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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#25955076 - 04/25/19 04:22 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Land Trout said: Any opinions or experience with most cold hardy species of psilocybe to experiment with in south central Alaska? I live up there from June to October, it does get cold where I live but from what I’m told it gets into the 40s regularly through the winter. Some good neighbors have a wood chipper and spruce birch and aspen.
Ovoids for sure. They are more resilient to heat and cold and dryness than azzies or cyans. Put all three in your garden and let them fend for themselves and you'll most likely find the ovoids are the last man standing. The real problem with azzies and cyans further north is that there is often a hard freeze or decent snow fall before the fruits can fully mature. There is a faster drop from being too warm to fruit to freezing temps than in Washington or Oregon. Plus all the ground cover has died back so beds are visible and subject to drying winds. Ovoids fruit as the season is warming and there is no risk of frost or snow. Plus the surrounding plants are just coming into peak growth and provide cover and humidity.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: SunnyDayze] 4
#25958616 - 04/27/19 10:26 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Indoor fruited ovoids
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: SunnyDayze]
#25958636 - 04/27/19 10:42 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey SunnyDayz, snow in october? That's pretty far north.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: SunnyDayze]
#25959177 - 04/27/19 04:23 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cedar is about the only native tree i would definitely avoid. I've read that pine isn't great but will work if its well aged and weathered. Don't know for sure though. Sorry, i didn't catch what species you've got.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#25959197 - 04/27/19 04:32 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Adas said: May be, who knows. But yours surely look different than any I have seen
Wonderful job dude! 
My Azzy Sawdust > Sawdust expansion. You're looking at several kgs.

Indoor fruits often look different than outdoors but i agree they are a little weird. In 3 years they haven't fruited in the spring, only in the fall. Thanks!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: josevzs]
#25960518 - 04/28/19 11:41 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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josevzs said: Hi everyone. Some months ago I got some azur prints somewhere and since that I've been trying to clean the culture on agar. Even though in most of guides I've read posters say that it's difficult to contaminate a woodlover culture, I'd love to start from something clean, just because it's my first time with woodlovers and I even don't know how healthy myc should look like.
So I made some MEA plates and I put some spores on it, as I've doo ing with cubes for some years. But, though I've been using my always recipe which worked perfectly with cubes always, the azur plates were completely clean one month after I put the spores, so I gave it a second chance. It's been close to another month after that and swill nothing in both plates...
Is there a reason why azur myc doesn't grow over MEA? is there some kind of advice that you could give me?
Thanks to everyone 
The print could be dead or you're keeping them too warm are the first 2 things that come to mind. Fall woodlovers seem to germinate better when kept cool, or in the fridge for a few days. If the plates are clean after a month i would assume the print is pretty clean and try knocking up some pf jars with some wood chips mixed in.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: josevzs]
#25960593 - 04/28/19 12:34 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, but it would be good to get them going soon if you want fruits this season. Another thing I've encountered is having grain with fungicide or whatever that prevented growth. It was supposed to be "organic millet" from one of the high end hipster places. That's unlikely with mea though. Another thing to when you get a new print is to innoc a plate with spores from a known viable strain in your collection so you know for sure whether it's the print or a problem with your media.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Psilosopherr] 2
#25960949 - 04/28/19 04:19 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Couple more pics from years ago

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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: SunnyDayze]
#25961305 - 04/28/19 07:54 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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What's hwfp SunnyDayz?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Ferather] 2
#25962977 - 04/29/19 04:22 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Some old allenii pics. Another easy indoor species.

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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: BU4O] 1
#25968483 - 05/02/19 03:30 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Is this an especially bad year for slugs or are they this bad every year? To protect my garden plants I use a combination of slug bait and hand picking if I have the time. I set up areas for them to hide in the day and then i can wipe alot out at once. One thing that really helps is cleaning the garden in the fall and looking under stones and pots for their eggs. If you can put a good dent in their fall egg production it makes the following spring much easier ime.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: BU4O]
#25982450 - 05/09/19 05:31 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nice and chunky! Do you have any ovoids in beds/wild or are you doing them all in tubs? Outdoor ovoids dont come up for at least another month around here.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#25984288 - 05/10/19 03:41 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nichrome said: Will azzies fruit the first year outside? Layed out a few yards of community mulch with a case of colonized oats last week. It's starting to get ropey already. vigorous.
They certainly can. In containers at least, nto sure about beds.
Yeah they'll fruit the first year in beds if you don't overfeed by giving them more wood than they can colonize in the season.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: SFS96]
#26037726 - 06/07/19 05:04 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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SFS96 said: Got some ovoids on agar

Looks like you've got it down SFS96!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Zifozonke]
#26664622 - 05/11/20 02:17 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Very nice Zifozonke!!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: BU4O]
#26895350 - 08/23/20 12:33 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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BU4O said: It's all about the strain guys...
Exactly! If you're serious about any of these direct from the wild species or f1s it's worth trying to source out a few different genetic lines and pick the best performers. Two wild prints from different sources will often perform surprisingly different from each other. Don't put all your hard work on one strain/variety/locale.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Zifozonke]
#26933744 - 09/13/20 04:31 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Zifozonke said:
  These tubs of my subaeruginascens just wont give up putting out fruits...
Wow! Great genetics/cultivation skills you've got there. That's 3 or 4 flushes in one year.
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There's nothing wrong with fresh Nef. It just takes a little longer for the mycelium to digest it. Which isn't a bad thing. With older wood they sometimes rip through it very quickly and exhaust the food supply before fruiting season. Woodlovers are easy but if you don't feed them enough or they rip through it too quickly you'll get poor or no fruiting. If you feed them too much they may not fruit that season either. One advantage of a product like the bagged mulch is that it's pretty consistent and you get to know how your mycelium will move through it year to year. If you're getting your chips from different sources (different tree species) each year you have to keep more of an eye on things. They'll move through maple and other hard species much slower than soft species like willow or alder.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Ferather] 1
#26989728 - 10/17/20 08:30 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ferather said: Fresh wood tends to resist decay, and the mycelium becomes exhausted for a very long time, good chance it doesn't work, gets overrun my another organism, or takes years.
That hasn't been my experience. I've had excellent result with freshly chipped wood in the past. Freshly chipped is easier for most people to acquire than aged chips. Just ask a tree maintenance crew for some when they're tree trimming/cutting in your neighborhood. Do it in the spring before the leaves start growing and ensure that the tree is healthy. P.s. I usually dry the chips and rehydrate when I'm about to use them so their not freshly wet off the tree. Don't know if that makes any difference though . Bagged mulch is so much easier for many people to acquire and is usually very clean.
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