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InfiniteOhms
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Encouraging mycorrhizal Fungi.
#6124953 - 10/02/06 03:43 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went out in the woods the other day to see what mushrooms where popping up and i found a nice Sweet Tooth (Hydnum repandum) and decided i would make a spore print and see if i could get it to grow in parts of the woods closer to my house. After a little research found out this fungus is mycorrhizal (typically with eastern hemlock, which is where i found it). So i have 2 quesions to put to the people on this board: 1. Can you grow spawn of mycorrhizal fungi and then "plant" it with its proper host plant? Is it worth trying? 2. Would it be better to store the spores till spring or get spawn growing ASAP and store that?
Thanks!
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FreeSporePrints

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Re: Encouraging mycorrhizal Fungi. [Re: InfiniteOhms]
#6127048 - 10/02/06 11:41 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Generically the better homemade solution is trasfering the (ground) patch or the death wood in a localtion with similar environment conditions 
Quite sure your sporeprint, that is taken from wild is contaminated, so or:
1- try to germinate as soon as possible them on agar (try also using a bit charcoal to inibite the grow) and make a clean culture..so you'll transfer agar to agar different times until you achieve a clena culture and then spawn it (but you've to calculate the senescence of mycelium..but for this i don't know nothing). Do not try to make a LC with that spores, you'll obtain a bacteria broth ( make it if you want from the clean culture you'll obtain)
2- if you find a fresh fruitbody of this strain CLONE IT. this way is better for me!
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Easy, think I was successful the first time I "locacally spored" some a.musc over a symbiote root, just open the ground, tap the open caps and cover.
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micololo2
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Re: Encouraging mycorrhizal Fungi. [Re: InfiniteOhms]
#6129645 - 10/03/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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It is possible but not easy. You want to work with spores from a mushroom from the wild. You need a spore print as clean as possible. Try this, hoping your shroom will give you a lot of spores.
1. If you can, take the PH where the mushroom grow. 2. Make a few plates of agar with PH adjust to the one you took in the wild. 3. If you can't take the PH, make more plates with different recipe of agar with a substance that could influence the PH. 4. If your shroom give lot of spores, discard the first print (you have to watch several times, as soon as you see spores on the paper discard them or keep them in case you wont have more), and keep the second and if you're lucky the third one. Usually the seconds are cleaner and the third prints are the cleanest.
If you ever get a mycelium a lot of interesting but complicated work left. Making a substrate of transfer to inoculate the host tree.
If you ever get success doing this Code:
Please tell me how you have done this.
Enjoy growing mush. and be happy
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InfiniteOhms
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Re: Encouraging mycorrhizal Fungi. [Re: micololo2]
#6129794 - 10/03/06 07:06 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well it seems like a long shot for a beginner like me, but it should be fun to try. I got out my petri dishes and such today and I'm going to pick up some agar tomorrow and start trying to get a pure culture.
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