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oculodextro

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Collecting Hericium spores
#26813276 - 07/09/20 04:41 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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 Trying to collect with just a bowl under the mushroom.
What's the best way to collect LM spores? Also the browning I'm assuming is from harvesting too late, or is it from it getting misted?
Thanks for any input.
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Re: Collecting Hericium spores [Re: oculodextro]
#26813352 - 07/09/20 05:21 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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The long teeth are from harvesting late, the brown looks like from being a bit dry.
I've never collected spores from hericium before, but I'd probably try the foil method - kinda wrap a little foil packet around the fruit. At least would minimize the amount of other crap that's gonna get in there.
Just curious, what are you going to do with the spores?
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Re: Collecting Hericium spores [Re: Forrester]
#26813367 - 07/09/20 05:25 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just wanted a long term storage solution other then a slant.
Was probably going to put into sterilized water and do agar work down the road.
Cloning is an easy option to keep hericium going? I just like my spore library.
Also good way to keep the brick hydrated?
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Re: Collecting Hericium spores [Re: Forrester]
#26813381 - 07/09/20 05:31 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hericium produce a ton of spores. What you are doing will probably work. You could probably tap the fruit, or pick it and tap in against the inside of the bowl to get them to drop quicker.
Forrester is right I believe, the browning means they are dry.
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Re: Collecting Hericium spores [Re: oculodextro]
#26813623 - 07/09/20 07:36 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I found a Lions Mane one time while I was hunting. I brought it back to my camper and sliced it down the middle to cut it in half. I then tore off two pieces of aluminum foil (one for each half of the mushroom). I then folded each piece of foil in half. I then opened the folded foil & placed the one halved Lions Mane spine side down on the one side of the foil and the other half of the folded foil is loosely layed over top of the cut side of the halved Lions Mane (visualize opening a book & putting a round object in between two pages & gently closing the book). I repeated this for the other half of the mushroom and folded foil. I checked it in a couple of days I had a decent spore print.
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oculodextro

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Cool thanks! I'll give it a whirl
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Re: Collecting Hericium spores [Re: oculodextro]
#26815355 - 07/10/20 02:39 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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What ive been doing to print these odd shapped mushrooms has been to take some aluminum foil that i feel is large enough to collect the spore load, place it on the bottom of a glove box, than take a needle and thread and tie a large knot at the end of the thread and run the needle through the base of the mushroom a few times for extra support. I than tape the excess string to the top of the glove box and let it hang overtop of the foil. Seal up the holes in the glove box to increase humidity and prop the lid open a bit.
The tape always seems to give way because of the humidity, so if you have a lid you don't mind making a hole in you could pass the string through the hole and tie or tape it on the outside of the glove box. For relatively dry mushrooms that you want to encourage to drop spores you can also place a small dish of water in the glove box and it should increase the humidity if the box is sealed.
I've done this with both lion manes and morels and it seems to work fairly well.
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Isnt this one of those where the spores are incredibly different to get to germinate? Like with many edibles? Or if not which ones were those?
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oculodextro

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Thanks digital. You know I've never been terrible sterile in my prints. That's the fun of agar. I figure fuck ton of spores>few contams
I grew it easily from a MS spore syringe, from a trusted vendor.
It takes to agar very easily and pins readily on agar. Pretty aggressive, just thin mycellium.
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