|
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
GbBaker
The King.



Registered: 08/12/05
Posts: 468
Loc: Kanda
Last seen: 4 years, 8 months
|
Cultivating Libs
#7566593 - 10/27/07 12:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Is it possible?
--------------------
|
oh_ollie
Spores for thepoor?



Registered: 09/21/07
Posts: 116
Last seen: 12 years, 10 months
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: GbBaker]
#7566684 - 10/27/07 12:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
why would you want to do such a thing.. living where you do!?
i have seen photos a specific strains being cultivated but i know its extremely hard and very pointless.
-------------------- "I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting." - Roy Lichtenstein "I like the idea of taking a right into nature instead of a left to a grocery store." - akb112211
|
ThePyschonaut52
Stranger


Registered: 04/24/07
Posts: 982
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: oh_ollie]
#7566701 - 10/27/07 12:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
"republic" of newfoundland?
Oh, you newfies are funny.
-------------------- "In god we trust..." -I guess we're screwed.
|
RogerRabbit
Bans for Pleasure



Registered: 03/26/03
Posts: 42,214
Loc: Seattle
Last seen: 11 months, 3 days
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: oh_ollie]
#7566703 - 10/27/07 12:48 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Why would it be pointless to grow liberty caps? They're far superior to cubensis, that's for sure. Perhaps workman will see this and offer some tips. I've never tried because they're native to my area, so no need. I applaud anyone seeking a challenge. RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
|
oh_ollie
Spores for thepoor?



Registered: 09/21/07
Posts: 116
Last seen: 12 years, 10 months
|
|
surely it would be hard to grow such bulk amounts considering 50 is a trips worth?
-------------------- "I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting." - Roy Lichtenstein "I like the idea of taking a right into nature instead of a left to a grocery store." - akb112211
|
GbBaker
The King.



Registered: 08/12/05
Posts: 468
Loc: Kanda
Last seen: 4 years, 8 months
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: oh_ollie]
#7569905 - 10/28/07 02:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
bump
--------------------
|
The shroomy 1
Luminous beings surround me




Registered: 03/27/07
Posts: 5,543
Loc: The Aether
Last seen: 5 months, 5 days
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: oh_ollie]
#7570129 - 10/28/07 04:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
oh_ollie said: surely it would be hard to grow such bulk amounts considering 50 is a trips worth?
Fifty? Are you speaking from personal experience?
--------------------
AMU Q&A thread.
|
Workman
1999 Spore War Veteran



Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 3,598
Loc: Oregon, USA
Last seen: 4 hours, 44 minutes
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: GbBaker]
#7570985 - 10/28/07 08:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Sure its possible. I'm doing some side experiments to determine a reliable method but it appears that not all strains are created equal. Some fruit indoors, some don't. Outdoors is more reliable if you live in the right climate. Currently the best results are from soaked and drained chopped straw mixed with 10-20% by volume shredded horse manure, sterilized in mycobags and spawned with liberty cap colonized grass seed. Fully colonized substrate planted outside in September gives heavy flushes druing October rains. Spring fruitings are common. Beds typically only fruit for one year before exhausted.
-------------------- Research funded by the patrons of The Spore Works Exotic Spore Supply My Instagram Reinvesting 25% of Sales Towards Basic Research and Species Identification 
|
Cheezit
Feel like aStranger

Registered: 10/19/07
Posts: 843
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: Workman]
#7571085 - 10/28/07 09:21 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Workman, how heavily can they flush outside on one of the straw/manure mixes? Like any other so to speak?
|
Workman
1999 Spore War Veteran



Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 3,598
Loc: Oregon, USA
Last seen: 4 hours, 44 minutes
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: Cheezit]
#7571117 - 10/28/07 09:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
It makes a lot of mushrooms in denser numbers than you find in nature, but they are small and it takes a great deal to amount to much weight (roughly 30 dry mushrooms/gram). Similar to Panaeolus cyanescens yields but they grow much slower. Definately not the species you want to grow for poundage.
-------------------- Research funded by the patrons of The Spore Works Exotic Spore Supply My Instagram Reinvesting 25% of Sales Towards Basic Research and Species Identification 
|
Cheezit
Feel like aStranger

Registered: 10/19/07
Posts: 843
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: Workman]
#7571436 - 10/28/07 11:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
ah specific thank you. Figured as much. The 30/a gram perspective me. So what maybe an 1/8th a sq'?
|
CaptainLinger
A Fungus Amongus


Registered: 05/25/07
Posts: 1,756
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: Cheezit]
#7571787 - 10/29/07 03:24 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Cultivating libs is a huge challenge; as Workman alludes to going into it with a specific yield expectation is simply unrealistic.
|
Cheezit
Feel like aStranger

Registered: 10/19/07
Posts: 843
|
|
gave me an idea....... All I can say is, outdoor culture is a whole other world then indoors.
Nothing like natural FAE, lighting, and humidity it's hard to beat.
|
Cheezit
Feel like aStranger

Registered: 10/19/07
Posts: 843
|
Re: Cultivating Libs [Re: Workman]
#7572471 - 10/29/07 10:23 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Workman said: Sure its possible. I'm doing some side experiments to determine a reliable method but it appears that not all strains are created equal. Some fruit indoors, some don't. Outdoors is more reliable if you live in the right climate. Currently the best results are from soaked and drained chopped straw mixed with 10-20% by volume shredded horse manure, sterilized in mycobags and spawned with liberty cap colonized grass seed. Fully colonized substrate planted outside in September gives heavy flushes druing October rains. Spring fruitings are common. Beds typically only fruit for one year before exhausted.
Now I wonder about making the substrate last longer. Could you plant some grass seed on it? Maybe top dress with some shredded manure as the grass grows. Try to actually mimic it's natural habitat, like how you can just add more wood chips to a bed and mix it for the wood loving species.
just thinking out loud......
|
|