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morbiddoctor
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Wood chip supplier in Seattle?
#21820210 - 06/17/15 06:41 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I know it's been asked before. I couldn't find a definitive answer anywhere. I'm looking for a steady and possibly large supply of wood chips for mostly edibles. I am looking for mostly or 100% hardwood for some outdoor beds. The kind we all want. I'm just having a hard time tracking down a supplier in my area.
Sawdust supply no longer carries them. I've talked to a wood mill, arborists, barbecue industry, firewood people etc. I don't have the space for a chipper or pikes of logs. Does anyone know anything that could help? Arborists mix too much random trees in but I've heard that sometimes this isn't so bad. You're experiences?
Bonus question: What has been your experience with not pasteurizing (hot or fermenting) fresh or old clean wood chips for oysters and garden giants? I assume these organisms can deal with a few competitors. For largish beds pasteurizing can be a pain too.
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Re: Wood chip supplier in Seattle? [Re: morbiddoctor]
#21820385 - 06/17/15 07:25 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Bummer about sawdust supply no longer carrying arborist's chips. Hadn't heard that. Can't give you a clean consistent source, but if you're just doing oysters and stropharia, then you probably can make do with what sawdust supply does have. For example, mix their alder sawdust with the fir bark nuggets. Both oysters and garden giants will eat that right up. No comment on biological efficiency compared to "the good good" of fresh, clean ramial chips. Probably lower, but just fine.
As for your question of not pasteurizing, just increase spawn rate. Freshly chipped, healthy, living, ramial chips don't need any treatment to grow wine caps or oysters. Older material is a crapshoot... depends on how its been stored and various other factors. Stropharia is more forgiving than Pleurotus ime.
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poofterFroth
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Re: Wood chip supplier in Seattle? [Re: laughingsol]
#21820752 - 06/17/15 08:39 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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You shouldn't be messing around pasteurizing any substrate for an outdoor bed - especially king stropharia beds. Inoculate the beds with sawdust or straw spawn and let it do its thing. That shit will run like crazy when it gets mixed into your bed.
I think I recently read somewhere that you should use softer woods anyways to establish your king stroph. beds. Don't get to hung up on hardwoods, the important thing is to get your beds going.
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morbiddoctor
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Re: Wood chip supplier in Seattle? [Re: poofterFroth]
#21821125 - 06/17/15 10:07 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks yall. Thats good to hear. I've got oysters and a lot of the other common ones in mind too. I guess ive just been out the loop so long that i didn't know these species were able to munch all this other wood. What species have you all run on mixed arborist chips?
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Toadstool5
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Re: Wood chip supplier in Seattle? [Re: morbiddoctor]
#21829374 - 06/19/15 06:39 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your local saw-mill or lumberyard doesnt have any?
Normally they will do anything to get you to take pickup loads of it off their hands where im from. A lot of it is pure oak sawdust too so it should be good for wood-lovers even though i have no personal experience with it. As soon as i start some phoenix oyster im going to get a few # and mix it up with straw since its free and so available.
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morbiddoctor
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Re: Wood chip supplier in Seattle? [Re: Toadstool5]
#21832166 - 06/20/15 12:00 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ya they have it but i cant. I talked to a few. They all said that it's spoken for. Haulers come pick it up regularly on contract. If they cant take the load the mill has to stop until its gone. If no one picks up they cant work. So they make sure its able to leave. I'll have to try talking them out of a few yards.
On the upside, I did speak with a man who cuts for the firewood and barbecue industry. He cuts specific woods so I requested a half load of mixed hardwood, coming Tuesday . If he remains communicative, it could be the stsrt of a good contact.
-------------------- Trade list Updated 12/20/15 Ranco temperature controller and Wagner steamer for pasteurization in trade list! I'm looking for eyecatching, colorful, unique and interesting fungi. Not limited to edible or medicinal. Print them when you're on foray and pm me please!
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