Do Nats Produce Truffles (Sclerotia)? Plus Top Fruiting Update!

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Hey everybody! It's been awhile but I'm glad to be back! In today's video I talk about Nats and their potential to produce sclerotia. Many do not know that they can also be fairly industrious stone producers as well (but more dependent on genetics versus Florida Grasslovers). Regarding production, I would rank them between Florida (being the best sclerotia producers) and Mexican (least) grasslovers. In the second half of the video, I give an in-depth update on how the contaminated top-fruiting jars are doing. They have been in fruiting mode for over 2 months!
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[@kingmetroplex]

Thank you for sharing your progress

[@Shinika01]

can you make an episode only about truffles? Varieties, spores, how to grow each one, how they taste like. Would be a great series. Thanks

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[@Mycophilia]

Thanks Waooh!

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Thank you 😊 Would really appreciate it if you could help spread the word!

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Damn, this seems interesting!

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[@Mycophilia]

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[@Houseofmycology]

I had a contaminated jar of popcorn yesterday and I dumped it out outside where I dump my cakes!

[@bcumstain2703]

“Natally’s balls”

[@Mycophilia]

I’m glad someone finally noticed! 😂

[@MalefiicusSTR]

I've spoken to my buddies about this, and I'm not going to claim they know everything, but they're all very well respected members of shroomery with some TCs in the mix. When I saw this video I asked about nat sclerotia, and the consensus is that nats produce mycelium masses, not actual sclerotia. Derrayld talks of it in the natalensis thread, and several friends who grow a lot of nats agree. I won't claim to know what's right, and maybe with some pheno hunting a sclerotia producting nat is soon to be a part of the world. Right now I dunno though.

[@Mycophilia]

You’re most likely correct! I haven’t looked thru the whole nat thread

[@Mycophilia]

Thanks for that!

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[@patnowhere]

The Nat thread is serious! I tried to start from the beginning got a fair way through and still have yet to grow Nats!! I'm on the Florida's though! Thank you for all you do Sage!!

[@diegoackermann13]

Hey, I remember you mentioned that you were going to show us about grating BRF cakes into the substrate for bulk. I didn't find this method and I would love to learn more! its hard to find explannations as good as yours. I would REALLY appreciate this!

[@Mycophilia]

Sure, will probably take awhile to get to though but I will

[@Kluqse]

I've had some spores of that species in my fridge, I happended to grow mine right at the time the video was uploaded. Natal SS took like 3 weeks to show any grow sign and the overlay was insane. when I went to pick up my low yield and after having infos on recommended ratios for natal I decided to mix with more coir in two different shoeboxes, breaking the cake I already had on 1:2.5 ratio that had no real success to change it to 1:6, idk if it was truffles but definitely looked like truffles. The only thing that made me question it is : I grow with wbs, and when I broke the "stones" there was wbs inside so I did break them up and put it back inside the sub

[@chuckinshanks]

Stay away, Trichoderma! Mush love.

[@marshallartist2012]

Very cool Sage well wish me 🍀I'm going to do some agar work with my old natal culture hope its still viable and I get a second try at fruiting 🍀🍀🍀🍄💚

[@Mycophilia]

🤞

[@is68022]

So which strain is he using for the truffles?

[@oldboots75]

This is very interesting 🤯 please let us know how they taste🍄💙

[@jessembs]

South African here :) lived the video thank youuuu. Do you know if NSS produces sclerotia too?

[@Mycophilia]

Yep, they’re also nats!

[@jesseb1298]

Happy Friday buddy! Hey, if I break up a cake inside the grow bag, that's already given me a few flushes, do you think it might produce more from the insides of that cake I broke up? I flipped the cake on some after 3 flushes and got more to pop from the bottom, trying to squeeze as much as I can from them 😂. Mush love dude!

[@Mycophilia]

hey man so it's the nutrition that matters, and breaking it apart won't do anything for that. Basically it won't make a difference, and it will actually be detrimental because it'll have to spend what little energy it has left on recovering rather than fruiting if you break it up.

[@jesseb1298]

@@Mycophilia very good to know! Guess that cakes going in the trash soon lol. Thoughts on blue led lighting for fruiting conditions? Again I appreciate your insight. Have a kick ass weekend.

[@Mycophilia]

@@jesseb1298 no need, ambient light is plenty

[@jesseb1298]

@@Mycophilia ok cool. I've been using some lights then switched to blue yesterday and it is probably just a coincidence but multiple bags started goin nuts in 1 day using the blue. I've had em in fruiting prior to trying the blue so I'm sure its coincidence, but wanted to get your opinion. Some talk highly of using blue for fruiting.

[@allenjarosz1582]

How many flushes of stones do you get before grain is exhausted? Do you dunk the mycelium cake between flushes?

[@Mycophilia]

You could get 2 good flushes at least, more but with diminishing returns

[@Mycophilia]

dunking isn't really necessary, they prefer drier conditions for stones

[@Mycophilia]

but some rehydration is ideal

[@Houseofmycology]

That wasn’t from nats was it? That truffle at the end

[@Oscarrosaa]

Would you say nats are around the same potency as Pe? Or are they more potent

[@Mycophilia]

Not as tasty no but tastier than regular coir lovers

[@s0cializedpsych0path]

Can you grow Nats on PRF cakes?

[@Mycophilia]

Yes

[@flora7297]

How to make spore print from truffle?

[@Mycophilia]

Impossible. Only from the fruits.

[@flora7297]

​@@Mycophiliai meant how 😅 after you grew truffles thrn how you get spores to grow them again ?

[@Mycophilia]

@@flora7297 You will have to fruit the mushrooms to get spores.

[@Houseofmycology]

I would love to purchase some truffle producing genetics hit me back so I can purchase

[@ifell3]

Never knew that was what truffles are!

[@damnft8218]

Can contaminated mushrooms fruit?

[@Mycophilia]

Yes

[@Mycophilia]

Depends of course but yes

[@danwilkinson2797]

I wonder how many people will be digging through their spent nat sub after watching this?

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[@ANWCarpetCleaning]

What can you do with sclerotia? Throw them in a tea?

[@Mycophilia]

Yep, or eat them fresh or dehydrate them (type in drying truffles mycophilia in the search bar). You can make tea from both fresh and dehydrated truffles, but you can’t eat dried truffles whereas you can with fresh.

[@ANWCarpetCleaning]

@@Mycophilia are they normally stronger then the fruits? Or the same?

[@Mycophilia]

Fruits are tastier

[@TheStoneMan.Official]

🗿

[@user-mj8mu1ho8r]

on the camera that seems to look like mycelium xD

[@Mycophilia]

Your mycelium should not look and feel like stones 💀

[@chepekabras]

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[@andersq.3243]

Hi, which fungi it is? I got names from the video,natty, nats, natallys ball. But i cannot get any information about them with google.

[@MalefiicusSTR]

Update: I saw something on a research site I enjoy. Labeled "Pnat Rocks", which are those mycelium masses that nats make. I'll let you interpret the data and come to your own conclusions rather than share my own, but I knew you'd be interested in it so I figured I should let ya know. Keep up the good work! drive.google.com/file/d/1dkB-sYyaRSVW1FJ0iKSJzpURha78ebOK/view?usp=sharing

[@Mycophilia]

Cheers, thanks for sharing!