How to swab an albino fruit with translucent spores.

[@MycoAlan]

Great video Ty again I never get tired of watching you work!!

[@awokenshroomboy]

Grand Guild where we at?!😂 great video Ed!

[@marthagtaveram]

Thanks Dr Ed! You rock! 🍄💚 hahaha the bloopers

[@Myco_N3rd]

Awesome video Ed! I always appreciate you sharing your knowledge

[@fefo2109]

TECHNIIIIK! 😄mush love! great video!

[@donniebrasco11]

Lots of love ed ❤️

[@Jugg215]

Beautiful fruit. Flawless technique 😂 mush love big dawg.

[@redbarron3695]

Dinner is served. Let’s eat Doc!

[@Primitivemycology]

Thank you for the video, I always enjoy your content. That is a wonderful explanation on the technique. I always learn something new from your videos, I have never taken swabs outside of the FFU, had no idea I could. Without a doubt I trust your advice and experience though so now I will have to try.

[@edwardgrand]

Just do it in a draft-free area and get them back in the packaging as soon as they are dry. I also mist the whole area (including the air above the workspace) about 5 minutes before working. You could wear gloves, but I find it harder to manipulate the swabs. Never had a problem with contamination. Most contamination comes from contact with dirty surfaces, so just make sure the head of that swab stays clean.

[@Primitivemycology]

@edwardgrand will do, it would make it so much easier and more convenient if I can learn to swab cleanly in open air. It always seems like a giant waste when I go through the motions to set the FFU up just to swab a fruit or two and shut it all back down in 5 min. Lol I often try to wait until I'm doing other work and sometimes that causes me to miss the optimal time to swab particular fruits. Thanks again I'm gonna try it today with a mutant shiitake I've been eyeballing on a multispore block. Hopefully the little 3 headed monster will have some diversity when I put the spore to agar!

[@Primitivemycology]

Being as you are knowledgeable with lentinus, do you know if the novae zelandiae is compatible with edodes? I don't know much about zelandiae other than it's a shiitake from new Zealand, only fruiting it once prior. I also haven't dove nearly deep enough into shiitake mating systems or at all specifically to the species. Just been using the same basic protocol I use for everything else.

[@edwardgrand]

@@Primitivemycology I haven't kept up with Lentinus. I did that work more than 20 years ago. I would reckon it's just a rebranded Lentinula edodes. Probably escaped from cultivation 50 years ago. So basically an invasive species like Golden Oysters in U.S. ;)

[@Primitivemycology]

@edwardgrand it very well could be, I didn't think of it in that aspect, the possibility of it just being an edodes that has evolved, or maybe adapted is a better word, a bit in their environment in new Zealand that is different enough in morphology that they gave it a different name. If that is the case it would be to my benefit for compatibility. Thanks Ed for pulling back to logic, I may have been overthinking it

[@starburstmemories]

Very nice, thanks for the vid. I keep forgetting to dry my swabs… I tend to wrap them up right away for fear of getting confused with the next swabs, I’ll find a system. Interesting that it doesn’t need to be done in a sterile environment. I do it in my SAB but always wonder if I might not be contaminating it with spores. Is that a possibility?

[@edwardgrand]

I do it in a calm area with no air currents. I spray the heck out of the area with alcohol about 3 minutes before doing anything. Spray the air too. The main thing is to not let the tips touch anything. Contact is the main source of contam, assuming you get them back in the packaging witin 20 minutes or so.

[@MonsterMushhead]

That mushroom looks like it’s full of alkaloids I would have ate that rite after the video ended

[@edwardgrand]

I put it in the fridge for tomorrow :)

[@marthagtaveram]

@@edwardgrand Please share the report trip hehehehe 🤣🤣🤣