Very nice pic, here's the link: https://mander.xyz/c/Lichen
You're welcome! I never expected to love lichens as much as I do. So much to learn about them and sometimes it takes a quite a bit of digging which is always keeps me searching and learning.
Should be up now, I kept it simple and just called it 'Lichen'
Awesome, will do! Thanks
I wasn't sure if it was kosher to just start a community or if it had to be approved and whatnot.
We could do with a lichen community, just saying. Definitely fits within mycology but lichenology can easily stand on its own.
We have a fruiting chamber set up, its an old grow tent with ventilation, lights and a fogger. Honestly, if I wasn't for the heavy spore load I would say this would grow well on a counter top. This is my first reishi grow so I am not very experienced with this species so take that with a grain of salt.
They absolutely do hahah
Not yet, I do regularly have reishi powder or extract in my coffee though but I've never had homegrown.
These take a bit of getting used to for sure and quite some time before the mycelium matures. I thought they'd never get there. Substrate is straight hardwood fuel pellets. I inoculated these in November and they colonised within a few weeks but I left them until they began to sort of grow antlers (actually left them longer because I got busy with work). I started fruiting them 4 weeks ago give or take. Temps were probably around 16-20°C normally. I bumped the humidity down to 60 or 70%.
Great photo, beautiful place
That's fine, no experience needed. I am actually not all that great at ID either, I just know the most common species in my area.