I just started cultivating about 5-6 months ago and have been super pumped having started from spores, LC, cloning from both the wild and from mushrooms that were grown out in a controlled environment. I use a water agar to let the mycelium outrun contaminants on wild ones. I have effectively cloned several and I can concur with your sentiment about being more connected to it or having a greater affection and interest. I love your channel and your videos are almost never boring lol
Mush love bro, glad to hear from you, cultivating couple tubs of bluudaah i finally got them down, they'll probably be best in bag growing that what I'll be working for next same thing i did with your blue planet mush love to yall thanks again for your support and helping me get my shxt straight, off adhd meds only one 20mg Prozac now from 100mg and no more hard alcohol daily just enjoy local beers here in Colorado on occasions ✌️😘
Can't say how much of the science of mushroom cultivation I've learned from your vids. Your deep dives into everything (breeding, serial dilutions, code enforcement issues, etc.) is awesome! "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Was looking thru your Amazon Shop and even there you've just blown me away. I'm a micro-indoor grower of gourmets and functionals, but have a problem with my warm Texas summer and fungus gnats. Think I lost a batch of Golden Oysters to their larvae. Can't use pesticides (pets, wife), don't want ugly fly paper, was stumped until I saw you list Monkey Cup Nepenthes! What a genius move - use carnivorous plants! I'm researching ones that I can put in my grow room right now. Keep up the great work and thanks whole heartedly for all the info you freely give out!
this is awesome stuff and i'm so glad you're posting content again i have this huge fantasy of supplying this local restaurant with mushrooms. there's a huge forest park nearby that's well known in town. foraging is not permitted in city parks but i think if they had locally sourced cloned mushrooms that were grown without bugs and dirt on the menu it could be quite popular
This is a cool idea for sure, you would be limited to saprotrophic varieties though. A lot of the main gourmet mushrooms are mycorrhizal and need a symbiotic relationship with specific trees. Should still be some varieties worth considering!
On not being able to get back to the monokaryon: You can! It's called dedikaryotization. There are a bunch of papers on it with different species and the original monokaryotic "parents" have been recovered from dikaryotic mycelium. At the hyphal tips there's frequently a mismatch between the number of nuclei from one and the other parent and there's a decent chance that they get walled off to form a monokaryotic cell. Those cells are able to normally grow and branch, so you get many little specs of monokaryotic mycelium at the edges of the growth and can extract them.
Thank you! I'm fairly new to cultivation and am learning and practicing as much as I can and this info is definitely going to help me down the road! I still need to learn more about genetic selection and crossing.
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi I only stumbled over it a couple days ago by accident and couldn't believe it at first. It's such an wildly unexpected attribute. Great videos, by the way, I get a lot of enjoyment out of them.
I enjoy both and still learning tons from the process. Still have lots viable strains in the fridge I need to individually test out to find the best keepers. Time is a valuable commodity that we seem to have less the older we get 😅
I just found a puffball in very similar conditions. Extremely dry ground on top of a ridge with cactus all around (basically in the middle of a hiking trail). It was in the foothills of slc ut. I put it on a plate and it did the same yellow halo around the transfer but now it’s a super fluffy white ball of mycelium. The one I found was almost exactly the same size as what you found.
do you know if its possible to grow it in a controlled enviornment? I bet it was over 90 degrees for a few days before i found the one i got. its like a desert puffball @@FreshfromtheFarmFungi
@@matthewbrown1168 Hi Matthew, yes Grocycle are in the UK and good guys they are too. I would like to get a little further in depth than what Grocycle can offer, there is so much more I want to learn.
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi The Fungi academy looks very interesting!!! Gary are you selling Mukitake LC, I've not seen any on your Etsy page and I need some for my own health issues. Ta, Ian
A haploid is a cell or mycelium with half the genetics needed to fruit a mushroom- this is the stage when a spore germinates and is trying to find its mate 🙏🏻
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungiso, from a spore swab plate, there'll be dozens of haploids. So you separate them out individually before they mate? How do you decide which ones you will match up?
Hello Gary With Fresh From The Farm Fungi
Absolute gem of a video. Thank you for spreading mushroom cultivation creativity & knowledge. Mush love
I just started cultivating about 5-6 months ago and have been super pumped having started from spores, LC, cloning from both the wild and from mushrooms that were grown out in a controlled environment. I use a water agar to let the mycelium outrun contaminants on wild ones. I have effectively cloned several and I can concur with your sentiment about being more connected to it or having a greater affection and interest.
I love your channel and your videos are almost never boring lol
Loved video!
Mush love bro, glad to hear from you, cultivating couple tubs of bluudaah i finally got them down, they'll probably be best in bag growing that what I'll be working for next same thing i did with your blue planet mush love to yall thanks again for your support and helping me get my shxt straight, off adhd meds only one 20mg Prozac now from 100mg and no more hard alcohol daily just enjoy local beers here in Colorado on occasions ✌️😘
Can't say how much of the science of mushroom cultivation I've learned from your vids. Your deep dives into everything (breeding, serial dilutions, code enforcement issues, etc.) is awesome! "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Was looking thru your Amazon Shop and even there you've just blown me away. I'm a micro-indoor grower of gourmets and functionals, but have a problem with my warm Texas summer and fungus gnats. Think I lost a batch of Golden Oysters to their larvae. Can't use pesticides (pets, wife), don't want ugly fly paper, was stumped until I saw you list Monkey Cup Nepenthes! What a genius move - use carnivorous plants! I'm researching ones that I can put in my grow room right now.
Keep up the great work and thanks whole heartedly for all the info you freely give out!
thanks so much for reaching out and following along! I have also added a bug zapper to the repertoire and will do a vid soon! 👍🍄❤️
this is awesome stuff and i'm so glad you're posting content again
i have this huge fantasy of supplying this local restaurant with mushrooms. there's a huge forest park nearby that's well known in town. foraging is not permitted in city parks but i think if they had locally sourced cloned mushrooms that were grown without bugs and dirt on the menu it could be quite popular
This is a cool idea for sure, you would be limited to saprotrophic varieties though. A lot of the main gourmet mushrooms are mycorrhizal and need a symbiotic relationship with specific trees. Should still be some varieties worth considering!
We love you Gary
On not being able to get back to the monokaryon: You can! It's called dedikaryotization. There are a bunch of papers on it with different species and the original monokaryotic "parents" have been recovered from dikaryotic mycelium. At the hyphal tips there's frequently a mismatch between the number of nuclei from one and the other parent and there's a decent chance that they get walled off to form a monokaryotic cell. Those cells are able to normally grow and branch, so you get many little specs of monokaryotic mycelium at the edges of the growth and can extract them.
interesting Ive heard this before as well and just brushed it off but now I will have to research more! Love it! 🍄❤️
Thank you! I'm fairly new to cultivation and am learning and practicing as much as I can and this info is definitely going to help me down the road!
I still need to learn more about genetic selection and crossing.
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi I only stumbled over it a couple days ago by accident and couldn't believe it at first. It's such an wildly unexpected attribute.
Great videos, by the way, I get a lot of enjoyment out of them.
I enjoy both and still learning tons from the process. Still have lots viable strains in the fridge I need to individually test out to find the best keepers. Time is a valuable commodity that we seem to have less the older we get 😅
Really great video! Thank you so mush..
I just found a puffball in very similar conditions. Extremely dry ground on top of a ridge with cactus all around (basically in the middle of a hiking trail). It was in the foothills of slc ut. I put it on a plate and it did the same yellow halo around the transfer but now it’s a super fluffy white ball of mycelium. The one I found was almost exactly the same size as what you found.
awesome! My goal is to get it to LC and spread around our property 😃
do you know if its possible to grow it in a controlled enviornment? I bet it was over 90 degrees for a few days before i found the one i got. its like a desert puffball @@FreshfromtheFarmFungi
I’d be interested in taking an in person Cordyceps breeding class with you should that be something you choose to offer down the road.
this would be epic!
@FreshfromtheFarmFungi any plans to set up a Discord server?
Gary, do haploids senesce also ?
How can I get in contact with you Gary?
do you recomend distilled water storage for long term mycilium ?
I have heard it works but I can’t testify because I didn’t try it myself
😃
Hi Gary, do you know of any decent online mycology courses, we have nothing here in the UK.
I believe grocycle is based in the UK
I haven’t taken any but yes grocycle, also fungi academy has an online one too
@@matthewbrown1168 Hi Matthew, yes Grocycle are in the UK and good guys they are too.
I would like to get a little further in depth than what Grocycle can offer, there is so much more I want to learn.
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi The Fungi academy looks very interesting!!!
Gary are you selling Mukitake LC, I've not seen any on your Etsy page and I need some for my own health issues. Ta, Ian
@@ianthebastard8128I am
currently growing some out just want to get a decent stock before unleashing them in the fall 😊
What’s a haploid plz?
A haploid is a cell or mycelium with half the genetics needed to fruit a mushroom- this is the stage when a spore germinates and is trying to find its mate 🙏🏻
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungiso, from a spore swab plate, there'll be dozens of haploids. So you separate them out individually before they mate? How do you decide which ones you will match up?
@@ScottWConvid19there is compatibility between them so some will fuse, some will not. I recommend watching our playlist on breeding
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi Thank you Gary!