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I too apologize if I stumble off topic...(I'm a total budhead after all), but I've also been an aficionado of the 'higher fungi' for the last 40 yrs or so...
Where I finally ended up (in Orygone) there are a few choice 'shrooms that are indigenous. A particularly potent coastal strain is Ps. cyanescens. Because it fruits at cool temperatures, it can only be cultivated indoors by those who wish to use an old refrigerator or other means to achieve the low temps needed to fruit. The mycelium is quite aggressive on any cellulitic substrate (it will even colonize newspaper and corrugated cardboard!)
It's fairly easy to establish a perennial bed...you just add fresh wood chip th half of the established bed every spring. Here's some pics of my mushroom patch in full fruit:
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Where I finally ended up (in Orygone) there are a few choice 'shrooms that are indigenous. A particularly potent coastal strain is Ps. cyanescens. Because it fruits at cool temperatures, it can only be cultivated indoors by those who wish to use an old refrigerator or other means to achieve the low temps needed to fruit. The mycelium is quite aggressive on any cellulitic substrate (it will even colonize newspaper and corrugated cardboard!)
It's fairly easy to establish a perennial bed...you just add fresh wood chip th half of the established bed every spring. Here's some pics of my mushroom patch in full fruit:
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