Mulch. Just do it.

[Scrappy4]

Is that to say a colonized substrate that fruits mushrooms and excretes plant beneficial secondary metabolites while breaking down organic matter isnt alive?

IMO planting the proper fungi/w organic matter, is far more beneficial than any plant life you could pair with your garden.


One with Fungus,

FE

I believe were talking about the mulch being alive, as in growing plants to feed the target plants. And whether the mulch is alive or dead the soil is alive fo sho. And I have to believe organic mulch provides more life than perlite, although perlite does look nice and tidy, I'll concede that.....scrappy

 

[bigshrimp]

The much will be alive even if its dead!

I take equal parts unfinished vermicompost, aged horse manure, and soil add a little bit of kelp and alfalfa meal mix thouroughly and add as mulch layer. From there i add fallen leaves.

The idea is that the unfinished vermicompost will be an innoculant and food for the mulch ecosystem while the manure and leaves break down.

Within the first week some sort of fungus runs through it, followed by a fungus gnat boom soon after. Funny thing is the gnats don't care about my roots at all when there is a mulch layer to eat. I guess that's why they are called fungus gnats not root gnats.

After a couple of weeks its just a solid mass of nutrient cycling goodness.

 

[Old_Headbanger]

Here's two more pics to gross yall out, he he.....

Those are great looking plants scrappy!!

 

[bigshrimp]

Is that to say a colonized substrate that fruits mushrooms and excretes plant beneficial secondary metabolites while breaking down organic matter isnt alive?

IMO planting the proper fungi/w organic matter, is far more beneficial than any plant life you could pair with your garden.


One with Fungus,

FE

I would like to see that. Wild mushrooms form sometimes out of the composted bark plugs i use, but culturing mushrooms on top of your soil mass would be difficult.

The biggest problem i see is achieving the consistent 95+% RH needed for primordia formation. You'd have to mist 24/7. Watering would be an issue also.

If you have grade A spawn id expect one or two flushes before trich sets in.

I think fungi imperfecti do the job just fine for me. I'd be tempted to devote resources and attention to the mushroom crop at the cost of my plants.

 

[W89]

Here's two more pics to gross yall out, he he.....

Errrrrrh scrappy that's gross! LOL

 

[Stone Walls]

Excuse me if it's a little off-topic and it may not be colonizing in the same pot as my plants, but growing mushrooms along side plants is a blast. Here are some "Golden Teachers" grown in rice hulls...

 

[xmobotx]

wow scrap! that box is a feat of engineering

too bad your mulch died {RIP}

 

[W89]

SW are those magic mushrooms? I've seen a few kits on the net from the Nederlands I will buy one soon as I wanna trip lol

 

[Stone Walls]

Indeed they are! This was my source and I can verify that a tester gram really packs a punch, full trips are also real easy!

 

[W89]

sweet how long do they take to grow? and a gram? is that all you need? thought u needed a shit load of mushys to get high lol

 

[bigshrimp]

Spawn to fruit cycles for cubensis are about two months. Potency depends on the strain, substrate quality, health of spawn, flush number, mushroom size, multispore vs clone...

The bagged kits work good for our circumstances and you can hang them inyour grow room .for extra co2.if you have a pressure cooker you can do it from scratch, but expect henious contamination rates if done in the same building as your rols/ worm bin.

http://www.mycotopia.net is the place for more info.

 

[W89]

Here's two more pics to gross yall out, he he.....

Spawn to fruit cycles for cubensis are about two months. Potency depends on the strain, substrate quality, health of spawn, flush number, mushroom size, multispore vs clone...

The bagged kits work good for our circumstances and you can hang them inyour grow room .for extra co2.if you have a pressure cooker you can do it from scratch, but expect henious contamination rates if done in the same building as your rols/ worm bin.

http://www.mycotopia.net is the place for more info.

Tanks for the info and link

 

[DuckDuckGoose]

sweet how long do they take to grow? and a gram? is that all you need? thought u needed a shit load of mushys to get high lol

i've walked on the moon after a gram. sometimes you just get got!!!

 

[W89]

sweet! gonna order soon as I get the spare cash one thing I want to do is trip done pretty much everything else but never tried acid or mushys

 

[Durdy]

They can be quite the treat my friend. Hang out in the woods when ya do.

 

[DuckDuckGoose]

They can be quite the treat my friend. Hang out in the woods when ya do.

^^^^BINGO!!!

 

[bigshrimp]

Just remember your not really going to die... lol

jk, mushrooms are good medicine especially when you grow them your self.

 

[Stone Walls]

Well, a gram packed a punch. But a handful? I hovered over myself in spirit and watched my body burst into flames and ashes...

Only to be reanimated into what felt like a better and more capable body. I'll leave out the excruciating details though - LOL.

 

[John Deere]

Outdoors and active is the way I like to do 'shrooms.

I've had mushrooms pop up in some of my houseplants but never in my cannabis garden. Maybe now that I'm using living soil. I did have a nice mold going out in my tote in the garage a few weeks ago.

 

[Seandawg]

Mulch. Just do it.

Well, a gram packed a punch. But a handful? I hovered over myself in spirit and watched my body burst into flames and ashes...

Only to be reanimated into what felt like a better and more capable body. I'll leave out the excruciating details though - LOL.

Wow!

What an experience! Like a Phoenix reborn! Beautiful...