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Juiceh
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I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow..
#22168800 - 08/31/15 12:00 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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So, I been reading up on ABM for months.
I have a 2 cultures of it.
I have expanded both cultures out to a large spawn bag each. Culture #1 took a while to get going from agar, went from agar to a 2lb spawn bag, then to a 15lb spawn bag. The 2lb spawn bag took like 2-3 months to colonize, it had me worried. The 15lb bag took about a month. TBH, the spawn sat for another month or two before being spawned. I was finishing up some grows and then cleaning out the grow space before proceeding with the ABM, things took longer than planned.
So then I got culture #2 a couple months ago. I immediately began expanding it out. Went from agar to a qt grain jar then to a 10lb spawn bag. Because culture #1 had been sitting for a bit I spawned it first on the 23rd. I planned on getting some substrate prepped to spawn culture #2 to this week.
So last night after a long night of mycology work I went to check on things in my spawn room. I was about to shut the lights off and turn in for the night but something caught my eye in the ABM spawn bag I was going to use this week... Holy shit! Mushrooms!

The 10lbs of grain spawn these are growing on is WBS with floaters included plus a cup of spent coffee grounds and a touch of gypsum.
I thought these guys needed compost and live casings and lots of substrate aeration and FAE etc?
I hope I have this much luck with my spawned substrates!
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Yerow
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: Juiceh]
#22168804 - 08/31/15 12:02 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Whatcha got there? ABM?
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Juiceh
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: Yerow]
#22168827 - 08/31/15 12:08 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Agaricus Blazei Murill, also known as Agaricus subrufescens, almond mushroom, mushroom of the sun, God's mushroom, mushroom of life, royal sun agaricus.
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Yerow
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: Juiceh]
#22168844 - 08/31/15 12:13 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ahh almond mushrooms is what i know them as. Awesome man Looking forward to seeing them progress!
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drake89
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: Yerow]
#22169295 - 08/31/15 01:59 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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with the commercial culture(s) I got from lipa I had no problems getting some fruits. the problem is that it does not fruit, or rather pin, consistently. in a commercial setting you may have square meters of bed without any pins. this is not viable even at a price point 10-50x that of regular buttons. congrats, btw! my favorite mushroom so far. a way to tell if you have a good fruiting culture is to case a grain jar.
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Juiceh
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: drake89]
#22169337 - 08/31/15 02:12 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cool, thanks for that info drake89. This is a culture I got from Lipa that is fruiting in the bag.
I can't wait to eat them. Every time I look at the pics I get really hungry! LoL!
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: Juiceh]
#22170244 - 08/31/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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confuzzed
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: nobody83]
#22171181 - 08/31/15 08:43 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
nobody83 said:

Pass that popcorn I got some butter
Did you start ur agar plates from prints?
U plan on taking prints?
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CyclicAMP
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Re: I thought ABM was supposed to be hard to grow.. [Re: confuzzed]
#22178796 - 09/02/15 03:57 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have been looking for a wild specimen here in Hawaii to grab a culture from. Sadly they are not found on my island and I only make it off island a few times a year. Anyone know of a culture sourced from Hawaii? I'm working on growing edibles found here.
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