Ovoids are native to my area and I was wondering what the best place to get spores or LC from them would be?

Just learning shiitakes and was wondering if people initiate primordia formation during all white phase (Stamets) or all brown phase (you tubers).

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to use acorns (I figure white oak is probably best) as grain spawn? Also curious if anyone has tried chickpeas for grain spawn? Any successful oddball grains anyone has tried? Chur. Mush luv

Hello guys, I'm currently trying to think of a research question for my biology EE. My current idea is to increase the nutrition values of fungi. My current ideas are to manipulate

1. Frequency of sound waves

2.Adding chemicals in gas where they conduct respiration to stimulate uptake of nutrition 3.Adding enzymes on their growing environment to ease digestion 4.Genetic modification??? Through reproduction I'm currently still unsure on which species to use as I'm not familiar with fungi. I would also like suggestions of similar research topics, what chemical I can use, what methods I can try etc. thanks a lot!

Hey folks - just got my first fruiting blocks in my Martha tent (not pictured but there’s lions mane and oysters that have joined that dryads saddle at the top). I got a humidity controller but annoyingly the settings on my humidifier mean I can’t use it - so instead it stays on constantly. It says it’s shooting for 80%, but every time I check a hygrometer I’ve got at the top it’s reading 95% minimum. Have tried tweaking the settings but seems to always be super high or low 60s/70s - and while it’s a pretty cheap hygrometer the amount of mist I’m swimming through when I open the tent suggests it’s not wrong. I’ve got an extraction unit in the top which runs 15 mins every 2 hours which probably offers some respite.

Question is do I a) let it be and assume a 95+ mist tent is going to be ok, b) run the extraction more frequently to clear out the mist, or c) accept that this isn’t the humidifier for me, chalk it up as a loss and get a new one in

What should i do next with this pinning agar plate.

I have very successfully grown cubes for a few years. I've had a few moderately successful LM grows. My daughter wants to start growing lion's mane and she lives in Portugal so it's not as easy for me to get genetics to her. What I'm wondering, is it as easy to clone lion's mane as it is a cubensis? Could she just get a chunk of lions mane from someone and grow it out on some agar like a clone? What is the easiest way for someone to propagate, sorry I don't know the proper word in mycology alliance mane if you don't have spores? I guess that's the question. Thank you for your help! :-). (Or does anyone know of a good source where she could find LC or spores for Lion's mane in Portugal?)

This is the first time this has happened to me. My tubs are stalled, no mushrooms are growing. I'm very upset.Do I have any chances any hope?What do I do guys

(Apologies for the morbidity)

My good friend recently passed. He always said he'd want his body to feed a colony of mushrooms instead of being embalmed or cremated. I was trying to figure out how to do this and came across "mushroom burial suits", or "infinity suits", which are basically cotton shrouds full of spores. While these things do exist I'm having trouble finding the option where I live or where one can be bought.

I'm wondering if I'm unable to find one if there is another way to fulfil his wishes? I don't know the first thing about growing mushrooms, I'm assuming you can't just toss some spores in there with him. Is there something I can make and bury with him that would grow? Is it possible to cultivate them in the earth after he's buried?

So I intend on making my own grain spawn by sterlizing either rye or brown rice in a mason jar in my Instant Pot and then inoculating the grain with mycelium culture. I have a ton of boxes in my home from Amazon purchases and I was wondering if I used a shredder could I use the card board as a substrate rather than using sawdust or straw?

In regards to preparing straw for bucket cultivation I intend to submerge my straw in agriculture lime. Is 12.5 a good pH level? Or should I shoot for a different number?