{"id":1993,"date":"2012-01-05T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2012-01-20T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T09:41:58","slug":"coffeeshrooms-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1993","title":{"rendered":"Coffeeshrooms, day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/tv\/bigideas\/stories\/2011\/08\/16\/3293620.htm\">Gunter Pauli<\/a> (on ABC Big Ideas) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html\">Paul Stamets<\/a> (TED Talk), and following the <a href=\"http:\/\/madbioneer.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/coffee-ground-mushroom-spawn.html\">Mad Bioneer\u2019s directions<\/a>, I\u2019ve started an attempt to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds. After looking at mushrooms at Moore Wilsons and many times at Pak\u2019N Save, I finally found some at the latter supermarket that had bits of mycelium attached. They are the most boring possible variety \u2014 white button \/ portobello \/ Agaricus bisporus \u2014 but it\u2019ll still be fun if I can get them to grow and fruit. The hope is that the mycelium will colonise the grounds in the next couple of days; then I\u2019ll keep adding grounds until the spooky stuff decides it\u2019s ready to produce fruiting bodies, i.e. mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1050480-685x1000.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1050469-1000x942.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Gunter Pauli (on ABC Big Ideas) and Paul Stamets (TED Talk), and following the Mad Bioneer\u2019s directions, I\u2019ve started an attempt to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds. After looking at mushrooms at Moore Wilsons and many times at Pak\u2019N Save, I finally found some at the latter supermarket that had bits of mycelium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}