Amber Road (mander.xyz)
This will likely be rather rudimentary for experts and professionals, and the map itself isn’t pre-1950 but I recently visited northern Italy and had my interest piqued by Aquileia; which lead me to begin looking for info on trade routes from which Baltic amber was able to reach ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and The Caucasus....
If you have hoya, seriously consider dousing them with sulfur for flat mite control. (mander.xyz)
Flat mites are becoming super common in the Hoya world, but because they’re so hard to see and do damage so slowly most people don’t know about them. A lot of cases of plants failing to thrive, never growing, or just looking sickly and slowly dying may be due to flat mites. You can see them easily with a cheap handheld...
New Community: What's this fungus? (mander.xyz)
Hello all, there’s a new community for identifying different types of fungi! Feel free to come join us!
3D printed evaporative cooler drops mushroom tent temp by 12 f (mander.xyz)
I’m just starting to get back into growing mushrooms and have a few Oyster blocks ready to fruit. Problem is the temperature in my house/grow tent is usually in the high 70’s or low 80’s (f), and the humidity is in the 30% range. I figured a swamp cooler could help with both of these problems....
Excitement Intensifies (mander.xyz)
Zeroty-Zero (mander.xyz)
Our beautiful Oxalis Triangularis, in bloom since 2 months! (mander.xyz)
My wife discovered somebody nearby selling a few small rhizomes of this plant just a few months ago....
Some books I picked up while traveling (mander.xyz)
This year I found out why this is called the Lipstick Plant! (mander.xyz)
My friend said “that plant’s feeling horny!”...
New sexuality just dropped (mander.xyz)
Cool tree ring growth! (mander.xyz)
Anyone know more about the cause? It’s happened to me a couple times with cultures that proved clean. My best guess is temperature fluctuation, it’s pretty hot here
Lichen resynthesis experiment (mander.xyz)
I am trying to grow Oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri) at home, which is a highly valued lichen in the perfume industry due to its woody and sweet odor....
Penicillium contamination (mander.xyz)
I have been making an effort to actually identify the contaminants that grow in my petri dishes. In this case the contaminants are those dark green spore islands....
King oysters fruiting in worm bin (mander.xyz)
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/2b9599f5-64dc-4f25-b22f-6492ab481bae.jpeg...
Winter negligence (mander.xyz)
I was experimenting with culture isolation and became a bit distracted with other things. This agar plate was prepared in October and left in a drawer, so it has been about 3 months since then....
Wouldn't want it any other way (mander.xyz)
Burrowed this from reddit: www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/rwp7u9/_/
Accurate (mander.xyz)
Blue oyster mushrooms (mander.xyz)
My first attempt at growing Blue Oyster mushroom...
