Bill's Fungi Fun

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One of the agar plates showed some baddies feeding on the nutrients. Still factory sealed, so pulled another out to warm up last night.

Gonna put me a little behind on starting the next batch but better safe than sorry.
Pretty lil flower pattern though.

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

So when I started on this the wife started bugging about getting lion's mane mushroom as it's supposed to be good for mental clarity. As an aside I got a few varieties of gourmet mushrooms to try out. Since I'll be using the same procedures to propagate these I decided to include them in the thread.

The table top mushroom farm.

Convenient how a propagation tray and dome fits perfectly.

The Shiitake log soaking and in it's own tray and dome.
And here's a label if anyone wants to know where I got em.

 

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Noticed more green spots growing on the log. More H2O2 treatments to try and stay ahead of it till a couple of them finish up.

Hopefully within a week I can harvest one or two for clone isolation.

Got weird fuzzy puffball growth on other side of it.

Might be the mycelium growing out or something else
More research needed.

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

Enough to start working on.

Seems a lot of the contamination started in the innoculation depressions. Either from the soak or carried on the log can't be sure but so far only thing showing contamination.

No shrooms yet but no contams either.

 

[Bill.de.Cat]

Getting good mycelium spread.

Should be ready to fruit by Xmas.

 

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So cut two this morning and set them up for spore prints

And cloning in agar plates.

Moved the whole log out on the front porch to finish off this flush then will find a spot in the backyard for it. Really don't need that green in the house

 

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Got good spore prints, bit damp from the fresh caps but they'll dry.

And since anything after this is specific to shiitake ( substrates etc ) that will conclude this bit of fun and we'll just continue with the edible non gourmet fungi.

 

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Still no pinning yet.
Temps maintained 72 to 78
Humidity 97 to 99 %

 

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Already getting good growth. About a week and I figure we can test on agar plates.