Serendipitous timing

[moon_walker 149]

So a tree fell in my yard, decided to pull out the ol chain saw cuz this my friends is/was an oak tree..

 i know the medicinals love the hard wood and it  just so happens i have about 4 jars of this  that is lion's mane lc and a shit ton of oak tree blocks. I will b shoving a bunch of this through my wood chipper this weekend to prep some wood mix bags. I do have 2 questions though. This is pretty fresh wood and so should i wait 2 weeks to use the chips and and should i still soak before pc or would that over hydrate the chips? I'm thinking of mixing the fresh cut chips with hydrated wood pellets and brf. Not sure if i should add crushed oyster shell, gypsum, lime, and/or jiffy mix.

[Tump 1790]

Lime pastures the wood then wait for a bit then cook it up.

[PsychoNanoNaut 2027]

Bro, look up how to inoculate logs, there's a thread around here somewhere. If you pull it off, your old friend will be by your side and have baby edibles with you for a long time to come. The circle of life carries on. Lol

[MaiNiaK 1342]

I'd get some hardwood dowels and pasteurize them, jar them up and add some LC. Once the dowels are colonized, I'd get an appropriate sized drill bit and some bees wax. Drill sections of log, insert dowels and cover with bees wax. Place log sections in a shady, moist area. This should insure a fairly steady supply of lions mane.

good luck ether way..

[WastedDaze 284]

11 minutes ago, MaiNiaK said:

I'd get some hardwood dowels and pasteurize them, jar them up and add some LC. Once the dowels are colonized, I'd get an appropriate sized drill bit and some bees wax. Drill sections of log, insert dowels and cover with bees wax. Place log sections in a shady, moist area. This should insure a fairly steady supply of lions mane.

good luck ether way..

I need to make some saw dust spawn. My parent neighbor just reopened this old as saw mill from the 1800's or later (parents house is 200+ years old) so I'd have virtually have infinite saw dust. 

[moon_walker 149]

I like aaalll those ideas so I think I shall do all of the above!!! ill swoop up on some dowels over this next week and pc them beitches with maybe a bag or two of a chip/dust mix. ill look in on pasturizing wood with lime. Im pretty dam excited. what do you think about nocc'n up a sterilized sub bag with lc instead of nocc'n grain jars and mixing into bags after those guys are ready. I think ive seen bags with injection ports on some teks.

[RhythmAddict 901]

The dowels...I'm guessing untreated wood. Is that even a concern or are there certain ones that are ideal?

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[Awakened 136]

Right on moon_walker!!

Like a true mycologist, you see things around you and build upon what others would throw away or burn.

 

 

Question, when you use the wood chipper, do you think that it will be like that scene from Joe Dirt where that old lady says?

"My husband used to beat me at night, so I pushed him into a wood chipper."

If this were to actually happen, do you think that the added person would give a good mixture of nutrients for the mycelium?

[magicman 6084]

If you do bags of wood chips and fuel pellets, just add some BRF or any grain flour, and you can just shoot LC in the bags and skip the grain step. Adding some bran would help them too. I just crush up cheap bran flakes cereal, about 20% bran usually. Noccing the stumps with colonized dowels would be cool too

[moon_walker 149]

yeah I usually see the LM in bags not logs but what the hell why not try it out and just putem in an outdoor little greenhouse. deffinately gonna bag some up though. I think I might also order some shiitake lc for all this wood too. haven't actually grown medicinals to full fruit yet. to tell you the truth ive been finding it harder to fruit those than the active ones. I will win this battle tho nodoubt.

[moon_walker 149]

just ordered red reishi lc, 100ct shiitake plug spawn, 12 medium autoclave bags with micron filters, 100 hardwood dowel pins and some organic beeswax....now this weekend I prep and separate and research. ill update once I have finished playing with my wood

[RhythmAddict 901]

Yes, finish playing with your wood and let us know what you discover! I found dowels on a myco supply site that I plan to use. I wonder how reishi will do in the Midwest

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[Those Who Were 2140]

@moon_walker I just recently had the  opportunity to attend a club meeting with a notable speaker who spoke extremely well of using a sandwich method of making logs for edibles. He said that using sawdust spawn in between two of the logs stacked end on end worked incredibly well. you can make a drilled out cavity in the logs where they will sandwich to pack more spawn into. then he also said that natural clay from your environment if accesable or just regular poters clay works much much better than wax for keeping the logs moist once fruiting time comes around you can take the clay off i believe. it was his opinion and experience that this sandwich method works far better than using plugs because even with wax, plugs tend to dry out and colonize slower.