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Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW 35
#23008066 - 03/15/16 12:00 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Got things going on agar, made several transfers to isolate healthy growth

Made several gallons of LC from potato water and Karo 4%, most of which will be cut with spring water and sprayed out of a super soaker directly onto fallen woody debris.

What LC I don't spray directly onto wet wood, I am using on a 90/10 mixture of sterilized WBS/maple and oak woodchips. here is a picture of some of the colonized jars. I have 6 gallons colonizing in the closet 

Bought five yards of woodchips from a local nursery, 50/50 blend of sugar maple and oak. Started spreading them around the yard. I completely underestimated the amount of labor it is to move a dump truck load of woodchips, but will be ordering another 5 yards later this week.

I bought a chipper last week for fun, I'm thinking the cyan mycelium will love this mulch made of dried blackberry bush stocks and alder branches. On another note, this chipper preps manure like no other!


I will be mixing the colonized grain/woodchips with the bulk woodchips throughout the month of March and April, will post more pictures as it colonizes, then fruits this fall. Would love some feedback as this is a first time outdoor grow from grain 
***Update, Fall 2016 sept 15th First pins!!


10/7/2016 Getting some decent pins 

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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: cronicr] 1
#23010841 - 03/15/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: morbiddoctor]
#23013359 - 03/16/16 03:49 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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morbiddoctor said: Thanks for doing this! I've been wanting to do some controlled tests with slurry vs chip bag spawn. I have an ovoid that I may slurry but have had doubts due to heavy rains.
I may be wrong but the slurry you speak of, is this the salt water brown sugar mushroom spore mixture they mentioned in "Mycelium Running"? I have yet to try it but have heard great things, I'm goofing around with liquid cultures and grain. I'll make sure and section off a couple areas for you guys to see if the spots hit with only LC from the super soaker fruit like the spots hit with colonized grain. master cyan LC, looks pretty healthy to me!
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: liloldme]
#23014024 - 03/16/16 06:44 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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liloldme said:
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morbiddoctor said: Thanks for doing this! I've been wanting to do some controlled tests with slurry vs chip bag spawn. I have an ovoid that I may slurry but have had doubts due to heavy rains.
I may be wrong but the slurry you speak of, is this the salt water brown sugar mushroom spore mixture they mentioned in "Mycelium Running"? I have yet to try it but have heard great things, I'm goofing around with liquid cultures and grain. I'll make sure and section off a couple areas for you guys to see if the spots hit with only LC from the super soaker fruit like the spots hit with colonized grain. master cyan LC, looks pretty healthy to me!

I meant grain slurry. Sticking some colonized grains in a blender and dumping the contents in the woodchips.
I did the molasses fresh sporing shroom slurry from ggmm with cyans a few years back. Had 8 gallons of the stuff. I backpack sprayed it at a park near here. Not sure it worked as I haven't even checked. It was done the same season though so I'm not sure if that means they didn't.
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Sarah Tonin] 1
#23022074 - 03/19/16 12:23 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yesterday I was able to get a bit more work done, worked on another "planting" bed. I was able to do it in layers, maybe 3-4.5 inches thick.
Thick branches, mainly alder and maple
 Did a nice layer of finer chips, blackberry bush stocks and alder
 now adding mixed chips, some thick some smaller, sugar maple and oak
 Now adding millet seeds and pecan chips for extra nutrition 

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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: liloldme] 1
#23026304 - 03/20/16 01:07 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hope cyans like strawberries and blueberries!
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Adden] 1
#23034917 - 03/22/16 06:19 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Got some moarrr work done today.



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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Adden] 1
#23088469 - 04/06/16 12:35 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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got another 5 yards of woodchips delivered
 spread 2.5 gallons of Mycelium.
 Cut 1/2 gallon of LC with 2 gallons of water and sprayed all over piles of wood debris and woodchips. I don't really know what to expect with the LC but I think it's worth a shot 

Well, I feel like this is going to be a very good yield for my efforts come fall, but I could be wrong. Last cyan patch I made was minimal effort and I still ended up very happy.
Keep in mind, all of these planting beds were leveled out covering the colonized wbs/chips about 2-3 inches deep to protect it from drying out


Anyone else see the smiley face on the wbs grain below the woodchip? 

I feel like I'm laying the colonized stuff down pretty thick

hope they love their new home 
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Adden]
#23091162 - 04/06/16 06:50 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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I have a question on the topic of backyard habitats: I'm turning mine into a beach, and am wondering what kind of grasses and other plants should I be planting?...
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: liloldme]
#23101503 - 04/09/16 08:21 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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liloldme said: I'm up to about 5 gallons of 90/10 colonized WBS/woodchips mixed with 10 yards of woodchips with the addition of several gallons of LC, I should be ok for this fall. I'm learning a lot about rodents. I'm starting to think I should purposely get hundreds of birds and mice/squirrels to spread the love!

Yea i'm thinking your not going to have to worry about Destruction. That size project, The Piped piper could come through with his rats and still not ruin that place.
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Getting the gardening beds ready for spring, spent the majority of my day composting with a new method(to me) called "Drunken composting" that uses: 1 can of beer, 1 can of soda, and 8 ounces of ammonia for the nitrogen source, which can be seen here. From what I'm seeing it only takes 7-9 days to break down into something usable. Kinda experimenting, My compost has a bunch of woodchips mixed in with it, over 30%, going to see how the cyans likes it in couple weeks.


The darker of the two compost piles has only been breaking down for 48 hours and it's already noticeable 


I wanted to see how the cyan mycelium is doing where It was spread the thinnest, it seems to have grown about an inch thick which is a good start. I have the stuff about 2-3 inches deep to protect it from drying out, I hope that's not too deep to fruit this fall, I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Watered most of my patches, started covering them to protect them from drying out with this nice weather.
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: molemole]
#23102156 - 04/10/16 12:12 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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I started with mushroom tissue on agar then to oats and then a couple small totes of some soaked wood chips. Added those to some scotts mulch a couple weeks ago. Keeping a piece of card board on top and will see what we have in november-december.I will have to water it like every two weeks.Maybe once a week when it gets hot.
 
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: liloldme]
#23102762 - 04/10/16 09:25 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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It's Psilocybe cyanescens. Here is a couple jars i used

Here is the little patch i pulled a sample from. Down here in the San Francisco bay area.

I used scotts red mulch,
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Cookies] 1
#23107562 - 04/11/16 05:41 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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yep, they take to that scotts red mulch. After i have my quarts of oats colonized i soak a bucket of the mulch for a couple days then drain for about 1/2 a day. Then i mix about 1 quart of spawn to about roughly 5-6 quarts of mulch. I put it in a plastic bag and just roll up the top and put on a shelf. a month or so later its ready for a new outside bed of red mulch.
 I did this to this little bed last year and after it was done fuiting i put about a inch of red mulch over it and we will see what happens this next season.
  
hey nothingschanged, thats pretty cool you recall my bay area thread. I'm trying to keep this small patch going and starting another one but a little larger.
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: cigam]
#23108795 - 04/11/16 11:39 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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cigam said: yep, they take to that scotts red mulch. After i have my quarts of oats colonized i soak a bucket of the mulch for a couple days then drain for about 1/2 a day. Then i mix about 1 quart of spawn to about roughly 5-6 quarts of mulch. I put it in a plastic bag and just roll up the top and put on a shelf. a month or so later its ready for a new outside bed of red mulch.
 I did this to this little bed last year and after it was done fuiting i put about a inch of red mulch over it and we will see what happens this next season.
  
hey nothingschanged, thats pretty cool you recall my bay area thread. I'm trying to keep this small patch going and starting another one but a little larger.
Nice tek! Your myc looks very happy, do you worry about it being exposed soo soon in the season though?
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Snazz] 3
#23132413 - 04/18/16 08:34 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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Got another 9 yards over the weekend, this time it's Douglas fir. Will be spreading the remainder of my Cyan mycelium with this load, I'm starting to get tired of all this work lol

18 gallon tote, maybe 10-11 gallons of colonized woodchips


Made this for fun 
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: liloldme]
#23132860 - 04/18/16 10:57 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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liloldme said: Got another 9 yards over the weekend, this time it's Douglas fur. Will be spreading the remainder of my Cyan mycelium with this load, I'm starting to get tired of all this work lol

 18 gallon tote, maybe 10-11 gallons of colonized woodchips


Made this for fun 

I admire your tenacity. Can't wait to see the first fruits of all this labor. Awesome carving too
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Snazz]
#23139111 - 04/21/16 01:03 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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took a random core sample today to see the how the mycelium is growing, I hope all the planting beds don't turn solid white
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: Mushrello] 1
#23167126 - 04/28/16 10:05 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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11 gallons give or take laid down today with alder, maple, oak, and dried blackberry stem chips
 before covering them with chips

 During
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Took a few random core samples today, holy cow, I couldn't find one area that didn't have mycelium, I'm gonna have mushrooms growing outta my ass soon if I don't stop this 


Remember that compost pile? Looking good!!
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Re: Psilocybe cyanescens outdoor Grow PNW [Re: PMBastian]
#23171050 - 04/29/16 10:26 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I cant wait to see pics in the fall/winter of those large beds you guys are working. What a fun hobby, isn't it?
Im going to add my last bag(about 6 quarts)of colonized mulch with some more scotts mulch(between 5-7 gallons) and start a new patch 2'x2' of Psilocybe Cyanescens tomorrow. It might be a little late in the year to start it but i have one that i started a month ago. Hopefully we will see mushrooms in november.
I did it last year, so we will see what happens.
Edited by cigam (04/29/16 10:49 PM)
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