Totally saving this print 
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Thatâs fabulous, lol. I would too
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I have great expectations with this one 
It seems that a full circle around the cross is the path I am on
But who knows âŠ
As Heraclitus said - âThe way up and the way down are one and the same.â
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Holy shit thatâs an awesome print!
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Has anyone seen something like this?
I tried a few jars of âblenderless inoculationâ, and the more colonized it gets, the more itâs pulling the chunks of agar that were against the glass into the interior of the rice.
Thereâs literally a gap where the agar used to be, and itâs swallowing the pieces.
Hard to capture in pictures, I should do a video 
Itâs very freaking strange to watch it progress.
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It may lose moisture, dry out and lose volume
Iâm guessing
When shaking the jar, the agar cracked, the mycelium entered the cracks, sucked out the moisture. and digested it. Drying creates new cracks and the process continues âŠ
2nd flush MS. I remove liner while dunking
6 days after introducing fresh air still no signs of fruiting. No knots⊠White dots are reflection on water droplets
And one question.
Which gourmet mushrooms can be relatively easily cultivated and are good for drying and long term storage?
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Pleurotus (Oyster mushrooms) are a good start
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As Skyf said, oyster mushrooms are easy but theyâre not great eating after being dried and reconstituted. Most of the edible mushrooms are pretty easy to grow, but I canât think of any that are good to eat dried and rehydrated except for maybe shitake or porcini.
However, if you just want the health benefits of mushrooms, growing many of the edible + medicinal varieties such as lionâs mane, reishi, enoki, maitaki retain their medicinal compounds for years after drying as long as theyâre stored in a cold, dry, dark place. And those you can make dual extractions (DE) from to extract the most medicinal compounds. A dual extraction makes the medicinal compounds much more accessible to our bodies than eating the mushrooms themselves.
The recipe for a dual extraction is:
- 1lb dried mushrooms finely ground / powdered and soaked in 2L of vodka for 30 days (shaken regularly).
- After 30 days, strain it, squeezing and reserving the vodka. I use a nut milk bag for this step and strain into a big kitchen bowl.
- Put the wet mushroom muck in a crock pot with 2.5L of water and steep on the âwarmâ setting (not over 160F) for 8-12hrs before straining it, reserving the water.
- Combine the water & the vodka in equal parts to make the DE tincture.
- Store in a cool or cold, dark spot.
- Use 5-10ml per day for health benefits.
If you get the amounts of vodka extract and water extract equal, your end product will be about 20 proof, which is enough to stay sterile for a few years under good conditions.
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Donât forget about turkeytail! Along with cordyceps im already growing, Iâll be starting lions mane and turkey tail next. Looks like I should get a bag of wood pellets 
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That⊠is awesome!
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Second flush, right?
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Yep yepâŠ
Need to pick some more bags up
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Fresh ones are more potent, during the drying process the unstable psilocin is broken down. Psilocybin gets broken down into psilocin in your body. So the effects of a fresh mushroom are going to be stronger and itâll usually come on faster.
Edit:
Just got home to see this đ„čđ
Second flush
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Thank you
Iâll try this method when I grow some medicinal mushrooms
Of the gourmet mushrooms that may be suitable for drying, for now I have singled out shitake and pioppino (Black poplar mushroom).
As for the genus Pleurotus, maybe Eryngii could be interesting
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Nice nipples @Seamonkey84
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So this is my second monotube build. 30 gallon âwally worldâ same blue top smaller tubs for substrate coco coir/ med grade vermic. I use pint wide mouth with rye flour/fine vermic with filter discs and I punch two holes and fill one with high temp gasket sealer making a self healing injection site. I then crumble those up with my substate that I sterilize in Tupperware container and pillow case. multiple strains in our tents so why not cubâs the left is 1 pint of B+ and to the right is 1 1/2 pints of Mazatapec my personal fav so far. I didnât get my B+ tray colonized to my liking because my Mazatapecs were already growing cubs those are what I picked off 2 days ago when I soaked and starting fruiting. I got two trays of Penis Envy on deck with 2 pints each tray. I cut 2 inch holes with sticky filters but secured them with micro tape as well as double tape at my hose entry. Humidifier set to run on med for 2 mins every hour. This should be interesting if this kinda shit gets ya going it does meâŠ
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Thanks for catching that! I donât include turkey tail because itâs not exactly an edible âgourmetâ mushroom. 
And, while I have grown it at home, it grows plentifully everywhere around the world so youâre better off just going into your local forest to collect it from some rotting logs. Itâs pretty easily identified.
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