I won’t be able to continue this experiment until next year as it will involve growing corn and inoculating it with spores of the Ustilago maydis I was given by my neighbor Justine. For now I’ll put up some pictures … Continue reading
Category Archives: Indoor Growing
I have my “lab”, incubation space and fruiting chamber down in the basement. It’s a pretty simple set-up and I feel I am about to outgrow it, but here are some pics of the current state of it. If I … Continue reading
Hardy stuff! Here is a picture of Blue Oyster mycelium growing off discarded grain spawn in dirty dish water. The same strain just fruited from a pile of old bulk straw/sawdust/woodchip spawn from last year which survived a winter with … Continue reading
Here’s an idea: create a bulk substrate pasteurizer with a discarded Richard Simmons Steam Heat Cooker (manual here) and a couple of used bins from the Sally Ann. This ended up working way better than my old wet pasteurization method: … Continue reading
Stay tuned to see how the Oysters take to the substrate and whether I can get them to fruit. … Continue reading
Stay tuned, I’ll let you know how this goes! UPDATE: failed to take on the bulk substrate. I was able to clone the mushrooms to agar and propagate them to grain jars and finally fruit them on wood chips and … Continue reading