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Started by deadfall, August 08, 2015, 10:27:04 PM

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deadfall

Hi there.   I'm getting a substantial flush of shiitakes off some of my logs.  I thought someone here might like to see them.




These logs were inoculated with sawdust spawn three years ago. 
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Ozarker

Nice!  :)  Here's a link to a farm in the Ozarks that grows shiitakes, among other things. They use white oak logs. Curly died a couple of years back, and the farm was recently damaged by a flood, but they're persevering.

http://theold78s.com/swedencreekfarm/


69bronco

Wow Deadfall, those are some dandy looking shiitake! I inoculated some oak this spring and can't wait to get some results, when did you get your first crop? Did you force them? I also did some oyster on poplar, we love mushrooms.

deadfall

Quote from: 69bronco on August 11, 2015, 07:59:56 AM
Wow Deadfall, those are some dandy looking shiitake! I inoculated some oak this spring and can't wait to get some results, when did you get your first crop? Did you force them? I also did some oyster on poplar, we love mushrooms.

We have been having very weird hot dry weather, and I took to watering my red alder logs for extended periods and they responded like I had them in the soak tank.  Some were soaked, but many of the logs just fruited from the increased watering.  I don't usually water that way because when the logs stay wet, trichoderma mold can be an issue.  But as hot as it's been, I am guessing that is why the mold wasn't a problem.  My picking has finally started to slow down, but I am sure I picked well over 50 pounds in less than a week.  It's the biggest flush I have had on my 200+ logs.  The biggest one I picked weighed a quarter pound and the margin was still incurved.    I ate it as a main course the night I picked it.

I took these 30+ pounds to a farmer friend who does a couple of farmers markets and supplies four chefs who want my excess production as well.


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yukon cornelius

What a crop! We have been collecting wild grown mushrooms such as bearded tooth and chicken of the woods but growing those are on our want to do list! can you point me to a reputable place to buy spawn?
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69bronco

Quote from: yukon cornelius on August 15, 2015, 06:16:59 AM
What a crop! We have been collecting wild grown mushrooms such as bearded tooth and chicken of the woods but growing those are on our want to do list! can you point me to a reputable place to buy spawn?


Google- Field and Forest, everything you need.

deadfall

I bought my sawdust spawn from Northwest Mycological Consultants in Corvallis, OR.  The owner, John Donoghue, wrote the book on growing shiitakes, literally. 

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grandgourmand

Wow..that's pretty amazing.  Thanks for posting.

It's also on my to-do list. 

SwampDonkey

When I lived in British Columbia, mushroom picking was like the gold rush. There was buyers set up at every road junction in the north.  :)
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