Anyone noticed any benefits or issues / side effects from taking reishi tincture? I been putting one full dropper into warm water with lemon. I’ve only been taking it for the last couple days. Anyone had experience with it ? Should I be taking it daily ?

The one I take has 30% organic cane ethanol, spring water and reishi but I’m hoping because I add it to boiled warm water that some of the ethanol is evaporated?

The ratio is 1:3 (that’s what it says on the bottle)

Just curious if anyone has an idea on what this is? I found it on a hike in NE Oklahoma and just thought it was neat. TIA

Im sure this has been asked before but Im interested in understanding what is the best practice to preserve viable mycelium over long periods of time ( >1year)?

Mycelium on Agar

Liquid Culture

Can you freeze mycelium (thinking not, but worth asking)?

Is there another method to be able to preserve viable mycelium?

If you have experience with the above methods would you mind also listing for what periods of time you have found these methods, or any other, to be viable for?

Spore are clearly a long term solution but for the sake of this conversation Id like to focus only on mycelium please :).

So I thought I'd come straight to the experts for some advice, can you guys think of anything?

My wife wants to start a vegetable garden, and I'd like to grow mushrooms (shitake and yellow oyster).

We're trying to offset food costs by growing at home.

Okay, so, this is my first mushroom grow ever. So I am a bit noob at this.

I know I’m actually growing the Lion’s Mane wrong, although I didn’t find this out until after my mono tub started flowering so I just ran with it and hope for the best.

I have some Agar plates growing good cultures of myceulium to retry this grow with soon. I will be using just the “cut an X on the bag” method, which seems to be best for Lion’s Mane.

However, I would like to still get ‘some’ yield from this grow. I’m just trying to figure out what I can do to help it grow some more and get the teeth or if it’s too late and I just need to harvest the small amount I have now.

The picture you see has been growing in the monotub for about a week now… with a lid on.

Eventually, i swapped the lid out for a lid with 4 ~2” diameter holes on top and ran a fan (thought maybe my humidity was too high, as they seemed to be growing a coral like pattern)

Well, i ran the fan too long and dried them out too much I think… that’s where the yellow you see came from.

After that, I’ve tried another lid with smaller holes and cut off the fan.

My temps sit at 70-80F I spray with distilled water atleast a few times a day Also have humidifier running.

The room humidity is probably around 50-60%, but inside the tub is hard to really get a reading. It always just says 99% so I think condensation is getting inside the thermostat’s humidity detector.

What do you guys think? Which lid should I have on this tub to keep them growing? Or take the lid off completely?

Cold to the touch

Fuzzy balls.

B