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InvisibleDigit
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culturing turkey tail from the wild
    #26380163 - 12/13/19 08:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Hey folks,
    I was standing near my garden beds talking to a friend the other day, and I noticed that the oyster logs I started 3 years ago, which I eventually used as garden borders, have been fully covered by turkey tail fruits.
I'd like to get a culture going from them and use it to start more logs, since it obviously loves to grow here anyway.
The fruits themselves are so thin it seems like it'd be really tough to get a clean bit from the inside of them for cloning, although maybe where they attach to the logs it would be possible, but only maybe. 
I'm not sure if it's possible to get spores from them at this time of year, or how it's done with polypores.
Should I just try to keep it all outdoors, add some new logs around the old ones and hope they colonize?
I do have some experience with agar and a flow hood.
Any suggestions?


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Re: culturing turkey tail from the wild [Re: Digit]
    #26380509 - 12/14/19 02:29 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Sometimes the base of the fruit is a bit bulbous. If it were me, I would pick the biggest thickest one you can find, give it a dunk in iodine, then rip it in half and try to grab a bit of inner mycelium with a pair of forceps. Then put that on an agar dish and hope for the best. With as thin as they are, its definitely going to be a bit of a challenge.


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Re: culturing turkey tail from the wild [Re: wildernessjunkie]
    #26381558 - 12/14/19 03:41 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks for the tip.
I didn't know you could use iodine for that purpose.  I know some folks use peroxide so I thought about using that as well.
Is there any benefit from using iodine over peroxide?
Thanks


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Re: culturing turkey tail from the wild [Re: Digit]
    #26381598 - 12/14/19 04:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It was pretty easy ime, so easy I don’t even remember how I did it exactly just took a chunk out of the base plopped it onto and petri

Old dry Petris work better

No iodine was used no antibiotics just mea agar

Also helps to slightly dry out the specimen compared to a fresh harvested fruit body that is wet


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Re: culturing turkey tail from the wild [Re: Raven44]
    #26385806 - 12/16/19 07:17 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Cool, I've got a few MEA/alder sawdust plates ready to go.
I'll give it a try in the next couple days.
I'm so stoked to find so much turkey tail volunteering on my logs, I was just researching the medicinal effects of it and then I noticed it was growing all around my garden.
I've been drinking turkey tail tea daily ever since.


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