Backyard Aquaponics
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Here's a link to that PDF on the Fungi website: http://fungi.com/pdf/articles/Fungi_Per ... Report.pdf It's about 1.1MB

thanks, kimocal!

So, where else could this type of biofiltration be used? AP? greywater? waste water? runoff?

Filtering storm water runoff from roadways but they would have more wet and dry cycling in this application.

here's the good stuff:

Sites with heavy metals Seriously, though, pair mushrooms with ferns and I bet a lot of defunct areas could be reclaimed.

Linky for idea http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/08/06/fern.php

Still awaiting my winecaps and chicken of the woods. These cold spells really need to quit, so I can get some fruit bodies, sheesh

Looky what I found in the B store today. Another small basket will be made up tomorrow

wow! I've never seen Pink Oysters sold in stores! Awesome!

How much were they?

$10 for 50g of grain, so expensive enough. Another guy on facebook said that when he tried them all he got was a mass of black mold, so I will keep this bag seperated from my others

that grain can likely be expanded a great deal (hopefully). But, wow, that makes that grain worth $200/kg.

I'm in the wrong business.

How does one go about inoculating more grain. I have bags of malted barely for brewing that I could use

Well the grain is in a bag with some sugar cane bagase (pasturised)


Time will tell

If you have already inoculated grain, then there are 2 ways to do it. Grain to grain transfers OR make a liquid culture/mycelium water. I prefer the liquid culture (no flow hood required).

So, first, you need some mason jars with lids like these: http://www.shroomery.org/9413/Low-Dough ... ation-Lids
You can also buy those lids already made.

Then, you need to sterilize grain in those jars (click on grain preparation): http://www.mushroomvideos.com/Download

Go ahead and sterilize a jar of plain water, too. Using a sterilized syringe, you take the sterilized water, inject it into your colonized grain, mix it around, and now your mycelium is in the water. So, take that water and return it to the water jar, and now you have LOTS of mycelium water that you can store in the fridge.

Here are instructions with photos (just scroll a bit): http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showfla ... er/6817707

For each jar of grain that you sterilize, inject 3-5 ml of the mycelium water. As you can see, if you make a decent sized jar of mycelium water, it will last you a long time. I've got at least 300 ml of mycelium water for each species I want to grow. If I buy a spore syringe for a new species, I just grow 1 jar of grain with that species, then make mycelium water with the grain, then use that water to make hundreds of jars of grains over the course of a year. This lets me keep the "master" spore syringe for a long time, and just work off the mycelium water. These jars of mycelium water will last a year in the fridge.

So my 2 baskets of Blue Oysters that I thought were toast and was going to toss are now producing the biggest ones yet. I pulled the baskets from the grow tent where it was +95% humidity and left them on the room on the floor where it's been 75%ish humidity. I left them there for a couple days and then these guys pop up.






5.3oz for 4 mushrooms, stems removed

And there are lots more coming.



So by switching over to a Mark Shepard style of taking care of them via S.T.U.N. (Shear Total Utter Neglect) they are doing better than in the high humidity tent I made for them. Go figure.

sometimes they do that. I had a basket of pinks that I left out for several months, and I thought it was dead. All of a sudden, it did a huge flush, and the mycelium wasn't even visible.

Cheers for this.