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psilociety said:
MY QUESTIONS:
I have noticed that reishi growers often have a nice sized chunk of substrate with only a few, at most, mushrooms growing.

How much substrate is recommended for fruiting reishi?

i am moving in a few months and would like to be able to fruit as many as i can. i think the smaller the substrate , the faster it can be spawned, the sooner i have more fruits.

When is the proper time to pick these beautiful mushrooms?

they grow kind of slow so it is going to be hard to tell when they stall out.

any information on reishi would be highly appreciated. i really like being in the presence of these mushrooms and want this grow to work out as well as possible.

thanks for reading,

psil.

sorry for the shitty picture quality. i only have my computer camera to use. i have to hold my computer up to take the shot.

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Hey psilociety,

Congratulations on growing Reishi

As for how many fruits, it is more dependent on the culture. My blocks your size shoot up as many antlers that can reasonably be fit above a sawdust block, and they often touch and then fuse together into one big forest

For substrate size I have been using 5-7 lbs

Proper time depends on which morphology it takes on. If they form only antlers, you know when the antlers have stalled because there will no longer be a white bulb, it will turn red. If they decide to make conks, though, I pick them before they start making a huge mess (spores)