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The Azure Project **completed** * 1
    #543238 -

Here?s the deal. I know there are several Shroomerites out there who want to cultivate Azures outdoors.



I am looking for a mentor to help me and the rest of the willing Shroomerites out in azure cultivation.



I propose an on going photo thread designed to walk cultivators through outdoor azure cultivation. I would post regular photo updates and welcome others to as well.



I hope to have some sort of assignment schedule that everyone could follow. eg. Finish spawn preparation March 1st.  Prepare outdoor bed June 1st, etc.



Here are pics of some transplanted Astorian Azure mycelium from November. I have kept in on cardboard over a mix of peat/verm. I will be transfering some samples to agar plates in preparation of a spring bed.



Azure cultivation mentor needed!!! :cool:

Apply here.:cool:





Joshua 


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Edited by Joshua (02/09/04 04:09 PM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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damn. how long have you been cultivating?


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: TeRzMaStA]
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A total of about 9 months, 6 the first time and 3 currently,with a two year break in between.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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Here is an azure culture from an old print I took in 99 in hammond, Oregon.





Here is an azure culture from spores I got from Joshua a couple months ago.




Sorry about the quality, I?m still trying to get this digicam to work well. I?ll post updates, I just started up some grain from the old azure culture as you can see there?s a wedge missing. any feedback is appreciated

Edited by Anno (11/03/02 09:24 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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Very cool, my azure spores are just starting to germinate, how long did it take to take over that much of the plate (Joshua?s spores). Josh and I picked lots of Azures this year hope to see some fruits from that strain?

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Azurepower]
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It hasn?t been more than 2 weeks for Joshua?s spores. They were a lot more agressive than the old ones. I isolated it a couple times and that last plate has only been growing for like a week. I?m going to grain and then wood and I?ll post updates on both strains. I?ll get some better pics soon.

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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Here is a little better picture. It?s starting to get a little blue in the center. The original plate I did bruised like crazy when I cut it up. I?m trying to get used to this new camera, It?s a 2.3 mp hp camera. It?s supposed to be really good but I just cant get real good close ups. I?ll keep trying.

Edited by Anno (11/03/02 09:23 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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You really should try and get them in the ground before June. Ideally you want the spawn run this time of years indoors, have it planted in the ground by early spring, then hopefully fruit that same fall. If you dont start it until June, you may not see fruits until the following fall.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Yeah I got it going early just for that reason and I hope to have it out sometime in march. We didn?t get much of a winter here so the ground should thaw up sooner than that I hope. I?ll post my progress. later

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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Im gonna use sawdust/bran in 1 pint jars, Inoculate agar wedge culture, then spawn larger alder chips in trays, then place spawn under a Roadodendron bush covering with more larger chips and leaves, then cover that with black plastic till fall, take plastic off in beginning of october, start fruiting, Be a happy camper!!! Does this sound good enough, or does this need any other modification, please help?

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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I am in need of hardwood spiral-cut dowels. Where can I find these? I will be using these as spawn for my bed. I went to a hardware store but they did not offer a very good price for bulk, about 10 cents a piece!

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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You should get you some smoke chips, they are much cheaper than dowels.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Barbecues/Charcoal_and_Woodchips/?tc=1


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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What would make a good spawning material? Should I just spawn chips to chips?

For my substrate: How about pet bedding? I found a large quantity (.5 meter cubed) for $10. It is made from aspen. I suppose the best would be fresh alder. I have access to a chipper and fresh alder branches. I was planning on using the chips for the substrate. I am unsure of what material would make for good spawn.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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wow! Great post! Ive just started on that azure print you sent Joshua - i dont have any agar supplies at the moment so i had to streak them into a malt/water medium - just waiting to add h202 as soon as they germinate.
I really find from experience with woodlovers in Australia, that nothing beats picking your own mycelia and spawning from there - its soo easy and there is no real need to be sterile if your working with wood chips.
My Ps.Australiana / Subaeruginosa are doing really well - after they began pinning invitro i added some more cardboard and they have taken to this like mad!!


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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I go this route:

agar -> grain(millet) ->sterilized woodchips in jars -> pasteurized woodchips in bags -> outdoor woodchips bed


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Ryche whats a good time to get them in ground here on the east coast.. say virginia area? We are still getting some frosts here. I was thinking like mid march the freezes should be over


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: SouthernGent]
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A light frost(a few degrees under the freezing point) won?t harm the mycelium. So unless there?s a deep winter expected to come, you could make a patch today.


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Edited by Anno (02/13/02 10:24 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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I?ve been busy :smile:



On 2/16

I innoculated two agar plates to start my cultures. One was innoculated w/ multispore, the other from some mycelium I transplanted from Astoria into a jar w/ some cardboard and wood chips.

I will update the agar plates soon. I think the one with the transfer is contammed. I am going to see if I can get some mycelium to grow and then transfer to a clean plate.



On 2/17

I also began preparation of my bed. I chipped some woodships of both alder and maple. I have at least 50 lbs of fresh woodchips now! I hope you all enjoy the pics. I broke a sweat making the bed.



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Chips/Bed



Alder



Maple



Maple on left, alder on right



Old compost from wood chips and blackberry vines (4-5 years)





New compost from wood chips and blackberry vines (2-3 years)





Contrast of wood chips against composted chips





I layered the bed from bottom up with the old compost, new compost, and new chips. Total bed depth exceeds 1 ft in some areas.











These two are pics of the sky from the bed to show exposure.







Joshua   


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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hee hee! Someone just started several cultures the day after you did. Half Cyans. & the other half Azures.

You should get yourself one of those big plastic bins. You know, the ones at Wal-Mart that look like big planters with the rope handles. Once you have some spawn, you can mix it into those bins filled with alder chips and keep them nice and toasty in a dark place somewhere until about May. You?ll have a shitload of colonized chips by then.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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That is very nice.
Looks like alot of work.
Hope it pays off for you.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Roadkill]
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Looks like a nice area to live also. I just went to grain with the azures and cyans and should be going to woodchips next week, I?ll post some pics soon.

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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Joshua that outdoor bed looks GREAT! Baby Bear is even more excited about growing outside. Here in Texas we have some really great days of high humidity and cool temps just right for an outdoor bed.....Keep us posted on your progress.

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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To make sure you get your spawn material ready for your bed a culture should be started ASAP



The plates I started the other day are destroyed. I have been having ant infestation problems and they found my plates. I will be plating again today. This time I will be sure to seal the plates with tape.






These are some of the fruiting parameters for cyans. I believe these figures should be appropriate for azures also:



From The Mushroom Cultivator:

Spawn Run:

65-75 deg

30-60 days

RH 90+%

CO2: 10,000 ppm or higher

exchanges=0



I do have azure prints available for sale.



Joshua


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Edited by Anno (11/03/02 09:25 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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Sorry Josh !

I?d be killing me some ants !!!!!!!

That suks bro....big time !!!!!


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Who the hell you callin crazy?
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Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making *DELETED* [Re: Joshua]
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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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This is a jar of P. azurescens mycelium on soaked sterilized beachchips inoculated via rye spawn 5 weeks ago.

This jar will be used to inoculate about 5 quarts of soaked pasteurized chips, which will then be used to inoculate an outdoor bed.







If you haven?t started your outdoor azurescens or cyanescens project yet, NOW is time to do so!


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Edited by Anno (11/03/02 08:51 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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Anno-

I have a large ammount of woodchip (50 lbs).
How would you go about using them?
Should I colonise all of them? or spawn them once they are in my bed?

Do you have pics of the environment from one of your previous beds?

Thanks for all of your help.

I am electing you the mentor of this thread:).

Joshua 


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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I would use the mycelium-laden ants to innoculate my substrate. Put the little beggars to work!


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Swami]
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Swami,

I think he killed his ants.

poor little buggers!!!


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Who the hell you callin crazy?
You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch!

Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Swami]
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Hmmm. maybe you?re on to something. A proxide/ant tek maybe?

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
    #571234 -

I?d spawn the myjor part of them in your bed, but you could use at least a part of it to make some spawn.

Last year I planted the azures under a beech hedge.

The pictures are here:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Pictures&Number=415030

2 years ago I planted them in the woods:
http://www.fungifun.org/azurescens.htm

3 years ago i planted it under a tree:
http://www.sporeworks.com/AustriaAzure/AustriaAzure.htm


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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Anno,

Went and looked at your pictures.
Very impressive as always !!!
I love the look of the Azure?s before they mature.
Thanks for sharing your pictures !!!


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Who the hell you callin crazy?
You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch!

Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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I think I?m going to make my bed next to/under some rodondendron bushes...

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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Have any of your previous patches fruited a second or third year?

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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The second patch fruited the second year and the third patch is being expanded this year.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Anno]
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Is the spawn that you made from the spores I sent?

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
    #572222 -

No, this one not.
This is made from a clone from last fall.


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Edited by Anno (03/07/02 02:51 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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Here are pics from an azure culture and from some partially colonised maple chips. I will be transfering a small quantity of chips to full maple jars. I will be transfering agar wedges to a couple also.



I will post pics of my bed again soon. I have added 5 rhododendron plants to the bed.








Joshua


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Edited by Anno (11/03/02 09:30 AM)

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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Joshua]
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Great stuff !!!

Are you going to spawn your outside bed soon ?


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Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: Roadkill]
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I will hopefully have enough spawn in 1 month. Maybe 8-10 quart jars.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making *DELETED* [Re: Joshua]
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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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>anybody else have an hp photosmart?

Not me, but I?m sure your camera should have some kind of a MACRO, cosult your instruction booklet.


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Re: The Azure Project: In the Making [Re: kayaman9]
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I am going to try to establish cyanescens in my garden in Toronto. I guess I?m late for this year but there?s still snow on the ground here. The azurescens has been established all around me in Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin. My climate is similar. I am glad you find the cyanescens mycellium more vigorous. My cyanescens spore syringes are on their way from Sporelab.com. I notice you don?t use any cardboard in your process. Some people are having very good results with this even fruiting the azurescens on plain cardboard. I am determined to have success with my project even if I have to put heating cables into the ground. I am going to try using the Orchid Bark which is Douglas Fir as this is one of the woods that cyanescens likes. I have a lot of it left over since I switched my orchids to coconut chips.


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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Update?


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Anno]
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right, what happened to the azures projects? any news?


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: comario]
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Rhododendrons were planted in May.

The bed was spawned with a mixture of 7+ quarts of colonised maple/alder chips and freshly sterilised (using bleach and peroxide) alder chips on 6/23.

Here are some pics w/ captions.

I typed this damn post 2 times with more detail and lost it to damn Yahoo! pop-ups :mad:. So this is what you get, it?s probably better this way anyway.

7 fully colonised quart jars consisting of some alder jars and some maple jars.


A close up of one of the older jars.


One part of bed with expanded spawn mix.

The same part with fully colonised chips laid over.


A pic indicating the spawned areas of the bed.


Standing from afar.


Water jug watering.


Rhizomorphs! from 9/15



Joshua 


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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Looks great!!!

Nice pictures as always!!!



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Who the hell you callin crazy?
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Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Roadkill]
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Are you pastuerising or sterilising the Wood spawn?
I`m assuming sterilising would be fine because you don`t have to protect any of the anaerobic bacteria present in bulk spawns?
OR am I wrong in saying that?

Also Joshua you were saying you had an azure print for sale??
Is it still available?
I`d like to try this with a fridge instead of outdoor.
PM me if you still want to sell a print.

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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: DERRAYLD]
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hell yea dude you got a nice back yard with the rain we got yesterday i think it might of startled up some of the azures at the coast ive gotta get my lazy ass down there


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: DERRAYLD]
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The woodchps in the jars were PC?d.

The chips I used for the final spawn mix had been stored outdoors in a garbage bag. When I opened them I found plenty of green. I was contemplating a couple different methods for preparation, but decided sterilisation was the way to go so that all of the mold spores would be killed.

I soaked the chips in a weak bleach sol?n for 24 hrs, I then added a couple of bottles of %3 peroxide and let sit another 24 hrs.

I don?t believe psilocybe species rely on micro-organisms to aid in fruiting, so killing them all off shouldn?t have been too big of a problem. I think that is what you were asking.

I checked a few weeks ago on the level of colonisation. I gently moved the composted woodchips aside until I reached a solid mass of colonised woodchips, the spawn took and took very well!

Joshua



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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: DERRAYLD]
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I am all out of prints, I should be getting many more very soon! I should have some in less than a month.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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>I don?t believe psilocybe species rely on micro-organisms to aid in fruiting

It very looks that the woodloving, cold temperature fruiting species DO require some kind of an aditional trigger along with cooler temperatures to start pinning, possibly the right bacteria.
I think Workman could elaborate more on this.


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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  wow.. that looks wonderful.  Let me know when there are prints ready... I would love one. :smile:
    Where I live in febuary it is -20 fahrenheit... which brings me to another question. How hardy is the mycelium of the azurescens?  Can it withstand a hard frost or would it require some form of protection from weather that cold?
    beautiful work as usual
 


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Alkaloids]
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Way too cold dude...I will have prints w/i the month! Check the Spore Exchange forum, I will post there when they are ready.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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Awesome job joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Alkaloids]
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I should have said w/i "a" month.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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dammit i cant wait till they start to pop up at the coast i know someone who went there yesterday to see how everything looks i hope its good


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Anno]
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workman, would you please elaborate on this? i?m sure many would be interested


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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Its great to see some growth there man.

Glad to hear things are going well with the Azures...props to all the work you?ve done with this outdoor cultivation effort!!!!

I know you will, but please keep us updated! :smile:

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Macey Howard]
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moe you should do a outdoor azure tek ill supply the print when they start poopin up fuckin cubies in your back yard make it all azures


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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Nice. Joshua, how long can the wood chipper run on a full tank of gas?



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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: BowlKiller]
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Oh Yeah, And how much air pressure can those tires hold??  :wink:

--happygrins :grin:

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: BowlKiller]
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I have no idea. Individual shredders may vary.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Joshua]
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From my own experience it seems that something in the soil flora stimulates the fruiting of azures. I don?t think its required for pinning but may be necessary for normal development into a mature fruitbody. More work needs to be done.


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Re: The Azure Project: Better be spawning!(4/4) [Re: Workman]
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thank you. keep us posted with any developments


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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so, any fruits yet?


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Anno]
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Nope, it has been too dry. The temps have been dropping though and I expect it to start raining heavily w/i the next couple of weeks.

I have been watering the bed irregularly with gallon containers that have holes in the bottoms. There is healthy rhizomorphic mycelium just under the top woodchip surface.

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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i wish you all the best for your outdoor beds. mine are not looking great, the mic seems to be disappearing, rather than colonizing :confused: :confused: :frown: i think i might have overwatered it during initial colonization: i remember anno saying that this might give initially appearance of healthy myc, but then it doesn?tfruit. i think that?s what is happening to mine right now. :frown: 


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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Prey for rain man!!
I know I am!! :smile:

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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has anyone had luck growing azures in southern b.c.
its not that much colder than oregon here.

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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they are up at the coast but not your house thats weird


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Dobie]
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yea their not on the list of found species. but they probably aren?t included on the list unless they grow wild

British Columbia
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Amanita pantherina (Ammirati et al., 1985)
Conocybe cyanopus (Atkins) Kuhner. (Stamets, 1993).
Gymnopilus luteofolius (Peck) Singer. (Stamets, 1996).
Psilocybe baeocystis Singer & Smith. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe cyanafibrillosa Guzm?n & Stamets.
Psilocybe cyanescens Wakefield. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe fimetaria (Orton) Watling. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe pelliculosa (Smith) Singer & Smith. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe semilanceata (Fr.) Kummer. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe sierrae (Stamets, 1996; Guzm?n, 1983)
Psilocybe silvatica (Peck) Singer & Smith.
Psilocybe strictipes Singer & Smith=Psilocybe callosa. (Stamets, 1996).
Psilocybe stuntzii Guzm?n & Ott. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Psilocybe subfimetaria Guzm?n & Smith. (Guzm?n, 1983).
Panaeolus subbalteatus Berkeley & Broome.

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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You could probably have luck w/ an outdoor bed. I would give it a shot.

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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trust me azures grow around here im holding in my hand as we speak  :grin:


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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I would amagine you could water it yourself.


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Dobie]
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There are quite a few miles between where you live and where Youinforit lives. From what you said, I would guess you found some azures locally, if that is so you have found them the furthest from the coast I have ever heard. Would you clarify what you meant?

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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: pleezr]
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The patch is not located where I live. I see it once every week or every other week. That makes it hard for me to water any better than via milk jugs.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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no i found em at the coast i thought he was saying that they dont grow around here sorry im confused

on a side note my friend says they grow all the way up to bc i dont know where he got his info from though could be wrong


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Re: The Azure Project (9/17) [Re: Joshua]
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oic



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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: pleezr]
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I checked my bed today and found some small azures growing. They didn't look too healthy...probably due to a couple of recent freezes. The extended weather forcast calls for rain to start in the next 2-3 days and last for 7 days. I figured these pins were damaged and picked them. There was probably one group that could have developed further.

We shall see.







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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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Those look delicious Joshua. I'd like to grow some too but I live in Maryland so I think it would be a waste of time. I'm going to do a little research on azures and see if I might be able to pull it off in a humidity tent sort of thing. What temperature range do they colonize at?


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: PsiloSteve]
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I colonised mine @ RT.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: PsiloSteve]
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They grew in Ohio so they can grow in maryland

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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hell yah dude!

You did it! Thats fucking awsome man. I bet after the rain, you'll get a really nice flush.

Are you proud/excited or what man!?!?

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: angryshroom]
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I was really happy to see the pins. I am hoping that the freeze did not halt the fruiting. I am hoping for a sweet flush in the next couple of weeks. I hope to get some nice prints and specimens.

I am more hopefull than anything else.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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Ohio's a lot different though. What part of Ohio. I live on the eastern shore which is a bigass flat cornfield. It is a bit dryer and its only 5-30 ft above sea level here. I imagine the temps about the same so it would probably work with a humidity tent if it did okay in ohio


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: PsiloSteve]
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I do not live in Ohio. I don't know if the conditions are condusive for azure cultivation there.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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very nice Joshua. hope they turn out alright.
smell ya lata


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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you did it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: bravo :laugh: 


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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High Josh,

I noticed some beautifull mycelium under our tree.
The same place I dumped a bunch of woodchips.
Never paid any attention to it anymore till :laugh: today !!

Nice growlog ! 


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3) [Re: Joshua]
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whooooohooooo!
you da man, fo sho.
hope the rains and temps are good to ya, brotha.
peace.
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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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i'm having a shit of a time trying to get some alder/maple woodchips or the use of a woodchipper. all the woodchip places have only fir and hemlock chips, would these produce satisfactory resuslts?

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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Probably not. I don't know for sure. Hardwoods are best for most woodloving species.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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I?ve been growing them on spruce chips since the year 2000 with good results.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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isn't hemlock toxic? could the mycellium absorb the toxicity?


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Anno]
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well if spruce works, i don't see why fir and hemlock wouldn't work.
but i suspect others have probably tried it before. i guess i could try it...


woodchips from hemlock the tree, not poision hemlock the plant is what i was talking about.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: YouInfoIt]
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I know this probally isnt the right wood at all condifering pine is soft. But i came across it and said it might help someone. :





both are 100% no additives are any thing

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: bugabuga420]
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there is also apsen

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: bugabuga420]
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I think the aspen would be best.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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well i just found an answer to my own question, at the online mushroom community www.theomc.com


Substrates for Fruiting: Hardwood sawdust and wood chips, especially alder, cottonwood, oak, birch, and beech. Douglas fir will also support fruitings.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Here are some pics from Sunday. I hope that this is the start of a nice flush.

The stem in this pic is from one of the rhododendrons I planted, It looks like it was a good idea.


The area where the pins formed in this pic is where something (me or a deer) left an indentation in the bed. The indentation exposed some of the underlying substrate and caused pinning to occur.


This is some rhizomorphic growth from another area of the bed. I doubt if it is azure mycelium, but thought it would make a nice pic anyway.



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:cool: 


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Glad to see you got some pins bro.

Hopefully the recent rain's will bring all of us some more fruit.

Please show us more pics if you get the chance.



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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Huston, we have a slug problem!


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Anno]
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all i can say is thats one slug who's tripping his balls off right now!


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Anno]
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Any sluggestions on how to fix this? I ran into the same problem w/ another outdoor patch of a different species this summer. I tried beer, it didn't seem to work. I want to use something non-toxic.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Here you can buy a bait, it?s made with a substance that is not poisnous for warmblodded animals and humans, it?s iron-III-phosphate .

http://www.neudorff.de/ferramol/index.php?page=3
http://www.aramis-research.ch/d/6506.html
http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/garden/pestsandpesticides/slugcontrol.html


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Anno]
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http://www.greengardener.co.uk/slug.htm
Works great on slugs and is harmless to
the rest of your garden.I found it works very well
and after a couple of years use it seems to not
be needed any more :-) and is simple to add when
your watering :smile:
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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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High Joshua,

I always protect my seedlings by covering them with a kind of maze. Thin enough for slugs to stay out. A same sort of thing is used to keep flies out of your food when outdoor eating. Hope to have given you some inspiration to deal with the problem :smile:

How about potent slugs for dinner????? 


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: MeneerCactus]
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maze?

I screen of some sort?

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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High Joshua,

Ofcoarse it is called a screen. Or maybe a wire-screen. The stuff I use is about 1cm*1cm as all the residential slugs seem to be bigger than that.



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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Congrats Joshua!
I hope you take more pictures!
Fantastic job!


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: MeneerCactus]
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Meneer, that's so simple it's genius. i'm gonna have to use that if i do an outside grow again, slugs are evil little buggers.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: canid]
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tip : to keep slugs at bay plant garlic .
most other insects can be repelled by sprinkling used coffee grounds .
and , empty beer cans will keep deer out of your garden , because it smells like a deer hunter  :grin: 

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: em_bre_O]
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Thanks for the advice!

These pics were taken Christmas eve. The mature caps were 8 cm (3 in.) in diameter.









Bon app?tit!


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Bbbeeeeeeeauuuttiful!

Great photography Joshua... Great to see some more fruits!!!

yay you! :smile:

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Looks like the slug didnt like them after all :smile: or just wondered
of after the first bite.Thanks for this log.I'm going to have to try
this out myself.
Well done m8


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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dizzam!..  congrats on those beauties Joshua.  Looks like New years should be fun.  :smile: 


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vary nice :cool: 

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: i am e goldstein]
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Nice move Joshua. Excellent! Please please do all you can to keep this information on how you did everything together and availible. Thank you so much for spreading what you have learned.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: BowlKiller]
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I reached my upload limit for today. This is a fruit I picked New Years Day.



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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Hey Joshua, that is a very pretty fruit.  I?m glad someone else is getting only a few peeps here and there this year.  This is the best one from my cyan clone patch this year:  It only produced about 10 mushrooms total :tongue:



Seems like the more you try to make the spot ?perfect? the fewer fruits it actually produces.  Who knows, next year may be a completely different story :wink:

Congrats! 

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Suntzu]
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This is my first attempt at an outdoor patch. I spawned in June which was a bit late. How about yourself?

Joshua

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Very Nice Guys. Thanx for this LOG!

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Yep, yep, I only beat you by a month or so.  Way too late.  The bulk of the bed is made up of those aspen pet shavings, only the top inch or so are actual chips. 
We need to get our ass in gear this year :smile:  I now have a line on as much alder as I want; I just have to drive about 2 hours and cut the damn trees down and chip them myself.

The lady has a few friends, thinkin' of coming up north?  :wink:   

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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: Joshua]
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COOL,JOSH!!!!

I just got a print, an would like to try this what a cool deal. :cool: 


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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: bluelou]
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Aren't you from Florida? You may have quite a few environmental obstacles to overcome but good luck.  :grin: 


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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: @cro]
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what i wouldn't give to be out of so. cal and back in oregon ;\


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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: Raadt]
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But your local says you are in Oregon.

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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: Joshua]
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I'm an oregonian at heart, stuck in a job that's in a different state. I lived in portland till i was 18, then moved to LA for a job that offered me far more than I was making there.

I leave oregon as my locale because the spore issues with CA, and because there's some pretty intense govt crap going on in CA with drug issues, feds vs. state... it makes it a pain, and i'm paranoid.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: G a n j a]
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Ganja asked in another thread, "What are you hoping to do different if you dont mind me asking?Have you considered the fact that rhodes contain poisions that they omit from there roots stoping other plants from growing near them and that these could possily be taken up by the mycelium?"

I will be providing better drainage and may add sea salt to the soil.

I think that rhodies help. I made two beds each next to rhodies. One rhodie died, that bed produced 0 fruits. The other bed fruited well. You can actually see the fruits growing very close to the stalk of the rhodie. I think the chemicals you refer to are active only against certain plants. The chemicals are likely growth inhibitors. I don't think they pose a proplem to the fungi. Many outdoor beds of cyans and azures are grown in the company of rhodies.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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Good to know as rhodes are the most common estate plant in this area :smile: cheers.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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what kind of ratio of seasalt, how/when/where do you plan in applying? :smile: 


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: comario2]
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I haven't thought too far ahead. It will be a very weak solution. I will probably spray it on. I may do a test on some salted wood chips to make sure the mycelium is salt tolerant.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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I dont know much about azures so i was wondering why sea salt?are they a coastal speices?Not sure how the rhodes would take to it.


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: G a n j a]
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They grow in the immediate coastal zone. Most azures are found within eye sight of the ocean. I friend accidently tasted his fingers after picking some and noticed that they were salty. I figured salty soil is probably only found very close to the ocean just as azures are, maybe there is a correlation.

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Joshua]
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i was wondering about the possibility that seaweed getting dried out on the beach, carried by the wind and caught in the dune grass might be a preferred substrate .what do ya think ?

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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: deanofmean]
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Worth looking at id say deb.

The Psilocybe azurescens spawn im producing at the moment is
Agar to hazel (Corylus avellana) chips

In plastic containers missing out the grain step, and things are going well.
This is also workig very well for Psilocybe subaeruginosa.
Sorry the pictures chack, its hard to photograph clingfilm :smirk:

Sorry to bump an old thread but it was one of my first favourites and after rereading it i think others may like to.Shame lots of the pictures are down :-(   


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so you aren't just an OTD whore....good work!


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Re: The Azure Project (11/3, pins!!!) [Re: Paid]
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paid, i can't see from the pic, i assume there are holes in the cligwrap for air exchange?


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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: Joshua]
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I am restructuring my azure bed. I will be removing the old chips and adding new and will be growing other species instead of azures.

Here are some final pics for this post.

A pic of the bed with cedar rails removed.



Some misc mycelium pics. I don't know if this is azure mycelium or not. It tasted like dirt if that helps :crazy:





Look for a post under "Outdoor Woodlover Garden" for future pics and grow information about this bed. I haven't started it yet but will soon.

Joshua


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Re: The Azure Project (New Year fruit!) [Re: Joshua]
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incredible joshua, keep up the good work, wish i could eat some of those!


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