Urban Survival Gardening Diary # 6 Making The Most Of Your Mycelium.

[spaghettiandbabyhead]

Wish i had dank forest...... ha great video!

[ToonVanKets]

Tossdart, I was wondering: aren't you worried about leaving the tray lid ajar? Contaminations like Trichoderma could easily spoil your batch. And I don't advise eating contaminated mushrooms...

[Tossdart]

@ToonVanKets Absolutely not & is infact the point of it all. I am not trying to create a weak sterile growth. Rather an innoculated growth that will succeed anywhere. Please see Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets.

[ToonVanKets]

@Tossdart Well I'm doing that as we speak. LOL

I'm at page 9 so still a long way to go, but it's a joy to read.

So do you eat your mushrooms if they get infected with Trich?

[Tossdart]

@ToonVanKets Read below okay. Again however this is to innoculate a medium you don't eat this lol. Okay okay take this patch & put it into some hardwood chips outside. Straw bail to if oysters. Corn cobs. So forth.  Read on Paul will explain.

[EPrimer]

Excellent idea!

[SetTheCurve]

In my experience, cardboard smells awful when it is brand new (like the chemical vats at the factory where it was made), and doesn't smell that great when it is wet either. If I can smell something, it means there is something there. Maybe I'm paranoid but I wouldn't want to consume cardboard or anything that grew on it. I don't trust the paper company with all their PCBs and dioxin to give me healthy edible boxes.

As a side note, it would have been neat to see the result. Pls update the vid.

[Tossdart]

I can't even remember what batch this is now. Paul Stamets states that cardboards here go through a lot of regulations & are dioxin free. I know all of our paper mills now use oxygen bleaching. As well other than metals & radioactive did you know especially oyster shrooms will render nearly all chemicals inert. Metals & radioactive are collected & multipied so never eat shrooms near industrial sites. We can however use this knowledge to clean up spills. Properly disposing of shrooms later.

[Tossdart]

Part two of my answer. I think the smell you smell is mostly glue made from animal by products. Also news paper die is a very inert medium these days in North America. Remember your goal is to grow mycellium that can be placed in a 4x8 bed of chips, coffee grounds so forth. this part of it will be very tiny indeed. This can then be endlessly repeated. Have a look at Paul Stamets here on tube, he is possibly the worlds leading mycologist. Tossdart

[SphincterJuice]

@SetTheCurve

Mycelium can easily eat away all those chemicals.

[saadma99]

Nice Mycelium Running approach...!

BTW, where did you get your dowels from?

[Tossdart]

My goal is to actually have the dowels innoculated by surrounding bacteria/fungi & in this way the mycelium can be transfered straight outside. The best is if you have stem butts. Lay some cardboard on ground in a damp dark place like under a tree, after a few months have a look! This isn't a for house growing video. Although there would be no reason one could not use this dirty mycelium there. Your comment though is well understood.

[justbombit]

great video and information.

keep up the good work