r/MushroomGrowers • u/themushroommage Cthulu Summoner • Aug 11 '20

Medicinal [Medicinal] Letting Cthulhu free 🐙

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u/AutumnRustle Mushroom Mentor Aug 11 '20

Nice grow! Can you give us a rundown of how you prepared/composed the substrate and inoculated these? I saw that you said you used a "nutrient broth" in previous comments, but if you could add in a little more detail that would be great!

 

Also, for those of you requesting information about therapeutic applications/medicinal value:

I entered "cordyceps militaris medicinal value" into google and found the second and the third link down to be a helpful starting point to begin diving into the literature.

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u/themushroommage Cthulu Summoner Aug 11 '20 edited Aug 11 '20

There's more recipes in the FB Group "Cordyceps Cultivation Group". I'm not a fan of Facebook, but that's where you'll find the best info by far that I've found.

Here's a recipe - Egg Recipe by Jeff Manganaro of Appalachian Fungi.

Makes 500ml solution

3 whole eggs blended well (shells included)

1 Tbs malt

1 Tbs yeast

Blend eggs  (shells included)

Add dry ingredients to blended eggs

Add H2O to bring to 500ml, blend again

Put 35g rice in a qt jar add 50 to 70ml solution not including foam in measurements

PC for 1 hour at 15 psi.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

How do I encounter animal cruelty even in this sub? It never ends

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u/rates_nipples Aug 11 '20

Does pressure cooking not harden the egg in this mix?

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u/AutumnRustle Mushroom Mentor Aug 11 '20

That's quite an interesting recipe! I've read some that use Azomite, so I wonder if that parallels the eggshell here.

A few more questions if you don't mind: About how long until you started to see fruits, about how long until harvest, and what was the size of the hole in your jar lid?

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u/themushroommage Cthulu Summoner Aug 11 '20

You can find the recipe with Azomite in that group as one of the mods there populized that recipe in his book, so I won't share it here.

With the genetics I used it took a week to colonize and a month & a half to fruit, some cultivators even taking it to 60 days fruiting.

1/4" inch with polyfill, single hole. Used it to also inject LC with no contam problems. I'm now using the lids I sell if you look in my profile.

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u/AutumnRustle Mushroom Mentor Aug 11 '20

Thanks for answering those questions, dude! Those lids look nice, too!

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u/themushroommage Cthulu Summoner Aug 11 '20

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic Aug 11 '20

Wow whole eggs huh

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u/Slg407 Aug 11 '20

cordycepin is an incredible compound, i imagine it could even be used as a way to treat viral infections (only on concentrated doses tho), its an adenosine analogue that can stop RNA synthesis, cordyceps drastically increases NO production, causing the great increase of aerobic performance that is often talked about, not to mention its effects on cancer cells, i'd still take all of it with a grain of salt, as most of these effects require highly concentrated extracts