Ronaldo Montoya

If You amplify The last picture You can see the worms.
It has worms but hte mycelium continúes to spread.

I started Making little experiments. It seems it's working, but some worms appeared in The wheat, but it seems it's working.

Any idea why ?

Hi people, im in The Amazon jungle. I been doing a Lot of experiments for spreading Spawn.
Now i want to start producing mushrroms.

I made my first fruiting bag using sawdust, but it occurred to me to use termite( comegen)  mound material as a substrate instead of sawdust? What do you think?

In nature, when I put a piece of termite mound on mycelium, the mycelium colonizes the mound.

I understand that there are prejudices, but I believe most of them come from a lack of knowledge about what green nanotechnology is.

Green nanotechnology enables the production of new biomaterials and nanostructures through biological processes, that is, through the use of living systems or their derivatives( such as microorganisms, enzymes, plant extracts, or self-assembly mechanisms) that operate with lower energy requirements and avoid the use of toxic substances or energy-intensive industrial processes. This makes it possible, in a low-energy post-fossil world, to carry out such production in local, decentralized, and sustainable ways, aligning closely with the principles of permaculture.

A biointegrated, decentralized, and ecologically oriented form of nanotechnology could therefore be understood as an advanced extension of permacultural principles. For this reason, it is essential to critically examine and actively discuss the trajectories of its development in order to define the conditions under which it can evolve in ways that genuinely support ecological regeneration, local autonomy, and long-term sustainability.

The Orange spots started to grow and they are generating some complex ,  crazy and beautiful patterns.

It's like a living piece of art.

I would like to be able to control The generation of these exudates. Maybe being able to control it's color?
Maybe it would be Nice to create a mechanism that allows the micelium to life longer. Maybe a way to feeding them from outside when  it colonized all The grains?  And maybe using different substrates and stressing The micelium on purpose ?

Christopher G Williams wrote:Orange or brownish metabolites that appear to be present here are fairly common and harmless, but this picture also shows what seems to be green mold at the bottom of the jar, near your pinky finger. Maybe it is just an artifact of the photo, but it looks like contamination to me. You might get away with using the top part of the jar for spawning a mass substrate like straw, but I would not use it to make more grain jars.

Yes, thats an artifact from The photo. In reality theres no green or gray spots
Is there any way to avoid that Orange stuff?

Should i put My mycelium in The refrigerator now?

Thanks for The reply.

Hi, i been spreading wheat Spawn into new wheat. I been experimenting with different techniques.

I think i been having sucess , But some orange spots appeard on My mycelium.

Ive read that it could be mycelium waste or mycelial exudate/sweat. Can you confirm if it's okay or if it's contamination?

My mycelium is pleurotus ostreatus

Hello, this is the first time I’ve planted chayote so I’d like to share my experience. I have a lot of questions and maybe you can help me figure them out.  
I planted chayote under a pacae tree (inga edulis) so it would grow and use the pacae as support. It worked, but after a few months the chayote vines that were growing on the pacae died, and new vines started growing from the ground.  
Is that normal? Is it normal for chayote vines to die? And for new vines to grow from the soil?

Another issue I had is that I never got it to fruit. The chayote would produce small flowers with tiny fruit, but the fruit never grew and then it would fall off. One thing I thought could be the problem is pollination. The strange thing is that my chayote is under a pacae tree that has had flowers and there were bees on those flowers. Plus, I have a beehive 4 meters from the chayote. What do you think about that? Do you think the problem could be pollination or maybe other causes?

In the photos you can see the chayote vines dying, as well as its fruits. And the new vines coming out of the ground._

Right now i'm inoculating My wheat with pleuratus ostreatus and pleuratus djamor but i'm thinking of starting  with other varieties.

Jay Angler wrote:Interesting question. Info that might help an educated responder:

1. If you get a failure and have to toss a moldy mess into the compost, will it break your heart?

2. What are you inoculating the wheat with? If it's one of our more unique mushrooms that don't tend to have toxic copycats, then it should hopefully be quite obvious whether or not you got what you expected. A friend gave me a Lion's Mane kit and it is very different from what I usually see locally, as an example.

There are places that have thrift shops with pressure cookers. However, often with second hand, there may be gaskets that need replacing (that's a regular thing with my large cooker, but less an issue with my new small one). Most of the gaskets are available online if local shops don't carry them.