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First Reishi grow.
    #18937356 - 10/05/13 06:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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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10 different Ganoderma species from across the USA

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MrCloudys guide to North American GanodermaUpdated A rough guide to North American Ganoderma species, with an emphasis on the laccate species.


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Re: First Reishi grow. [Re: Forrester]
    #18937647 - 10/05/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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]
    #18961846 - 10/10/13 10:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)




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)

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: Mrcloudy]
    #18996579 - 10/18/13 05:31 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. 

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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)

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: Forrester]
    #21132679 - 01/17/15 08:32 AM (9 years, 12 days ago)

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Damn Cloudy, you've come a long way since the beginning of this post :wink:

Definitely interested to see anything you find out in the variations of medicinals across species! 

Also, sorry I haven't gotten you that culture I promised yet.  Dealing with a lot of new-house issues and haven't had time to do SHIT.  My culture fridge also decided to leak water all over everything I had in it so I don't know if anything in there is even viable/un-contaminated... but hopefully I'll have time to look into it one of these days. 

Anyway, thanks for your continued work and great information :smile:

Hopefully I'll be back around more in the near future, in the mean time I'm trying to become an HVAC expert :lol:




It has been quite an experience, I have collected somewhere around 30 different Ganoderma cultures and out of  the ones I fruited, my original culture here is the fastest of them. Quite a way to start. This is the one I sent you Niki.

I will definitely keep you all posted if we manage to figure out the medcinal content. Last we discussed it Ryan was looking into contacting some local testing centers for Medicinal Cannabis, since they are likely to have Gas Chromatographs and mass spectrometers. He also has a decent number of European species he just got in and plans to sequence, that should be interesting. I am looking forward to that culture Forrester, take your time sounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment.


Here are some spores from one of my original fruits seen under my new microscope, this thing is a major improvement.



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MrCloudys guide to North American GanodermaUpdated A rough guide to North American Ganoderma species, with an emphasis on the laccate species.


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