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plurfekt
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Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job!
#19874323 - 04/20/14 02:53 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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I spotted this near the last large chaga I found and harvested a few days ago, finally got out there to harvest it.
I'll say this. It was raining, dark and cloudy, and roughly 25-30ft off the ground. Took about three hours altogether, I made step beams with a hack saw on forest floor wood chunks and hammered them into the tree with 5" x 1/2" nails to make the climb possible. I only used the hack saw to remove one piece - you'll love the size/pictures of that one and the rest I removed with a hatchet.
I am WRECKED. Going to do the smart thing and invest a pillow case for smashing all of this stuff to bits for easier processing. The weight is almost as much as before and it's 100% pure, I probably could have harvested more and and picked more up off the ground in tiny pieces but I did good in the time I had allotted. I'd also invested 120$ into some really good climbing/all-terrain shoes yesterday which helped.
A Chaga harvest done right. And yes I verified it is white birch although it is hard to tell in the pictures.
Time to relax and celebrate 4/20
Edited by plurfekt (04/20/14 02:58 PM)
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The Lightning
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: plurfekt]
#19874336 - 04/20/14 02:58 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice pics! I'd like to learn more about this particular species!
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plurfekt
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: The Lightning]
#19874357 - 04/20/14 03:07 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Lightning said: Nice pics! I'd like to learn more about this particular species!
Thanks and yea I definitely recommend you do!
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The Lightning
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: plurfekt]
#19874553 - 04/20/14 03:58 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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plurfekt
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: The Lightning]
#19874625 - 04/20/14 04:14 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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I love the piece I took off with a hack saw, 1 of 2 biggest - 4th to last picture. shows how the sclerotia grows in a near brain-sliced manner.. God I can smell it across the room, I'm probably gonna smash it all up to dry in a bit here...much better/softer when moist than trying to work on it for days and days when it is dry lol...
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The Lightning
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: plurfekt]
#19874707 - 04/20/14 04:34 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice signature.
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plurfekt
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: The Lightning]
#19874846 - 04/20/14 05:13 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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The Lightning said: Nice signature.
Thanks
So I said F it and went to town. lol.
Gotta stay on top of my shit... now I'm going to smoke myself retarded and die off. Lol.. more work tomorrow.
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plurfekt
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Re: Amazing Chaga Find #2 (4/20 Find) - Pictures of harvest before/after...quite the job! [Re: plurfekt]
#19874877 - 04/20/14 05:22 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Also have all this finished, not much and I gave away a quart to a local friends dad who had throat/lung cancer and just had surgery/is off chemo and radiation. Looks like someone slit his throat.
I think my camera got fucked up by the rain :/
Got a good thing going..
Most is going to donations and personal supply... rest is going into sales with 200 proof organic ethyl alcohol double-extraction tinctures, and I may wait until I can do an equal measure triple/quad tincture with Reishi, Turkey Tail, Shittake & the chaga. Going the whole 9 yards.
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