A question about the color of pink oyster spawn
I have some pink spawn which was being expanded out in jars of rye berries and popcorn kernels. There’s been good growth and since a couple weeks ago the jar appeared to be completely colonized (at which time I left one jar sitting and moved another jar to a couple fruiting bags). It’s been sitting on the basement floor...
Silky Rosegills (lemmy.sdf.org)
Every summer in my neighborhood, this one tree will fruit a silky rosegill and we have standing permission from the homeowner to harvest it. This year, looks like there are two. I wish I’d passed by the tree earlier this week before the big one started to shrivel.
Scientists knit futuristic eco-building designs using fungal networks (phys.org)
doi: dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1229693
ID request for this interesting looking fungus (lemmy.world)
The ever-aggressive pink oyster (Pleurotus djamor) fruiting on a forgotten transfer plate 🩷 (i.ibb.co)
MEA with yeast extract at 1g/500mL, 9 days of growth...
What the heck -- my popcorn is sprouting???
At the suggestion of another member I tried expanding my spawn on popcorn kernels. This involved boiling for about 20 minutes, drying, then pressure-canning for 90 minutes at 15psi. After cooling my spawn was divided between the jars, which were allowed to grow for a little over two weeks. On Monday I transferred the contents of...
Small update from my AdBlue (Urea) experiment :) (feddit.de)
TL;DR: both clusters are the same, but I will redo the test...
Bird's nest fungi (slrpnk.net)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/d7fb28ea-1507-4dcf-a5b6-ccb0c2befc1a.webp