Over the next few days I’ll be mixing some old photos with new ones. Generally, the old photos all have bright yellow timestamps on them, so they should be obvious. In only three days my Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) went from tiny pinheads on the spawn brick to almost ready-to-harvest mushrooms. This is the biggest […]
Year – 2025
Happy Birthday To Me! Today I turned 53 years old and in celebration of still being able to celebrate birthdays, I decided to dig up some blast-from-the-past photos from nearly a decade ago. If it weren’t for Google Drive, I’d have long ago lost all these photos forever. And many such photos as these were […]
Today’s post is a little short and sweet. I have a lot going on today. And speaking of a lot going on – take a looksee at my Oyster Mushrooms! I started them on May 13, 2025 and wow, have they grown! In less than five days they have burst forth to greet the world. […]
I’ve been thinking of genetics experiments for my Wisconsin Fast Plants (Brassica rapa) seeds, and I’ve come up with several. The first one has to do with “polycot” WFPs. These are a strain of WFPs in which about 25% of the seedlings express more than two cotyledons, either three or four of them. This is […]
Good things come to those who wait! It’s been almost three whole months, and my Dracula Lily (Dracunculus vulgaris) corm has finally started growing! However, that is actually not particularly unusual, as they normally come up in May. It’s just surprising that it has been in a pot and in my warm apartment under very […]
Heck yeah! My Porcupine Tomato is developing fruit! And where there’s fruit, there’s fire! No wait, that’s not right… Where there’s fruit, there’s seeds! It’s kinda a big deal to me because I’ve grown Porcupine T’s a couple times over 20 years and I never got them to set fruit/seed. Maybe it’s a bit TMI, […]
In a week or so I am going to be growing WFPs for a series of different experiments that I anticipate will go on for several months. Wisconsin Fast Plants are FAST! They produce flowers just 12-15 days after the seeds germinate. And the entire life cycle, from seed to saving seed (sea to shining […]