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Mrcloudy
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First Reishi grow.
#18937356 - 10/05/13 06:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is my first attempt at growing Ganoderma lucidum resinaceum. Growing from an oak shaving block. The culture used was one that I got from cloning a wild fruit that was growing in a hole in the ground under a stump. This is my first attempt at growing anything from a clone I took myself from a wild specimen. The block is about 9x5x3 inches and the largest conk was about 3 inches across. It was a very fast colonizer, In colonized the block in under a week from grain and started pinning a week or so after. The pins were allowed to grow in the bag until about three inches tall when I decided to cut the top off the bag and place it in the fruiting chamber to give it more air flow. The conks began to grow into a sort of cat paw shape for a few days. I began to mist the conks 2-3 times a day and they started to take on a more traditional conk shape. The fruits took about 3-4 weeks total time from pin to conk. How do they look?
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Edited by Mrcloudy (03/17/14 05:14 PM)
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18937374 - 10/05/13 06:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't know a damn thing about Reishi, but let me be the first to congratulate you on a successful gather and grow.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: hidyn]
#18937557 - 10/05/13 07:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Very very cool! That is a lot of fun. This is what being into mycology is all about.
Heck yes. 
I could be wrong but the shape of the fruit development is influenced more by CO2 levels than moisture.
Congrats.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: hidyn]
#18937587 - 10/05/13 07:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They look fuckin' awesome! Nice first reishi grow, and from a wild clone too? 
Pretty sweet to get conks too, opening the bag and letting 'em do their thing, they love that
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Ganzig]
#18937600 - 10/05/13 07:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ganzig said: I could be wrong but the shape of the fruit development is influenced more by CO2 levels than moisture.
Very true, it was the addition of airflow (more correctly, the reduction of CO2) that gave you conks like that. Although it's never a bad idea to mist reishi when you've got the bag open, so they don't dry out.
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Mrcloudy
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
#18937647 - 10/05/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is a picture of the reishi I cloned from. It was actually found growing in a residential neighborhood right next to a sidewalk. There was a tree stump and the roots had formed kind of a cave type thing. There were two mushrooms, I grabbed the cleaner specimen.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18937746 - 10/05/13 08:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice, I wish I could find g. lucidum up here, I cloned a tsugae but it's much harder to fruit...
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
#18943282 - 10/07/13 03:10 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does anyone know if you can get multiple flushes from reishi?
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18943534 - 10/07/13 06:00 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sure can, just dunk for a while and within a few days they should start growing again. Usually from where you cut the first fruits.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
#18948693 - 10/08/13 09:27 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow awsome I am currently trying to grow some too what else was in your oak shavings did you pasturize?
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Mrcloudy
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It was oak shavings enriched with malt extract. Place inside a grow bag and pressure cooked. We tried the same thing with pine shavings and it colonized just as fast but never pinned.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18961846 - 10/10/13 10:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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New pins growing from the stems of the previous conks!
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18969048 - 10/12/13 04:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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The new pins are already showing pores, is this normal? I currently have the block in a container with low airflow with the intention of growing out antlers then switching to the high airflow box for growing the conks on them similar to the first flush.

The pores don't signify that the pins are going to stop growing do they? The one in the photo is about the size of a dime.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Ganzig]
#18986007 - 10/16/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ganzig said: ... I could be wrong but the shape of the fruit development is influenced more by CO2 levels than moisture.
Totally right, you need to low the level of CO2.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#18996579 - 10/18/13 05:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mrcloudy said: The new pins are already showing pores, is this normal? I currently have the block in a container with low airflow with the intention of growing out antlers then switching to the high airflow box for growing the conks on them similar to the first flush.
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The pores don't signify that the pins are going to stop growing do they? The one in the photo is about the size of a dime.
IME that is quite normal. Reishi seems to like going straight to conks on 2nd and later flushes, staying real close to the surface and not growing antlers out, so it's common (for me at least) to see pores appear quickly like that.
First flush: Second flush: 
I think giving it more air would give you the best chances for more growth, since you're definitely not getting more antlers at this point.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
#19088469 - 11/05/13 02:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I recently visited the town where I got the original reishi from and checked up on the stump that it was found under. The mushroom seems to have been busy while I was gone.

It went from a hardly visible half conk in a hole in the ground to insane growth up to three feet from the original hole.
Also while I was away my second flush sporulated and covered most of the fruiting chamber in a fine brown dust.

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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Mrcloudy]
#19088487 - 11/05/13 02:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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looks pretty!
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: forrest]
#19089330 - 11/05/13 10:10 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice 2nd flush conk though, they do love to spore!
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
#19089401 - 11/05/13 10:31 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Im so excited to grow this culture out.
It is doing just fine BTW. No contams or anything.
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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Ganzig]
#19090391 - 11/05/13 02:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice grow I cant wait to try these out!
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