Mr Piggy said:

Wow, that is way the fuck cheaper and smaller than I thought, but it will totally work on tiny stuff.  Y’all got blackberries growing invasive there?  Cyan clade love blackberry mulch.

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Nah, but raspberry is fucking everywhere here

the_chosen_one said:

There's what the chips look like. You can see why I prefer pots.
If I were to do a large ground patch I would rent a gas chipper or have the county make a drop. Cuz I hate shoveling. Drops have gotten mighty rare the last few years though. Most of the time they just leave them and the ones they don't get ordered up fast.

Good ol trusty cheap ass chipper.


If I only had more extension cords.

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Shoveling is all I do during the winter months though, it's just second nature at this point

the_chosen_one said:

Mr Piggy said:

Honestly I live in a rainforest in the PNW, I haven’t ever really had to soak chips outside

Leave em out in the rain, soak em for two days, whatever’s cleaver.

Also, home isn’t the only place to make patches.  Having a pile of chips means you can put a couple of buckets of them in the car and spawn new patches at will anywhere. 

I confess to having the chip lust.

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I make my own chips with a SunJoe chipper. They're a lot smaller than smoker chips and don't hold water as long. They're stored in 4 gallon pots and not always sitting in the rain, so I soak them for about two weeks before spawning. I may have used the term ferment in the past.. which basically it is, but I have never had bug issues or any odors associated. So I'm now wondering if it's a good term lol.

I love my cheap ass chipper though. It's on year three heading into four come spring. Chips up hardwood branches all day and I still haven't had to sharpen the blade.

And because I know yer gonna ASK.

Link button is sneaking in words that aren't in the text!

Anyways lol, there's newer versions now but I sure am even more happy I got it after seeing that price. I bought mine for half that. Already paid for itself a dozen times over so even if it blows up tomorrow I'm good.

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philmyco said:

New to wood lovers but not exotics - is there a tek for indoor niveotropicalis cult? Are they shoeboxable or need a dreamer tub? What’s the best substrate?

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Quote:

Psilocybe cyanescens:

Fungus Gnat made and distributed free spore prints from these wild mushrooms in 2023:

Fungus Gnat said:

"These were on the north end of Tillamook county, all in the scotch broom within a 1/4 mile of the ocean beach."

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Thanks again, Fungus Gnat (original spore acquisition and above photos provided by Fungus Gnat)!

in 2024, I germinated those spores and grew out a MS culture patch.

A clonal culture was taken from one of these fruits.

in 2025, I grew out that clonal culture, making this patch.




Spore prints were taken late 2025:


Half of those prints are from the first printing, and half were from the second printing from the same caps.

About 10  Psilocybe cyanescens prints are available.

I also have a clonal culture on agar from which I can distribute wedges.


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Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata:




These may be the only photos of the ovoids that grew in 2025.

This was a MS grow from spores given to me for free by Nichrome.  Thanks again Nichrome!

Nichrome said:

The original spores were gifted to me and were collected from wild found ovoids in a park in Atlantic City NJ USA.  These are east coast native genetics. I find them to be unique to other ovoids in that they like to fruit in the early heat of erly summer/late spring. I have not seen any fall flushes with these. They seem to like to eat just about everything and will colonize even very large pieces of wood as well as large areas of space. The spores are more rusty than a lot of other ovoids as well.

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I can confirm that I have not seen any fall fruits from this culture, and the spore prints are, in fact, rust-colored

Only 1 of these ovoid spore prints are available, but I also have a clonal culture on agar from which I can distribute wedges.

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cyans: I have since removed the cold frame (didn't seem to help at all, but this year was notably frost free for a long time)


And I fed the bed a new layer of maple chips.  This is what the maple chips look like in my neck of the woods (humid microclimate, notice all the moss and lichen). 


I let the chips age for I think 10 days, which i believe to be too long, even though I spread the pile out to be less than 1' deep.  After those 10 days, they were obviously growing other fungi, but I used them anyway.  I don't know if i want to age chips at all anymore.  Seems like they could just age on top of a patch and have less other-fungal growth in a thinner layer, and also not be touching the ground.


I used the chips, anyway.  Thoughts?


Does anyone else use a cold frame?  I think the Azurescens could benefit from it more than the Cyans, as they fruited later and were more affected by the cold.  More on the Azurescens later.  I just had the cold frame hanging around without a use...