eucalyptus project

[Mino de Angelis]

Met today with two East Bay Regional Park rangers: Redwood and Lake Chabot. Both are interested in inoculating eucalyptus stumps with Laetiporus gilbertsonii and Trametes versicolor. Some of the stumps are newly cut and some old. None are treated with herbicide. We already have approval to do the project in Redwood Park and also in Tilden. We'll start with those and seek approval to expand to Lake Chabot. Tentative date to inoculate is first week of March.

We'll be using some FWF spawn but also Max has started plug spawn with Laetiporus at the Lab and it would be great to expand on that. Should we produce enough I can see about having Redwood leave some of the downed logs intact and not chipped.

Max, let me know what you need regarding plug material and whether I can take it from fresh spouts? Do we have enough inoculant to do several hundred plugs?



Mino

[oppositesattack]

Wow great work mino! leateporus plugs!
At the moment we dont have enough spawn ready. To move forward we need to grow new grain spawn and then nnoculate the sticks. Im not able to make it to the lab until this thursdays lab night, but hears what we need to do:
1. Prepare a bunch of grain jars. Would anyone be willing to autoclave some rye this week?
2. Transfer chicken of the woods, grow it for two weeks or so..
3. Cut eucalyptus dowels. We need a bunch of dowels to grow the culture on. If you find a recently cut eucalyptus stump it will probly be sprouting lots of straight shoots. Were looking for roughly 3/4" diameter peices to match a drill bit, cut to about two inches long. I tried fresh green growth and older sticks and the mycelium did not seem to have a preference in the jar.

This is a realy cool project. Il try to prepare as much as I can this month, but we can do a lot more if someones can get some grains ready asap and start harvesting the dowels.

[deangelismino]

I'll harvest the dowels but it also occurred to me that we can go directly from sawdust spawn directly into the drilled holes. If we can't make a lot of our own we can break up some FWF blocks and use them.

Mino

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