peterthinks OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 49 Karma: 0	I don't think it matters if it's bleached or not. And I haven't tried it...I just thought it was cool. I have heard of people blending whole mushrooms to make innoculant before though.
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c OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 178 Karma: 0	Whole mushrooms blended? Sounds very hard to keep free from contaminants.. I wonder if H2O2 fits in somewhere?
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mark_h OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 144 Karma: 0	Well I will give it go somewhen- when I do I'll report back here with the results. Mark
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peterthinks OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 49 Karma: 0	Apparently they take over and collonize so fast than contaminants don't have a chance to start. never tried it though....sounds plausible to me. Peterthinks
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c OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 178 Karma: 0	That might be a good way to go, if you have a lot of fruit bodies to spare! Although I can see it would be hard to use up a bunch of oysters instead of eating them.
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cultured1 OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 113 Karma: 0	I've heard of tissue suspension used as an innoculant too. I'm not sure if I'd take the risk of potentially adding contaminants to large ammounts of substrate. Maybe try it out on a small scale first.
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