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[wierd]

One:  It wont hurt the dill plant any, you just wont get any seeds for next year that way. If you have insufficient leaves, consider a weak nitrogen fertilizer.

Two:  MOLD! MOLD MOLD MOLD!! Ordinary green and white household mold grows leaps and bounds faster than mushroom, and will rapidly out-compete your mushroom culture if it gets contaminated. For enriched substrate, the development of toxic bacteria and yeasts (that produce substances that poison the mushroom) can also ruin a run of mushrooms.  This is why you sterilize like crazy.  Peroxide is your friend. Use it. Use a lot of it.

https://www.zativo.com/blog/277-identify-prevent-mushroom-contamination

[Dunamisdeos]

Interesting! That makes sense. Thanks

[wierd]

Considering the Fun Guys of Color in the large aquarium seem to be doing well (and the enriched bedding bags seem to have failed), and because I *FINALLY* broke down and went to the damn store, because basically out of everything--- I checked out the mushroom section.

Picked up some of those yummy bunapi mushrooms, and some WHITE oyster mushrooms, fresh in the bags, along with 2 small globe shaped aquariums, and enough peroxide to make it happen-- then did the liquid spawn recovery trick on them with a blender.

I have sterilized, added peroxide soaked substrate, and then innoculated (with liquid culture) both tanks, and sealed with cling film.

Now I will wait and see if I get white fun guys, and asian fun guys, to go with my fun guys of color.  Bunapi (it's really shimeji, just a special white cultivar)  really wants to grow on hardwood sawdust, but I put it on shredded paper. We will see how it does.

I am not worried too much about the white oyster; it should grow well on paper.

[Loud Whispers]

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It bloomed! : D

[scriver]

I know an alien eggsack when I see one

[Loud Whispers]

I know an alien eggsack when I see one

Alien invaders are just a tinfoil myth, I personally sleep with my window open and no alien sporocytes have begun to fester in my bones, taking over my central nervous system

[Iduno]

I know an alien eggsack when I see one

Alien invaders are just a tinfoil myth, I personally sleep with my window open and no alien sporocytes have begun to fester in my bones, taking over my central nervous system

Is this you?

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[Loud Whispers]

I don't know who he is, but you really should try the stuff, enough is never enough

[wierd]

It has been a month-- The fun guys of color have started pinning in the aquarium.  Should have mushies in just a week or so now.

[Dunamisdeos]

My herbs are enourmous.

Cutting down the single giant bare stalk on my dill plant has caused it to verily explode with additional stalks of herb which are producing much more.

[Loud Whispers]

I have resorted to sowing the seeds of random onions everywhere in my garden

I will become the onion king

[Dunamisdeos]

I have resorted to sowing the seeds of random onions everywhere in my garden

I will become the onion king

Spoiler: The prophecy is true (click to show/hide)

[scriver]

Tomorrow I am going into the shallows with a sickle to harvest sharps reeds that's to become bug apartments for the garden. I need the sickle so I can look extra harvesty

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: The prophecy is true (click to show/hide)

If only I could be so layered and incandescent, like an onion

Tomorrow I am going into the shallows with a sickle to harvest sharps reeds that's to become bug apartments for the garden. I need the sickle so I can look extra harvesty

I'd love to do the same but the reeds in my area are utterly infested with aphids. On the bright side, I've also seen the fattest and largest ladybugs in my life on the same reeds

[scriver]

Good thought, I'll have to check for that. Maybe soak them in water before I dry them