Dear HeartCore ,
Wow you are quicker than greased lightening !!!
Thanx for the "Nice info God" the empty place where my ego used to be was fealing a little bit battered .
Q :- When would be the best time to start colonizing?
A 1 :- I start in november indoors when there are not so many contaminents in the air . I try to produce masses . Die masse bringts . Either in thick dustbin bags hanging in the shed , garage or basement , or in 40 open plastic bread baskets ( the ones the baker delivers rolles and loaves of bread to the supermarket in ) wich stack very well. Somewhere as cool as possible , = around 20 - 22c especialy in sommer .
A 2 ;- I realy you can`t say - on the one side in spring , but if you get a realy dry year you can have problems and on the other side any time - if they come they come . Watering patches does not help , mushrooms can not swim . At first its hard to find good places to try because most of the "unformation" about where they grow is crap . Not in direct sun and not somewhere with no sun . They need the sun . Not where its wet ( Whats wet ??? If you have ever picked semilanceata you know what i mean , in the same ground conditions but in the woods not on open fields ) . Oak woods are good because they drop leaves and acorns wich provide new substrate every year . Needle tree woods are allso good because they grow on the cones that fall on the ground and you can see them from a long way away . = you don`t have to look for them they jump infront of your eyes so to speak . So try lots of different places and times of the year. I´ve put them out in spring wich did not come and others at the end of august wich came in oktober . I have put it in compost heaps / heaps of composting wood chips in the local government garden centers . hand fulls out of dustbin bags full , an arm length in at all times of the year . The nice gardners then spread it out around the whole city . Sometimes it comes in the first year , sometimes it takes up to three years . I´ve allso filled tomato boxes with wood chips and grown myzel on them and put them out in holes i dug in the garden , wich works but only produces till the box is gone . The more myzel you grow the easyer it is and growing this myzel is EASY . Stay away from saw dust and wood bark , freshly cut wood chips from a wood shreder are very good . Some say under
rhodedendron bushes is a good place to plant them because the first example was found in kew gardens on a piece of wood sticking out from under a rhodedendron bush.... it is not. Between the bushes where they have been cut back in spring can be good once they take hold . They need the sun . At best leave it alone and let it look after itself . Have patience . Once it starts growing in an area it grows like weeds . I´ve had patches up to 200 square meters wich got found and raped by up to 30 godless scum every year over years,,, and the mushrooms still grow there . After a few years the parasites cant be bothered to do the work or they forget where they are .
" people have been very positive about the autoenclavable plastic filter jars, I tried them and got 100%contams..."
I tried them to but they are to expensive for me . When i sterilise grain i use baby bottles ,kilner jars ( einkoch glaser ) and jam jars with a piece of silver foil loosly over them and dont have mutch problem . Again the more the better ,I take it you used grain in the autoenclavable plastic filter jars... try wood chips . These jars are very good if they are closed.....but only as good as the sterilisation prozess... If i get contamination on wood i separate them from the healthy ones but i dont throw them away like you HAVE TO throw contaminated grain jars away , i put them outside in a compost heap and they usualy heal themselves . Once you have myzel growing on a piece of wood you dont need to think about sterility any more , just mix it in with more wood and watch it grow like a rocket .
If you send me an email adress i can send you a few photos so you see where they grow and what they look like in nature .
Amen
LOVE GOD
