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[Sidestreet]

Last week while walking in the forest somewhere in Appalachia I found some of my first Reishi ever.  Real beauties!  I decided to grab some to clone.  I read they're not difficult to grow, so I figure I'll give it a try.

 

This isn't the exact fruit I grabbed, but these were in the same area:

 

  

 

 

And here it is on agar as of yesterday:

 

        

 

 

 

[Auhron]

Very Cool!

[YoshiTrainer]

How am I already out of likes?!

Agar is off to a strong start!

[Sidestreet]

Update:

 

I started a couple of wheat jars with my reishi clone about three weeks ago.  They were slow to colonize because I didn't get the moisture content right, but they did colonize.  Here they are 24 hours after a shake and right before spawning:

 

 

 

I used 3 cups of 100% oak fuel pellets, boiled 3 1/2 cups of water, put the boiling water in a 5 gallon bucket with the pellets, put the lid on, wrapped the bucket in a blanket, and left it overnight to pasteurize.

 

Here is what it looked like in the morning before spawning:

 

 

 

I spawned to two shoebox-type containers in bags with holes poked in them and folded the bags over for the spawn run:

 

 

 

Fingers crossed!

[livefrom215]

I love the way this looks! That red is so vibrant!! Stoked to see some pics... Keep up the great work Sidestreet!!

[Moonless]

WOW man! I'm very impressed.

 

Reishi cloning from fruit is no easy task.

 

Keep up the great work.

[Sidestreet]

Thanks for the encouragement.  :)   If I can get them fruiting I'll probably offer some cultures on agar.

[drmcnasty]

Nice work, can't wait to see them fruit

[Mycol]

Will The cultures grow on regular MEA?

[bezevo]

well this is a cool thread ... 

so would  they mycelium be  benaficial llike lions mane ?  so myciliated grain teck ?

another idea ...for fruit you could buy a bag of hard  wood  of joint dowels.. sterilize in a jar and inoculate with .... hummm grain to dowel .

then  drill n   tap thyem into old trees/or logs ..

 

well guess you would need a yard or woods near buy heh

 

any way good work

 

bez

[Sidestreet]

Will The cultures grow on regular MEA?

 

That's what I grew them on.

 

 

 

so would  they mycelium be  benaficial llike lions mane ?

 

I looked at WebMD type stuff and it seems they might help with blood pressure? 

Edited by Sidestreet, 16 July 2021 - 04:50 PM.

[Sidestreet]

Tore through that sawdust!  That's good, right?  ;)

 

 

[MushLuvR]

In my limited experience with Reishi(6 blocks worth), fast colonizer... Slow fruiting.  One of my favorite Polypore's to fruit out though.  Looks good from here...