Phaethon said:

F. velutipes (orange) and F. filiformis (white). Definitely let them go too long, especially F.v. Strange how much shorter the velutipes stems were under the same conditions.

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mycosispeon said:

Phaethon said:

F. velutipes (orange) and F. filiformis (white). Definitely let them go too long, especially F.v. Strange how much shorter the velutipes stems were under the same conditions.

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Nice! I've been thinking of taking a crack at enoki myself. What have you found different about cultivating them?

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I'm still very much a noob. First attempt was on unsupplemented hardwood pellets, and I had planned to let them pin and mostly develop inside the bag, which seems to be a common cultivation method to encourage big, stemmy clusters with small caps. But I just got a few pathetic strings. I suspect my spawn just wasn't good enough, or maybe it really wants supplemented substrate.

This time definitely was more successful, but I wish I had used a collar or something to encourage more stems. This was 40 oz straight sided jars filled with about a quart of 80:20 hardwood pellets to alfalfa pellets hydrated to 60%, with a hole bored down the center with a wooden spoon handle for spawn and sterilized (150 minute cycle at 17+ psi I think). Lids have a 3/8-inch hole with a 3/4-inch SFD sealed on the top with RTV silicone. Inoculated with wheat spawn in front of an FFU. Took about a month to fully colonize (typical with bottles you can't really shake to distribute the spawn). When I opened them to put them into the tent, some had stringy pins I mostly pulled off.

I sauteed the orange ones (F. velutipes) the other day. I enjoyed the flavor, but the texture was a bit too fleshy, especially for my wife. Definitely more of a viscid cap than I was expecting. I do think it would have been better if I had harvested them a day or even two days earlier.

Haven't tried the white ones (filiformis) yet. At least with those I got some stems, which is what they are mostly grown for.

I think I'll try again in supplemented bags. I'm more focused on shiitake and oysters right now, though.

elpico said:

Agaricus fissuratus from a cloned wild fruit:

   

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elpico said:

Agaricus fissuratus from a cloned wild fruit:

   

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Wow, those are awesome. Interesting how they put all their energy into growing those big two after making a lot of pins. How did you grow them?


Harvested tonight, probably about 12 hours too late. I love golden oyster.

mycosispeon said:

Well this is a first. Wasn't expecting to put these two bags of LM into fruiting for at least another week or two, but they decided to start early... THROUGH the filter patch!



I'm not even sure what to do at this point

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