Very cool Java! Amazing is more appropriate. I am very inspired by this. I am going to make different kinds of spawn part of different soil mixes myself now. I like the idea a lot! Going to start with my beloved Blue Oysters Maaaaybe some cubensis too, but I will have to make some spawn first...You all enjoyed the Agaricus blazei-merrill, so I thought that I would post these here...
I was checking an outdoor garden/mushroom bed (much like your buried logs are Mad...
...but with colonized sawdust blocks instead of plain wood) when I found that an amazing
flush of Gymnopilus purpuratus.:
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I moved the cluster to take this shot:
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It is really too bad that I did not catch these early...the spore color is lovely,
but the purpuratus is an amazingly colored mushroom. You can begin to see
the coloration (though thoroughly aged) on the un-spored cap:
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Take care all,
JD
P.S. Yes, these are ethenogenic, but I have never tried them.
Yeah once cubes get going there's no stopping them Been a long time since I was interested but your pics changed the game for me a bit again. Now I am pretty amped lolLOL, well, it is funny, but P. cubensis is one of the easiest species to grow.
...but I recommend burying all species that you can get your hands on.
Fungi are mysterious, and you will be surprised how they can find a way.
I even got the very-cold-loving P. cyanescens to fruit in Southern California.
....it took the rare frost to make it happen, but fungi are patient. :0)
JF
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Wouldn't the fungi simply grab the air close to the surface and then still push the hyphae deeeeep into a pile of any size pretty much? Just wondering out loud, but if it is not going to be turned/tilled I can see them taking over a pile of any size easily. They can grow strands many many yards long after all right?...Now that is an interesting question...fungi do need air.
There might be anaerobic processes deeper in.
Interesting stuff.
JD
Good point. This thread is getting really damn interesting now... I like fungi.That's cool NN! The only problem these types of folks face is the mega companies.
Note- The video shows using Straw + Fungus = molded packaging. It's a shame that if there's not a petroleum / plastic involved, your chances of survival as a business are reduced.