Good Shit - very happy

[RichShroom]

I'm feeling quite pleased today ...

I gathered up some fresh horse-shit 3 weeks ago - when I found it, it smelt so goddamn earthy and healthy wholesome, I figured to collect and keep for my fruiting grow bulk substrate.

It's been curing outside in dumpie cardboard beer cartons. Flat cardboard box palettes that hold 24 cans of beer.

So I checked on it this morning, to crumble it and spread around for better drying ... and boy was I pleasantly surprised !

Number 1:
It is filled with straw, and earth damp binding, and smells so clean, like fresh mown grass - so healthy I would be prepared to go straight from handling the shit to eating a burger without bothering to wash my hands ...

Number 2:
I found between 6 and 8 healthy earthworms in each tray ... a good sign of biolife and nutritious health, improving each time the worms eat, break-down, digest and shit out the back end.

And Number 3:
I found mushrooms growing spontaneously on their own - I suspect Bolbitius vitellinus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolbitius - an edible local natural which was growing in the same field as the dung I gathered.

I'm so very pleased with myself - it means I have a good no-nonsense shit ready to go bulk substrate waiting for my babies.

Happy RichShit

[Coopdog]

Well Rich, we'll compare notes. I am getting ready to do a small bulk with horse poo and coco coir with my one good jar. Good luck to ya sir (Handshake)

[stimpy]

So you have teh poo AND teh wormcastingz0rs. FTW

[roc]

I like good shit!

[RichShroom]

Originally Posted by Coopdog

Well Rich, we'll compare notes. I am getting ready to do a small bulk with horse poo and coco coir with my one good jar. Good luck to ya sir (Handshake)

You're on ... and the very best of luck right back to you to.

If we get to a good harvest, I can feel that an international print swop might be called for to celebrate.

The dung I have looks so good, I am considering making up 2 x 500ml / pint jars as soon as my Argentina spores arrive:

• 1 cup H Poo
• 1 cup King Korn (sorghum, maize, whole grain malted home brew)
• 4 cups Vermiculite
• 2 cups water

Then sterlising, and innoculating with a Liquid Culture, and incubating.

If that colonises successfully, I'll crumble the cakes to the same growing substrate, except pasturised, and without the vermiculite.

I've got high hopes for that experiment ...

A: It will be a very very cheap jar mix

B: If the mycelium colony graduates from a sterile kindergarten jar to the exact same food environment for grow & fruiting, it should:
i.) take off where it left off at rocket-speed
ii.) be hardy & have a preconditioned resistance to typical contam in that sort of environment

[usagolden]

hell ya horse poo

[Coopdog]

I sterilized mine outside in a cooler with boiling water, swapping out the water three times at one hour intervals. The wife said I was NOT sterilizing any horse poo in the house

I was surprised also how different it was when I went back after it sat in the sun and rain for two weeks. It was nothing but hay basically. When I put it out there and broke it up initially it was some smelly shit! literally lol. That 3 days or so of hard rain really washed it out. It has been draining overnight now, along with the coco coir which was sterilized in boiling water, not pasteurized to further remove dangers of contamination. I intend to layer it with handfuls of the spawned brf cake in a see thru rubbermaid and keep it in the dark for a few days to colonize, then hopefully some giant beautiful mushrooms. (fingers crossed)