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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: holofractal] 2
#27849288 - 07/04/22 03:35 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Hi woodlovers!
I'm new to the PNW, live on the Southern Oregon coast now. I am building up 3 beds for my backyard with the help of this thread and others like it. Cyans, Azures and Subs. I know it's late, but I don't think it's too early for winter 2023?
I have a bunch of 3lb bags of spawn I'm about to inoculate. I have a ton of hardwood chips ready to go. I also own a chipper and there's a ton of wild blackberry vines and alder around here that I can chip. My spots are in 3 different areas of the yard, they are on the North side of fences that keep them shady for most of the day.
I haven't ever grown anything other than cubes, and that was a looooong time ago. Living here now got me interested in shrooms again, apparently I live in a great place for woodlovers! Can't wait to go looking for some in the wild around here this winter!
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I have zillions of them in my back yard and garden, zillions!! I'll have to use DE around where my grow beds will be. Will sprinkling DE directly on the chip beds cause any problems?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Land Trout] 1
#27852250 - 07/06/22 03:38 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I’m excited for you rescue u, your in a pretty magical regeon.
Yeah, the cold, dark and rainy days of fall & winters will most likely be a bit different this year!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: stevo]
#27855274 - 07/08/22 08:17 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Grass gets our pile hot enough to kill almost everything.
I m getting some materials together to get some ovoids going to also put somewhere in my garden. That way I'll have some fruit popping more times per year than just the fall. Are there any other active woodlovers that fruit in the spring/summer?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: stevo]
#27855559 - 07/09/22 02:49 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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RescueU said: Are there any other active woodlovers that fruit in the spring/summer?
If you are on the east coast, keep your eye out for active Gymnopilus species and Psilocybe caerulipes and also we really only know so little about what exists out there. There are probably undiscovered magic mushroom species all around that either hide well or are limited in their range.
I'm in the PNW, cool summers and cool wet winters
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Re: Planning first outdoor grow, thoughts? [Re: Tweeq] 1
#27860962 - 07/13/22 09:13 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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My supplies are almost all together. I have the spores and wood chips, the bed areas are cleared of grass and weeds. Will be making up PF cakes asap!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: meercat] 1
#27872181 - 07/21/22 09:14 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Ovoids are aggressive!
On the 15th I inoculated PF Tek jars with MSS's of azurescens and ovoids. Today the ovoids are showing mycelium growth in all of their jars!
Tomorrow I'll be inoculating more jars with cyanescens and then making a MSS of subs.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Ferather] 1
#27874000 - 07/23/22 10:36 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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All of my BRF PF Tek jars are now inoculated. Cyans and subs in the proper 1/2 pint size, the ovoids and azures are unfortunately in full pint jars. I'm learning as I go! If the pint jars start to stall I'll probably just pull them and mix the colonized portion with wood chips and hope for the best.
All were with syringes that are now empty except the subs. The subs were from a print that I made into a MSS, I still have about 5/8ths of the print left to use if needed.
The ovoids and azures in the pint jars are showing mycelium growth, the ovoids have much much more.
My plan is to take the cakes and mix with chips & sawdust in tubs for a few weeks, then transfer to my outdoor beds.
ETA: I have 2 grain bags each of azures and cyans that were inoculated with MSS's(Noobie mistake,the thread about NOT doing that really needs to made a stcky!). They have showed zero growth in 2 weeks, I'll keep them around and see what happens
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27879981 - 07/27/22 11:44 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I'm still a few weeks away from getting any mycelium outside, but today I put about 6-8 inches of big rough chips/branches,sticks we got from a chip drop on my beds locations that are already cleared of weeds and the soil is dug out a bit. It was mixed evergreens, alder, and green leaves of everything. I'm hoping it'll break down a bit in the next few weeks. Longer term food. I'll put compost on top and put a cardboard layer over it and put my colonized chips on top and cover with more chips and compost and topsoil.
I'm building for autumn of 2023, but possibly the spring for ovoids.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27891479 - 08/05/22 05:19 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Has anyone in the PNW ever grown or seen shrooms growing on laurel wood??
We trimmed the "living fence" along our yard and we have a huge amount of logs and branches that will just get burned if they aren't useful for anything.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder] 2
#27891784 - 08/05/22 08:19 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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the_chosen_one Well, it looks like I'll have a metric ass load of chips then! We have a chipper
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27892616 - 08/06/22 02:36 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Just transferred some ovoid mycelium! I had one PF jar finish way ahead of the others. I crumbled up the mycelium and put it into 2 tubs that had: a wet egg crate > boiled chips and sawdust > mycelium > boiled chips & sawdust > egg crate > Mycelium > boiled chips & sawdust.
The other jars of azures, cyans, and subbs are growing very slowly. The ovoids seem to be way faster, they are mostly colonized by now. The others are only about 25% colonized. In a week or so I'll probably just take out the colonized sections and transfer them to tubs too.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27894023 - 08/07/22 07:15 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I just transferred mycelium from jars of cyans and subbs to tubs of soaked cardboard and grains. Going to have to wait a bit for the azures, they're not growing much at all in jars. But I do have a 3lb bag of wbs that they are almost done with!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27894986 - 08/08/22 06:13 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Adas- The ones in jars are in BRF, all the other varieties are way faster. The lids are on lose. The ones on grains is doing OK, but they took about 3 weeks to get going.
These were all from MSS, so maybe that's why? I have enough mycelium to get them started on wood chips though.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27895017 - 08/08/22 06:33 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Inoculated 15 July. Azures are at about 10-15% colonized, ovoids inoculated on the same day are at 80%
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27901936 - 08/13/22 11:57 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Almost all of my brf&v jars have had the mycelium transferred to tubs containing wood and cardboard. Right now the ovoids are still the most aggressive at colonization. They're eating the cardboard and wood like it's candy! Cyans are second, azzies and subs are very slow. But my one grain bag of azzies is almost finished and should be ready to go soon, I'm planning on using that to start the azzie bed. The jar genetics mycelium might go into wine/bourbon barrels. All of the beds have now been prepped with random wood bits/branches from a chip drop and then covered with a layer of compost and topsoil.
Everything, inculding me, is ready to go. Just waiting on the mycelium to eat up and fully colonize the wood in their tubs......
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27903165 - 08/14/22 01:05 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Great bed NoName!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder]
#27905328 - 08/16/22 08:25 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Nice holofractal!
I'm about a week out from putting mycelium outside. The ovoid and cycan mycelium has reached the top layer in most of the wood chip tubs and I've started to feed them woods other than alder. I added chipped blackberry vines and beech wood mulch from bags. I have a bunch of those ready to add to the beds along with a bunch of alder and hickory smoking chip bags. I also have a ton of other wood laying around for use too. Laurel chips are drying in a pile in the garden, along with the thicker branches that woudn't fit in the chipper. Apple wood from a tree I chopped down and split last fall, and Douglas fir that I split a few months ago. I'm going to try to feed that to the subs once they grow some more. Plus a shitload of random wood bits from a chip drop.
I have a grain bag that was inoculated with a different MSS from a different source of azure that is completely colonized, much faster growth than what was used in the brf jars. I took out a few spoonfulls and added them to a tub of soaked alder and cardboard to see how fast it colonizes those. If it's faster it's what I'm going to be using for my outdoor beds.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder] 1
#27908806 - 08/18/22 09:15 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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The last mycelium from jars(except for one ovoid I have other plans for) has been transferred to tubs with wood. Subs and cyans, put into tubs with cardoard and alder. And one of each into tubs with cardboard, alder and chopped straw to see how that goes. Now I'm just waiting.....the outdoors are calling!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: TheDuder] 3
#27912402 - 08/21/22 01:00 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Today the ovoids went out to their bed! They had overgrown the mulch I recently added, and were basically solid bricks of mycelium. I put them into a bed that has an entire walkway of 2ft deep various bits of wood from a chip drop, only separated by a wooden fence with gaps in it. My hope is that it expands into the walkway over time, and I'm going to help it!
I soaked the bed, then placed down soaked cardboard.Then the mycelium bricks were placed down whole, and a quart jar of colonized chips was broken up and spread around. This was covered with a layer consisting of a mix of Scott's hardwood mulch, beech wood mulch, alder smoking chips and aspen pet bedding. Topsoil covered that, then a layer of more Scott's to top it off. I lightly sprayed the bed with water. Done!
Next week I'm going to slice up a colonized quart jar of brf and place the slices on the other side of the fence under the walkway of wood. The cyans and azures should be ready to out next week too, I'll use the same method to make their beds.
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