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Mycomush
Spawn of the Mycelium



Registered: 03/15/11
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Loc: Australia
Last seen: 11 years, 7 months
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Recent Grow Experiments & Experience
#14380343 - 04/30/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just over 2 weeks ago I received some Reishi grain spawn from Punkin (thanks!) and got to work making Eucalyptus sawdust/chips, BRF and gypsum blocks. I steam pasteurized 3 x 2kg blocks in filter patch bags in a large pot on the stove top for about 90 minutes. The next day I inoculated each bag with approx 500 grams of reishi grain spawn (rye).
Two weeks later this is what the bags look like:

I also decided to run some easy experiments. The first is Tasmanian Oak dowels I soaked in water overnight, steam pasteurized and inoculated with some Reishi grain spawn:

Here they are just a day later, they're now in the fridge and I'm open to trading some of these if anyone in Australia is interested (post in this thread or PM me):

This is Reishi on steam pasteurized whole brown rice, which is now totally colonized and going to be used this weekend to inoculate a 2kg filter patch bag of whole brown rice. I have plans for a Reishi whole brown rice and cardboard mono-tub experiment:

This is Reishi on shredded cardboard and brown rice that I did to learn from before going big with a mono-tub:

A day later:

Another day later:


And some small Shiitake blocks from today just because Shiitake is so awesome :

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Mycomush
Spawn of the Mycelium



Registered: 03/15/11
Posts: 58
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 11 years, 7 months
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Re: Recent Grow Experiments & Experience [Re: Mycomush]
#14398341 - 05/04/11 05:00 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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The fruit on the cardboard block continues to grow:


Two of the Eucalyptus sawdust blocks are just starting to fruit now as well. About 2.5 weeks after inoculation:


The whole brown rice to cardboard mono-tub Reishi experiment is coming along. The 450ml container of whole rice in my first post was spawned to this pasteurized bag of whole brown rice (about 1kg of rice prior to cooking) 48 hours ago and is now recovering well:
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NSF
Eager to learn


Registered: 01/27/11
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Re: Recent Grow Experiments & Experience [Re: Mycomush]
#14398953 - 05/04/11 09:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Man! That is some fast colonisation you got going on there! Impressive stuff.
I'm very curious as to what your shiitake block recipe is. Care to share?
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Mycomush
Spawn of the Mycelium



Registered: 03/15/11
Posts: 58
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 11 years, 7 months
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Re: Recent Grow Experiments & Experience [Re: NSF]
#14403457 - 05/05/11 02:31 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey NSF,
Yeah the Reishi is super fast. Which makes it easy in terms of limiting contamination. It also seems to really want to fruit right in the bag without much if any inducing by changing conditions, making Reishi simpler than say Shiitake.
Unfortunately the Shiitake blocks (being my first grow experience) were purchased as is. After which I dunked them and put them into a fruiting chamber with perlite. So I can't tell you what they are made of exactly. I do know that the sawdust in them is from Australian native trees. I'm moving to my own Shiitake blocks soon so I'll keep you updated on them as they progress.
How are your grows/experiments coming along?
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NSF
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Re: Recent Grow Experiments & Experience [Re: Mycomush]
#14403795 - 05/05/11 06:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Where'd you buy your shiitake blocks in aus and what sort of yield did you get.
My experiments are ok, they've slowed slightly, my pasteurisation method sucks! I can't get water hot enough and it's slow when i get home from work. I want to speed it up so i can get home, mix, pasteurise, cool and inoculate in a night.
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Mycomush
Spawn of the Mycelium



Registered: 03/15/11
Posts: 58
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 11 years, 7 months
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Re: Recent Grow Experiments & Experience [Re: NSF]
#14416974 - 05/07/11 10:30 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey NSF,
Check your PMs.
As I say I really only bought the Shiitake blocks as an easy way to make a start in gourmet/medicinal mushroom growing. I wanted to start off with success instead of potentially failing early on and possibly loosing interest in mushroom cultivation as a result. Seems to have worked thus far 
The yields were not fantastic. The pics are from the second flush. But then it was originally just one long thin block which got broken in the post. It was good enough though for me to make some Shiitake pizzas and for everyone to taste them, love the taste and demand I grow more 
More pics to come as the Reishi continues to grow on the blocks and colonize the whole brown rice bag. I'm also making up Shiitake substrate blocks today.
So far in my experience Reishi is not a slow thing at all and very easy to grow. Temps right now are around 12 - 20 degrees C. Quite a bit lower than what I've read is considered optimum for Reishi.
Edited by Mycomush (05/07/11 10:50 PM)
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