Fungal Flat

[ThePhiloStoned]

Has anyone on here grown fungal flats before? If you don't know what they are it's a combo of compost, amendments & Bokashi that is allowed to grow fungus then used in an aerated compost tea...they've gotten popular on IG, just search for #FungalFlat to see what I mean...I have been having bad luck with it, ending up with a catpiss smelling mess full of bugs instead of that beautiful network of fuzzy fungi.

 

[Miguel83]

I think it's an interesting topic

 

[paradoxlost]

In my parents garden I added mushroom compost when it was first built, its like a sweet terrace system into the side of a hill and its fairly big, than in the 15 years I have been maintaining it, I have only added wood chips and rock dust. Basically at this point the entire garden all have a solid mat of fungus keeping all the wood chips together in a sweet mat/block. The mushrooms they get are insane in the rainy seasons (they live in PA). Its been really good. The weeds have never been a problem, as they can be in PA (before the wood chips the area was just like 10 foot tall pig weed that would just grow back every weekend. weed are so bad in PA) and not many plants ever exhibit deficiencies, they get great yields, fucking GORGEOUS flowers, really successfully trees growing, and everything. Pests have never been a huge problem (except for deer), etc. I want to grow weed in this manner. I feel like this would be crazy. You just have to water a lot. And don't forget the rock dust.

 

[h.h.]

Cover it.

I just make oatmeal and top dress.

 

[ThePhiloStoned]

Cover it.

How do you mean? Like with a layer of something? Or just a cover, because I do put another flat on top of it to block-out light.

 

[h.h.]

Just a cover.

Cat piss? To much nitrogen maybe?

 

[pokearound]

I build my fungal flat in a shoe box sized tupper ware.
Then I place the entire tupper ware inside a large shoe box, leave the tupper ware lid open just .25 - .5 inch and leave the shoe box lid open about 2 inches.
This way the entire thing breathes ever so slightly and the cardboard shoe box blocks out any light.

It's not perfection, yet it works for me. I am always open to opinions and improvements. Cheers!

 

[h.h.]

I found a picture of what I called “fungal pie”. Circa 2011
I used two plates clam style.
Don’t recall what was in it.
Probably corn meal, oatmeal, coffee grounds.