Nate em All said:

Beautiful grows and good luck on your patch kloakk!

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Thanks Nate, I decided to make sure that all sides of the chips now is touching soil and even mixed in a little substrate of potting soil, coir and perlite among the chips. I'll leave it like that for now and if it looks dry during the summer I might give the patch a top layer of potting soil.

Kloakk said:

Nate em All said:

Beautiful grows and good luck on your patch kloakk!

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Thanks Nate, I decided to make sure that all sides of the chips now is touching soil and even mixed in a little substrate of potting soil, coir and perlite among the chips. I'll leave it like that for now and if it looks dry during the summer I might give the patch a top layer of potting soil.

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Tweeq said:

Let it get dry in the summer. It will not hurt and might even be beneficial for a good flush in autumn!

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Got it, guess I'll just LITFA then
Thanks again Tweeq, appreciate it.

el boso said:

Kloakk you're killing it.
Every place I see you you're killing it.
Inspiring work!

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Thanks boss, now, we'll have to wait for fall to know how this one turns out, but fingers crossed. I have gotten a lot of great advice and help and I couldn't have done any of this without it.

Also I am struggling with both Papuana and Semilanceata, most of my semis went green because I didn't let them consolidate long enough(I think), and I have no idea why papuana won't play with me, yet. First batch of papuana is in the dreamers now, 7 small trays, only one tray has produced a couple of fruits, literally 2



Cloned the first one, but I won't get to fruit it until fall as my grow space will be to warm, but fingers crossed some of the other trays will throw me something, point being I am not always getting good results, but I keep grinding

Tweeq said:

Kloakk said:

Nate em All said:

Beautiful grows and good luck on your patch kloakk!

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Thanks Nate, I decided to make sure that all sides of the chips now is touching soil and even mixed in a little substrate of potting soil, coir and perlite among the chips. I'll leave it like that for now and if it looks dry during the summer I might give the patch a top layer of potting soil.

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Let it get dry in the summer. It will not hurt and might even be beneficial for a good flush in autumn!

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Back reading lol. I've never lost a pot or a patch due to drying out.. but I can't shake the noids. I'm sure Tweeq is absolutely correct though. Our wild stuff doesn't get watered by anyone but nature.

falcon said:

I've done it both ways. This was started late October spawn with rehydrated sawdust and chopped straw on top of the spawn. Spawn was made from bird seed debris collected from under the bird feeder.

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falcon said:

Yeah, I think it does depend on which one you're growing, also where you are growing, how wet, dry, sun or shady.

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Yeah, the section thing drives me nuts.

I know it's microscopy differences but one would think that species with similar construction would enjoy similar environments.. but then again there's us lol.

Another wood lover I'm getting kind of excited about is Psilocybe mescaleroensis. I've been sharing in the pics and exotics threads, but it is a wood lover preferring lignin rich substrates. Apparently, it enjoys very high temps and is found only in limited areas of New Mexico as far as I know. It's found in grassy areas and it started as section Stuntzae. It was fairly recently moved to section Hopii which also includes Psilocybe hopii and gandalfiana. There's that thought process again lol.. but those all grow in similar environments.


At any rate, I'm pretty early in with it, but I've already found it can do it's thing even at much cooler temps around 68F-70F. I spawned some colonized rye to an indoor tray which started to trich early on so I put that to chips outside where it seems to be loving life. Just a small pot but the chips are already glued together. I'm still debating if I should put that to a larger pot or just leave it to see if it will produce summer fruits. We'll see how the universe wants to proceed lol.

I used a little of the colonized grain for a novelty mini indoor grow with no fruiting chamber and it is fruiting. It started with two pins and some primordia, but after loosing the older pin there's only one fruit left. Which is about as stubborn as my thing with section.

It's been a lot of fun. More so than I expected. Spores are just starting to form so we are almost full circle.