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sporecap
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Wild oyster grow
#26941626 - 09/18/20 01:56 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey , just wanted to report on my recent grow of a wild oyster, which was super fun! It was not as easy as I thought, but I learned quite a lot I guess.
Last winter I found this specimen (Pleurotus Ostreatus) in a forest in Germany, growing on a pile of old wood logs

That one fruit body was really huge, and they looked quite interesting, probably due to environmental conditions. It was just a bit above freezing and very wet. Since I didn't have any equipment with me or the possibility to clone it I took a spore print

Then back home I transferred it to agar and cleaned it up,

inocculated some grains,

and spawned it to wood pellets. So far I could only source softwood fuel pellets, which they liked nonetheless. (Also my Lion's Mane performs really well on it). Just recently I found a source for HWFP, so let's see what they'll gonna do.

Then nothing happened at all, no pinning in the bag. Also when I slit the bag and transferred it to my martha tent, it stayed there doing nothing. Also one night of cold shocking didn't work. Then I found an old petri dish of that culture stored in the fridge for at least a month, which was pinning! After some trial and error I figured out that these guys need at least 4-7 days in the fridge until they start pinning. I was leaving for holidays last month, so I put the remaining colonized bags in the fridge and they stayed there for 4 weeks... When taking them out, they had formed pins all over in the bag, and basically exploded when fruited

Since this was only 3lb substrate per bag, I already expected many of the pins not making it, which indeed was the case

But got some nice fruits after all

I waited a bit longer to pick them and let them get a bit past their prime, I think, in order to determine the right time for harvesting them next time (read this tip in one of SHROOMSISAY01's posts, thanks!) I guess one day earlier would have been optimal? Or should I have waited even longer? They have not really flattened out yet, but the edges already curled up, which was also visible in the wild specimen. Maybe it's just a special trait? I cloned two of the largest fruits and will see how they perform in my next grow.
Either way, they were delicious, just fried with onions, garlic and olive oil, or on pizza made with homemade sourdough 

Thanks for everyone contributing to the GMM forum, it was an invaluable help to get started! Without the wealth of information I likely would not have been successful
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Forrester
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Re: Wild oyster grow [Re: sporecap]
#26941650 - 09/18/20 02:57 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nice work, and from spore too! Cool.
I'd say you harvested at about the right time, with the edges still curled down like that is perfect
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sendmehummus
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Re: Wild oyster grow [Re: Forrester]
#26941685 - 09/18/20 04:33 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I will confirm, that oysters on pizza is a most excellent combination 👍. Nice work!
-------------------- Be patient and keep it simple.
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