Peace
Dan

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Maverick shroomed@rediffmail.com
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"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...
very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

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-From a registered Mad Scientist

"From a certain point of view"
-Jedi Master Obiwan Kenobi (also a Mad Scientist tm)

I finished up the cultures I had going with the acetone boosted casing a while ago. It seemed to help colonization speed and contamination resistance somewhat and definately didn't hurt anything. I would recommend it is worth a try for anyone growing Pans or having troubles with casing contamination.

I've been put on restriction from growing "bluing varieties" for a while by Mrs. Dung. I'm not growing anything that needs a casing for the time being, so I can't continue that experiment.

Other projects have been going well. I had some so-so luck with my shiitake mini-logs, I havested about 6 lbs wet from 24 1lb. logs.

I just got my first flush of elm oysters harvested. I think elm oysters might be my new favorite.

Anyway, I'm eating well , and Mrs Dung doesn't know about the little jar of "stones" hidden over in my brother's garage, so I'm getting by pretty well . Probably have to wait till at least this fall though before I can do some real experimenting again. Thank god I can still talk about it here.

DD