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.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    9·
    1 day ago

    They look like infected ferangi ears. It’s not an insult, the colors are gorgeous, but they do look like ferangi ears.

  • Alexander@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 day ago

    Please do tell us what temperature and substrate you used to make them fruit! Mine just grow mycelium and stop at that.

    • Magpie@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      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%.

        • Magpie@mander.xyzOPEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          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.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    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

    • Magpie@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Not yet, I do regularly have reishi powder or extract in my coffee though but I’ve never had homegrown.