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 Champion des Champignons
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 reishi grow log (sort of) 
#714832 - 07/01/02 01:35 AM (21 years, 5 months ago) |
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Remember, oh a month or so ago, Ralphster44 gave away 10 reishi cultures to 10 lucky growers?
Well, I was wondering how everyone's getting on with them, as I haven't seen any posts about them.
For myself, I've made a couple of new backup plates on peroxidated MEA, which the mycelium seems quite fond of.
I've also inoculated a 2 pint jar of pasteurised hickory chips with agar wedges.
At first nothing much happened, probably because of excess water, but a handful of dry perlite and a couple of shakes later all the chips are at least partially colonised.
The mycelium is rather thin looking and doesn't seem keen to jump from chip to chip. I'm thinking that hickory is not the best substrate, but it's the only wood I can get, unfortunately.
Maybe I'll try toilet rolls for laffs
So what are the rest of the gang of ten up to?
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The culture was perfect. I made some sawdust spawn and buried it outside in a shaded location. I'm also trying to fruit it indoors (17C and rh=80%) but no results to show so far.
I also made wood dowels and going to inoculate some logs.
Cultures:
Grain spawn:
Jar detail:
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 Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: zeronio]
#715578 - 07/01/02 11:17 AM (21 years, 5 months ago) |
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Champion des Champignons
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sooo, I now have this lovely big jar packed to the brim with colonised woodchips......
like so.
Now what?s to do? I intend to fruit it straight from the jar, unless this is a bad idea?
temp.? rH?
and if anyone says "read GGMM" I?ll scream
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Champion des Champignons
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: Anonymous]
#749069 - 07/15/02 06:11 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks Mycotek. Seems simple enough
one thing confuses me though...
"You could just poke some holes in the lid and wait till you see antler formations occuring and then you can pop the cap off and the antler will naturally conk out when it reaches the fresh air."
woudn't that snap the "antlers" off? or is that the point?
or did you mean wait until I see antler formations inside the lid, and not growing out through the holes?
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DreaMaTrix
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Hey Cd'C, what sort of woodchips did you use in that there jar?
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: Anonymous]
#751280 - 07/16/02 02:58 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ah, well the chips are packed right up to the top of the jar, so I'd better do the foil thing. I assume there's no need for humidification until I remove the foil?
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#751290 - 07/16/02 03:02 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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hickory chips for flavouring barbecue smoke, from Homebase.
far too expensive really, but I don't know where to get hardwood chips.
actually, I tried a little experiment to see if reishi would colonise spruce bark chips and it seems to be doing fine. Whether it would fruit or not is another thing....
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: Anonymous]
#751757 - 07/16/02 06:03 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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a few weeks ago TrAnCyNuGz said:
"I am thinking about ordering The Reishi Mushroom Patch from Fungi Perfecti, they are supossed to give you a non-narcotic spiritual feeling also"
anyone know anything about reishi having any psychoactive properties?
I read something along those lines somewhere elso, but I can't remember where or when
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Champion des Champignons
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 Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: Anonymous]
#756877 - 07/18/02 04:35 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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looks like "something's happening" already.
the mycelium has crawled out of the jar and a bit down the side, and is getting a cauliflower-like appearance to it.
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Champion des Champignons
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the cauliflower stuff is looking enthusiastic about _something_ anyway...
is this what reishi primordia look like?
I'll post a pic tomorrow, but feel free to answer today if you want to...
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: Anonymous]
#765400 - 07/21/02 05:17 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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pics as promised....
side view:
top view:
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Looks good to me. I didn't make it to this phase. 
At what temps and RH are you keeping it?
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Wow, that is looking very funky. Did the myc. push the lid off itself???
Good luck
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: zeronio]
#766335 - 07/22/02 02:01 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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temp. ~75F
rH....dunno, however high a plastic bag can keep it I suppose...
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Re: reishi grow log (sort of) [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#766336 - 07/22/02 02:02 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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yes DMT, but first it had to unscrew it.....
intelligent stuff this reishi
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Champion des Champignons
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I just birthed a large coonised woodchip "sandcastle" that was sitting in a large flowerpot. The mycelium that was in contact with the pot sides was covered in a pale yellow transparent jelly like substance. I'm assuming that's just reishi metabolites?
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 Here is what I found today.... [Re: zeronio]
#781160 - 07/27/02 09:07 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I buried a colonized sawdust block in coverd it with some fresh sawdust. Here is what I found 2 months later:
Could it be reishi primordia?
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Re: Here is what I found today.... [Re: zeronio]
#781179 - 07/27/02 09:35 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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looks like Ralph's "reishi...weirdos"
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Champion des Champignons
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I wonder when it?s going to stop growing down the side of the jar....
the fan like growth was from when the mycelium started to grow out over the surface of the plastic bag that was covering the jar.
The jar has been in a large rubbermaid terrarium for the last week.
Are these weird growths primordia? I don?t _think_ they are, but what do I know?
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It?s growing...
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I think they are primordia, but they probably had to much humidity and CO2 at that stage.
So, how is it going now? Do you have any antlers forming?
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Re: update [Re: zeronio]
#814013 - 08/13/02 12:53 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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no antlers to speak of, I think I maybe upped the air exchange/lowered the CO2 too early. I do have what looks like some sort of primordia thang going on though...
pics tomorrow, I'm off to bed now
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cool, cant wait to see new pictures!
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arent you awake yet cdc?
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Re: update [Re: oscill8]
#818230 - 08/15/02 01:42 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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urg, leave me alone, I'm not a well man
also, my flash card reader isn't working
looking at the jar 2 days later, it looks like I've got 3 of those funky stripy antlers growing, but for some reason, rather than sticking out like antlers should, they're slowly creeping down the side of the jar....
Looks a bit sinister if you ask me.
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promised pics +BONUS:) [Re: oscill8]
#824744 - 08/17/02 11:39 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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here?s those pics I took on the 14th.
an here?s some taken today (18th)
cool huh?
now why are the antlers clinging to the jar like that?
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WOW, very weird!
Kinda like that old Steve McQueen movie 'the blob'
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Wow. They look tired! The gravity is too high.
They will make nice tea anyway.
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Re: promised pics +BONUS:) [Re: zeronio]
#825000 - 08/18/02 06:17 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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"The gravity is too high."
yeah duuude, around here, things are often, like, totally heavy maan.
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Here is the same strain at gravity around 1G:
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Re: promised pics +BONUS:) [Re: zeronio]
#826507 - 08/18/02 05:26 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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cool, well done
/me has a jealous sulk
I reckon I'm going to have to up the fresh air exchanges a lot if I ever want to achieve anything like that. Unless it's too late?
Nah.
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It's a lot easier to cultivate it outdoors.
To make you feel better - most of my indoor sawdust jars became contaminated and I wish the rest looked like yours.
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Re: promised pics +BONUS:) [Re: zeronio]
#826856 - 08/18/02 08:52 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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>It's a lot easier to cultivate it outdoors.
really? do you think it would grow outdoors in Scotland? I imagine the temp and rH would be too low, or would that just make it grow slower, rather than not at all?
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I don't know. I already found a wild reishi in my area which is known as very dry during the summer.
Maybe it wouldn't survive the winter in Scotland but I made that outdoor patch in the spring and I have mushrooms growing now, so you could try.
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Here are some antlers that grew from a jar of wood dowels that I was too lazy to use on logs outside:
And a polypropylene bag with Tyvek filter that was opened after the sawdust was colonized. The surface is turning from pure white to reddish brown:
 
I will stack several bags and try to grow conks this time.
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here?s those pics I took on the 14th.
an here?s some taken today (18th)
cool huh?<img src="/forums/images/icons/smirk.gif" alt="" />
now why are the antlers clinging to the jar like that?<img src="/forums/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />
Obviously you forgot to add the viagra supplement to your substrate mix.
RR
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Obviously you forgot to add the viagra supplement to your substrate mix.
RR
Sometimes my bottle grows like to do that. They should conk out from there when conditions and time are right 
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