A hose to innoculate........hehehehhe

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We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Cows SHIT and shrooms grow from it. Cow shit contains MILLIONS (literally) of bateria, fungus and viruses combined...Yet there are thousands of fields worldwide where cow shit = shrooms. I don't think contamination is that big of a deal. As Moe mentioned tilling and preparing the land would probably be the biggest part of the project. Which I BELIEVE could be overcome fairly easily by simply spending a couple of hours with an aerator, or heck if you have a tractor/tiller combo it's even easier.

I don't think contamination would be a problem due to the high spore/contaminant ratio.

When innoculating a large area, I would say use as MANY spores as possible. There's gotta be a point where just sheer numbers of spores germinating and taking hold will overcome the contamination and grow a patch or two or three or fifty of shrooms.

I now only wish I had a ton of spores, because I have a great patch of land (that already produces other types of shrooms) that I'd LOVE to innoculate and try this with next spring...

Any ideas as for what kind of shroom to grow? I'm assuming P. Cubensis as it has the widest range of growth parameter, but what about the strain? I was thinking either P.C. Ecuadorian or P.C. Mazatepec strains as possible candidates...

Spore syringes/prints are welcome for this experiment

Keep the ideas coming, maybe we can get a cooperative FAQ going...

I will be inspecting the field after rains and high humidity

I'll post if anything.

hopeful

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Trails fruit trails...

And the climate here should be able to support cubies on those humid rainy days.

Something between California and Florida
if you can imagine that.

All that we're doing here is laying out spores over a large area and hoping they take hold somewhere. Less Work, Less Time and most likely lower yields.

Bulk Cultivation isn't really an experiment, it's well documented and a proven technique, spraying a large volume of spores over a large area, I've never heard of that.

This is interesting though......quite interesting...

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We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Nature is pretty rigid and tough to change, but with enough coersion, I'm almost certain that you can get shrooms to grow in your area (unless you live in Antarctica or other extreme environments...).

Perhaps you should alter your plan of action. First and foremost, find a field that is close by and easily accessible to you. The ideal field would have lots of tall grass, some shady spots, plenty of humidity, and not that much area (to limit the amount of land you have to cover when shroom hunting). Most importantly, though, the field *must* be grazed by cows or similar animals! When you have picked a good field, load up a squirt gun with spores and spray down the field. You should be squirting the taller grass, not the ground or the shit, and try to evenly cover as much area as possible. I don't know exactly how long it would take for mushrooms to start popping up, but I would venture to say about a week and a half to two weeks, assuming the weather is right. Unfortunately, cubensis season for this year is coming to an end.

If you live near cows or horses, or have them on your land, here's another more direct idea: Take spore prints on straw or hay (ie, lay out a bunch of straw and let a bunch of caps drop their spores onto it). Then simply feed the spored straw or hay to your cows and check your field periodically.

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-Primate

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wyrm

From what I understand Placebo has a point. The cow would eat the spores and then germinate them in their stomach for a couple of days before pooping. If you have a cow handy, this is great news, just spray the field where the cow eats with spores and wait. If however you don't have readily available access to a cow, couldn't you use a LIQUID mycelium innoculation technique?

Germinate a LARGE number of spores in a sterile liquid substrate using one of the TEKs listed at:
http://shroomery.org/findorgrowthem.asp?View=culture

So now instead of innoculting the field with a heavy spore/water mixture, you can replace the spore/water solution with your Liquid Innoculant.

I think that the bottom line here is that if you want mushrooms that will grow themselves, you need to have animals that will ingest your spores, and who will hopefully keep the process going once there are enough spores introduced to the environment.

Even though primate was joking around, i was wondering if this had any chance of working. What if u ate vegetables for a week or so. This seems like it would be the easiest way to keep your supply going, w/ out even having to do much work (if u can get past the fact that you're digging in your own shit). I probably sound rather foolish, but if anyone thinks this would work, I'd give it a try. Later

--J--

Wait and pray,

MM

I don't know what do you think?

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