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 IslandFungi
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 Wild collection to fruit: Pleurotus cystidiosus **UPDATED With First Flush*** 
#15796137 - 02/12/12 02:21 AM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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I'm trying to start a business growing edibles as many on the shroomery are. I live in hawaii and happened acrosse a specimen of Pleurotus cystidiosus one day on the University of Hawaii campus. Long story short i obtained a culture and began working to get the necessary funds and facilities to do a test grow at the university, where i am a student, and then move on to a commercial operation. Here are my pics before picking and doing a sterile tissue excision.
He was pretty beaten up and it wasn't too wet when i found him, i was surprised my cultures ended up doing so well from this guy. After positive ID (black asexual spores on the mycelium) i went back into my fridge a week after collection and ate this guy. He had been in a humididome in my fridge and i think he actually liked it in there and bounced back from being a bit dehydrated in the sun where i found him. I sliced it up and sauteed in a sweet teriyaki sauce. Chopped it up and put it in with some salad from the garden. Delish! Consistency much like tender chicken breast and a soft enjoyable flavor.
After a couple months of agar work and grain transfers i have a collection of spawn bags colonized ready to go into my straw logs and into two 4X8 growth chambers used as the fruiting area. I put a few rye bags in my bathroom and cut some holes. They pinned like mad and i let a few clusters out and cut some off. This is about 8 days after pins.
They seem to be doing ok in my bathroom, RH is between 60-80% with good FAE. I'm worried the blocks will dry out before the second flush but i think i'll try dunk in between. I'm currently hunting for a few more local strains to play with so stay tuned. Also if anyone has a tropical Agaricus blazei i'm interested in speaking with you!
Here is another pic two days later...
Thanks shroomery for teaching me so much and helping me get into this amazing hobby.
I appreciate your existence 
***************UPDATE****************************
So i picked my first flush today, i have a range of sizes so i left the pins and smaller fruits to mature and picked about half the first flush from two bags.
This was about 10 days after pinning
And these were from today....
    
They had a very nice complex flavor which was a bit nutty to me. Fresh was best, sauteed was a bit bland (i think it cooks some of that complexity out so it just tastes like a mushroom then). I'm really excited and THANKS AGAIN SHROOMERY. I went from wild collection to fruting. That was a LOOOONG process. My wild collection was made in October of 2011 and these are my first fruits.
Edited by IslandFungi (02/14/12 03:08 AM)
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svdr
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Re: Wild collection to fruit: Pleurotus cystidiosus [Re: IslandFungi]
#15796184 - 02/12/12 02:59 AM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Great! What temps are optimal for this cystidiosus? Hawaii is rather tropical, to me. I'm amazed to read that he liked the cold temps in your fridge. The only tropical oysters that I'm experienced with, here are pinks, and they seem to die allready when only approaching the fridge...
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Terry M
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Re: Wild collection to fruit: Pleurotus cystidiosus [Re: svdr]
#15798266 - 02/12/12 02:22 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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IslandFungi:
I am trying to grow some grain jars of Pleurotus cystidiosus right now. What did your fully colonized grain look like? If it was pure white, then I've got some major contaminants growing in my jars and little else.  Mine has a mottled appearance, with spots of black. Because the agar grows out with black spore regions, I just don't know what to expect the spawn to look like.
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 sparkle
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Re: Wild collection to fruit: Pleurotus cystidiosus [Re: Terry M]
#15798470 - 02/12/12 02:56 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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How long did it take from spawning to pins?
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IslandFungi
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Re: Wild collection to fruit: Pleurotus cystidiosus [Re: sparkle]
#15806850 - 02/14/12 02:44 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Terry, if you have a copy of GGMM check out cystidiosus. The black stuff are asexual spores and are a unique and identifying feature of this species. It's not contams, my bags end up with a HUGE amount of sticky black spore mass in them. I'm gonna try to do a little breeding and see if i can find some sporeless varieties.
SVDR i was only storing it in the fridge, just being in a humididome in their probably rehydrated it. I fruit in my bathroom between 50-80% RH and found my wild specimen in temps reaching 80 degrees F. I hear it can go higher.
I'm getting about 12 days pins to fruits. These are all on grain and i will be making straw logs as soon as my fruiting chamber is completed.
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