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Reishi Grow Questions
    #26804091 - 07/04/20 06:26 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Hello!

I've been reading lots on how to grow Reishis, and am just about to start my first grow.
I've gotten to the point of a bunch of petris fully colonized, as well as five (one quart) rye jars about to be fully colonized (in a day or two).
I've ordered (and received) 100 large grow bags (holds ~5-6lbs substrate, 0.5 micron filter patch, 8″ X 5″ X 19″), and am planning to grow the Reishi in them.

My understanding up to this point is as follows:

I should use hardwood pellets supplemented at ~20% wheat bran, and some gypsum too. Mix it together (in the bags) and combine with boiling water (40% dry weight/60% water).
Allow the bags to pasteurize, then mix in the spawn (one quart jar), seal the bags, and allow to sit for 2-3 months to fruit.

Here are my questions.

1: How much gypsum should I use, and can I use gardening gypsum? It's basically small grey rocks/powder of varying size. It doesn't completely dissolve in water, not sure if it's supposed to...

2: Can I pasteurize directly in the bags? I also have a pressure cooker so could seal the bags of substrate (with a heat sealer) then pressure cook them, but I'd have to open them back up anyway to add in the spawn before resealing? I could try to do that in my SAB but that seems pretty difficult. I'd also still need to pull it out to reseal it with my heat sealer.

3: After pasteurizing (or sterilizing) and cooling the substrate, I pour in the rye berries, seal immediately, and then gently mix it all around with my hands (from the outside of the sealed bag)? Will the speed (and aggressiveness) of the Reishi mycelium prevent any contaminants from taking hold or becoming a real problem?

4: For the 2-3 months of fruiting, what are the conditions? Does the humidity of the room that the bags are in matter? I get the impression that mid 60s to mid 80s for temperature will all work, but warmer = faster? I also know that light is important, but haven't quite figured out the ideal lighting conditions? Is sunlight or are bright light bulbs better? Is there a schedule (12 on, 12 off)?

I'm really excited to get these mushrooms growing, but would hate to mess up a whole whack of them from doing something stupid. Any answers for my questions will be greatly appreciated! I can't thank all of you enough for everything I've already learned reading on here, and hope that I can become a real part of this community over the coming months/years.


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Re: Reishi Grow Questions [Re: Violinboy]
    #26804208 - 07/04/20 08:05 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

There’s a forum for gourmet/edible mushrooms but it’s not nearly as active.

I’ve been getting into them myself the last couple months and imo your best bet is to just search the site and read as much as possible, and possibly find people still active who’ve made threads and pm them with super specific stuff.

Also I think YouTube and the internet in general is way more useful for non active cult. Legal and commercial information tends to be more reliable.


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