This is the exact series I've been waiting for! Looking forward to seeing the mad scientist work his magic. 😬😬 Waiting for the next video to drop is gunna be the hardest part. Mad props Gary, you da man!
I just started growing mushrooms at home from store bought mushroom stems which I cut into 1/4" pcs. I've got them in jars with one small hole in the top of the jar and black plastic from garbage bags wrapped around them to keep them in the dark. So far (day 6) two of the jars are showing very good mycelium growth. I've been growing veggies for the last 15 yrs and seen our back yard go some compressed soil to lush. Seeing such changes in soil biology is all a part of the fun. Last year near the end of summer we had allot of mushrooms given to us. I took many of them an planted them in a shaded cool spot covered with wood chips. Winter here is very cold but I'm hoping some of the spores survived and will produce. Doing that little experiment led to store bought/jars and last night my mind drifted into the thought that if one can cross pollinate to get new veggies why not mushrooms. (Rabbit holes can be fun!) I did a quick google search and found your video's. Now I am very excited! To be able to cross mushrooms and eventually grow a few new meaty ones no one else has I believe will honestly help with local sales. I understand it's dreaming big especially since I've yet to grow a single mushroom but with such information as you have provided it is far more feasible that such dreams can come true. Thank you very much for the vid's and all of your time and effort! "THE HIGHEST HUMAN ACT IS TO INSPIRE." - Nipsey Hussle
Hey Gary, I actually have video “request” for you since you own a bunch of equipment. Would it be possible to make a test on how fast different cleaners, mainly ISO/Bleach/H2O2 kill spores under a microscope? I stumbled into a discussion on Reddit wether dipping a swab into 3% H2O2 prior to sampling a mushrooms spores is actually a feasible strategy to significantly decrease contamination rates on agar. Thanks
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi Did you end up making this video? I'd love to see something like this too! If you haven't made it yet (and are still intending to), could you also add Hypochlorous Acid to that experiment? That's what I've been using as my cleaning solution for everything, and it's been working so far. Wondering how mycelium would react to it, though I'm assuming the Hypochlorous would kill it.
So if you have multiple spores together on a Petri dish is there dna recombination? And once you isolate a single spore in the dish what do you do with it?
yes if they are compatible pairings they will germinate, form hyphae, fuse hyphae and exchange genetic information to form diploid mycelium which will colonize substrate and form fruits. If you have haploid colonies you can later pair them with compatible haploids or even fuse them with other mycelium in some specific cases (only some species do this “di-mon mating”)
Wow thank you! This is exactly what I was hoping for. I've been dealing with a difficult one and started to run out of ideas. Took me forever to germinate spores on agar, had to eventually change my recipe many many times. When I did eventually manage to get some colonized grains, they refused to fruit. So this is my last shot, if it fails i will need to go looking for them again. Doubt id ever find them again. @@FreshfromtheFarmFungi
Thank you very much Gary, for your sharing, greetings to you from Algeria🇩🇿.
Long hrs of work ahead. But... "WELL" worth it! Good job Gary!
This is the exact series I've been waiting for! Looking forward to seeing the mad scientist work his magic. 😬😬 Waiting for the next video to drop is gunna be the hardest part.
Mad props Gary, you da man!
Thanks for this content ! !❤
Thank you very much, I really appreciate all your info, I will check out the rest of your vids.. keen on learning more about breeding
That’s what we need, new strings
I just started growing mushrooms at home from store bought mushroom stems which I cut into 1/4" pcs. I've got them in jars with one small hole in the top of the jar and black plastic from garbage bags wrapped around them to keep them in the dark. So far (day 6) two of the jars are showing very good mycelium growth. I've been growing veggies for the last 15 yrs and seen our back yard go some compressed soil to lush. Seeing such changes in soil biology is all a part of the fun. Last year near the end of summer we had allot of mushrooms given to us. I took many of them an planted them in a shaded cool spot covered with wood chips. Winter here is very cold but I'm hoping some of the spores survived and will produce. Doing that little experiment led to store bought/jars and last night my mind drifted into the thought that if one can cross pollinate to get new veggies why not mushrooms. (Rabbit holes can be fun!) I did a quick google search and found your video's. Now I am very excited! To be able to cross mushrooms and eventually grow a few new meaty ones no one else has I believe will honestly help with local sales. I understand it's dreaming big especially since I've yet to grow a single mushroom but with such information as you have provided it is far more feasible that such dreams can come true. Thank you very much for the vid's and all of your time and effort! "THE HIGHEST HUMAN ACT IS TO INSPIRE." - Nipsey Hussle
Excellent explanation. Had no idea about CFU's.
Nice!
thumbs up for another educational video on mycology!
awesome!!!
😎nice🔥
Yay 😁
Hey Gary, I actually have video “request” for you since you own a bunch of equipment. Would it be possible to make a test on how fast different cleaners, mainly ISO/Bleach/H2O2 kill spores under a microscope? I stumbled into a discussion on Reddit wether dipping a swab into 3% H2O2 prior to sampling a mushrooms spores is actually a feasible strategy to significantly decrease contamination rates on agar. Thanks
cool I will see what I can do!
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi cool! Thanks a lot :)
@@FreshfromtheFarmFungi Did you end up making this video? I'd love to see something like this too! If you haven't made it yet (and are still intending to), could you also add Hypochlorous Acid to that experiment? That's what I've been using as my cleaning solution for everything, and it's been working so far. Wondering how mycelium would react to it, though I'm assuming the Hypochlorous would kill it.
I've been trying to germinate for spore many time but never succeed. Wonder what am doing wrong. Always try to do it, the way you do it.
maybe genetics, maybe contamination, maybe not the right temp, maybe not the right media - it could be many factors
So if you have multiple spores together on a Petri dish is there dna recombination? And once you isolate a single spore in the dish what do you do with it?
yes if they are compatible pairings they will germinate, form hyphae, fuse hyphae and exchange genetic information to form diploid mycelium which will colonize substrate and form fruits. If you have haploid colonies you can later pair them with compatible haploids or even fuse them with other mycelium in some specific cases (only some species do this “di-mon mating”)
Wow thank you! This is exactly what I was hoping for. I've been dealing with a difficult one and started to run out of ideas. Took me forever to germinate spores on agar, had to eventually change my recipe many many times. When I did eventually manage to get some colonized grains, they refused to fruit.
So this is my last shot, if it fails i will need to go looking for them again. Doubt id ever find them again. @@FreshfromtheFarmFungi