CLONING THE MUSHROOM OF IMMORTALITY, Capturing Wild Reishi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- We recently spent an entire day hunting the mountains for wild Reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum var. tsugae). I selected a couple of nice fruit bodies, one growing on Red Maple and one on Hemlock, to bring back to the lab and attempt to clone on agar. Once I clean them up, I hope to grow them out on pasteurized fuel pellets this winter.
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Been watching for a few months and harvesting my first lions mane batch soon. You got a good channel going here dude keep it up
why I don't pick mushrooms. I thought they were turkey tail. I prefer to leave it to the experts or grow my own so I know I won't poison myself.
It's pretty easy to learn a dozen or so species that can keep you busy. But, if you're not comfortable with it, safety first 👍
I found mine on a job site covered in dust. Though it wouldn't grow but after two weeks in a petri dish it came back to life.
Awesome, should be a nice resilient strain 👍
Awesome, should be a nice resilient strain 👍
Like the intro, that's one great harvest you got from them trees. I'd love an update if/when they make it to LC or gc
I will definitely be posting updates good or bad.
Maybe I missed it but... have you ever had a gnat problem in the basement?
Negative, but I keep a healthy population of spiders 🕷
@@RenegadeMushrooms Guess my spiders are just lazy. Thanks.
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for giving lots of background information and specific details on items you use to do your cloning. You have a lot of knowledge; thanks for sharing so freely.
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great video! I found 2 big fallen trees just before snow came and they were full of reishi but none were as giant as them beauts! amazing finds!
always watched but finally signed in and want to say thanks for all the videos and information you share with us
Thank you, that was an epic day of Reishi hunting for us. Thanks for watching, and glad you are finding some too.
Just curious what state do you live in? I'm jealous they don't grow wild around here. Great harvest!!
I'm in NY state. If you get to the hilly areas, we have some beautiful stands of Hemlock. Well we do now anyway. Sadly they say the Wooly Adelgid will eventually kill of most of our Hemlock. That is very sad for future generations of mushroom hunters.
Let me know how they do. I'm battling bacteria on most of my wild clones. I just recently cloned some black truffles from bulgaria. Mainly bacterial.
I'm still fighting bacteria on my morel clones, but I'm persevering 👍 All part of the game, but frustrating.
@@RenegadeMushrooms Bacteria is completely normal for morels :)
Just let it grow. The mycelium will grow out of the bacteria.
Some morchella species actually farm bacteria. They will transfer some of the bacteria and use the carbon as a nutrient.
If you make a morel bed, use ENBs (exogenous nutrient bags)
The bags "mimic" a plant. Morels are ectomycorrhizal and normally need a host plant to fruit.
But the ENBs work like a plant.
The morel will transfert carbon out of the bags and in return transfer other nutrients into the bag.
@@flakey1228 Thanks for the good info as always, I have some stuff in the works I think you will like 👍
Those plates look great; well, two of them do! Btw, stoneageman recently put out a video about ghost pipes on TH-cam.
They're so cool. Just a small example of the interconnectivity of a healthy forest that we humans have difficulty grasping even today 👍
Buenas noches, quisiera consultar si ésto, se puede hacer, con un Reishi ya seco. Gracias.
I've heard of people cloning dried mushrooms, but I've never tried it myself. Fresh is definitely better, but you could try.
i found some ofthem but they are brow from inside, is that a problem?
The flesh inside should be tan. If they are brown they may be too old. The pore surface underneath should be free of any mold spots and evenly tan in color.
Where do you get agar & the Petri dishes?
Thanks for this! 😊
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Now that you've cloned it and grown it out on agar, will it now be resistant to bacteria damage/competition since it was picked from the wild, or now that's it Brown "clean" will it be more susceptible?
Grown not Brown
It will not be more or less susceptible in it's cultured state. It's more about how you decide to grow it from there. In general, outdoor techniques require little to no cleanliness or sterility for success. Mushrooms grown outdoors with natural techniques grow synergistically with other fungi, bacteria, molds, etc. much as they do in the wild. It is only with intensive indoor techniques, where we attempt to maximize yields with sterility, supplements, and artificial environments, that our cultures become very susceptible to contamination.
Man what state is this in ? I wish it grew in GA . That’s so awesome
I'm in Western NY. They are really cool.
Just found a beautiful Ganoderma Curtisi on a walk here in Miami. Gonna try to clone it tonight. Curious if you ever got yours on to grain/substrate and how it came out. Thanks again for awesome content
That's awesome, they seem pretty easy to clone compared to some others I've tried. Yes, I have the culture from this video in liquid culture now and have grown it on grain and sawdust. I spawned it to some hemlock log chunks this spring and am hoping for an outdoor fruiting in the next year or two.
@@RenegadeMushrooms awesome to hear. Used your video as a guide, thank you!
I was on a late season hike up north of you and found two seperate reishi flushs on red maples. They were dried on the stump and one flush was in prettty good shape the other mostly moldy but hey did,nt expect to come home with any. These were quite close to each other as well. Many hemlocks in this area but not my best hunting ground. My theory , to healthy. Our gulf to the north of my video has those wooly adelfid bastards. Reishi doesn't seem to coexist with the fungus that emerges after the tree dies.
Breath those spores and hello!
Hello, welcome 🤗
Wow! That was cool. Thank you for showing me this!
Ganoderma Lucidum and Ganorderma Tsugae are different species. Tsugae isn't a variation of Lucidum.
Apparently that's up for debate from what I've read recently. I try to keep up on the ever-changing world of mushroom taxonomy as best I can. I'm aware they have been traditionally listed as two separate species.
I them found on maple last spring aswell as beech tsugae for sure and i was lucky to find ganoderma sessile on maple stump the hard wood species aren't as common up here in maine
@@nicholaslane3989 Are you sure it was sessile? I've found tsugae on sugar maple before. More often on red maple. Tsugae will sometimes grow without a stalk.
@timothylongmore7325 was thinking the ones on maple looked to tsugae but ones I found on beech looked more sessile like ferns and grass growing through an old pizza lol
So did you end you continuing with this experiment??
Curious to know, hw vs sw! Big difference 🫶🏻💙🍄💙🫶🏻
Tried them on hardwood pellets first, colonized beautifully but would not fruit. I have them growing on some hemlock log chunks now that I plan on partially burying to see if I can fruit them outdoors. Then I might try some softwood pellets.
@@RenegadeMushrooms Did you have any luck with the logs. I'm thinking of doing some more outdoors. I had one little ratty conk pop out of a log I innoculated with spores about 3-4 years ago. I think my logs are spent and colonized by wild turkeytail. I new very little about there life cycle then or how to innoculate a log.
@@timothylongmore7325 I did not as of yet, but it's very possible that the hemlock I used was already too far gone when I inoculated it. I will be trying again.
@@RenegadeMushrooms Cool. Hope you do and make a video. I'm going to try to cut some logs soon and try innoculating with spores again and maybe buy some plugs from northspore ( unless you have some, lol). Trade ya some reishi or chaga. I was surprised with my logs emergence this summer. Don't know why it was so anemic. I left the log there to see if it does anything next year but the experiment goes on.