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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#28575104 - 12/08/23 10:21 PM (1 month, 19 days ago) |
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Mr Piggy said: We put some spawn in chips and then left it alone.
Mushrooms happened for most.
Yay El Nino!
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Tweeq]
#28575152 - 12/08/23 11:10 PM (1 month, 19 days ago) |
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Tweeq said: Some pics from this week:
Cyanescens

NZ woodlover (probably Subaeruginosa)

The other Subaeruginosa bed

DAMN!!! Is your cyan culture a monoculture?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Land Trout]
#28575158 - 12/08/23 11:14 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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holofractal said: Little bigger today on allenii, about to harvest some.
Biggest one, cap hasn't even opened all the way!


Those are allenii? Never seen them that deep of a color, how cool.
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AspectOfTheCreator said: Last question. Does the spawn to woodchip ratio matter? Sounds like woodlovers work differently than other commonly cultivated mushrooms. You can keep adding chips each year so I wouldnt imagine the ratio matters too much? Its more a matter of just getting them started on wood?
I haven't found that they are that much different than any other saprophytic ground-litter fungi. You gotta think, when you add fresh mulch on top of an established patch, your spawn rate is higher than the amount of new material you add.
For any indoor work I'll thin out my spawn rate simply because I know I have sterile media, and it gives my ADHD ass more time between stages. But with any bulk pasteurized media or outdoor spawning it's best to go with as high of a spawn rate as you can manage to out-compete any invasive competitors. Regardless of the species. Remember, molds and slimes colonize faster than higher fungi. And while WL species are generally fast and hardy colonizers, if your spawn rate isn't high enough your colony will have an uphill battle to get established.
If you're spawning large beds you can strategically heavy-spawn in a grid, then allow the myc to colonize radially from each spawn point. WL's are also pretty good at spreading to places outside of your beds if you just leave leaves piled up next to your beds, so make sure to check outside your beds too. My very first allenii bed creeped 30 foot around the corner of my house in a single season, and I didn't have a clue until I got the leaf blower out.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: ghiajake] 3
#28575207 - 12/09/23 12:28 AM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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ghiajake said: DAMN!!! Is your cyan culture a monoculture?
It's a clone culture, taken from a 20yo patch in a city near me. It's the exact same culture I used the year before.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Tweeq] 4
#28576022 - 12/09/23 04:01 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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Pholiotina smithii update:
So the spawn that smelled like piss didn't work out. Kinda expected that.
A week ago I put several cultures to grain and sawdust and one to grain alone
The clone on grain and sawdust is ready for bulk. This strain is as fast as cubes.
One of the other cultures on grain and sawdust is half done.
The culture (not the clone) on grain alone has scarcely moved.
I meant to do one with a little manure too but forgot, so will be doing this soon.
For bulk I'm trying the manure, sawdust, coir blend again. Will be expanding the culture more to play with more bulk options. These really do seem to love a little wood.
The clone still smells like nutmeg/allspice like the original ms.
Edited by thirdeyewild (12/09/23 04:02 PM)
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: thirdeyewild] 2
#28576064 - 12/09/23 04:26 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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Awesome, thanks for the update. I had one that smelled like piss and was way fast, I thought I’d seen a little slime with it on the plate one day and scoped it and it was loaded with bacteria. It was actually super fast of grain compared to one that looked clean. I topped it in the jar with coir and it colonized the coir with good looking myc, but then the grain below turned to slime that eventually got the rest of the it. I’m really glad someone else is playing with them. I just put that one and a clean one to new plates, so trying to play with them again. The bacterial one is really fast like they’re working together, they’re so tightly meshed together like the bacteria is living with the fungi and not off the agar so I don’t know about cleaning it in any way.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Land Trout]
#28576200 - 12/09/23 06:06 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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I have these germinated on agar, still need to pick out some T1s but the myc looks very different, almost exclusively growing beneath the surface of the agar. Any tips on sector selection?

Bacterial perhaps?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: wavyedge] 1
#28576208 - 12/09/23 06:14 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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That stuff between 5&6 o'clock looks fairly typical. Kinda powdery and lumpy. It can be painfully slow so I'd grab the fastest moving stuff and work with that.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: thirdeyewild] 4
#28576405 - 12/09/23 09:23 PM (1 month, 18 days ago) |
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3rd flush trying . 



Still many side pins.
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What kind u got in the auto tub set up.? Would u show the tub set up.?plz
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: rhizoRider]
#28576638 - 12/10/23 06:04 AM (1 month, 17 days ago) |
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Yeah I’m curious as well! Anything indoors and I must know more! Lol
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cyanescens. It’s just grain spawned to woodchips and a little coir. They where outside until it started getting to cold.
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Anyone have problems with click beetles looks like they enter my Cyanescens and eat them inside through stem. Any tips or traps i can do for next year? They are not big deal but prefer to not have them.
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: maimunji]
#28577081 - 12/10/23 01:39 PM (1 month, 17 days ago) |
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Click beetles don't eat mushrooms, do they? You mean springtails perhaps?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: Adas]
#28577281 - 12/10/23 03:50 PM (1 month, 17 days ago) |
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I see now they looks like springtail are they on my pic?
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: maimunji]
#28577288 - 12/10/23 03:54 PM (1 month, 17 days ago) |
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I have some in dehidrator
Edited by maimunji (12/10/23 03:59 PM)
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: maimunji] 4
#28577599 - 12/10/23 06:49 PM (1 month, 17 days ago) |
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Had some bacteria to avoid along the way but here we are

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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: scapo] 6
#28578179 - 12/11/23 07:22 AM (1 month, 16 days ago) |
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I've got updated pics and it's got me guessing the species a bit . I added a fogger and put it in large tote with goofy but unique lid system. I see more aborts tho but hope more mature pins follow now it's wet



Edited by rhizoRider (12/11/23 07:27 AM)
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Re: The Official Woodlovers Thread [Re: rhizoRider]
#28578181 - 12/11/23 07:24 AM (1 month, 16 days ago) |
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Damn I ran out of pic space now 😪 wtf 😒
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