Discover haute agaricus bisporus 🔶👀

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Not as pretty as your summer ones but I'm sure they're just as tasty!

Shemiji & black king oyster?

Not as pretty as your summer ones but I'm sure they're just as tasty!

Shemiji & black king oyster?

Yeah - static payment addresses without requiring a domain name is the most exciting part.

Think of a farm stall that has a static QR code for Bitcoin payments.

LN URL was always a bit of a band aid solution & only really became useful when Nostr gained traction.

Expect to pay

There’s a subtle fiat effect I see in people expecting Bitcoin-centric products and services to be free, or near-free

It comes from decades of free gmail, facebook, linkedin, google and so on, who provide “free” products and services because YOU ARE THE PRODUCT

Pretty much everything in Bitcoin at the moment is experimental; founders trying new business models, testing markets, finding “fit” (or not) .. and iterating 🔥

Business models and products that find market fit will quickly be validated by me-too variants: the ultimate validation .. and one which then drives prices down 😃

So when you look at new Bitcoin products and services, it’s important (imo) to understand the business model, and then understand if the value is worth the cost .. *to you*

If it’s not, move on, nothing to see - perhaps it’ll be of value to others whose needs are different

If you think this is unreasonable, perhaps it’s best you just fuck off back to Facebook and Google and continue to be harvested

My personal email server has worked fine for like 10 years but gmail just did something recently and now all of my emails to gmail users goes to their spam.

I think they require dkim now (signed emails), so much for deniability?

Email decentralization is a joke.

No I didn't measure any of it, a total crap shoot.

I'd guess I added about 30L of water to get to the desired 65% hydration so about 45-50kg of substrate would be a guess.

The grain spawn was a big bag as it was when I changed my hydration method (why I think it colonised so quickly). I'd guess it was about 3-3.5kg.

I'll weigh it all in a week or so when I check on it & let you know. It's currently buried under other storage boxes 😆

The contents were still quite hot in the middle 6 hours later. I turned the tub on its side on an angle and left the water to drain for 5 or so hours. It was barely dripping by then.

I mixed the contents and then transferred it to a bigger 100L/25gal tub. I put a layer of the medium on the bottom & sprinkled a good layer of inoculated grain spawn on top. I ended up with 5 layers of medium & 4 layers of grain spawn by the end. Everything was moist but not dripping, probably just a tad too moist of anything.

I don't love the firebricks I used which look like they contain recycled softwood (probably pallets) & cardboard. I'll probably just burn them for heat if this doesn't work out.

Now I need to wait 2-3 weeks for the tub to colonize & for me to figure out what I'll do with it (if it doesn't get covered in mould). If the whole tub gets a nice white covering of mycelium, I'll probably end up fruiting directly in the tub to see what these things look & taste like.

You can never have too many wood chips & I've got plenty of places where it can be just dumped. Lots of overhead power lines around me & Energex trucks chipping trimmed gun trees. My hope would be that I get a load of that.

A while back I bought composted green waste from the local refuse centre. Never again. Lots of shredded plastic, glass & I even found a AA battery. It took years to get most of the garbage out.

It's more the waiting that concerns me. 40 bucks for a ute load of hardwood chips allows me some flexibility & is a pretty good deal if I get 4+ kgs of nice mushrooms.

Thinking I might mulch and inoculate around some fruit trees to get through the dry spell that's coming. The mushrooms will be a bonus.

I registered for something similar about a decade ago & got nothing.

It looks like it's available in my area (I was surprised) & I will register but not hold my breath.

I can buy half a cubic metre (1 bobcat scoop or nearly a full tray load in my ute) for about $40 AUD. This is about the cost of buying a ready made grain spawn bag online.

Thanks for the tip 👍

I think my first attempt at liquid cultures has been a bit of a failure. They're all cloudy because I didn't filter the LME solution & I may have over cooked it in the pressure cooker. Time will tell but I'm learning!

I find everything about growing mycelium fascinating! Such a cool hobby.