Ronaldo Montoya

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.

Hi, i've been spreading mycelium on wheat to new wheat, and for sterilizing the wheat, I use a regular pot and first boil the wheat and then partially disinfect it by putting it in a glass container and using a water bath in a normal pot. I've read in tutorials that it's best to use a pressure cooker because it reaches the necessary temperature for sterilization and that it can be done with a regular pot but with a higher risk of it not working. I've been using a regular pot and so far everything has been working out for me. I've managed to spread the mycelium to new wheat. That's why I'm wondering, how indispensable is using a pressure cooker? Is it worth buying one? Or can I keep doing it with a regular pot?

Hi, My chayote growinc over a pacae tree is not producing fruit.  It start flowering and i see a little chayote fruit in The flower but Then it fells down and it doesnt grow.


Any idea?

Hi people. I bought some wheat colonized with mycelium, and Then i extended into new wheat.

What do You think?

AM i having sucess?

Within the framework of the principles of Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, would it be coherent to use green nanotechnology in permaculture projects such as agroforestry designs, or does this contradict the ethics of low energy use and minimal intervention? Where do we draw the line between ecological innovation and extractive technification? Does green nanotechnology in permaculture inevitably introduce a technological dependency that is incompatible with ecological resilience?

What do you think?
Is green nanotechnology compatible with permaculture?

John F Dean wrote:How close is the tree to the pipe?

One meter and a half more or less

Hi

I've rented a house in the Amazon that has a pacae tree in the garden. The owner wants to cut it down because it is near the drainage pipe and may affect it. Can the root of the pacae tree affect the drainage pipe? I don't want the tree to be cut down because it is very valuable to me, but locals don't value trees and cut them down easily. Is it true that the root of the pacae tree can affect the drainage pipe? If so, how can I prevent it from affecting the pipe so that they don't cut down the tree?

In a tutorial, I read that wheat should be sterilized before inoculating it with mycelium. And to do that, you have to put a closed glass jar with wheat inside in a pot and boil it. I'm afraid the closed glass jar will explode. Is there a glass jar that can be boiled with its contents completely closed and won't explode? What do you advise me to do? Should I use a special jar or is there a way to do it with a normal jar?

Any idea?

Christopher Weeks wrote:Is a "lodge" a place where people vacation and have conferences, or is it something else?

A lodge in the Amazon typically refers to a type of accommodation that's integrated with nature, often in a remote or wilderness area. It's a place where people can stay to experience the jungle, go on excursions, and relax in a natural setting. It's not usually focused on conferences, but rather on eco-tourism and adventure activities.

Hi people.
Normally, lodges in the Amazon are built in large areas of jungle that have been cleared and burned, and the entire lodge is concentrated in that space in a centralized way, which is not very ecological. I am proposing to open small clearings strategically instead of indiscriminate logging in a single large area.

The lodge is not built in a large open space, but within the existing jungle. Not focusing on a single central space. In different points of the forest, small open spaces (clearings) are located where cabins, common areas, and services are integrated. These spaces adapt to the existing vegetation and natural relief, without rigid geometric forms. Between these spaces, narrow paths are opened, forming a network of trails. The paths do not follow a single main direction, but branch out and interconnect, allowing multiple routes. In this way, the complex functions as a network of nodes and connections within the forest. Each clearing is a node. Each path is a link.

What do you think about integrating an edible forest into a lodge of this type? Does this type of spatial configuration make it more suitable for integrating an edible forest? Are there any authors, ideas, or criticisms that you can share? AI says this type of network configuration is more suitable because it has more edges than a centralized system, and those edges are good for permaculture and edible forest design. What are your thoughts? I'd appreciate any feedback or ideas! 😊


Cheers

R.