iceNock said:

When doing A2G in a SAB do you reheat your blade in between every jar or every plate if you're doing 2-3 jars per?

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Rusty2096 said:

You're slacking you had the same avatar for 2 days now...

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Rusty2096 said:

You're slacking you had the same avatar for 2 days now...

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and it's been making me dizzy 😵

Nichrome said:

Most of the oak around here works great for woodlovers when used as chips and I feed it to my beds pretty regularly. The local cheap HWFP here has a lot of oak in it and it works just fine too for what purposes sawdust is useful for.

There are a lot of different oaks. Oaks are generally great host trees for chanterelles, bolets, amanitas, maitake, as well as oysters, turkey tail, and chicken of the woods. Some of the most prolific fruitings of chicken of the woods I've found have been on oak. Sometimes hundreds and hundreds of lbs all at once.

Short answer, yes it's very likely good to use.

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Rusty2096 said:

You're slacking you had the same avatar for 2 days now...

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CJD said:

Nichrome said:

Most of the oak around here works great for woodlovers when used as chips and I feed it to my beds pretty regularly. The local cheap HWFP here has a lot of oak in it and it works just fine too for what purposes sawdust is useful for.

There are a lot of different oaks. Oaks are generally great host trees for chanterelles, bolets, amanitas, maitake, as well as oysters, turkey tail, and chicken of the woods. Some of the most prolific fruitings of chicken of the woods I've found have been on oak. Sometimes hundreds and hundreds of lbs all at once.

Short answer, yes it's very likely good to use.

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I've been looking into chicken of the woods as a project but haven't found anything great as a starting point.  These hundreds of pounds, were they naturally occurring or a grow you did?

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Nichrome said:

CJD said:

Nichrome said:

Most of the oak around here works great for woodlovers when used as chips and I feed it to my beds pretty regularly. The local cheap HWFP here has a lot of oak in it and it works just fine too for what purposes sawdust is useful for.

There are a lot of different oaks. Oaks are generally great host trees for chanterelles, bolets, amanitas, maitake, as well as oysters, turkey tail, and chicken of the woods. Some of the most prolific fruitings of chicken of the woods I've found have been on oak. Sometimes hundreds and hundreds of lbs all at once.

Short answer, yes it's very likely good to use.

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I've been looking into chicken of the woods as a project but haven't found anything great as a starting point.  These hundreds of pounds, were they naturally occurring or a grow you did?

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Naturally occurring. They are not too hard to grow outside intentionally. I just made a clone of a wild one a few days ago.

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Nichrome said:

I've made several dozen clones and messed around with the mycelium which seems to eat just about everything. I'll probably run this clone on HWFP using bags to form blocks, much like oyster or maitake. It's not too slow, and the fruits can grow really fast once they get going. Water seems to be the biggest factor. Dry logs in nature that don't touch the ground only fruit sparsely and the fruits are small and tough. Live trees and partially buried or submerged logs can have massive flushes again and again.

If you go with logs, make them a couple feet longer and bury them a couple feet down into the ground in a wet area or water that ground regularly.

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Nichrome said:

An oyster culture consumes the substrate (wood/straw) as food/nutrition, whereas with cubes they are not really eating the coir and they are primarily eating just the grain. The coir is just a hydration/porous aerated material.

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Nextcontestant said:

Almost ready to start my first grow, getting a couple spore syringe and jumping into AGAR.

How many PP dishes should a noob start off to start isolation? Plan on doing 3 different types, and not like the practice won't hurt, maybe 3-4 plates each?

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