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Mrcloudy
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Registered: 10/01/13
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Looking good.
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10 different Ganoderma species from across the USA AMU 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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Pastywhyte
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Registered: 09/15/12
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cc1 said: What size tub are you working out of Pastywhite
These are 20 quart tubs. They are a little short, but I have a preference for fatass cubes so they work perfect for that. Had I known how tall these suckers would get I might have used different tubs.
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Mrcloudy said: Looking good.
Thanks man!
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Imperfect Iam
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Good to know, I have one myself untouched and saw a tech where you put 4 holes in the bottom right above substrate, and only 2 in top is that ok!
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LustyLocks


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Just read through this thread. Wow. Those fruits are looking amazing!
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Pastywhyte
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cc1 said: Good to know, I have one myself untouched and saw a tech where you put 4 holes in the bottom right above substrate, and only 2 in top is that ok!
I'm sure that would be fine. I have a few of these tubs that are also unmodified that I plan to try a few different configurations on for these.
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Imperfect Iam
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Cool, thanks man! Oh and check out how sweet your first reishi grow compared to mine this is only my second grow of anything, Forrest and Forrester liked it, but I do believe they were just being cool! Notice how the conks are upside down in the bucket, Forrester said he had never seen anything like it because he said once they drop spores that's usually the end of the first flush, but he said not in that case because there are still more coming up!
Edited by Imperfect Iam (02/06/14 10:04 AM)
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Pastywhyte
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Sorry about that cc1, keep trying 
At any rate, when I got home from work today I was too tired to check the tubs. Later I had a look and found a big ass spore dump begining. So I didn't really want a large spore load in my room, so I harvested them. Could not believe how shrunken and crushed the subs were. Easily shrank to 50% of its original volume. The fruits were intensely clustered, and surprisingly tough, almost like cutting plastic. Ended up chopping the subs up pretty bad, and considering how spent they looked, decided to pitch em. But wow, what a cool harvest experience 

The beat up sub
Tub 1 wet; this one I left a 41 gram cluster off, misplaced 

Tub 2 wet;

They are in the dehydrator now, be interesting to see what they dry down to.
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fractaldill
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Gorlami



Registered: 08/28/13
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Very cool indeed, I followed this grow from start to finish, very exciting stuff! Can't wait to try my hand at growing Reishi, just got my culture syringe 2 days ago and I went to get hardwood chips just today. Have some coir and verm as well, and by the looks of it, they seem to work just fine. :P
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ghiajake
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Re: Noob wants to know [Re: Gorlami]
#19537828 - 02/08/14 01:10 AM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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Awesome PW!!! When you said you "pitched them" , you didn't mean you tossed the subs in the trash, right? Those need spawned to some outdoor grow bed or something!
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LustyLocks


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Re: Noob wants to know [Re: ghiajake]
#19537958 - 02/08/14 02:26 AM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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That fifth pic. Wow. Nice work man. When do you start the next tub?
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Imperfect Iam
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Oh , thanks, but no way am I giving up I am just getting started, and some GOOD things are headed my way! Already got some so I have seen your grows I may have a few questions for you Pastywhite, if that is ok, along w/ the other excellent people here! I am really impressed with everything I have seen from you man! Not that that means much from me to you, but I just wanted to tell you how awesome your grows have looked to me!
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blindingleaf
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nice, i come home from work to see an awesome reishi harvest from pasty, and a surprise early delivery for my reishi replacement culture! talk about ideal conditions.
pasty, are u going to extract it?
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Forrester
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That's crazy you were getting spores, I don't even see any pores! Awesome harvest though, for sure. You'll be set on tincture for a while I think 
You'll probably get about 20-30% of that weight dry, I always get 25%. Reishi doesn't have as much water content as some other species.
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Noob wants to know [Re: ghiajake]
#19538725 - 02/08/14 09:14 AM (10 years, 16 days ago) |
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ghiajake said: Awesome PW!!! When you said you "pitched them" , you didn't mean you tossed the subs in the trash, right? Those need spawned to some outdoor grow bed or something!
If only it wasn't for the 2 feet of snow or the brutal freezing temps here right now I would have Actually its only -7 f right now so I might actually get my car washed today while its not too cold out 
Thanks for following along guys I am a little torn about when to start my next run with these guys as I have a few other experiments that I need to attend. But no matter what when I do start another one, a log will be done. I will at least report back with a dry weight, and I do plan to do an extraction. I did want to see how these would do with a simple coir sub with no wood, so I might get that started right away
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Noob wants to know [Re: Forrester]
#19538744 - 02/08/14 09:18 AM (10 years, 16 days ago) |
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Forrester said: That's crazy you were getting spores, I don't even see any pores! Awesome harvest though, for sure. You'll be set on tincture for a while I think 
You'll probably get about 20-30% of that weight dry, I always get 25%. Reishi doesn't have as much water content as some other species.
The spores took me by surprise as well. But by the time I had them harvested, I looked at my hands and they were covered in spores. The water content is definitely lower than other species, I could not believe how tough the fruits were. A serrated knife is definitely in order for these.
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Jeff
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I enjoyed following this one PW. Thanks for sharing.
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Forrester
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Registered: 02/05/13
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Pastywhyte said: The spores took me by surprise as well. But by the time I had them harvested, I looked at my hands and they were covered in spores. The water content is definitely lower than other species, I could not believe how tough the fruits were. A serrated knife is definitely in order for these.
Be sure and rip 'em into as small of pieces as you can BEFORE you dry them (if it's not too late). Once dry, it's a hell of a lot more difficult.
-------------------- Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. ------------------- Have some medicinal mushrooms and want to get the most out of them? Try this double extraction method.
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Noob wants to know [Re: Forrester]
#19538776 - 02/08/14 09:25 AM (10 years, 16 days ago) |
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Well some of them were chopped up pretty small as I was going, but halfway through I just was like fuck it, I was tired and wanted to go to bed. So I guess I gotta challenge ahead When completely dry can they be cracked or crushed at all? Would a hammer work
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Jeff
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Meat grinder works.
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