We've been growing Shitakes for several years now in NC...on Sweet Gum
logs, a tree that's more of a pest than anything else.
Gum soaks up water like a sponge, rots fast and has lots of sugar in it.
..and the faster you cut em down, the faster they grow...can't kill
em...and for a couple of days a year, it literally RAINS seeds.
You want fresh logs that don't already have a hundred different spores in them.
Seal the ends with hot paraffin and stack them up off the ground for
several months...then plug em and seal the plugs.
Some peeps use bags of heat sterilized saw dust or chips.
The best way to dry a mushroom is to just put it in a frost free
refrigerator for a few weeks. Food dryers get too hot.
Ode
At 06:57 PM 11/29/2009 -0600, you wrote:
I dunno where everyone gets their medicinal mushroom powders, but I
stumbled across this site that has either 4 oz or 1 lb sizes of just about
every mushroom powder you can think of, and they sell plugs if you want to
grow your own.
If you're interested here it is:
http://mushroompatch.com/herbal_powder.htm
Looks like 1lb of mushroom powder runs 30.00, the 4 oz is 11.00. But do
you know hoe many 500 mg - 1 gram capsules that will make? Lots and
lots. It beats 15.00 a bottle for 60 or so capsules by a long shot.
This Spring when I start my container garden experiment, I'll order some
plugs too. See if I can grow my own mushrooms. That will be even cheaper.
I can go out to the woods and get two or three, old felled trees, trim the
branches off, and see if I can grow mushrooms.
I don't know these people, never heard of them before, and just to be
clear, I ain't pushing the site, and I'm not connected with 'em in any
way. If anyone knows a cheaper place to get bulk mushroom powders, please
let me know, I'll be ecstatic. Anyway I thought I'd share the web addy.
There are several people who mentioned taking Agaricus Blazei, and that's
one of the powders they have listed. If I can't find it cheaper elsewhere,
I'm gonna get the 14 mushroom blend and the Blazei, 1 lb of each should
last a while for my family. I'd have to buy 4 or 5 bottles of the capsules
somewhere else, just for one month at my house, and that gets horrendously
expensive real fast!
I'm gonna buy one of those 8 lb bags of Thorvin Kelp too. Goodbye to the
those separate bottles of stuff that cost a fortune. Cheap, good,
nutritional insurance at that price. 8lbs will last a good long time, even
if we feed it to the guinea pigs and the dog too! I think it's a better
value because it's just about everything in one source, and it's from a
plant. The stuff should be easily absorbed and utilized.
Annie
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