Here's a treat

[Paul Barton]

I bought a few oak logs innoculated with shitake mushroom mycelium for xmas pressies. Got one myself which I am currently 'shocking' to make it fruit.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Oh you lot are getting me well up for a bit of mushrooming! Im going to see if I can get hold of some big as I can handle beech lengths in the autumn and do some different colonies in each round.

 

hericium erinaceus the monkies head

Ganoderma lucidum the rieshi

Polyporus tuberaster the Tuckahoe

 

and if im really keen I will make a oak chip bed for some grifola frondosa! the mitaike

 

come on!

[Mesterh]

oh man, thats the one i need Hericium erinaceus! how long in fridge?

 

Says use by dec 2009 and doesnt look too good:sad:

 

I'll have to knock it into some logs this week and see how it goes.

 

 

Trying to remember where I bought it from but cant:blushing:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Says use by dec 2009 and doesnt look too good:sad:

 

I'll have to knock it into some logs this week and see how it goes.

 

 

Trying to remember where I bought it from but cant:blushing:

 

if its monkies head you want beech lengths for best results, get the job done pronto, and keep us posted! awsome stuff:thumbup:

[Silver Back]

I've grown oyster and shiitake before on quite large logs. Think I got the innoulated spawn from Futre Foods, worked very well. Recently saw a link about leaving stumps and introducing actually here it is;

 

Fungi Perfecti: the finest mushroom products for home and garden, farm and forest, people and planet

 

worth a visit despite being American! I would have thought that there is a good opportunity here and will see what clients think, I have a stump grinder but it always seems such a sterile thing to do. Like to give the customer as many options - makes me sound knowledgeable kinda fing

[Graham]

All sounds good. What would be the procedure if you're leaving a live stump? Would you need to kill it and would this have any adverse effects on colonization by your chosen fungi?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats a good point!

 

I would think most trees wouldnt re shoot if cut to a six foot stump and drilled to within a inch of its life and colonised by fungi dowels. After all fungi are specialists at taking advantage of such situations, and probably able to overrun the trees defence in such an extreme situation?

 

I would fell and grind say a Lime but ash oak beech sycamore i think might have a hard time surviving the treatment