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champinhom
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reishi harvest question
#22397600 - 10/18/15 01:00 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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On 8/24 I put a jar of reishi infested rye grain into a tub of sterilized coir/shredded hardwood, 50/50. Today, 10/18, I picked--acctually tore off--the various blobs and projections that I took for reishi fruits. Everything I picked was brown or red. Nothing was hard, as in woody, but more like leather, and everything was sticky. It all smelled like mushroom.
My question is: Is this how reishi fruits--I had no conks, only antlers, short ones, and a couple of golf ball sized blobs--is this how resihi fruits are supposed to feel--leathery and sticky? Or have my fruits gone over to the dark side, have they gone bad?
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Gr0wer
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: champinhom]
#22397710 - 10/18/15 01:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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THey should be like soft leather. When dried they are super light but feel hard. Sounds like your good.
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: Gr0wer]
#22397764 - 10/18/15 01:30 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah leathery or rubbery, but definately not sticky! that last part sounds bad
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champinhom
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: Gr0wer]
#22398100 - 10/18/15 02:43 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gr0wer said: THey should be like soft leather. When dried they are super light but feel hard. Sounds like your good.
My fruits are in the dryer right now. I am hoping for the best.
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gray

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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: champinhom]
#22398213 - 10/18/15 03:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have some G. Lucidum spawned on 9th August, damn things are still growing. They aren't sticky though...
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champinhom
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: gray]
#22399580 - 10/18/15 07:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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gray said: I have some G. Lucidum spawned on 9th August, damn things are still growing. They aren't sticky though...
Well, I may have a culture that has that characteristic. Don't know. But I have dried my first harvest and even made my first little batch of tea--tastes bad, but not as bad as cube tea, which isn't saying much. I mean, could anything taste as bad as cube tea?
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: champinhom]
#22400873 - 10/19/15 12:23 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you post some photos that would be helpful.
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22400925 - 10/19/15 12:59 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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dude, you can't have reishi with a sticky-characteristic, it almost always indicates bacterial contamination...
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champinhom
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22401650 - 10/19/15 08:57 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mrcloudy said: If you post some photos that would be helpful.
I will post some soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
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champinhom
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Re: reishi harvest question [Re: forrest]
#22401658 - 10/19/15 09:00 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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forrest said: dude, you can't have reishi with a sticky-characteristic, it almost always indicates bacterial contamination...
you have just said one of the things I least like to hear in the whole world.
-------------------- My father used to say: I don't care what else you do in life, just don't be an asshole. People, forgive me when I forget what my daddy said. Cut back the proliferating list of people whose opinions can hurt you. Unless they have done or want to do you some good, their views are just not worth tracking. Saul Bellow “People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.” Doris Lessing Those whom the gods would save, they dower with compassion. Mr. P. Silocybin
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