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Contaminated Cub cake is trying to colonize my garden.
    #23767579 - 10/24/16 05:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

So I will try to get a pic to upload tomorrow but this is kind of cool. About 2 weeks ago I needed to dump some contaminated, partially colonized cakes. It was dark and late so I dumped them into my vegetable garden and just piled old tomato vines up over them to hide them. Figured it would all compost down eventually. NOW this past spring I dumped a bunch of cow/horse manure into garden for fertilizer. So 1 week ago, being curious, I pulled back that pile of tomato vines to see IF anything happened, and there was nothing. Looked like all mycelium had died. Today I pulled it back and there was fresh mycelium on my brown rice as well as some had spread onto the garden soil. This is in middle of Illinois. It has been maybe 60's during day and 40's at night. This to me is cool.

1st it is colonizing some of the manure rich soil.

2nd it is doing so in cool temps.

Now if it were spring I would be hopeful that I could get a few shrooms off of it. Unfortunately it is fall so it wont have enough time, probably, to give me a single one.

The tomato vines are not tightly compacted but yet there is still enough protection to keep moisture levels up. It appears that most of the bacteria contamination has died off while the cubensis mycelium survived. These temps are lower than what is accepted as "growing" temps, at least for those of us who grow indoors. What do some of you think. Would it be possible to introduce spawn to a manure rich garden in spring and grow cubensis outdoors? Could we colonize a big garden bed like this? Could some strains colonize and survive year after year in much farther north climates than accepted. Our winters have been getting more mild in the last 15- 20 years. Perhaps cubensis could be released into the local ecosystem (cow fields) and acclimatize to weather in middle Illinois.

Seeing it even grow outdoors right now just has my mind wondering. There is currently no know Psilocybe genus mushrooms in Illinois, although I suspect there are a couple including Psilocybe ovoid.. But to me cubensis mycelium growing outside right now, with cold temps tells me we still have hope.


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Re: Contaminated Cub cake is trying to colonize my garden. [Re: TheMadHatter420]
    #23767588 - 10/24/16 05:26 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

you can have hope until it freezes overnight a few times


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Re: Contaminated Cub cake is trying to colonize my garden. [Re: bodhisatta]
    #23767621 - 10/24/16 05:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I had all ready planed on adding more manure to garden this spring. Since I water my vegies often it stays moist. I may try colonizing some soil in amongst some vegies and see what happens next year.


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