Erik Lomen

Jan 02 at 09:38 AM

Those beat pulp pellets are tough to break up eh? I remember using them years ago hoping the substrate would have a color effect on the fruitbodies!

Jan 02 at 09:37 AM

Yea, its exactly as Brendan confirmed, a pretty common cultivation occurrence. Some phenotypes do it more than others and some genus are more inclined to perform this sort of selective growth as fruitbodies develop. I suspect it has a lot to do with which pathways produce faster growth for proper spore producing basidia for dispersion being the common goal. The old saying "cant save em all" likely sums it up.

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Jan 02 at 09:26 AM

What's your sub mix? Cook method? Strain used?

Jan 02 at 09:17 AM

Sick!!! So Beech can be a real Biatch, but it just takes time. Incubation on MM takes between 4-6 weeks similar to p. adiposa in its maturation time. Fruiting is best initiated similar to AA-CNS, by top fruiting at 60-65F. While Beech really digs high humidity, it is susceptible to rosecomb like morphology so keeping a extremely finely atomized mist is preferred for proper fruitbody formations.

Jan 02 at 09:08 AM

This is really radical stuff Phillipe, thanks so much for sharing the article with us. This sort of thing speaks to what we would love to see the mycowizards community and many more like it build in the form of community labs and collective farms, something much different than the insanity of the button industry's undoing in recent years. 

Dec 13 at 09:01 PM

Very cool! Beautiful even formations! Have you tried just straight rice with crushed soybean's before? Saw a video from a farm in the far east and that was their tried and true ingredient blend.

Dec 13 at 09:00 PM

Hey Amigo, Id say so long as the Merv rating and the filtration level is high enough go with whats most affordable. We are contemplating bringing in some chinese units for folks that are top mounted 8 foot cabinets and they are around $3-4K compared to the price of domestic units...but this will be a little ways off...

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Dec 13 at 08:55 PM

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Hello ya'll! There has been a lot of talk as of late in different forums and groups about the efficacy and practical use of old study protocols specific to chemical dedikaryotization, so i thought i would share this interesting and easy protocol for isolating two monokaryons from a single dikaryon. I'm not sure how many folks are getting as into the weeds as we are about mating and DNA analysis but this is a pretty cool primer for what is possible. Some practical reasons for needing to preform dedikaryotization is if you are trying to generate a new phenotype from a dikaryon that cannot produce mating pairs within its own spore production (i.e. Shimofuri Hiratake or PE or Enigma, among many others in the gourmet, active and medicinal world). The process of dedikaryotization allows you to pull the mon parents of literally ANY Di and from there perform crosses to continue breeding. Anyways, I hope this is interesting and insightful for ya'll and hopefully in the next couple months we will put together a full deep dive on the matter! 

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Dec 13 at 02:38 PM

Hell Yea!!!!

Nov 28 at 12:35 PM

Slick! We just recorded a Deep Dive for ya on Kings! Coming soon!!!

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