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poofterFroth
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Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment 2
#21975973 - 07/21/15 03:01 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well, I buried these spent reishi blocks sometime in early spring. All of them were over a year old and had flushed antlers 2-3 times prior to me deciding to bury them.
I put 7 blocks per row and did 5 rows.

Then dumped a shit ton of organic spent coffee grounds on top of everything before covering them up with dirt and mulching them with left over straw from making oyster columns. I sorta framed the bed off and put up some 1/2 hoops for poly & shade cloth that I never got around to putting on.

A week or so ago, I noticed some primordia forming.

And here they are today

I can only see 3 so far, but more are likely still under the straw. Bummer that my dog and kids have been running thru part of the bed all summer - the top left corner section of the bed might not produce but I've still got high hopes for most of it.
Its also interesting to point out that my planted reishi are starting to fruit at the same time that I'm just starting to find wild fruits growing. Here's a stash box with recently harvested wild ganoderma.

  
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#21976625 - 07/21/15 05:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice pull from a first flush.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: vatman]
#21977912 - 07/21/15 10:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Looking good! I wish I could hunt around here.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Gr0wer]
#21987793 - 07/23/15 11:25 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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awesome! i recently buried some spent shiitake blocks, just by themselves in the dirt, i didn't add anything or layer on top. they flushed once int eh spring and i haven't seen anything since....
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poofterFroth
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: knomadic_niki]
#22091360 - 08/14/15 01:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Getting a couple more reishi pushing up out of the ground...and new shots of the older conks.




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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#22091372 - 08/14/15 01:59 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Very nice!
I wish I would have buried my Reishi block but the ground was frozen then.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Humbled]
#22091547 - 08/14/15 02:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nominated this one:

Good stuff!
Edited by d0urd3n (08/14/15 02:45 PM)
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Mrcloudy
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: d0urd3n]
#22093813 - 08/15/15 07:28 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cool, what strain is this?
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22094475 - 08/15/15 11:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Do you have any problems with slugs&bugs?
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: RogerSmith]
#22094581 - 08/15/15 11:47 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those are some nice looking conks
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: RogerSmith]
#22094657 - 08/15/15 12:11 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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d0urd3n said: Nominated this one:

Good stuff! 

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Mrcloudy said: Cool, what strain is this?
Sold as G. lucidum from Everything Mushrooms...
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RogerSmith said: Do you have any problems with slugs&bugs?
No problems - "knock on wood."
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#22096524 - 08/15/15 09:33 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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There is only one thing I can say after seeing those pics.
FUCKEN SICK!!!
Congrats dude. beautiful natural conks! A+++
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: bryanbzl]
#22097198 - 08/16/15 01:01 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It looks a lot like Ganoderma lingzhi, the traditional Asian reishi, when it is mature are the pores sort of yellow?
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22097545 - 08/16/15 04:42 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Really nice man!
I'm thinking next year im gonna do it different and grow a lot more outside
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: forrest]
#22097605 - 08/16/15 05:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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forrest said: Really nice man!
I'm thinking next year im gonna do it different and grow a lot more outside
My plan as well, a little Forrest garden of reishi.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22097840 - 08/16/15 07:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mrcloudy said: It looks a lot like Ganoderma lingzhi, the traditional Asian reishi, when it is mature are the pores sort of yellow?
These pores aren't yellow yet, but I did just harvest several large Reishi from my outdoor mushroom hoop house and they were very yellow. I've got a bunch of different strains running in there and kinda lost track which ones were the Everything Mushroom strain but your probably right.
I've been getting some seriously awesome growth in the hoop house from blocks that were already harvested once indoors. I'll probably never grow another indoor Reishi unless I'm trying for antlers.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#22097884 - 08/16/15 08:13 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm also thinking that in an environment with a lot of other (micro)organisms they might produce more medicinal compounds.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: forrest]
#22098341 - 08/16/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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forrest said: I'm also thinking that in an environment with a lot of other (micro)organisms they might produce more medicinal compounds.
You are absolutely right there. Same as contam'd subs apparently.
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: bryanbzl]
#22101039 - 08/16/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow this project has inspired me to try reishi! They are absolutely beautiful
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Toadstool5]
#22109092 - 08/18/15 10:46 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Another new pin...
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#22109152 - 08/18/15 11:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Are you doing anything special like watering them? Are they in a forested area?
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22109973 - 08/19/15 07:08 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mrcloudy said: Are you doing anything special like watering them? Are they in a forested area?
Most days I give the conks and pins a quick hose off, sometimes two - but that's it. The bed isn't shaded until around 1 or 2 PM so it's just to help keep them hydrated during the heat of the day and morning sun.
Not really been watering the rest of the bed, as its mulched and seems to stay plenty moist even drying dry spells.
The beds located at the top of my yard in a landscaped area I've over taken with mushroom beds and compost piles - so there's some/minimal vegetation regrowing but shaded from trees from behind:
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: poofterFroth]
#22110002 - 08/19/15 07:19 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow, i wish i had so much space! But Holland is so densely populated that even solitary standing houses (as in not connected in a row) are special, let alone a really big piece of land
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Re: Buried Spent Reishi Block Experiment [Re: forrest]
#22117776 - 08/20/15 05:37 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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lucky #7
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