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Reishi, grow on pine sawdust?
    #6229764 - 10/31/06 04:17 AM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Hi all
Was just wondering if reishi would fruit from pine tree sawdust or woodchips? This is what I can get cheaply in abundance. If not, what types of wood are reccomended? Any hardwood? Sorry, I don't know whether pine is classified as a hardwood or not. Thanks for any input.

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Re: Reishi, grow on pine sawdust? [Re: zee_werp]
    #6229953 - 10/31/06 07:26 AM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Pine is a softwood and works poorly. I grow it at home on alder sawdust/chips, but in my area it grows naturally on Douglas Fir and Hemlock, neither of which are hardwoods. I've also combined alder sawdust with douglas fir chips.
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Re: Reishi, grow on pine sawdust? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #6231917 - 10/31/06 04:05 PM (17 years, 4 months ago)

yeah pine really isnt the right stuff

coconut husks (coir?) and coconut tree logs, fruit the biggest and healthiest ive seen.

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Re: Reishi, grow on pine sawdust? [Re: CptnGarden]
    #6233917 - 11/01/06 03:48 AM (17 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks for that info. Stupid old good-for-nothing pine...here in NZ it is horrible as pine is not native here but it grows very well, so we see a large amount of our beautiful lush native forests with good natural diversity, sacrificed for cloned forests of Pinus radiata, planted in rows, all identical, with no undergrowth but dead pine needles.

What about shiitake, will that grow on pine?

The only reason I'm having to ask this is because down here we do not have most of the trees that you guys talk about in abundance. And even then what you call a beech is different to what we call a beech, what you call a poplar is different to what we call a poplar. So I have some figuring out to do as to what woods I have available to use.

Is it as simple as hardwoods are good, softwoods are not so good?

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Re: Reishi, grow on pine sawdust? [Re: zee_werp]
    #6234248 - 11/01/06 08:51 AM (17 years, 4 months ago)

I would be afraid to grow any shroom on pine as I would be fearful of the resins and such getting incorporated into the fruit body etc.


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