and twigs from different bushes and trees that I plan to make use of in some way. I threw some pieces of mycelium along with some alder chips underneath it last year and it has colonised quite a bit by now.

Was out on a walk recently and found some perfect woodchips made by some beavers.

Early in the spring when the temperatures resembled those of autumn I put the cyanescens flower pot outside and put some soil and leaves on top as a casing layer. About 1-2 months later I noticed some pins when the weather had changed from autumn-ish to about 25 C during the days and the casing layer had gone quite dry.

Watered it and kept an eye on it but the pins seem to have stalled, and the weather will not likely get any colder from now on. Considering whether I should add a couple of centimetres of woodchips to it or if I should let it consolidate until autumn. I would guess there is 6-10 cm of woodchips in it at the moment. Fruits this fall would be nice.
That's that for the cyanescens and azurescens.
In february this year I bought a syringe of Ps. ovoideocystidiata that I started on agar. Here are a few out of a lot more plates.

Some of them where a bit contaminated but the mycelium just ran over it. Took the entirely clean plates and inoculated some WBS. Tried to inoculate some alder chips directly like I did with cyanescens with success, but it didn't work out too well so I sticked with grains instead.
I used all the grains I had made until spring to spawn to woodchips in flower pots.
 I was a little too brave with the unsterilie part in the right pot and threw in some aged aspen chunks that I cut up with an axe. Needless to say the mycelium inside the aspen chunks was quite eager to colonise the rest of the woodchips, so I threw out most of them.
Here are some more pots spawned with ovoid mycelium. Not very exciting to see but hopefully they will be this fall or next spring.

I have made a small patch of ovoids in the ground where I've thrown partially contaminated mycelium and it seems to thrive in the ground.
Primarily I will be making flower pots instead of patches until I get a few fruits and some more prints, due to their convenience and ease to keep away from slugs. My ambition is that these woodlovers will spread and become established here in Sweden in the future.
Peace
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: Katharsis]
#20083442 - 06/04/14 02:21 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: cronicr]
#20087570 - 06/05/14 10:37 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looking good man. 
I do the exact same thing , grain to just soaked chips in flower pots. Then just keep breaking up and making more and more.
Your azures should be easy to fruit but ovoids take a few years. You should add allenii too, they fruit really easy.
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And this is your first post!! 2 years lurking/learning! I'm impressed dude!
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Katharsis
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Glad you like it. 
Allenii is definately on my to do list. Allenii prints aren't being sold anywhere I know of though so I haven't been able to try them yet.
Would love to cultivate subaeruginosa as well, mainly because it seems to thrive on pine/fir chips, and where I live the forests are made up of mostly pines and firs.
I've collected some pine chips and have a lot of aged pine logs around here that would be great if I could use as substrate. Cyans and azures don't seem too picky so I plan to try if they are able to make some use of them, at least the aged ones.
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: Katharsis]
#20202236 - 06/29/14 08:19 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Despite the fact that it is June the weather temperatures have been between 10-20 C and there has been some rain as well. I've kept the cyanescens flower pot moist since the last pins stalled and new ones have emerged and developed a little further than the last ones! 
I don't remember exactly when the photos were taken but they are taken on 4 different occasions. Behold my first woodlovers! 











The biggest one is still quite small and I'm not sure if it has produced any spores. I might wait a little bit before I harvest it and try to get a print from it, opinions? 
Pins are emerging from other spots in the flower pot too.
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: Katharsis]
#20202957 - 06/29/14 12:35 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I could read outdoor grow logs like this all day long.
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Katharsis
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: Asura]
#20270736 - 07/14/14 11:23 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Took a couple of photos before I harvested them. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any spore prints from them, probably because the caps were a bit dry. I dropped a few drops of water on top of the caps while printing but it didn't work out. By the time most of the mushrooms reached maturity the weather had begun to resemble summer and it was a bit hard to maintain the RH. I took a few pictures before I harvested them.


Almost all of my ovoid pots were contaminated with yellow slime mold and trich, so I buried them in the ground along with some new wood chips and a layer of soil on top. Still got some agar plates with ovoid mycelium though so I will probably knock up some more rye jars in the near future.
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: Katharsis]
#20270907 - 07/14/14 12:00 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Woodlover grow log [Re: cronicr]
#20273075 - 07/14/14 07:38 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Cyans in July!!?? that is amazing buddy!! Way to go!
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Katharsis
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It has been cold and rainy almost all june. All my outdoor weed plants got mold, but it was worth it for the cyans.
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