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 Holydiver
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 Shiitake growlog (Update 8-09)
#8596617 - 07/05/08 05:30 AM (2 months, 19 hours ago) |
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Super fun, diehard mushroom, glad I finally got to try these. Culture from Sporeworks, shot to LC and prepared WBS jars.
Cherry and Poplar shavings/sawdust, filled to 500g bags and supplemented around 15% with 50/50 wheat/rice bran, and 3% gypsum. Colonization temps 75F, fruiting 60F.
Didn't get the moisture content quite right, a little too wet in the bags so decided to brown outside the bag.
The Poplar bags were started 2 weeks before the cherry and they really struggled, but eventually browned and are here for the dunk and cold shock. Ice in a cooler with water, for 24 hours in the basement.
Poplar blocks finally fruiting. Much better than I expected seeing as how slow it has grown compared to the cherry (which is knotting like crazy) and how I botched moisture content on the poplar bags. Got about 1-2 fresh pounds from the first 3 blocks flush, not optimal but glad to have this much success. 
7-23 update, cherry blocks are coming in.
2nd flush 8/09
   
8/09 harvest from 3 blocks... 
 
Edited by Holydiver (08/09/08 11:17 AM)
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tripsis
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 Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8596620 - 07/05/08 05:35 AM (2 months, 19 hours ago) |
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Nice grow! I can't wait to give shiitakes a go myself. That bottom block is fruiting beautifully. Looks like you're doing really well for your first time growing the species.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: tripsis]
#8596763 - 07/05/08 08:43 AM (2 months, 16 hours ago) |
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my fucking god what a massive fruiting
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8596895 - 07/05/08 09:58 AM (2 months, 14 hours ago) |
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Nice! Those looooook yummy!!
Thanks for posting pics
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: lipa]
#8600973 - 07/06/08 02:33 PM (1 month, 30 days ago) |
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 Looking real nice there holydiver. Excellent work. I can't wait to try growing shiitakes myself.
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Very nice DIO
Might order them! are they easy to grow? i mean on what you grow em?
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: dstark]
#8612066 - 07/09/08 08:18 AM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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Thanks for the comments all.
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dstark said:
Might order them! are they easy to grow? i mean on what you grow em?
Relatively easy, the shiitake LC is super healthy and thrives on WBS. The tricky parts are temperature and final substrate composition. A good mix of sawdust and shavings in the 2-4mm range seems ideal. Stamets recommends wood chips as well, but that wasn't an option for me. And of course supplemented with wheat and rice bran for the nute kick.
Moisture content is deceiving in sawdust, as it absorbs/hides lots of water on you. If you adjust it to the moisture feel of manure, it will be too wet. I almost have to load the bags to a dry feel. I think I ended up going with 500ml water to 500 grams of dry substrate, which seems pretty low to me but obviously is working 
And finally fruiting temperate, I am lucky to have a steady 60F available to fruit these in. Wouldn't try to go much higher.
Shiitake is a 2 month waiting game but one impressively tough mushroom to work with, nothing phases it, until later flushes that is.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8671027 - 07/23/08 09:53 AM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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Bump, update
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8674916 - 07/24/08 01:56 AM (1 month, 12 days ago) |
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Great job, Diver! The cherry block looks awesome.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: veggie]
#8679144 - 07/25/08 03:18 AM (1 month, 11 days ago) |
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fuck the what on the update!!!
Omg that very nice shrooms! you definitly know how to grow them 
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: dstark]
#8680204 - 07/25/08 12:19 PM (1 month, 11 days ago) |
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Nice pics. However if you added 30% of bran the crop could be bigger (putting a part the woodchips..you can find them at the pet store)!
I really like this mushrooms.
Pay attention to the Trichoderma molds that will appear on the block.
To prevent this: somebody wash the blocks under the faucet a day yes and a day no, others roll the block in the ash, and others ones soak the block in a solution with water and lime.
Fabio
PS. you've the same my mini-greenhouse. It's that chinese brand with the "V".
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I did use bran. Doubtful 30% would really achieve that much more than the 15% blend of rice/wheat bran that I used. It's possible, but any improvement past this point is going to be moisture content, and the addition of actual woodchips.
No idea, it's some crappy greenhouse I had for outdoor plants, the shaky kind that feels like the leaning tower.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8684316 - 07/26/08 01:44 PM (1 month, 10 days ago) |
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Those greenhouses are invading the world!
The brand name is "Valex"
Fabio
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adding more colonized spawn could add the same effect as adding bran?
i understand brand is added in order to reduce the spawm amount needed.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: x7x_x7x]
#8687476 - 07/27/08 08:09 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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Bran is high in nitrogen content. Mycelium needs a lot of nitrogen to divide some "hard" cells like cellulose. The enzymes to divide the cells are made of nitrogen in great part.
Bran is considered a supplement, to raise the crop..
If more spawn is used you can simply achieve faster colonization but not more mushooms. More mushrooms are given by the addition of the bran. Stamets suggest the 30% of dry weight of the substrate (woodchips+sawdust)
Fabio
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Just wanted to share 2nd flush coming in on 8/07...high hopes for this one.
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8738815 - 08/07/08 12:27 PM (29 days, 12 hours ago) |
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Indeed! looks like you will have plenty of this shitakes 
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: dstark]
#8748292 - 08/09/08 10:52 AM (27 days, 13 hours ago) |
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Just a bump with pics of what I woke up to today...and a thanks to Sporeworks for always providing products of outstanding quality.
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 Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Holydiver]
#8748374 - 08/09/08 11:15 AM (27 days, 13 hours ago) |
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Nice harvest!!
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Re: Shiitake growlog [Re: Culland]
#8751099 - 08/09/08 11:40 PM (27 days, 1 hour ago) |
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Very very nice hervast!
what do you do with this amount of this shiakes? Shitakes you cant eat lotta like other mushrooms, its very spesific.
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