toys - a thread for the gainfully employed

[ScreamingMedic]

if i ever get rich enough i want to buy a wave made of rabbits.

lately though my toys have been my work

not a bad way of going about it

[elblat]

Ok I give.

WTF is that?

[STFU]

according to google it's a mushroom grow kit

[elblat]

ah, I was googling "towfu"

[ScreamingMedic]

starting a small scale gourmet mushroom business at the moment. love growing mushrooms. love the idea of making money off of them.

so far i gots:

oyster(blue)

Some random shiitake cultivar

any takers?

[toivo]

how did it work? none of ours - blue oster, pearl oyster, and shitake- took. we started from inoculated plugs- many holes were drilled in logs- maple and poplar. no-thing. this looks like a pretty controlled business though, and our tack an d approach was more barbarian stylee than surgical gloves.

[ScreamingMedic]

plug spawning can be fun, but to be honest, most people don't do it right, for example drilling holes and sticking in plug spawn isn't very effective vs. cutting wedges out of the log and nailing them back in with the plus spawn stuck in between. also, log growing takes fucking forever and isn't particularly effective in terms of making a profit through agricultural means. with shiitake it can take 2 years before you get mushrooms with that method. my production method is with sawdust and woodchips(broadleaf hardwoods only) formed into blocks and then innoculated with grain spawn i grow from agar cultures. you normally see mushrooms within around 2 months if you use this method, and the yields are pretty high. however, after 3ish flushes the blocks aren't worth keeping. oyster is a lot faster, but i use a cheaper method and more fruitful using somewhat sterilized straw and laundry baskets.

http://www.iplayerhd.com/player/f4d6984c-0a2f-42b0-852e-e49a9ed5daff.aspx

this method is prolific.

can't imagine running some psillys with that.

easily a few grand after one run.

sticking it out legit though.

[toivo]

the plugs seemed active when they arrived. i wonder if they're close enough to form a colony. 3inches in between in a diamond pattern. it was tonnes of work- but just 1 year. maybe still...

then there is chainsaw bar oil with spores for the indifferent mycologist

[ScreamingMedic]

"One of these spored oils was made especially for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and contains hundreds of millions of spores of Psilocybe azurescens. See also figure 77, showing a mycelial colony emanating from point of contact with spored oil."


heard about using the oils years ago, but just recently saw they did a run with azures when i was reading the newer stamets book.

[RockPharmer]

take it to the mushroom forum dorks

[ScreamingMedic]

if a chainsaw lubed up with oil, which has in turn been inoculated with psychedelic mushroom spores, isn't a fucking awesome toy then there are no such things as awesome toys.

stfu n00b

[Ikefromla]

Well said. I have no toys, at least of my own. My brother's WRX that I'm driving is a nice toy though, even if it doesn't technically belong to me.

[RockPharmer]

Thanks for starting this thread. I'll have something to share Monday

as promised:






wife's response when i showed it to her: "i don't know... it just doesn't look that sporty"
my response: "i will make you nauseous in that car"

this car is fucking unbelievable. fast like whoa. i'm still a bit scared of it.

[Ikefromla]

but she's right. it doesn't "look" sporty. it's a sleeper. do not be offended by this. it is the nature of the beast.

[RockPharmer]

oh, i know. i like it that way! no wing, no scoop. just 340 HP.

[VTP]

asdf. thats a toy. holy shit.

revolution 12 gauge pad. so i can fall off V2s without worry.

[merock]

Thanks for starting this thread. I'll have something to share Monday

as promised:


wife's response when i showed it to her: "i don't know... it just doesn't look that sporty"
my response: "i will make you nauseous in that car"

this car is fucking unbelievable. fast like whoa. i'm still a bit scared of it.

go get me some groceries!!!

[RockPharmer]

quote from the salesman, "this isn't a grocery-getter, it's a grocery-crusher"

that sold me there and then

[VTP]

quote from the salesman, "this isn't a grocery-getter, it's a grocery-crusher"

that sold me there and then

so...hows it going? whats the first mod? http://www.awe-tuning.com woot. great tuners there.

chip or die.

[RockPharmer]

getting comfortable with it. first mod will be a set of blizzaks. winter's coming.