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Post by mountaindweller on Jul 10, 2013 22:01:09 GMT -5
Here is a small summary what my mushrooms did so far. I grew them with the cardboad method you find in youtube. In reality my mushrooms don't do anything because I am only growing mycellium so far. The shimenii mushrooms grew fast and very well at first but then caught mold and I threw them in the compost. The enoki did mold as well. The shiitake I don't know. It seems that there are scarce signs of mycellium around the pieces, needless to say that I forgot to put a date on it. The Chinese morchel did not grow at all and so did another Chinese mushroom which I found in the stir frie pack with a thick white stem. The ouyster mushroom did grow well and I had to move him into a bigger house, I used the same technique with the cardboard. It seems to grow. In short the oyster was quite simple so far and I will definitively retry the shimenii, because it grew quite rampant before the mold got it.
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Post by steev on Jul 10, 2013 22:41:27 GMT -5
Mushrooms can be finicky; sometimes there are straw mushrooms in the bags of bunny-bean-bedding I take to the farm, nothing I can rely on.
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Post by mountaindweller on Jul 11, 2013 6:53:07 GMT -5
When cleaning out the kitchen I actually had another look at the enoki, and there was only one little spot which looked like mold, maybe it wasn't even mold. I threw this away and kept the rest. I find this very exciting.
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Post by breakfast on Jul 23, 2013 19:57:18 GMT -5
Ive had really good luck innoculating straw for my garden beds with the garden oyster(hypsizygus almarius) by doing the following low tech process 1. Soak a bail of straw in cold water for 24 hours 2. Drain straw 3. Mix in 5 pounds( more than enough) of garden oyster spawn thoroughly into the bail on a big table 4. Put in a plastic contractor bag and put in a cool semi shady place 5. Whenmycelium takes, spread over cardboard in garden beds and mulch with more straw
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Post by circumspice on Jul 27, 2013 2:24:47 GMT -5
Ive had really good luck innoculating straw for my garden beds with the garden oyster(hypsizygus almarius) by doing the following low tech process 1. Soak a bail of straw in cold water for 24 hours 2. Drain straw 3. Mix in 5 pounds( more than enough) of garden oyster spawn thoroughly into the bail on a big table 4. Put in a plastic contractor bag and put in a cool semi shady place 5. Whenmycelium takes, spread over cardboard in garden beds and mulch with more straw 5 pounds of spawn?!! That sounds like a lot of spawn! How expensive is that?
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Post by breakfast on Sept 11, 2013 20:03:15 GMT -5
Sorry it took me so long to reply back, ive been real busy. Five pounds of spawn costs me about twenty bucks. If you know someone who makes it thats the way to go but you can definitely order it. I live about five miles or so from wild branch mushrooms in craftsbury , vt so its easy to obtain for me. Remember though. If you do this once, with your initial investment of whatever the spawn costs you, you can keep multiplying you batch if you always save some to start more using the same process.... So it can actually be really cheap over the long run
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Post by mayz on Sept 30, 2013 2:22:43 GMT -5
After the first rains, a first small harvest of Boletus edulis, Cantharellus cibarius, Cratarellus tubaeformis.
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Post by raymondo on Sept 30, 2013 15:26:07 GMT -5
I tried growing oysters on used coffee grounds but the whole lot became a very moldy mess rather quickly. Later I tried 'seeding' my woody mulch with oysters but so far nothing has appeared.
One thing I really miss about living in France is the autumn markets with their plethora of mushrooms. Nice haul there mayz.
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Post by mayz on Oct 3, 2013 5:41:18 GMT -5
I tried growing oysters on used coffee grounds but the whole lot became a very moldy mess rather quickly. Later I tried 'seeding' my woody mulch with oysters but so far nothing has appeared. One thing I really miss about living in France is the autumn markets with their plethora of mushrooms. Nice haul there mayz. I has never grown mushrooms. Simply because they are readily available into the wild. Here oysters grow on blowdown beech. Really, is there no edible mushrooms in Australia? Your county doesn't seem so dry
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Post by raymondo on Oct 3, 2013 16:09:17 GMT -5
I'm sure there are edible mushrooms in the wild here but it's a very unexplored area. It would be a long process to test all our mushrooms to find ones that are safe to eat.
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Post by mayz on Oct 9, 2013 4:34:02 GMT -5
I'm sure there are edible mushrooms in the wild here but it's a very unexplored area. It would be a long process to test all our mushrooms to find ones that are safe to eat. Marvelous and mysterious kingdom of fungi... I'm fan Here is a pic of Marasmius oreades(Fairy ring mushroom) growing freely in the grass of my garden.
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Post by templeton on Oct 10, 2013 17:55:32 GMT -5
There are lots of edible fungi here, but as Ray says, hard to identify. Fungi taxonomy in Australia is problematic - many of the type specimens are in remote locations in Europe, and there is little money available to undertake trips to Europe to clear up taxonomy - no profit in it! I attended a talk a few years ago by the author of one of our fungi field guides, who spent an hour showing slides of fungi to a room full of fungi experts asking if anyone had any idea what he was showing - blank stares for the most part. We get many of the common Northern Hemisphere fungi as weeds - Saffron milkcaps, slippery Jacks, Shaggy Inkcaps, Swiss Browns and Yellow Stainers. And Fly Agaric and Death Caps <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/two-die-from-death-cap-mushrooms/3757764> There are indigenous edible mushrooms, but with no long tradition of mushroom gathering (aborigines did eat some fungi, but much of the knowledge is lost), and presence of many psychotropic species that are often reported as 'poisonous', the mushroom gatherer proceeds at their own risk. I collected a kilo or so of an indigenous morel species a few weeks ago, but they are unremarkable - just mushroomy, and tough. A few years ago I collected some white bracket fungi that was supposedly eaten, but it was like eating tough white plastic kitchen sponge. Given the risks (death) versus the rewards (tasty mushrooms), I would rather spend the money either buying or growing my own. T
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Post by mayz on Nov 13, 2013 9:57:39 GMT -5
I attended a talk a few years ago by the author of one of our fungi field guides, who spent an hour showing slides of fungi to a room full of fungi experts asking if anyone had any idea what he was showing - blank stares for the most part. T Indeed nearly 95% of species of fungi are still unknow. Even in Europe new species are discovered every year. aborigines did eat some fungi, but much of the knowledge is lost What a pity! A pic of field blewit, maybe my last harvest of the year...
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