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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Haywire]
#27193113 - 02/08/21 06:26 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Haywire]
#27193235 - 02/08/21 08:18 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Damn Haywire, haven’t seen any mold in my bags, but did see a little bug crawling around in one. My TEK is, add bugs, they help move the myc around.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Land Trout]
#27193476 - 02/08/21 10:54 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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So I started an experiment a month or so ago with some azurescen spores I had handy. Wanted to see if I was able to get some of the spores to germinate through a low tek lc method for woodlovers by waylitjim. I used alder broth I had just strained from hydrating some natural smoking chips. Anyways, I made the culture and then after a few days or so I loaded it up into syringes and let them sit. Seems like a couple of them are a success! I could be totally wrong though. I know the pictures are shiat but what do y’all think?
 Here’s another more recent experiment I’m working on which is another azzie culture. Steam sterilized popcorn tek so I know the chances of contams are much higher due to my half ass ghetto process. But nonetheless we have success after the first few days.🤙 praying and hoping for the best on these jars.
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Land Trout said: Damn Haywire, haven’t seen any mold in my bags, but did see a little bug crawling around in one. My TEK is, add bugs, they help move the myc around.
Not too worried about it. did it as a test and inoculated with a sawdust cake. it's a mix of crushed corncob and pellets so might have been the corn cob that caused the rainbow.
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difficult to say from the pics. at least it's white, which is a good starting point
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Haywire] 1
#27195060 - 02/09/21 08:50 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, I got worms! I think I’ll start pasteurizing this wood, it’s just a pile of alder sawdust sitting in my yard.
Edited by Land Trout (02/09/21 09:18 AM)
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Land Trout]
#27195120 - 02/09/21 09:33 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Jesus bro Dead earthworms are gonna cause huge contam problems, no matter what.
If your pile has earthworms, I recommend putting the pile to an elevated spot, where it can dry out. The worms will flee the dry environment and you're good.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#27198431 - 02/10/21 11:50 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'll get some pics up, but today I created my big outdoor backyard patch. I had a bunch of mulch made of fir, alder, redwood, and a mix of other local woods as a base. Spread it like 8 x 3 ft and a few inches deep. I then evenly mixed in entirely colonized (as in every other woodchip was literally half covered with mycelium and tons of strings everywhere still growing already), very, very healthy alder wood chips entirely all covered with alleni mycelium (as well as some leaves and soil that were colonized too) and evenly spread them throughout the entire patch. There was more than enough luckily, so every part has a solid already colonized chips spread around. As well this patch already has little bits of grass and ivy growing over it for a sweet micro climate. I then poured a small covering of the mulch mix over the spawned chips and gently and evenly mixed them so the spawned chips were entirely covered, but barely so.
I will then be adding more alder wood chips as well as ground blackberry branches to the top for more food and substrate for them and to better enhance the environment. At that point, it should be ready to hang out and grow until the season comes in 9-10 months. I figure I'm supposed to put cardboard to cover it all for quite awhile, right? Then just let sit, check every once in awhile for growth. How often should I water a bed like that, or just let california rains do their thing as alleni grow only a few minutes from my house many places?
thanks yall, first outdoor grow and I wanna get it right. Any more tips like small things to mix in to get them growing good? there's a few random things I have leftover from cube grows Id like to ideally mix in and help them colonize and grow better (past. rye berries, coco coir and other nutrient rich mixes that are past. that can be added to cube tub grows). thanks yall! really appreciate ya!
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I don't cover my beds with cardboard. I also don't water, but then again, I'm not in california. seems like you've done a good job!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Haywire]
#27198869 - 02/11/21 08:55 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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This is what I have now:



Hopefully I am not too late. May sound ridiculous, but I don't know what it is actually. It might be any of two different ovoid strains, azurescens, alenii or subaeruginosa.. Ironically it happened that none of my plates germinated, and only one, which I called dump plate, where I just put all used swabs I used get some grow. That growth was transferred a couple of times on clean plates, and finally I put it on grain. I have some suspicions that this might be Alenii or Azurescens, but can't be sure now. Also I have a breastmilk bag with sterilized chips and used aziie swab that shows some growth. The agar plate it was used did not germinated. I've lost one azzie plate to contams, and only have now two clean plates with "unknown" culture growing, and these grain jars from it. I guess there is no way to tell what it is by mycelium only.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: wxorx]
#27198929 - 02/11/21 09:32 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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That looks like mold or maybe oyster to me. Especially the jar with the sticker on it.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: wxorx]
#27198937 - 02/11/21 09:40 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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To be honest, those jars look like a mold culture.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#27199010 - 02/11/21 10:14 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Land Trout said: That looks like mold or maybe oyster to me. Especially the jar with the sticker on it.
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Adas said: To be honest, those jars look like a mold culture.
That would be very sad At least it is clean mold. How should it smell the healthy mycelium? Please look at the agar "plates" I have:
This one is the t2, I used to cut pieces of agar with for the jars:

This one is t3, same cottony stuff:

Btw, I use green food coloring for the agar - when this thing starts to grow, the green disappears and agar becomes pinkish below it.
This is how green the agar is when poured:

This one is culture from an unknown psilocybe (possibky just big semilanceata, I was told) from this thread: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/27005676 Guys at MO tried to identify it, and it came through different transformations and finally landed as just "Psilocybe: https://mushroomobserver.org/435861?q=1cVVI
What grows on them looks much more like a mycelium should looks like:


So, after all I grow some unspecified mold then, right? It must be some overseas mold then, that came on the prints, cause it smells very strange, I can't explain it, and never saw exact this kind of mold, and the smell is not bad, but is not anything I smelled before, and cannot compare to anything. This means I should toss them? I have three sets of plates, made on different dates, week apart one from another, all stay clean, no growth, no nothing, the oldest are month and a few days old. Maybe these prints were too old? One of them is dated 2017, the others I don't know.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: wxorx]
#27199014 - 02/11/21 10:17 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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A 3 year old Azzy print won't germinate anything other than mold. Definitely toss the jars. T2 looks toast as well, the T3 plate looks like it MAYBE could be woodlvoer myc. The unknown mushroom myc looks good.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#27199062 - 02/11/21 10:39 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Why wouldn't a 3yo azzy pint germinate?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27199085 - 02/11/21 10:49 AM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Becuase their spores go dead in less than 2 years. At least sotred at room temp etc.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#27199311 - 02/11/21 12:38 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Is that a known thing or just from your experience? Does that go for all spores, all wood lovers or just azzy's?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27199361 - 02/11/21 01:07 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's primarily my experience but others also say that Azzy spores don't last long. Ovoids, for example, can last several years. Maybe simply coz the spores are bigger in size.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#27199552 - 02/11/21 03:05 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Allenii bags. Grain to wood, straw and a bit of bran. Gonna run pots again as usual but also try to keep this bags up to a summer and in late August bury them in dirt and see if they fruit. Pic is from few weeks ago, they are all fully colonized now. Upper left is older than other two so it's fully done.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Green_Hands]
#27199717 - 02/11/21 04:29 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Would y’all leave your outdoor planters outside during a light snow? they are for the most part all colonized 100%. And if anything they will just get caked on the top with snow. Might be a silly question but yeah just wanna make sure I don’t damage the networks I’ve been working hard at keeping happy. Snow will only be here for a few days and it’s nothing major at all. Honestly pretty beautiful. Cheers!
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I would and I do. They get trough freezing temps just fine.
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