Gleyck said:

might bang

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Mackload said:

first semperviva. (thank you, milkboy!)

five days on agar, and it's not a great pic, but I do believe we have germination

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Gleyck said:

"No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better"

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mfw my plates contam

MycelialDream said:

Finally got a good flush out of this box. Had a terrible grow last year, but managed to clone one of the clusters. This shoebox took over 2 months to finally produce something other than side pins. I was ready to throw in the towel and flooded it for a few days in desperation. A week later I had tons of pins. It was a a good lesson in moisture content with these guys. I have a newer box that I am flooding early to see what happens.

Semps are the only mushrooms I want to grow really. I so prefer them to cubes.

Flush was 18g dry in the end
Sub - 50/50 verm coir ... Casing 50/50 peat verm

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Gleyck said:

coir is just a medium to deliver water. We give so much more nutrition, with grain, than these organisms have available in the wild.

Here's a 4th flush coming from this jar I have near the bathroom window since February:

1st and 3rd flush... somehow I've already deleted the 2nd since this gallery keeps asking my to delete pics cuz it's always full


4th coming

what amazes me is that the sub dosen't shrink

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curenado said:

Years ago when semper viva first appeared, the story was Semper viva means "4 or more flushes" and is a strain you do supplement, so it has fuel to keep going. This was all pre-coir

I'm sitting here wondering if coir came along and they "live forever", but they're too hungry and thirsty to flush again. I haven't seen anything where people are posting fourth flush.

These are your favorites and I wanted to ask what all substrates you have used and if its all been coir.....?

I also think there was talk about remixing in fresh nutrition, like shaking a spawn jar and the thing would keep going.

Maybe I missed it, but it's like nobody seems to know this now. I just wonder if it got lost because of the massive switch over to choir and choir doesn't give it enough on its own for 3rd and 4th flushes?

I will get ahold of some and give the theory a try based on the stuff we were doing when they first appeared, but I just wanted to put that out there, to find out if I'm completely wrong and everybody knows this?

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