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Ghostveil25
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Want to start growing edibles. Anyone tried cloning king trumpets?
#25076193 - 03/19/18 06:54 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hello, just seeing if anyone has actually gone to the store and bought king trumpets, oysters or other and successfully cloned it to agar?
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Tmethyl
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Re: Want to start growing edibles. Anyone tried cloning king trumpets? [Re: Ghostveil25]
#25076207 - 03/19/18 07:02 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've made viable cultures from several Pleurotus species and Agaricus species from grocery stores. I usually cloned a small piece of the inner-stipe. Yeah it works.
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Spindlymass
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Re: Want to start growing edibles. Anyone tried cloning king trumpets? [Re: Tmethyl]
#25076638 - 03/19/18 11:05 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hi there Tmethyl,
How did they compare to your other cultures? ie., cultures not from commercial strains.
Perhaps my inexperience is showing here, but I have read about senescence and commercial strains in grocery stores not being as vigorous or productive if you try to grow them at home.
Maybe it's not a question of commercial strains, which I imagine are expected to have great growth characterisitcs, but commercial growers practices...
Either way, I'd love for you to elaborate if you don't mind
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Tmethyl
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Re: Want to start growing edibles. Anyone tried cloning king trumpets? [Re: Spindlymass]
#25077217 - 03/20/18 08:59 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sure, all the cultures I made from grocery store clones fruited very well, just as well as non-grocery store cultures I worked with, some of which I was given by other Shroomerites and some of which I ordered. If you do get a clone from a grocery store that is not performing well, just let it produce what it can and allow the mushrooms to mature and drop spores, use the fresh spores to start a new generation, you'll have to isolate on agar of course.
Also I've never ran into any spore-free/sterile mushrooms that some people claim are commonly at grocery stores, but it's possible I guess.
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Re: Want to start growing edibles. Anyone tried cloning king trumpets? [Re: Tmethyl]
#25077614 - 03/20/18 12:28 PM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said: If you do get a clone from a grocery store that is not performing well, just let it produce what it can and allow the mushrooms to mature and drop spores, use the fresh spores to start a new generation, you'll have to isolate on agar of course.
That's a really good point. Thanks for that. 
I saw P. Eryngii at Walmart of all places the other day. maybe I'll give it a try.
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