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Brother_Indica
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Finding too many Ganoderma lucidum
#19039900 - 10/27/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey guys, i live in the coastal south carolina region. When i am walking through the swampier areas around my woods, i find red and white reishi mushrooms more than anything. When i go back i could probably bring back a five pound bag full. I was looking it up on google and all i can find is that there really hard mushrooms to find and that is just not the case. Have people just completely forgot sc for mushies or do they not care that reishi grow in abundance here?
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RiverDweller1



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It's nice that you've found a wealth of Reishi! Do you harvest and consume? Do you have photos?
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Eddeee
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Re: Finding too many Ganoderma lucidum [Re: RiverDweller1]
#19039959 - 10/27/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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What kind of trees did you find them on? There is another speicies that is very Common found on dead eastern Hemlock and other conifers.
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Brother_Indica
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Re: Finding too many Ganoderma lucidum [Re: Eddeee]
#19039971 - 10/27/13 09:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey guys, all the reishi i find are usually growing from birch stumps that are not even decayed that much. My brother and i make tea from them allot, heres a couple of pics i took for id purposes a couple of weeks ago.



Here is one of the white ones i picked.
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rev0kadavur
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Nice reishis! ..and percinas!
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Brother_Indica
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thanks guys lol, i was also wondering if they should be collected to be donated somewhere or if anywhere would even be able to help the public with them. I really do not want to make money off them because they are free for me, I just want the american public to be fixed up lol. Do you think its legal to hold my own kind of reishi festival or any ideas on how to get the word out to the people in my area and get reishi tea cups out to the public??
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hidenseek1
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Brother_Indica said: Hey guys, all the reishi i find are usually growing from birch stumps that are not even decayed that much. My brother and i make tea from them allot, heres a couple of pics i took for id purposes a couple of weeks ago. \


thats a reishi? i think ive found those and totally overlooked them
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Brother_Indica
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Re: Finding too many Ganoderma lucidum [Re: hidenseek1]
#19040057 - 10/27/13 10:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, and i guess that if your in the southeast usa that you will find them alot in swampy areas, the same as i have.
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fry day


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I think us leftcoasters are reishi deficient. ;-)
Here are a few ideas if you want to be reishi missionary to the world or some subset of it...
It's a snap to buy postage on a flat rate priority mail package online, save the label and email it. Perhaps if folks would do this you could put some in the mail for them. I'd think you'd want to limit the amount to discourage turnaround, etc.
I prefer to IMMEDIATELY slice and dry any medicinal conks so that I know for absolute certain sure that there's no nasties growing. And they smell so wonderful drying. And that's the easiest time to do it. It's a bit of work, and I don't know that you want to be that generous. ;-) I keep contemplating using the miter saw on 'em to make the process less tedious, but watch your fingers!
Though I supposed that a couple days in transit for fresh specimens wouldn't be awful... They'd have to breathe, though, and be kept cool. Shipping fresh fungus is a hassle.
There is no wrong (and everything right, actually) in being compensated for your time and energy. If you were to prepare/dry reishi and package it nicely - like vac pack, you could charge a nominal amount and provide a nice service.
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
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Brother_Indica
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Re: Finding too many Ganoderma lucidum [Re: fry day]
#19042065 - 10/27/13 06:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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that sounds really nice, i think i might have to purchase a labeling gun and some vac bags.
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fry day


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They're very attractive vac packed, place the slices in order when you dry, then put it back together and fan it out a bit before vac. Sexy! Be sure to affix any labels to the package before you fill/vac it and maybe put them off to the side so they don't get so warped right over the contents...
Unless labeling guns have come a long way, get some avery labels to use with your printer. If you're crafty, you can print out only as many labels as you need in one run, then start the next run at the next blank label. I like this because I date everything... I use the template that's available (I think online) and just copy and paste on the correct ones in my blank, run, then delete or copy those contents to the correct label for when you start again.
Drying and vac packing will allow you to have inventory.
-------------------- "Shrub, 30-90 cm. Leaves 2.5-) 4-9 cm, sessile or amplexicaul, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded to subapiculate or subacute, when crushed not smelling of goats." "The initial quake was a 6.6 but fairly shallow. I felt it as a prolonged up and down vibration followed by a jolt forward and then to the left, like square dancing."
Edited by fry day (10/27/13 06:57 PM)
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