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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: Southerner]
#27635574 - 01/27/22 07:15 PM (2 years, 21 hours ago) |
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Just wanted to say that good fruits can be grown with just a plastic bag and cardboard on a dinner plate.

Here's a fruit coming through the filter patch. It's on it's 2nd flush, I'm using for tinctures and to put into gel caps so I may take some off the top, probably should have top fruited first. 
I had one block fruit over 3 months. 
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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27635673 - 01/27/22 09:13 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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Nice! I recently had a filter patch mushroom as well I'd moved all my LM to one shelf and apparently folded one of the filter patches on the outside of the fold.
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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: JXAllen] 1
#27635678 - 01/27/22 09:22 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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When i finally get back to gourmet's im thinking im going to try lm first. Just a cool looking mushroom.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Wrightii]
#27635680 - 01/27/22 09:26 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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This jar got kinda dried out. I was attempting to side fruit it and I guess the ambient humidity wasn't good enough. RH said 85-95% but it started to dry out regardless.
I decided to attempt a rehydration with this and a couple others what suffered a similar fate (this time standing upright lol). Other ones look good and just went back in the FC, but this guy has this orange blotch.
Bacteria? Should I chuck it in the garden? It doesn't appear to have any of this crap on the top where the fruit would actually grow from, only down the side in the picture there.
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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: AlvWoodz]
#27635683 - 01/27/22 09:30 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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It's great, started from a clone. Mine has been very fast, 6 weeks from inoculation of grain to harvest. Forgiving as well, been doing open air agar and agar2grain.
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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: schmutzen]
#27635686 - 01/27/22 09:33 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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SD Looks sus but don't take my werd, been at this less than one year.
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Re: How many flushes from a 6lb block [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27635691 - 01/27/22 09:39 PM (2 years, 19 hours ago) |
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namaste said: It's great, started from a clone. Mine has been very fast, 6 weeks from inoculation of grain to harvest. Forgiving as well, been doing open air agar and agar2grain.
Open air agar?! You're bold . Your fruits look great btw.
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SD Looks sus but don't take my werd, been at this less than one year.
I think so too lol. Just not sure how much of a problem is in that location in the jar.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Soviet Data]
#27635780 - 01/27/22 11:54 PM (2 years, 17 hours ago) |
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Soviet Data said:

This jar got kinda dried out. I was attempting to side fruit it and I guess the ambient humidity wasn't good enough. RH said 85-95% but it started to dry out regardless.
I decided to attempt a rehydration with this and a couple others what suffered a similar fate (this time standing upright lol). Other ones look good and just went back in the FC, but this guy has this orange blotch.
Bacteria? Should I chuck it in the garden? It doesn't appear to have any of this crap on the top where the fruit would actually grow from, only down the side in the picture there.
I don't think that's LM mycelium. Way too dense. All of my jars start pinning when they are fully colonized and you can clearly see the difference.

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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: JXAllen]
#27635800 - 01/28/22 12:23 AM (2 years, 16 hours ago) |
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I can see why you'd say that but I think it's just a quirk of the culture I'm using. I have a jar in the FC right now that started pinning while the lid was still on that looks almost as dense as this one. After incubating slightly too long, I had a failed fruiting attempt as described above from laying on the side, and it's only gotten more dense and white since. It's also of note that the jar was kind of let to go a little too long before the first attempt. The mycelium was not that dense at first.
Edit: also maybe relevant, my jar in the pic is bran supplemented oak pellets inoculated with grain spawn.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Soviet Data]
#27636015 - 01/28/22 07:58 AM (2 years, 9 hours ago) |
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I agree. They do start off wispy on grain, but they can get nice and dense as they mature. This is the best image of a dense myc jar that I have from my first grow of LM.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: ReverendMyc]
#27636034 - 01/28/22 08:32 AM (2 years, 8 hours ago) |
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: ReverendMyc]
#27636585 - 01/28/22 05:33 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Forrester] 1
#27636598 - 01/28/22 05:57 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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not the best culture but is what i have to work.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Soviet Data]
#27636683 - 01/28/22 07:58 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Soviet Data said: I can see why you'd say that but I think it's just a quirk of the culture I'm using. I have a jar in the FC right now that started pinning while the lid was still on that looks almost as dense as this one. After incubating slightly too long, I had a failed fruiting attempt as described above from laying on the side, and it's only gotten more dense and white since. It's also of note that the jar was kind of let to go a little too long before the first attempt. The mycelium was not that dense at first.
Edit: also maybe relevant, my jar in the pic is bran supplemented oak pellets inoculated with grain spawn.
Ah, I wasn't aware these were fruiting blocks in jars. I thought that was grain spawn. I've never seen LM fruited that way. Do you have any pictures of one growing a mushroom? Still...none of my actively fruiting blocks are even close to that dense.. But, I'll defer to the more experienced growers in the tread.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: JXAllen] 1
#27636777 - 01/28/22 09:24 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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This guy was a little CO2 choked but it tasted great!
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Soviet Data]
#27636808 - 01/28/22 09:50 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Very cool! And no wasted plastic! How long have you been growing them this way? How many flushes do you get or how much weight do you expect to harvest from each jar? How much work is it to empty the jars after they're spent?
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: JXAllen]
#27636826 - 01/28/22 10:23 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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JXAllen said: Very cool! And no wasted plastic! How long have you been growing them this way? How many flushes do you get or how much weight do you expect to harvest from each jar? How much work is it to empty the jars after they're spent?
Thanks! Yeah not using disposable plastic was what made me wanna try this route. I cast no judgement on using bags, but I'm trying to stay away as long as possible.
I don't have much experience doing this, I've grown mushrooms a lot over the years but only from kits until now. I just rehydrated a few jars and let them sit to recover for a few days. Went back in the FC yesterday. They all smell and look good though so I'm encouraged.
My yield from the first flush of my first jar (unsupplemented) was a BE of about 35% at 51 grams. Hoping to get that number higher with a second flush, but it's also notable that I'm a novice, it's not supplemented, and I'm using a cheap culture lol.
Emptying the jars is no problem (for now). I just stab at it with a butter knife over my compost and they're easy to wash out. Meyers mushrooms on YouTube experimented with jars and he had a good idea for emptying them rapidly: a power drill with a large kitchen spoon attached. My drill is an old turd though so I haven't bothered.
I have a strong feeling I'll burn out and switch to bags eventually, but my goal is to gradually size up what I'm doing with the jars and see how far I can push it.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Soviet Data]
#27636981 - 01/29/22 02:31 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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If you let that substrate fruit all that it will and then dry out enough, it might just be small enough to pop right out the opening of the jar, or close.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: Forrester]
#27653529 - 02/10/22 09:58 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Trying these in muda style pint jars. 9 days from inoculation of masters mix with colonized oats.
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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: ReverendMyc]
#27684368 - 03/05/22 09:22 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Does this lion's mane LC look OK? or is it gone? I can't tell if the blobs are mold or fruiting bodies. They appear white, I don't see any green. I could test it on agar, of course, but I just pulled it from the fridge to inoculate a couple jars I sterilized last night.
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