I normally grow things like pioppino, lions mane and oysters, this is my first time growing a polypore. It took a long time, many months haha. I think this was inoculated back in november and I just got around to fruiting a few weeks ago. Lots of spore samples to put under the microscope, let me tell you.
They look like infected ferangi ears. It's not an insult, the colors are gorgeous, but they do look like ferangi ears.
They absolutely do hahah
Huh, looks very similar to ganoderma tsugae
They look almost identical to each other but I believe G. tsugae tends to favour conifer, I grew this on hardwood.
Okay. You are correct, tsugae prefers hemlock and will grow on other conifers.
Please do tell us what temperature and substrate you used to make them fruit! Mine just grow mycelium and stop at that.
These take a bit of getting used to for sure and quite some time before the mycelium matures. I thought they'd never get there. Substrate is straight hardwood fuel pellets. I inoculated these in November and they colonised within a few weeks but I left them until they began to sort of grow antlers (actually left them longer because I got busy with work). I started fruiting them 4 weeks ago give or take. Temps were probably around 16-20°C normally. I bumped the humidity down to 60 or 70%.
Do you grow them in a regular myco bag and mist them, or do you have another setup?
We have a fruiting chamber set up, its an old grow tent with ventilation, lights and a fogger. Honestly, if I wasn't for the heavy spore load I would say this would grow well on a counter top. This is my first reishi grow so I am not very experienced with this species so take that with a grain of salt.
WHOA! have you tasted it????
Not yet, I do regularly have reishi powder or extract in my coffee though but I've never had homegrown.
Damn that's nice. I am privileged in that I live in one of the few places you can forage chanterelles
This is what we harvested last year and made into some really really good gravy
Nice, they sort of grow around my area but are very elusive