My mom got me a kit from “Nearby Naturals FL” that guarantees it will grow golden oyster mushrooms, and not just a few of them. It’s a 10 lb block of innoculated substrate that was already bursting with mycelium when it arrived. I’ve been misting the slit I cut in the plastic for a little over a week now.
Day 3, big growth, mycelium burst up and out of the slit in the bag.
Day 9 (today), this is “pinning” or baby mushrooms that look like little sewing pins.
The gold color is already starting to take hold. The ones that look black are actually just very dark gold if I look closely, and the already-gold ones looked black at the tip when they started.
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Pajamma Momma wanted to show off her special packages, and also her gifts.
She asked me to thank her Santa and to say there were two bags of nuts, but one was scarfed before she could take a picture.
Roamy’s package got more frequent flier miles than Wiserbud in his heyday, but it found the RFH house.
Proof of poor paltry postal promises
Nicely wrapped.
Note the crocheted dick hiding in the shadow of the game. This is because dummy me unwrapped my gift while my daughter and her boyfriend were wandering through the house, and I haven’t explained The Hostages to him yet.
Looking forward to playing the board game and surprising someone with the dick. Thanks, Carin!
I always think man, the people on You-tube used to be so creative. Remember when it first started how amazing it was? Yeah…see this video? How exciting is THIS?!?!?! The first back flip on You-tube
The first video I ever sent to Merv.
I’d like to thank lauraw for introducing me to this work of art…I believe it is part of the reason Merv fell madly in love with me……….three years after I showed him the video, but really…who’s counting?
The first cat video on You-tube……and as we all know, the Internet was created for cat and dog videos…..I’m pretty sure all videos uploaded to You-tube in 2005 were filmed with a potato.
Cybergoon squad…….the very first “weird side of You-tube” video.
And last, but not least, the VERY first video uploaded to You-tube by one of the founders enjoying his time at the zoo….my guess is, this guy is probably a rich mofo.
Also, it’s entirely possible I sprained my finger picking categories. I might die. I’ll miss you all.
Magnificent Mushroom Monday may have featured this already, but it’s that time of year again and I’m starting to see these in my woods, along with some fresh dryad’s saddle. Trametes versicolor is not a choice edible, but a highly-sought after medicinal that’s under active research as a cancer fighter. No reason to wait for big pharma if you can find it wild, though, and it’s not terribly hard to make a weak tea of it and drink small amounts to make sure you tolerate it. A strong tea when you’ve never had it can be a nice colon cleanse if that’s what you need, but then you’re really not getting the primary benefit. Plus, it’s not really, well, tasty. At all. Turkey tail mushroom tea tastes like tree bark and despair.
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