Here's a treat

[Silver Back]

Hope this works

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lovely dark pluerotus ostreatus, ripe and ready for the table, with a nice bit of tortelini and a little carbonara sauce, washed down with a bottle of red, lovely!

[Silver Back]

Spot on, horse chestnut absolutely infested with them. Cold snap must've woken them up, just fried a few and must say very, very good. Now to do a quote to take the tree down. Client is now going to leave the stem high for the mushrooms

[Rik]

lovely pics SB, but now im bloody hungry and craving pasta and red as well!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

tell the client Im pleased as punch they are letting it go natural, if only more people thought like that, i am thinking of offering a "stump infection" service to people, grow your own mushrooms hardcore style! and save money by leaving the butt up, and do something for ecology all in one swoop! win win win scenario.

 

bet them oysters where great.

 

The Pluerotus ostreatus is a sneaky little toad, it is a predator you know and doesnt just like its meal made of cellulose and lignin. Due to the lack of nitrogen in woody tissues pluerotus traps nematodes in its myclelium. The nematodes dont die immidietly, but are slowly digested supplementing the nitrogen needs of the fungus. The toxin produced was named ostratin after the fungus, fortunatley there is no ostratin present in the fruit bodies!

[Mesterh]

i am thinking of offering a "stump infection" service to people, grow your own mushrooms hardcore style! and save money by leaving the butt up, and do something for ecology all in one swoop! win win win scenario.

 

I like that idea sounds good:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I like that idea sounds good:thumbup1:

 

For the sake of a few quid in infected dowels and a bit of drilling and tapping in the dowels they could get a very tasty productive crop for years, some of these fungi are expensive too, would easily pay for itself.

 

the stump would be broken down rapidly if well colonised and after a few years it will be so soft the client could put it on the compost heap!

 

just isnt a single thing to fault this notion!

[Mesterh]

I bought some dowels that were infected with lions mane I think.

 

They are still in the fridge and prob past there sell buy:blushing:

 

I am a lazy sod!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I bought some dowels that were infected with lions mane I think.

 

They are still in the fridge and prob past there sell buy:blushing:

 

I am a lazy sod!

 

oh man, thats the one i need Hericium erinaceus! how long in fridge?

[Omniata]

Just bought some "fir mushroom" oyster dowels and plugged some logs off a conny I recently cut down...

 

I'll be starting a "diary" type thread in the next couple of days to chart their progress

 

 

Already posted in another thread but here's the kit again:

 

Fir mushroom kit