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Pink Oysters ready for harvest??
#26924703 - 09/08/20 01:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was pretty sure from the way these took off that they would be ready to harvest this morning from the looks last night. They seem to be getting a bit bigger and the caps slightly folding down. Do the caps need to be alittle more overcurved down like they are showing before harvest? Or Is this harvest stage?? Thank you!
Edited by Powfuu (09/08/20 01:45 PM)
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26924823 - 09/08/20 02:58 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Looks ready to me. Nice yields!
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26924849 - 09/08/20 03:09 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you!! Compared to the first bag I tried the other month with the top cut off, these worked a ton better๐๐ผ
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26924955 - 09/08/20 04:28 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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What culture is that you have?
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26924985 - 09/08/20 04:50 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm not exactly sure.. I bought my 4 culture syringes from sporeworks. I emailed them to see if they knew the specific strain but didnt get an answer.
I'd really love to learn more about specific cultures/strains I get. I just recently bought 4 syringes from myers and earth Angel's mushrooms of commercial syringes, I think I noticed two of them had the specific culture, like blue oyster amycel 3015 if I'm correct? So I'm not sure about the pinks I got from sporeworks.. still learning about all of this.
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26925020 - 09/08/20 05:18 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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If it's from Sporeworks I just call it the Sporeworks culture. It's whatever one he found, he couldn't resell it to us if it were say, an aloha culture or whatever.
That's a really good culture it looks like, I've never got pinks to look anything like that but I only worked with one culture.
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26925041 - 09/08/20 05:28 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Okay, that is starting to make sense to me now. I'm really glad to hear and also personally see that this pink oyster culture I have is doing good.
Not trying to dive in too deep.. but how do you even go about figuring out the specific culture of a mushroom? Besides actually buying a blue oyster 3015, if that makes sense... I'm going to oregon in october to forage, and would love to know this part of mycology. Also, all the Lions mane I have been growing and drying to make extracted powder and tincture, how do I go about testing the medicinal compounds and that? Maybe there is threads for this!
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26925534 - 09/09/20 12:02 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I really need some pinks in my life...
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26925660 - 09/09/20 02:55 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Powfuu said: but how do you even go about figuring out the specific culture of a mushroom? Besides actually buying a blue oyster 3015, if that makes sense...
There's nothing to figure out. It's just a culture someone has grown and found to be a good producer or whatever, than they then gave a name to. If you grew from spore and isolated and tested a culture you liked, you could name it whatever you wanted to and trade it by that name. The popular ones you see going around are usually just put out by a trusted company.
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Powfuu said: Also, all the Lions mane I have been growing and drying to make extracted powder and tincture, how do I go about testing the medicinal compounds and that?
There's probably labs you can send stuff in to, but I've never had anything tested so can't help there
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26925764 - 09/09/20 06:33 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Forrester said: If it's from Sporeworks I just call it the Sporeworks culture. It's whatever one he found, he couldn't resell it to us if it were say, an aloha culture or whatever.
That's a really good culture it looks like, I've never got pinks to look anything like that but I only worked with one culture.
I thought aloha allowed you to distribute their cultures, or did I misunderstand their policy?
Beautiful pinks tho!!
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Harry Manbach]
#26925789 - 09/09/20 07:15 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you!๐๐ผ
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26925853 - 09/09/20 08:08 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'd also love to ask for any tips on storing pink oyster cultures? I know with them most likely dying off in the fridge, as well as being such a novelty strain, is there any good techniques I can use to save the culture I have for storage?
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26925937 - 09/09/20 09:03 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Slants? Or a regular schedule of making lc..ya know, make some clean lc with what you have, use said lc until you start to run low,then grab some pretty fruits and repeat
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Harry Manbach]
#26925960 - 09/09/20 09:18 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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LC is smart... I have yet to make LC, just slants and plates.. I will have to do some LC.
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26926270 - 09/09/20 12:41 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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As far as initiating fruiting like that, did you just slice a line in the side of a colonized grain bag and put it in the tent to initiate fruiting?
I have a new martha tent build, and I have a grain bag of pinks from sporeworks about 4 days into colonization, and I hope mine end up looking like yours!!
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: madyogi]
#26926544 - 09/09/20 03:22 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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That sounds awesome! I also got my pinks from them! So did you get the pink oyster grain spawn??
With these pinks above in my pictures, I colonized the grain spawn, and then transferred the grain spawn to 5lb substrate block, and they colonized in 5 days.
To answer the pinning question, once my substrate blocks were fully colonized, I made one single slit in the front side of each bag, and set them in the tent! It took maybe 3 days to see the pins, and after I saw them they doubled everyday, and 4 days after the pin set was harvest time.
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26926613 - 09/09/20 03:50 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Powfuu said: but how do you even go about figuring out the specific culture of a mushroom? Besides actually buying a blue oyster 3015, if that makes sense...
There's nothing to figure out. It's just a culture someone has grown and found to be a good producer or whatever, than they then gave a name to. If you grew from spore and isolated and tested a culture you liked, you could name it whatever you wanted to and trade it by that name. The popular ones you see going around are usually just put out by a trusted company.
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Powfuu said: Also, all the Lions mane I have been growing and drying to make extracted powder and tincture, how do I go about testing the medicinal compounds and that?
There's probably labs you can send stuff in to, but I've never had anything tested so can't help there 
The naming of culture strains maybe so simple it's just going over my head, my apologies... so I get if I were to forage and find some, take the spores and save the culture, that all makes sense. As an example, with the sporeworks cultures they sell, since they technically dont have a strain name, could those spores be collected from a fruit body if a really good strain to save and name it? Or since I bought it from the trusted company sporeworks, like you said, it's already just `sporeworks culture's? Thank you for sharing this knowledge with me.
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26926848 - 09/09/20 05:54 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm sorry I can't figure out exactly what you're asking
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Forrester]
#26926936 - 09/09/20 06:40 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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My apologies... If I were to harvest a lions mane in the wild, and grow it good at home, I can collect the spores, save that culture and then name it correct?
But with this pink oyster culture I have from sporeworks, I wouldn't be able to name this culture, because it came from a trusted supplier, correct? I hope that makes sense.. I just remember you telling me you would call it sporeworks culture
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Re: Pink Oysters ready for harvest?? [Re: Powfuu]
#26928031 - 09/10/20 10:47 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Powfuu said: That sounds awesome! I also got my pinks from them! So did you get the pink oyster grain spawn??
With these pinks above in my pictures, I colonized the grain spawn, and then transferred the grain spawn to 5lb substrate block, and they colonized in 5 days.
To answer the pinning question, once my substrate blocks were fully colonized, I made one single slit in the front side of each bag, and set them in the tent! It took maybe 3 days to see the pins, and after I saw them they doubled everyday, and 4 days after the pin set was harvest time.
Really nice! I got the syringe from sporeworks and inoculated a 3 lb grain spawn bag I got from Midwest Grow Kits. I'm about 4 days out from injection, so I have some weeks left before transferring the spawn.
Where did you get your substrate and how exactly did you make the transfer?
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