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Reishi - experiment with coir 1
#26624234 - 04/24/20 09:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hi,
I decided to run an experiment:
- Ganoderma Lucidum
- Picked clean culture from agar
- Made rye grain spawn
- Spawned about 2 quarts to 3 quarts pasteurized coir in a shoebox
- Kept shoebox closed for 2 weeks until fully colonized
- Placed open shoebox in fruiting box with lots of fresh air exchange at 90% RH
- Now waiting since 2 weeks and wondering why it's not fruiting
- Am I too impatient? What next?
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26624279 - 04/24/20 09:43 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ah, but it is fruiting, impatient one 
Watch and enjoy 
And don't be afraid of over-misting, reishi loves it.
Grows well on coir too... who was it, Pasty that started this a while back? Can't remember...
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Forrester]
#26624321 - 04/24/20 10:01 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Oh, cool, too noobish of me I guess
I don't know. Couldnt find much about Reishi teks other than plastic bags. Figured myself I would try it out, since Reishi mycelium is so aggressive I guessed it would also devour coir quickly and it did.
Will post progress here...
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26624434 - 04/24/20 10:54 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Very cool. Never grown reishi before so excited to see how this turns out! Thanks for sharing.
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Reishi mycelium is da man! Very strong and forms hard blocks!
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26625406 - 04/24/20 06:39 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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See that blobby stuff starting to climb up the sides? That's some of your fruits starting!
Sometimes they climb up all the sides like that instead of fruiting in the middle, I'm not sure why. Looks like yours might be doing both.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Forrester]
#26636011 - 04/29/20 04:43 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Here is the current status
- Still can't identify it to build out any fruits with my nooby eye - Instead mold has developed at the edges, crap
What now?
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26636410 - 04/29/20 09:48 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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All that white stuff above the mold in pic #1 is fruits starting, reishi is a bit of a slow grower that's why it doesn't look like antlers or conks quite yet, but they're growing.
But yes, the mold is an issue, that sucks...
The rest of the substrate looks as it should. You could wait a bit and see if the fruits will engulf the mold, if you have a lid on that tub and spores won't be an issue. You might get lucky and the fruits engulf it. But if the mold spreads much more I would toss it out.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Forrester]
#26637927 - 04/29/20 11:55 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't have a lid on. It sits in my fruiting chamber at 90-95% RH and FAE continuously. I thought it would not get enough FAE with a lid.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26645180 - 05/03/20 04:17 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well, it still didn't fruit really. Instead the mold expanded and it looks shitty now. I decided to simply place it outside in the garden.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26645370 - 05/03/20 07:34 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah looks like it dried out a bit there, good idea to toss at this point. Dang it was so close!
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Forrester]
#26645422 - 05/03/20 08:05 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ok, so you mean it dried out too much? That would coincide with my other grows, which were in the fruiting chamber during this experiment. They also dried out too much.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26646374 - 05/03/20 04:01 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, I'm looking mostly at that center pic, you can tell the sub has dried out quite a bit and when reishi does that it will stop fruiting and the substrate will become rock hard, nearly impossible to re-hydrate and get it to start fruiting again. At that point you just bury it.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Dr.Ivan]
#26646376 - 05/03/20 04:02 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey folks, I'm just gonna post this question here instead of starting a whole new thread. I've got some fully colonized sawdust/bran bags of ganoderma sessile and I'm wondering if I should open them, pierce them, or just leave them closed for fruiting and what is the ideal temp? They are starting to make some blobs that I think are primordia.
Thanks for the help, happy mushing.
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Re: Reishi - experiment with coir [Re: Digit]
#26646803 - 05/03/20 07:12 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
Digit said: I've got some fully colonized sawdust/bran bags of ganoderma sessile and I'm wondering if I should open them, pierce them, or just leave them closed for fruiting and what is the ideal temp? They are starting to make some blobs that I think are primordia.
I wouldn't touch anything until the fruits are well established. I have not fruited G. sessile in particular, but other Reishi-types are sensitive to drying out when the fruits are first starting.
Once you've got some antlers started inside the bag, you can decide if you wanna just let them keep growing as antlers, or open up the bag and give them more air to try and form conks. Up to you.
Not sure about ideal temps for sessile, reishi usually likes warmer though.
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