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Growing Ganoderma species.
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I have recentely collected a few ganoderma species in the past month and I am set out in attempting to grow them. First off I am wondering how long after collect the mushroom can you take sprores from it? It has been frozen in my freezer in a bag and I am wondering if there is anyway you can get the spores needed in order to cultivate. There are also some renaments of the myceulium left as well and I am hoping there is a possiblity I can still use it.

I know it is asking a lot but I am wondering if there are any growing guides online or if anyone is willing to post the first steps needed to get the process started while I wait for my book to arrive.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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The spores drop after they mature. Is that a G oregonese in your avatar? If so, take a clone from the leading edge where it's white, but I doubt you can after freezing.
RR

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: RogerRabbit]
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I believe it to be G. Oregonese but I am not sure. I also am not exactly sure what you mean by take a clone, can I simple cut off the tip and attempt to use that as a starter of some sort?

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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If you found it recently in Oregon, Washington State, or BC, it is G oregonese. They get huge. I've seen them 15" across.

I'd recommend a copy of The Mushroom Cultivator by Paul Stamets as a good starting reference. Also, do some searches here on cloning, then study up on basic growing techniques. Those will grow well on sawdust/woodchip blocks. They're a bit slower to get started than G lucidum, but get larger and have all the same medicinal properties.
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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Well I found it in Alaska growing off a hemlock log. Thanks for all your advice and I will get to it right away.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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Looks like what I've found in So. Cal. Hmmmm. G. tsugae is supposed to like Hemlock. What color is the tissue inside? How deep are the pores?
I'm going to post a whopper local Ganoderma. Please check hunting.
Thanks.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: mushrx1]
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The flesh was a brownish color.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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Thanks, have a look at this g. lucidum (dusted with spore)- there was probably a couple ounces (volume) of spore built up underneath it.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: mushrx1]
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That's a wild looking Ganoderma, how big was it exactly? Also, does the color of the flesh indicate anything or were you just curious. I posted pictures of the one in my avatar and of another specimen in the mushroom hunting forum several days ago.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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iirc, G. oregonense was lighter tan yellow inside, while G. lucidum is brown colored. Other differences are based on host specificity, but that's been in question since R.L. Gilbertson first made the assumption that g. oregonense and G. lucidum are related more closely, possibly intergrade? I'm curious how the different G. lucidums appear throughout the States. I've read that our G. lucidum differs from the Japanese and Chinese strains. Hmm. ?

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: mushrx1]
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I am not sure that what I have is G. Lucidnum at all, I would suspect at the very most G. Tsugae. I have found G. Oregonense for sure and I know what you are talking about when it comes to the white flesh. The one in my avatar had a distinctly different colored flesh from the other Ganoderma species that I found in Alaska.

These are I hear the typical mature form of the G. Oregonense that I found in Alaska in the month of July.








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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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that looks like a Reishi to me.
Can anyone confirm this?


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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: Kerbouchard]
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It sure looks like Ganoderma oregonese, one of the 'reishi' mushrooms. They grow on Douglas Fir and Hemlock in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Here's two of about twenty we found today.
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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Those are gorgeous specimens Roger.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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LaineRB said:
I have found G. Oregonense













Wait, I am confused. Are these Gano Oregon, or Gano Luci??
If they are the Orgeon, are they still edible in tea? I have been drinkign tea from what I thought was reishi for a week.
If the shrooms in my quote are the Oregon Ganoderms, are they still medicinal?


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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: Kerbouchard]
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Check out these Ganoderm Lucidas


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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: Kerbouchard]
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They're all medicinal. Ganoderma oregonese has all the same medicinal qualities as G lucidum. It just comes from a different geographical area and grows much larger.
RR


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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: RogerRabbit]
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The Rabbit is true.....I have not personally tagged all the benefits of g. tsugae as compared to g. lucidum (for instance) and I'm not saying they are all exactly identical but we call g. tsugae the "pine tree reishi" here....
And...what great pics!
I love gathering wild reishi. It seems like a personal gift from heaven, it truly does!


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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: curenado]
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Wonderful pictures that you all have posted. The only thing that makes me think it could be different is the brown color of the flesh, I am not sure whether I would rest an identification on that alone but if you say that G. Oregonense grows on Hemlock in the west then I will go with that.

In all honesty I think that it is amazing to find Ganoderma species in general and I make tea out of all Ganodermas that I find. Anyway I have read some information on G. Applanatum and I have made tea of it myself once with no ill effect. Has anyone else tried G. Applanatum? It seems mundane in appearance and from appearance alone it doesn't look like a Ganoderma at all.

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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: LaineRB]
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G applanatum is perenial as oppossed to annual, so they grow for a long time. They also have medicinal properties, as does the most common polypore of all, Fomitopsis pinicola, the red belted polypore.
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Re: Growing Ganoderma species. [Re: RogerRabbit]
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You've done good spreading knowledge and spores of the love and joys of hunting, eating, and living in harmony with mushrooms.


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