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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: deadmandave]
    #28541395 - 11/13/23 11:48 AM (2 months, 14 days ago)

Ok, I got a couple of probably a bit stupid questions about lions mane.

1. If I'm going to make my own LM tincture, I should make a double extraction to get all the good stuff, right? So I'll boil some dried fruit and make an alcohol extraction from that, if I've read it right.

2. I should be using fruitbodies AND mycelium to get all the good stuff, right? Fruitbodies I can do by how the hell I'm going to get mycelium? I mean just mycelium. If it's spawn I got grains there. If it's on agar, I got agar there. If it's a substrate I got the sub there. How I'm going to do this actually?

3. I fruited a bunch of LM with too low FAE and I got a big amount of these sponge-like marshmellowy balls. Is this the mycelium that I should do extract with? This the only way I can think of getting just mycelium without anything else along it. Or are these considered fruitbodies? They smell different than the actual nice fruits with teeth, the texture is different and they don't develop teeth so I think maybe it's mycelium.

Dunno if any of this makes sense.


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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: spasm666]
    #28541494 - 11/13/23 01:25 PM (2 months, 14 days ago)

Probably would have to do microscopy or chemical analysis to determine if they're fruits or mycelium but most likely fruiting bodies.

What the big wigs report to do is colonize millet for so long that there's no millet left, only mycelium.

Double extract is going to gather more things than just boiling but will also act as a preservative so the concoction is shelf stable.


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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: deadmandave]
    #28542539 - 11/14/23 10:58 AM (2 months, 13 days ago)

Right. Interesting, I wonder what the colonization time for that would be. Wasn't it the mycelium and not the fruitbodies that contains the best stuff? The stuff that helps with memory and other cognitive functions, can't remember what is was lol


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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: spasm666]
    #28556735 - 11/26/23 05:45 AM (2 months, 1 day ago)

Sorry if this is a dumb question but do my substrate bags need to have fae during colonisation? Having a go at lionsmane but can't seem to find the answer anywhere.

Edit: that was a dumb question. Should've read the thread better and looked at the pictures.


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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: HappinessStan]
    #28571422 - 12/06/23 11:23 AM (1 month, 22 days ago)

Love this thread, will keep reading until I get my setup running then ill start contributing.

Keep asking questions and sharing everyone. Its how we all learn!


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Re: The Official Hericium Thread [Re: spasm666]
    #28571575 - 12/06/23 01:38 PM (1 month, 22 days ago)

Just thinking out loud without knowing the answer, but I feel like it would make sense to liquid culture if you just wanted to extract myc. Let it get extra chunky, filter out the solids, then either blend it up and start extracting or dry it up and grind it.

No idea about how the difference in compounds is between fruiting body and myc. I have noticeable improvements in concentration and brain fogginess using 3  mL/day of my fruiting body double extract. 60g bone dry fruit blended fine, 200 mL high proof grain alcohol, 2 weeks with daily shaking, filter, simmer solids for 4 hours with enough water for the final extract to be 30% alc.


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