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Post by Reagan on Jul 27, 2018 4:01:52 GMT -6
I missed the midge question.
First, try to harvest as soon as they pop. If you get them on the first day or so you beat bugs.
If you don’t do that, rinse and soak to clean them the best you can. Then enjoy the extra protein and don’t point it out to your wife and kids.
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Post by Tooln on Jul 27, 2018 15:41:00 GMT -6
How much work is it to grow mushrooms like that? That looks pretty cool. What's a midge? I'm guessing a bug. If that's the case, don't eat bugs. You get some fresh cut oak logs and drill holrs in them. The kits come with small wooden dowels. You drive those in and set the logs in the shade and keep them wet. In 6 months they'll produce their first crop off mushrooms. They keep producing each until the log breaks down and rots. Does it need to be oak. Would maple work? Could it be from a log that has been cut for a while?
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 27, 2018 15:52:36 GMT -6
You get some fresh cut oak logs and drill holrs in them. The kits come with small wooden dowels. You drive those in and set the logs in the shade and keep them wet. In 6 months they'll produce their first crop off mushrooms. They keep producing each until the log breaks down and rots. Does it need to be oak. Would maple work? Could it be from a log that has been cut for a while? Maple will work but won't last as long. The reason why you want fresh cut is to reduce the chance of cross contamination from old spores that would be around on old fallen logs. Reagan might have more info.
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Post by Reagan on Jul 27, 2018 16:40:10 GMT -6
Ditto.
Best to cut fresh in the winter. Plug the logs a couple weeks later.
I will be cutting a variety of logs the next time I do it. I’d like to experiment and find something other than oak.
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Post by Reagan on Oct 19, 2019 15:26:11 GMT -6
This is the base of the tree that supplied my original logs 5-6 years ago. My logs are now rotted and gone. I plugged this stump and large log with some shiitake during my original planting. It took years to produce anything and that was minimal. I checked it today and found this.
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Post by Reagan on Oct 19, 2019 15:28:08 GMT -6
I am 99% sure they are shiitake. I can’t find any shiitake look alike on the web.
I guess I need to cook and eat one to test before going all in on these.
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Post by benmnwi on Oct 19, 2019 20:28:24 GMT -6
I am 99% sure they are shiitake. I can’t find any shiitake look alike on the web. I guess I need to cook and eat one to test before going all in on these. I'd cook one and give it to the dog first. If the dog is fine tomorrow then they are good to go. That was my grandpas way of determining if mushrooms were edible and it worked well for him.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 20, 2019 12:06:02 GMT -6
I am 99% sure they are shiitake. I can’t find any shiitake look alike on the web. I guess I need to cook and eat one to test before going all in on these. I'd cook one and give it to the dog first. If the dog is fine tomorrow then they are good to go. That was my grandpas way of determining if mushrooms were edible and it worked well for him. How many dogs did he go through? Seems like SD has a story on testing mushrooms.
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Post by Reagan on Oct 21, 2019 5:20:13 GMT -6
Still looking for shiitake look alike and I ran across this page. www.shroomery.org/8522/Shiitake-Mushroom-GardeningThis summer I used a can of orange spray paint to mark a lot of sweet gum trees for future execution. According to the link sweet gum is a favored shiitake tree after red and white oak. I will have plenty of logs for a new batch of shrooms next spring. No luck on my shiitake research. I’m cooking one and eating it today. I am 99% sure it’s shiitake. I think the length of time to produce was due to the size of the log.
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Post by Reagan on Oct 21, 2019 12:59:29 GMT -6
No vomit, diarrhea or hallucinations.
I think I’m going to harvest another couple pounds of shrooms.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 9, 2020 16:50:39 GMT -6
Took some of my sweet gum logs and planted 500 shiitake plugs yesterday.
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Post by kooch on Apr 9, 2020 17:00:29 GMT -6
I asked for mushroom kits for my birthday present this year. We will see if she remembers. It was months ago that I asked.
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 9, 2020 18:07:32 GMT -6
Took some of my sweet gum logs and planted 500 shiitake plugs yesterday. Reagan, where’d you get your plugs? The place I’d ordered from went out of business. The oyster plugs I git were a flop.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 9, 2020 20:13:09 GMT -6
I used mushroompeople in the past. First time buyer from here on this go around. www.fieldforest.net/
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Post by Reagan on Oct 11, 2020 12:25:45 GMT -6
I decided to give my logs one last soak before winter. I was surprised to find my first shiitake produced on sweet gum. Only three plus a couple more on my really old oak logs. I probably should have soaked a month ago but was too busy with the Wyoming trip.
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