****akes are prized culinary masterpieces of Nature.
****akes contain Lentinan, a powerful anti-cancer compound.
I grow ****ake here in logs.
Primarily Alder, but I have several experimental logs
of a variety of woods both ongoing and attempted.
I use Stamets ****ake strain as the plug spawn
that he sells from Fungiperfecti.com
in Olympia Washington.
His ****ake strain is spectacular, but I have had no luck with his Maitake.
I did get Reishi to pop in Apple wood.
Stamets operation is probably the most proficiently professional mycological team of mycelia production on the planet.
I don't care for his US Bioshield affiliations.
Anybody can grow ****akes with practice and patience.
I have developed an innovation to lead to higher and more repeated flushes over 2-3 years on as small as 5 inch wide logs.
Also found a wood better than Alder or Oak
for production.
If you cover your plugs in your logs with wax,
your yield will double to triple.
Be sure to get logs from as pristine or clean of a source as possible and clean them well
prior to plugging and waxing.
You will see my wax stains on the logs often over an old plug or on the sawn or exposed surfaces.
Early Spring these ****akes bloomed from 13 inch wide logs.
I had to put them in this giant tub that has a water release valve,
to keep them from the potato bugs and slugs.
Did you know that a potato bug is a ..crustacean...?
This was a great harvest,
it produced for 1 and one half months, but it took the log 1.5 years to produce this second flush.
So this fall I got a late start and we also have had cold dry weather stunting the growth.
Last night the warm wet front moved in,
and over night the buds grew 40%.
here they are in the shopping cart, you will see the same 3 logs up right that were in the tub,
Shroom Flush number three,
the second one in 7 months!
each flush produces a percentage less,
and these are BABIES.
closeups of undersides of the babies,
and notice the color differential between the ****akes from two types of logs .
Yummy man!
Rare example of Pinicolas that have fallen to Earth with the tree, then re-adapted to grow and shade the underside, very unusual example.
a cute bundle of yellow coral shrooms budding from the soil at Ross Lake
