Ganoderma Tsugai Grow

The Hemlock Reishi

This batch is making into some of the most artistic artforms I've ever seen in nature. They're photo sensitive like cubies, so I've been messing with them by moving the light around every few days to a new location. The result is they keep growing to seek out the light. They're now growing a second and third set of antlers on top of the ones they've already grown.

Substrate is wood chips, sawdust fuel pellets, and coir, hydrated with weak coffee and a few tablespoons of mollasses. Sterilized in quart mason jars, then transferred to zip loc bags when cool. Inoculated with rye grain.
RR

[shobimono]

Awesome pics!!!!
Always nice to see non-cubie species, keep 'em coming.

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by shobimono

Awesome pics!!!!
Always nice to see non-cubie species, keep 'em coming.

Agreed on that statement!

[fucgubarn]

beautiful
do you straight mist them?
how i hope for the same results

I mist them directly several times a day. The fruits like being wet from misting, unlike cubensis.

I broke out my Ganoderma Lucidium spawn from the refrigerator the other day, so I'll see how it stacks up to these for antler formation. I'm really not interested in conks. The antler form is so much prettier. I also started some Enoki, Miatake, Lions Mane, and one of Stamets' Shiitake isolates. Hopefully that means a bit more eye candy in a month or two. My grocery store shiitake clone on the same substrate mix as these reishi's is starting to blister now, so pins are right around the corner. I have them outside on the balcony. The weather has been cooperating with high temps in the low 60's and lows in the upper 40's with light rain. Mrs Rabbit and I are heading up to the mountains again today with a sleeve of petri dishes and my glovebox and cameras. Hopefully we can find a few new species to spread around the community.
RR

[Hippie3]

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[fucgubarn]

since i'm impatient newbe in this will ask
is this the begining?
this jars have been strait dunked after birth for about 24h,drained,cased with verm.,in fruting chaimber contaminated,dunked with bleach,cased with perlite,left outside with several mistings per day,
this is lucidum

Yup. That's what they look like when they begin to fruit. Ganoderma does best uncased, imo. It was probably the verm that contaminated? Ganoderma is pretty tough at beating back contaminants once fully colonized. If it acts up again, scrape the verm off. Mist it as often as you think of it. They also want a good amount of light.
RR

[anticheffy]

the color of those is fabulous, nature is the supreme artist for sure

RR, those are really a beautiful fungus! I too like the edibles as much as the actives. Thanks for sharing I learn so much all the time!

Here's an update on the ziploc bag grow. These are still growing. They're the same fruits as the ones posted above, just two weeks or so later. I'm liking bags more and more for this species. They seem to keep growing as long as moisture is in the substrate. With only a small hole cut in the ziploc bag which is otherwise sealed, the moisture stays in the substrate instead of evaporating out. I sterilized the wood chips/coir in jars, then transferred to the ziplocs. Of course, I could have saved a step by starting out with filter patch bags. Live and learn.
RR

[fucgubarn]

wow amazeing!

so about how long from pins to a fully grown mushroom?

[fucgubarn]

ops sory,
yes, the verm contaminated as usual with me

[Hippie3]

rodg-
got any shots from further out so we can judge scale, see the entire bag at once ?

Try washing the verm off out in the yard with a water hose. The reishi mycelium should be able to withstand a stream of water. It's pretty tough.

I have some pics from farther out, but they're on a different computer than this one. I'll try to get to them this afternoon.
RR

[fucgubarn]

a little update

Looks like they're coming right along there fucqubarn. It's fun to watch them change color and develop from a white blob into antlers or conks...
RR

[fucgubarn]

RR you are absolutely right,better without a caseing layer!that colored perlite is from fly shit and just fount out the mean green inbetween perlite and micelium,flys and mold wakt together ,washed it under tab water
it is fun