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....
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 to Mander, a Lemmy instance focused on the natural sciences....
My wife discovered somebody nearby selling a few small rhizomes of this plant just a few months ago....
My friend said “that plant’s feeling horny!”...
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
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....
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....
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/2b9599f5-64dc-4f25-b22f-6492ab481bae.jpeg...
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....
Burrowed this from reddit: www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/rwp7u9/_/
My first attempt at growing Blue Oyster mushroom...
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/882703...
