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 Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread  [Re: Bodhibiscuit]
#26333886 - 11/20/19 04:49 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Wow!
I found that harvest is about 2 weeks from spawning. Clearly they keep on trucking!
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
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Don't stress trying to find the exact Glad mini-rounds. I started out with the no-pour agar method using whatever appropriately small PP5 and glass containers I could find at the warehouse/supermarket, and they worked well enough. I've since moved on to using a media bottle and cheap pp5 polysterene petri dishes + parafilm.
Edited by Bodhibiscuit (11/27/19 04:10 AM)
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bodhibiscuit]
#26347630 - 11/26/19 10:48 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Are they pp5? At that price they’ll shirley be polystyrene?
Would love to find pp5 petri. Amazon won’t ship them here. . .
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26347833 - 11/27/19 04:13 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Whoops – yep, I meant polystyrene instead of PP5. Thanks for pointing that out Bobbit 
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bodhibiscuit]
#26348657 - 11/27/19 02:37 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Saweet. . . Always on the hunt for reusable petri.
My borosilicate glass one's are a lot of work. . .
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26349054 - 11/27/19 05:59 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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So I had a few felt filters fail. . . Turns out it was probably poor workmanship on the silicon. . .
Devised another 2 tier approach, i.e. 2 layers. . .
Felt from spotlight. . . 40mm and 50mm squared.
Cut into pairs. . .
Siliconed first layer. . .
Siliconed second layer. . . Over top. . .
And the band siliconed in place. . .
Maybe it's time to buy SFD's . . . 
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26349116 - 11/27/19 06:20 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I bought these PFTE discs recently. I've yet to see how well they work because I tried using filter patch bags for my last batches. Last night for the first time I attempted doing G2G and grain to fruiting block transfers of coral tooth myc using only spawn bags in a 90 litre SAB. It was so cramped and fiddly I'm sure some will fail. Any tips for noccing spawn bags in SABs?
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bodhibiscuit]
#26350497 - 11/28/19 01:05 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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The ones I tried (shiitake) failed to green mould. . . Got a little fruit, then green half way through the flush. . .
I’m not using the bags I have until I can afford a flow hood. . . Unless someone awesome  drops in with good info. . . My SAB is only 90L, hard to not touch the edges. . .
I bought SFD’s from aussiemushroomsupplies more expensive though. . .didn’t check ebay (amazon slut me). . . Oh well at least I have some on their way. . .
Where did you get youe coral tooth? Wild clone or someone sharing?
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26350854 - 11/28/19 05:40 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I bought the coral tooth grain spawn from Sporeshift, based in Ohoka. I've also previously bought imported oyster and shiitake from them. The oyster was no problem because I could just mix the grain into pasteurised straw in buckets.
I'm holding back on the shiitake though until I can figure out a better way to expand it to fruiting blocks using a SAB. Like you I have to wait until I can afford to build a flow cabinet. 
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 Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bodhibiscuit]
#26437843 - 01/17/20 05:39 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks to the helpful kiwi.
Edited by Zen999 (01/21/20 10:41 AM)
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Zen999]
#26441492 - 01/19/20 11:37 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Zen999 said:
You guys ever have success ordering from overseas? I know how to I'd wild ones no troubles with that just wondering if anyone is Keen on the whole clandestine tape to the bottom of a park bench with a syringe or s spore print lol have all the gear to paranoid to import I noticed alot if you are in chch I'm in the hei hei area and would like to experiment with the various teks any1 let me know if you have a pair to share I don't mind paying however anonymous we can make that.
Like the old placemakers ad, know how, can do.
Have sent  can send you a freshish print.
P.S. offering money for stuff can get you a warning in here 
P.P.S. Welcome to shroomery!
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26454479 - 01/27/20 05:38 AM (1 year, 30 days ago) |
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Hi fellow Kiwi's, I've been looking around the forum and found some great guides for cultivating/growing, I'd like to give some indoor strains of mushrooms a try to get the hang of it.
Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a type that's beginner friendly and accessible in New Zealand, such as oyster/shiitake/field mushrooms?
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Quote:
UnengagedPoppy said:
Hi fellow Kiwi's, I've been looking around the forum and found some great guides for cultivating/growing, I'd like to give some indoor strains of mushrooms a try to get the hang of it.
Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a type that's beginner friendly and accessible in New Zealand, such as oyster/shiitake/field mushrooms?
There are quite a few spawn suppliers in NZ if you want to try growing without buying all the bits. . .
There are kits available from mitre10.
I started by cloning store bought shiitake and oyster. You need agar to do that, and an SAB.
I'd recommend oyster as they are fast, easy and really tasty. Shiitake are a pain in the arse till you get your technique down.
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26456070 - 01/27/20 10:57 PM (1 year, 29 days ago) |
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I'd want to start from scratch I think and go with agar/SAB to get used to the process, it seems like the most widely accepted best practice and looks like a lot of fun.
Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever seen oysters being sold, shall have a look around and see what's available.
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UnengagedPoppy said:
I'd want to start from scratch I think and go with agar/SAB to get used to the process, it seems like the most widely accepted best practice and looks like a lot of fun.
Now that I think about it I don't think I've ever seen oysters being sold, shall have a look around and see what's available.
When you go to a typical 'asian supermarket' to get your agar (ask for ar-gah ar-gah), look in the vege isles, you should find both oyster and shiitake.
I got mine from farro fresh in mushroom season. . . Organic nz grown on nz wood are faaarkin expensive. . .
Start with agar and an SAB. You really wont regret it!
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bobbit]
#26490739 - 02/17/20 08:51 PM (1 year, 8 days ago) |
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guys your conversation is like a black magic sometimes for me , all this terms and stuff.
where can I find shrooms ID which are good to pick in NZ ? especially kiwi orchards, when I was taking mushrooms it was mostly in europe from my growboxes - doesn't look like it's easy here to get one
can you point me directions ?
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Giet]
#26499380 - 02/23/20 04:25 AM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Re: The Official Kiwi Cultivators Thread [Re: Bagels]
#26500309 - 02/23/20 07:16 PM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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Giet said:
guys your conversation is like a black magic sometimes for me , all this terms and stuff.
where can I find shrooms ID which are good to pick in NZ ? especially kiwi orchards, when I was taking mushrooms it was mostly in europe from my growboxes - doesn't look like it's easy here to get one
can you point me directions ?
This is last year's thread for active mushrooms, and where/when they are collected.
There will be a new thread this year for you to peruse once the season starts. . .Quote:
Bagels said:
Hey guys  
"OAK AND SPORE CAUGHT SELLING ILLEGAL MUSHROOMS" An edible but what a muppet.
https://www.mushroomgrowing.nz/blogs/news/oak-and-spore-caught-selling-illegal-mushrooms?fbclid=IwAR1IqSmfZ_p02tgMGHvAYc_mAymiOvH2cGWmN_0TW2sTJO5PmlAbyQWCi6A
The guy from NZ cultures (who wrote the article) is also an egg.
I'd love to grow pleurotus ostreatus, yet the one specific approved variety seems impossible to locate. . .
This thread happens to be about mudrooms that aren't legal in New Zealand. . . Imagine getting pinged for both class A and importing an illegal organism. . . Ouch
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