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Wood ear culture
    #11647469 - 12/14/09 08:14 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Does anyone here have any experience growing wood ears? Anyone have a culture? Looking for a culture , but dont want to spend $$$$$$$. I have a chef who worked as exec sous for a big name asian celebrity chef. I want to get some of these going for him.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11650445 - 12/14/09 05:51 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

5 people here intersted in throwing in $20-30 ea for a culture? I would buy the  culture up front , then transfer to 5 plates and mail out for 1/5 of culture + shipping?


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11650514 - 12/14/09 06:04 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

I do not have a culture, but they should be easy enough to find!  Here's one fruiting I found back in February.



The really young ones are still gooey and soft, and thick enough that tissue cultures seem possible.  I'll give it a shot the next time I find them.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Paresthesia]
    #11652121 - 12/14/09 10:10 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

They grow on my substrate dump pile about 15 feet from my bedroom window.

Next time they fruit I'll try to plate them.

They're good in soup.  Sold (cheap) dried in Chinatown, they're called Mu Err. THink I have some in the cupboard.

I don't know if you'd like to try RR's reanimation tek ?

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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Jef]
    #11653703 - 12/15/09 06:29 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Fresh wood ears are actually quite good!  I eat the wild ones whenever I find them, but I never attempted a tissue culture because the flesh is so thin.  I usually find them on relatively fresh logs or stumps, so I would imagine they're pretty agressive in culture.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11658231 - 12/15/09 08:08 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

If you do attempt these can you do a tek for the rest of us?


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Mikeallojee]
    #11658360 - 12/15/09 08:23 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Just found a culture. ALso got my pick from a massive selection too! I will do a tek and also will share some cultures when i get my flow hood setup in the next month or 2


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11696076 - 12/21/09 11:10 PM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Flow hood set up kick ass, can't wait to see it.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Mikeallojee]
    #11697418 - 12/22/09 07:31 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

I found a ton of these last weekend, including some really meaty ones that had 1/4", fleshy stems that looked to be great for tissue culture.  But... they got eaten.  I was walking in the kitchen just as they got tossed into the wok and I was like, "Noooo!"

When they're fresh, they're kind of crunchy, like raw cabbage.  Very interesting texture, though, and good for the circulation.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Paresthesia]
    #11697446 - 12/22/09 07:41 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

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I found a ton of these last weekend, including some really meaty ones that had 1/4", fleshy stems that looked to be great for tissue culture.  But... they got eaten.  I was walking in the kitchen just as they got tossed into the wok and I was like, "Noooo!"

When they're fresh, they're kind of crunchy, like raw cabbage.  Very interesting texture, though, and good for the circulation.




If you find more , i would definitely want a culture! I have a culture coming today though , so no worries.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11697528 - 12/22/09 08:11 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

I found these right next to the exploded meth lab!  Are you sure you want a meth lab wood ear culture?



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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Paresthesia]
    #11697534 - 12/22/09 08:13 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

Heh, seriously? Ya , methrooms are cool. ANy pics of the wood ears?


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11697653 - 12/22/09 08:54 AM (14 years, 1 month ago)

I get my Agar setup today and two spiceis of wood ear are very common here, one wich has reticulate ridges on the spore bearing surface, and the other is the standard commercial wood ear . How would it be recomended for me going about culturing this thin fleshed mushroom?
Then I can have a strain of each species of Amazonian woodears .
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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Lennybernadino]
    #11747697 - 01/01/10 12:01 PM (14 years, 30 days ago)

We had some rain here a couple of days ago, and yesterday I came across a massive fruiting, including one "ear" the size of my hand!  It's thick enough to get some tissue from, but the stuff is like goo.







I have a few plates going.  Hopefully I'll get some growth soon.  These trees came down during Hurricane Ike, a little over a year ago.  Wood ears have to be incredibly aggressive!


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Paresthesia]
    #11747709 - 01/01/10 12:05 PM (14 years, 30 days ago)

Nice! Keep me in mind please!


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #11793749 - 01/09/10 12:15 AM (14 years, 22 days ago)

Cool!

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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Paresthesia]
    #11815422 - 01/12/10 02:27 PM (14 years, 19 days ago)

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We had some rain here a couple of days ago, and yesterday I came across a massive fruiting, including one "ear" the size of my hand!  It's thick enough to get some tissue from, but the stuff is like goo.







I have a few plates going.  Hopefully I'll get some growth soon.  These trees came down during Hurricane Ike, a little over a year ago.  Wood ears have to be incredibly aggressive!



  I wouldn´t let teh wood ears catch you talking about them behind their backs if I were you or you may find out just how aggressive they really are!


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Grzyby]
    #13919023 - 02/07/11 12:05 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I've had sucess with culturing wood ear.
You need to find some big wood ears that have a thick part of the fruiting body that is attached to the log it's growing from.
You then (using a sterile scapel) cut a small chunk of the jelly stuff out of part that was attached to the wood, try not to get the outside edge.
I suggest then putting this chunk onto some prepared hydrogen peroxide/yeast/dextrose agar petri dishes.
Then in a couple of days you should see growth and remember wood ear mycelium has little globules of black liquid scattered around (it's not contams!)
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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Australianfungi]
    #13919080 - 02/07/11 12:23 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Then in a couple of days you should see growth and remember wood ear mycelium has little globules of black liquid scattered around (it's not contams!)





Really?? I have never seen on any of the wood ear cultures that I have.  That does not sound right.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: solumvita]
    #13961598 - 02/14/11 02:24 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

It may not sound right but I had a deffinite contam that had black globules on it that may have bheen wood ear! I did not think of that before tossinbg it, there are lots of wood ear spores around a very common mushroom here .


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Lennybernadino]
    #14024076 - 02/25/11 05:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I'm very interested in buying a good (pure) wood ear culture, on agar or whatever. Anybody know of one, or have one they'd like to sell?


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Terry M]
    #14024707 - 02/25/11 10:18 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Might check out Cordyceps master slant fire sale:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13983077

Auricularia polytricha is on the list.  Assuming that's the species you're talking about.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: MonkeyKnifeFight]
    #14024781 - 02/25/11 10:34 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks! I just sent him a message.


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Jef]
    #23126055 - 04/17/16 12:52 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

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They grow on my substrate dump pile about 15 feet from my bedroom window.

Next time they fruit I'll try to plate them.

They're good in soup.  Sold (cheap) dried in Chinatown, they're called Mu Err. THink I have some in the cupboard.

I don't know if you'd like to try RR's reanimation tek ?

Good growing,

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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: Lennybernadino]
    #28626326 - 01/18/24 06:25 PM (9 days, 22 hours ago)

could have been


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: madcap93]
    #28626329 - 01/18/24 06:28 PM (9 days, 22 hours ago)

i can get dried wild specimens


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Re: Wood ear culture [Re: madcap93]
    #28626331 - 01/18/24 06:29 PM (9 days, 22 hours ago)

they are gummy and yummy


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