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OysterKing
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How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies
#23943610 - 12/20/16 02:11 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey Guys and Gals
We've grown a reishi basket 
What do we do now? How do we induce pinning?
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: OysterKing]
#23944663 - 12/20/16 09:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey OK, Not sure what your set up is but if you don't have a greenhouse/Martha type fruiting chamber you might just swap the black bag for a clear one and seal it back up and give it a light cycle. Looks like it's starting to pin already...the surface starts getting really bumpy. Curious as to why that spot didn't colonize. Check out Marty's reishi grow currently in progress.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Mycolorado]
#23945012 - 12/21/16 12:09 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Keep the RH up and give it light and it will blob no problem. But what's with the uncolonized bits? Those will contam if they aren't already.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Mycolorado]
#23946236 - 12/21/16 02:18 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the replies!
After we posted we decided to swap the black bag for a clear one. How pleasing to see your response confirming our instincts.
Its summer here so the basket is getting roughly 12hrs of indirect sunlight.
How long should we keep the bag sealed for? I'm guessing once there is a pinset we can place the cake into regular fruiting conditions?
That spot is curious, but the whole cake was a bit of an experiment so we are thrilled to get near complete colonisation. I hope the myc will overtake whatever is slowing it down there(fingerscrossed)
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: OysterKing]
#23947579 - 12/21/16 10:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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OysterKing said: Thanks for the replies!
After we posted we decided to swap the black bag for a clear one. How pleasing to see your response confirming our instincts.
Its summer here so the basket is getting roughly 12hrs of indirect sunlight.
How long should we keep the bag sealed for? I'm guessing once there is a pinset we can place the cake into regular fruiting conditions?
That spot is curious, but the whole cake was a bit of an experiment so we are thrilled to get near complete colonisation. I hope the myc will overtake whatever is slowing it down there(fingerscrossed)
If you're going for antlers, you don't really ever need to expose the substrate to "regular fruiting conditions", but if you want conks, yeah as soon as you see a pinset form and start growing a bit, that's a good time.
That uncolonized little part looks like it got too wet from all the condensation in there (which is GREAT for getting a good reishi pinset so don't think ya did anything wrong). I'd pull out that uncolonized shit by hand though if I were you, get rid of it...
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Forrester]
#23947780 - 12/21/16 11:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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OysterKing said: Thanks for the replies!
After we posted we decided to swap the black bag for a clear one. How pleasing to see your response confirming our instincts.
Its summer here so the basket is getting roughly 12hrs of indirect sunlight.
How long should we keep the bag sealed for? I'm guessing once there is a pinset we can place the cake into regular fruiting conditions?
That spot is curious, but the whole cake was a bit of an experiment so we are thrilled to get near complete colonisation. I hope the myc will overtake whatever is slowing it down there(fingerscrossed)
If you're going for antlers, you don't really ever need to expose the substrate to "regular fruiting conditions", but if you want conks, yeah as soon as you see a pinset form and start growing a bit, that's a good time.
That uncolonized little part looks like it got too wet from all the condensation in there (which is GREAT for getting a good reishi pinset so don't think ya did anything wrong). I'd pull out that uncolonized shit by hand though if I were you, get rid of it...
That's good advice
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23959236 - 12/26/16 08:41 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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That myc looks beautiful!
It looks like it's trying to grow around the corner of the basket in that third pic!
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: RolledUhhp]
#23969180 - 12/30/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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How's your grow going?
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: keifnnugs]
#23979780 - 01/03/17 07:39 PM (7 years, 27 days ago) |
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keifnnugs said: How's your grow going?
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Forrester]
#24004381 - 01/12/17 02:52 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Hey happy people 
Thanks for the replies! We have been quite busy with life and such, so this update is a little overdue.
Our little cake is looking quite different!
However there is a fuzz on the fruit bodies that we arent sure of. Is it cobweb mould? Can it be eradicated with more airflow perhaps? Here are some pics of the fuzz and fruit... 

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the fuzz might be?
The fruit bodies have grown a little since the 7th, so we'll post more pics soon.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: OysterKing]
#24004390 - 01/12/17 02:55 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Not cobweb. Actually looks like Ganoderma myc though mold can often grow on the fruits. At this stage you could up the FAE as your fruits are in.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Pastywhyte]
#24004457 - 01/12/17 03:16 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Thats potentially good news!
Thanks, we'll fan it a few times a day and see what that does.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Pastywhyte]
#24005763 - 01/12/17 10:16 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Pastywhyte said: Not cobweb. Actually looks like Ganoderma myc though mold can often grow on the fruits. At this stage you could up the FAE as your fruits are in.
eeeeeeehhhhhh.... I could be wrong, but that fuzzy shit in the middle pic does not look like anything I've ever seen grow on reishi fruits. I've never seen reishi mycelium grow all fluffy like that out of already growing fruits.
I'm gonna vote mold of some sort. I HAVE seen mold attack the fruits before, although mine was green, never white like that, but to me that looks like mold. Just my $.02, again, could be wrong.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Forrester]
#24005798 - 01/12/17 10:28 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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I will defer to Forrester then. It's not cobweb and I have also seen mold grow on Ganoderma fruits (though never lucidum). But it looks pretty organized if it is mold I wouldn't be able to guess at a genus.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Pastywhyte]
#24009959 - 01/14/17 02:49 PM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Hello peeps
Check this out , thats a pic taken this evening of the same spot which Forrester referred to. Almost all of the fuzz has disappeared after two 'fanning sessions'. Fruit bodies getting some size to them too!
Some can still be seen in the centre of the picture.
There is still some fuzz on the rest of the fruit bodies, but it seems to be retreating. What the hell is it?
 
Loving it!
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: OysterKing]
#24010280 - 01/14/17 04:46 PM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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It's mold. Blast that shit off under the sink or with a hose.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: poofterFroth]
#24012207 - 01/15/17 01:11 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Weird. Considering how it just mostly "went away", and looking at the more recent pics, I think Pasty mighta been right the first time. Maybe you just got a weird strain that the mycelium will grow from the fruits when there's not enough air?
Really hard to say! Fruits look pretty healthy though.
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Forrester]
#24012614 - 01/15/17 04:52 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Pastywhyte]
#24012820 - 01/15/17 06:39 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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poofterFroth said:

Sorry, not really sure what that's meant to say... Back when I was a youngster, we used "words" to convey what we meant. J/K bro. But really, whaddaya mean by that? What makes you so sure it's mold?
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Pastywhyte said: I will defer to Forrester then. It's not cobweb and I have also seen mold grow on Ganoderma fruits (though never lucidum). But it looks pretty organized if it is mold I wouldn't be able to guess at a genus.
I agree totally on this - I've seen mold attack reishi fruits as well - but NEVER lucidum (and actually, never any mold that wasn't green).
Poofter - At first I was actually going to recommend what you said, wash it off, maybe wipe off with a wet towel or whatever, but I deleted that part because I wasn't entirely sure it was mold.
Pasty - what do you think now? Considering the new developments, how it mostly disappeared but still shows, all spiky-mycelium like at the base of the white growth?
Maybe we should get Mr. Cloudy in on this one. I find it quite curious that I've never seen this, considering how many strains/species if Ganoderma I've grown, and I haven't grown probably 1/10th what Cloudy has.
Edit: I PM'd Cloudy - I'll bet he can set this straight. Nobody I know has grown as much Ganoderma as he has.
Edited by Forrester (01/15/17 06:48 PM)
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Re: How to get Reishi mycelium to form fruit bodies [Re: Forrester]
#24012882 - 01/15/17 07:10 PM (7 years, 15 days ago) |
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Sorry, don't over think it dude. No offense to anyone but it seems crazy to think that growth is anything but a mold contam. It really doesn't look like reishi myc. at all to me.
IME reishi fruits and sub can absolutely grow molds and not just green molds.
I still recommend washing it. Soapy water and a soft brush work well for helping maintain clean reishi growth. I've had reishi antlers slowly maturing for 6-8 months in a fruit chamber and sometimes it's the only way to keep molds at bay for such an extended time.
As a side note. Using hard water to mist/spray your reishi crop can also inadvertently leave a scaly residue on an otherwise perfect conk or antler.
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