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 First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. 
#15799570 - 02/12/12 06:22 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Hey guys, figured I'd post up some pictures of what I got from my first grow which was reishi mushrooms. To clarify, I had sterilized and inoculated jars once before while doing a joint cubensis grow with a friend so I had some (very little) prior experience, but this was the first real grow of mine that I got to control from start to finish.
I had a reishi LC which I could of used directly but I wanted to try making some petri dishes and doing some agar as well, so I transferred some to plates that I made. From there, inoculated rye grain, then to sawdust. I made up bags and put them in my greenhouse and also tried a "monotub-esque" grow.
Sadly, I tossed the bags after a long while of seeing no growth. I was getting ready to toss the tub too, but ended up forgetting about it and two weeks or so later I noticed some growth. So at least I ended up with some yield!
I also used this grow as a biology project for college on the process of growing mushrooms. So not only was it a fun learning experience, I also aced a big project because of it. Win-win!
Anyway, the yield wasn't huge but I'm still pretty psyched.
  
  
 
Just finished up having a cup of reishi/green tea combination. Tasted great. Really satisfying feeling getting to enjoy some homegrown medicinal mushrooms! Hoping to get some more jars going here soon so that by the time this harvest is up I'm well on my way to having some more. Here is my dry yield. Just a little over an ounce. Not a huge amount but I used a pretty small amount today and yielded quite a bit of powerful tea. It will last me a while at a medium sized cup each morning combined with a little green tea.
And some beautiful medicinal tea.
Cheers! And a big thanks to many of you for all your help along the way. Tons of super helpful people on here, it's much appreciated. 
Edited by Shpongle1 (02/12/12 06:27 PM)
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Shpongle1]
#15799705 - 02/12/12 06:52 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I'm bout to noc up a bag of enoki mushrooms (flammulina velutipes) this week.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: indraclee]
#15800207 - 02/12/12 08:32 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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how did you cut it. is it a bit softer when fresh?
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: madadi]
#15800283 - 02/12/12 08:47 PM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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Yeah I just used a sharp serrated steak knife on a cutting board. It was very easy. They are tough as nails now that they are dehydrated but when fresh they can be sliced up pretty easily with a serrated blade. They definitely are tough though. I tried using a non-serrated blade first and that did not go well at all.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Shpongle1]
#15802116 - 02/13/12 08:17 AM (3 months, 14 days ago) |
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I see you've got totally-tyvek lids there. Any issue with the top of spawn drying out? When I do that, or anything similar, the tiptop of my grains dry out and don't colonize much.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Violet]
#15805589 - 02/13/12 08:11 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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They aren't totally tyvek. They have the regular canning jar lids on top, with holes in them and then tyvek over that. So I've zero problems with them drying out. These things actually colonized the jar like crazy. All the way up and completely around the rim of the jar even where there was no grain. It was pretty crazy how beastly this mycelium was.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Shpongle1]
#15805613 - 02/13/12 08:15 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Gnarly. That's cool. I'm really looking forward to Reishi.
Got a culture to share????
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Violet]
#15806777 - 02/14/12 01:48 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Congrats! It is truly an awesome feeling to go though the process, start to finish, successfully; and reap the fruits of one's labor 
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: HorizonSpawn]
#15807021 - 02/14/12 04:54 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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those antlers are so frigging cool. never grown reishi, but recently aquired a culture. Do you think it would fruit in one of my shotgun terrariums?
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Amanita virosa]
#15807298 - 02/14/12 07:22 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Quote:
Amanita virosa said:
those antlers are so frigging cool. never grown reishi, but recently aquired a culture. Do you think it would fruit in one of my shotgun terrariums?
Of course!
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Amanita virosa]
#15813213 - 02/15/12 10:47 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Quote:
Amanita virosa said:
those antlers are so frigging cool. never grown reishi, but recently aquired a culture. Do you think it would fruit in one of my shotgun terrariums?
Woah badass, is that the cool air humidifier?
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: po0dingles]
#15813410 - 02/15/12 11:37 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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yea, i love the wallgreens ones; this one has been going for three years. Right now, i have it running into three tubs.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Amanita virosa]
#15813500 - 02/15/12 11:57 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Quote:
Amanita virosa said:
yea, i love the wallgreens ones; this one has been going for three years. Right now, i have it running into three tubs.
How weird, i just came back from walgreens for 70% iso and noticed that ultrasonic humidifier. It was going for like $78
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#15814350 - 02/15/12 03:40 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Javadog]
#15814632 - 02/15/12 04:38 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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they had them on sale here for a while for 54.95 plus a ten dollar mail in rebate = 45 bucks. I bought three. They seem to run forever
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Amanita virosa]
#15814797 - 02/15/12 05:05 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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Thats the walgreens ultrasonic I just got! It works great!
Neat setup. Think it would work for two larger(4 tier) greenhouses? Or should I get another one? I got it for $40 with tax a couple weeks ago
Seems to be on sale for that price now
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Versicolor]
#15815133 - 02/15/12 05:52 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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At $35.99 and free shipping that is a great deal. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#15815155 - 02/15/12 05:58 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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Quote:
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Quote:
Amanita virosa said:
yea, i love the wallgreens ones; this one has been going for three years. Right now, i have it running into three tubs.
How weird, i just came back from walgreens for 70% iso and noticed that ultrasonic humidifier. It was going for like $78
This is the one that i saw.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#15815819 - 02/15/12 08:05 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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I have a Vicks Ultrasonic, but that thing puts off so much damn moisture... I don't even know what to do about it. My greenhouse was always too wet. I can't imagine that that much moisture is the right way to approach it. Maybe I need to tweak my setup in some way but I considered getting rid of it for something else.
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Re: First Grow. Reishi Mushroom Harvest. [Re: Versicolor]
#15815987 - 02/15/12 08:39 PM (3 months, 11 days ago) |
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Quote:
Versicolor said:
Thats the walgreens ultrasonic I just got! It works great!
Neat setup. Think it would work for two larger(4 tier) greenhouses? Or should I get another one? I got it for $40 with tax a couple weeks ago
Seems to be on sale for that price now
I am running one into a 4 by 4 by 8 grow room. I pipe it in. it is on a timer to run for half an hour ten times a day. five hours total per day. It keeps things plenty humid but I have to fill it about every other day. I also end up spraying down my blocks for extra moisture. I also pipe it into three tubs at fifteen minutes six times a day. They are easy to modify if you take a piece of thin walled three quarter inch pvc and warp it into an oval with a pair of plyers. It will then fit right into the oval hole that the mist comes out of. squirt in some silicone and you can pipe the mist anywhere you like.
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