PsiloPsychIn said:

Hi all you Pantastic People!
I wrote a note and posted it in mush cult pic of the day (I think forum) thee are t explained I kind of had a melt down about 2 years ago and just suddenly stopped all cultivation activity.
Turned my back on all my jars, plates, bags trays, etc. I only bothered to throw some things away if they got too stanky or pests were becoming obvious. In that 2, 2 plus years I pretty much Bebe logged into the Shroomery. If I was involved in a trade with you… I apologize. Please remind me and I’ll make it right! I gave away a ton of prints back in the day (including pans - so maybe that will help).

About a month ago (a month after I retired from my day job), I started back into mush cult again.
First it was dealing with the mess / aftermath.  Lots of old plates, rotten or dedicated jars etc.

Here is a mind blowing thing I wanted to share with you.

You may recall that I spread around a LOT of Bunnell spore prints - the first batch came from a generous member who could not afford the postage but sent me a couple dozen with the understanding that I’d pass them on.  Then when I started growing my own, I printed bunches of them and gave them away.

I was working with a good culture before the melt down. It was fast and tended to cluster. It also tended to produce something like sclerotia on older plates:




Well almost TWO years later I opened that very plate and took transfer material from several places (including that blue warty thing) and here is the T1 “rescue” plate:

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PsiloPsychIn said:

What’s Up Adas!
That certain member who sent me a bunch of Bunnell prints to redistribute to others was you - wasn’t it?  I was going to search my inbox to find the correspondence - but I for got how to.

As for the storage - pretty rudimentary, not intentional. It was a pretty thick pour of LMEA and quite tightly wrapped in parafilm. Then just stored in my lab room at room temperature (with some daily variations due to a grow light in the room).  It may have also been enclosed in a zip lock with some other abandoned plates. The part transferred from sclerotia thing came alive first after transferring - but as you can see all parts except that one on the left came back. A real.

Testament to how strong and resilient that Bunnell is. The Force is Strong with this One! I saw that a vendor did a cross between Bunnell and Snake Gully - I ordered some spores and hope to get that going in the next few months.

Thanks for the welcome back Asura, Adas, &  Chris77.

Thank you for all that info on the cinctulus Crimsom Rambler! Very interesting!

I never tried to fruit my Bunnell bumps and I didn’t look for them in substrate… only saw them form on old plates…

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It was me indeed! Glad I sent you all those prints before the culture completely crapped out on me. Now I'm enjoying the slow and predictable Bisporus

It's absolutely insane that you just stored it on a plate and it survived. So I guess that rules out the hypothesis that it's low osmotic pressure that preserves cultures in the CryoVial TEK storage method.

tree frog said:

I run everything around field capacity and don't mist my casings after application anymore.  But may when I put it into fruiting if I case heavier and it looks like it needs it (only bispo and close relatives anymore, but may move to thin casings on them too).

Anyway, tropical and subtropical pans like condensation and evaporation.  These are two competing factors, as very high humidity causes condensation rather than evaporation, and too much evaporation will dry out the fruits.

This means there's no sweet spot.  But rather, you want alternating periods of condensation (94+ rH) followed by evaporation (exhaust fans and humidity dips under 80 rH).  The evaporation will slowly raise the humidity up after the exhaust cycles, the foggers on a timer push it up further, fans exhaust again.  Cycle rests for ten minutes.  Rinse, repeat.

It's not the only way.  But, it helps a lot with good morphology.

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tree frog said:

Essentially, if I use a very thin casing, I apply and put it into fruiting.  Rather or not I mist depends on how dry the colonized substrate is.

If I use a thicker casing, I let it colonize before fruiting.  And generally give a light mist when I do.

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Alrighty then. Thank you for answering my silly questions.