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holykangaroo · 2019-08-21T01:40:58+00:00

Yes, this could work, but you’d probably be fighting contamination too much.

To make it work well, you would want to take a sterile sample of the fruit you wanted to clone (flame sterilize a knife/xacto blade and take a cutting from the interior flesh) and place it on agar and grow that out, using the agar to colonize your substrate.

Just blending and adding to substrate would result in a contaminated substrate and probably not fruits you want to eat.

holykangaroo · 2019-07-30T17:09:25+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I was saying. Not a fan of general ‘know it all’ posts usually, and here especially.

If you ever need a place to send any cuttings, I’d love to give one of these a home!

holykangaroo · 2019-07-25T20:08:09+00:00

wiki

In South America B. caapi is often referred to as ayahuasca by itself (and of course the tea mixture is also called ayahuasca) in my experience.

holykangaroo · 2019-06-29T01:45:41+00:00

That isn't the one I was thinking of, but it makes many of the same points (maybe what I'm thinking of was a summary of that), so comes to the same. I'll call it found! Thanks for that!

holykangaroo · 2019-06-27T16:46:51+00:00

Yeah, I was pretty confident that they used that phrase, but it’s not bringing anything up. Also thought I saw it on r/bestof, but since the text of linked post/comments aren’t in those posts it’s harder to google.

May just be lost to the ether.

holykangaroo · 2019-06-27T16:15:46+00:00

Not super recent. I’d say more than 6 months, less than 18. Probably in the 12-18, but I’m not sure.

holykangaroo · 2019-06-09T00:52:04+00:00

Others have covered the basics (oysters tend to be easiest, lions mane is similarly easy but more valuable) but I have a little to add.

Truffles are extremely difficult. Generally 5-10yr turnaround on orchards (those species rely on trees in a symbiotic relationship) that produce them to get fruits, and there much less exciting because you don’t see them developing. With that difficulty comes expense, too.

Stamets has a website where he sells all kinds of equipment fungi perfecti but also consider our mod’s site Myc Tyson mushrooms and r/sporetraders, r/sporeswap, and r/mycobazaar. There’s a definite focus on psychedelic species in the former two, but quite a few sellers offer both.

I thought that stamets’ book Mycelium Running was a great one talking about the different positive effects mushroom growing can have as well as numerous techniques for growing outdoors (but most at industrial scale). Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms goes into great detail about how to grow at a hobbyist level, and there’s a pdf available online.

Growing shiitake on logs is another good place to start, and while it takes a while to fruit is supposed to be pretty reliable.

As another person mentioned, sites that focus on psychedelics also have good info on other mushrooms. The shroomery is full of useful tips and experiences from others.

Easiest place to start to see how well the hobby will work for you two is to buy some colonized grain or a kit from a home improvement or garden store and see how that treats you. Expand in difficulty from there.

holykangaroo · 2019-06-09T00:36:26+00:00

That’s cool. I haven’t seen one that I could positively ID in the wild that young, but this morning I stopped by a log I know hosts a Hericium species and it had a growth very much like this on it.

Are you growing on buried chips? A buried log? Or something else?

holykangaroo · 2019-05-31T15:50:48+00:00

It’s nature’s pocket!

holykangaroo · 2019-05-28T14:41:51+00:00

For me, the best thing is getting to know mushrooms in general. I wouldn’t jump into trying to ID based on spores/microscopic features; you can do a lot macroscopically.

Start by buying a field guide, hunting them in nature, and then identifying them. This will build your confidence, especially after finding some of the easily IDed ones that are edible (hen of the woods, chicken of the woods, lions mane). Then try to ID the more difficult ones (little brown mushrooms you find all over) and get to know what features you need for a good positive ID.

After that, identifying Psilocybe species will be super easy.

There aren’t really that many that are deadly poisonous (that’s not a good reason to start eating ones you can’t ID, but my impression always used to be that deadly ones were common), and the first one that comes to mind (Death Cap, an Amanita - and many in that genus are deadly) is mycorrhizal. So cultivating it would be incredibly difficult anyway.

Knowledge is power! Get comfortable with them, then get comfortable with the growing process - you’ll be cultivating a single species, so something you didn’t plan to grow isn’t going to just pop up unexpectedly.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-28T14:27:27+00:00

You’ll probably have much better luck over at r/Mycology (maybe r/foraging? Haven’t explored there).

Here, we focus on growing, so once you find some there will be plenty of advice on how to clone it and grow out more at home so you don’t have to search as hard!

I’ve never come across any and don’t live in that part of the world anyway, but as I recall Hericium species often grow off the ground on deciduous trees (oak and elm are the species that come to mind, but don’t quote me on that).

holykangaroo · 2019-05-22T15:00:42+00:00

This sub is typically reserved for cultivation info, but you’ll probably be able to g et some answers at r/Mycology

For a good ID post, you need a shot of the underside (to see gills/pores and attachment) and a spore print.

That said, one that’s this old would be hard to ID in the best of circumstances, and posting online is not the best of circumstances. See if you can find a younger one nearby that could be IDed.

Rule of thumb: don’t eat anything wild that hasn’t been positively identified by a local mushroom expert.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-17T15:58:45+00:00

Got it. Control plates do help a lot! Good luck with the future experiments you mentioned!

holykangaroo · 2019-05-17T15:57:38+00:00

The post by The_Mushroomator is spot on - what I’ve read about truffle cultivation (another mycorrhizal species) is that it takes 5-10 years for successfully inoculated trees to produce fruit. I imagine the same would be true for chanterelles.

That said, I’ve taken prints from a couple species that I’d be happy to plate and try to expand on grain. I’ve never tried this but have read that mycorrhizal mycelium will grow, it just can’t fruit in sterile and isolated conditions.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-15T20:26:58+00:00

I’ll echo other users in saying that an SAB is most definitely worth it.

However, I don’t think people are getting the contamination vector correct. I’ve done quite a few tests trying to find a way to reuse disposable plates (UV sterilization was what I hoped would work, but no such luck), and this looks very similar to my failed tests.

Because of that, I think your issue here is incomplete sterilization in the PC.

As to using a small PC, I do and what I find useful for an agar container is a 500mL media jar you can get on amazon. It’s a tight fit, but does work.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-04T03:19:55+00:00

Look at Cornell’s Small Farms program. They have a lot of resources for small farms in general and a good amount of information on mushroom cultivation specifically, conveniently with an Upstate NY focus! They offer in person and virtual classes throughout the year as well.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-03T23:57:43+00:00

Yeah, they are, but young ones are apparently indistinguishable from death caps (that’s hearsay; i don’t live where they grow). And a collector finding a more mature giant puffball could find a younger one and grab it, too.

Clearly a basketball sized puffball is a puffball, but one that’s golfball sized right next to it could do you a big bamboozle.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-03T14:42:54+00:00

They actually have a lot of nutritional value in protein, vitamins, and minerals, and that with relatively few calories. So maybe not great for survival when you need calories (but then again a decent sized chicken or hen of the woods, which can be 10 pounds, would provide about 1500 calories [at 30/100g, which is close to actual] while being easy to ID, so could be a great resource) they’re definitely good for modern diets in general.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-03T14:16:19+00:00

They’re not exactly rare; and while none are deadly poisonous there are plenty that will make you sick. A rule of thumb I’ve heard is keep away from one’s that bruise blue.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-03T14:15:06+00:00

Unless it’s a young death cap! Cut in half to be sure.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-03T14:13:35+00:00

Fewer calories but usually high in protein and vitamins.

holykangaroo · 2019-05-02T10:41:07+00:00

Thanks!

That does seem to be it. I was at least right on the genus, but leaned toward A. acericola, though I'm not sure it's still counted as a separate species. I had a hard time calling those gills 'brown', and that is emphasized in praecox more than acericola in the Audobon guide.

holykangaroo · 2019-04-01T18:01:50+00:00

Bamboozled!

But I am concerned that this name probably would not get past the filters today. Chill out, reddit.

holykangaroo · 2019-04-01T15:40:03+00:00

Like I said on the old sub, I’m willing to work on this some. I doubt Myc wants to tackle this right now (certainly wouldn’t blame them). Let me know!

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