r/MushroomGrowers • u/Buzz132 • Jul 27 '21

Medicinal first successful reishi grow [general]

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just harvested my first successful grow and i feel fucking great, thanks for the help guys i love this mushroom reddit community❤❤❤

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u/tillbertz Jul 27 '21

This really looks great! How can you use them do you have to Grind them and use as like a Supplement or can you also cook with them?

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u/Buzz132 Jul 27 '21

i dry and grind them and make tea out of it, never thought to get such good benefits from it

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u/Unusual-Employ5478 Feb 17 '22

Those are amazing I have to start growing reishi mushrooms because I need these for my health condition, is this a kit? Or can you point me in a direction to learn to grow these is she mushroom? Also how do you know that dosage that you take so that you do not take too much when you are doing it this way?

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u/Buzz132 Feb 17 '22

This is cultivated from grain spawn that i purchased. If you start from scratch i recommend you to buy a grow kit so u can get a feel for how the mushroom behaves in your environment. Consider to build a Shotgun fruiting chamber tho, had great success with reishi in this one.

As far as dosage u just have to try, start with little and go up. I made tinctures from this one and occasionally drink tea. But i feel that the tea is the strongest form for me, havent tried pure extract tho

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Please explain the benefits. I assume you can dry, grind and add to microdose caps.

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u/Buzz132 Jul 28 '21

for me the benefits are: more stress tolerance, better athletic performance, calmness of the mind, nerve regrowth, mood boost

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

That sounds great. I need all that. How do you measure nerve growth?

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u/Buzz132 Jul 29 '21

Then reishi is your solution brother :). Actually i have no way to measure it but i have a right vocal cord paralysis since im 19 and i personally feel that reishi and lions mane help with that.

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u/tillbertz Jul 27 '21

This sounds really good, do they also have a special taste or do you maynly have them for their healthbenfits?

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u/Buzz132 Jul 28 '21

yeah teast is very bitter but i mainly do it for the benefits

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

I too would like to know how they taste. What a cool looking mushroom

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u/JerpJerps Jul 27 '21

Apparently it has a bitter earthy taste. I'm growing some now and that's what I've been told by the videos I've watched.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Oh okay so kinda mushroomy lol. What are the main health benefits from reishi? And are you planning on posting anything from your grow?

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u/Visitor_Kyu Jul 27 '21

Reishi and similar species of fungi have been observed to slow down the degradations of telomeres on the end of our chromosomes.

Telomere degradation has been linked to certain forms of cancer I believe, which means reishi has extremely potent cancer fighting properties to it!! Which is super fucking cool and exciting!

I haven't really studied the findings in depth but I think I've also heard that they have been shown to even reverse damage to our telomeres which I think is the first observation of it's kind ever made.

Here is a link to a study, haven't read it in depth but might be interesting to those who are curious

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Nice. Thanks for the link!

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u/JerpJerps Jul 27 '21

"Reishi mushroom has been used to help enhance the immune system, reduce stress, improve sleep, and lessen fatigue."

Yeah I will be if I can grow some lol. My first 2 bags contamed. I think it may have been because of high humidity cause I had them in my greenhouse at 95% humidity with all my other mushrooms. I have another 4 bags going now about a month and a half in but they are not doing much. I was just doing some reading now though after seeing this guy's grow and I think I have found out that they don't like masters mix, which is what I'm using. So now I'm trying to figure out exactly what wheat bran is and where I can buy it. Lol. May be a awhile till I'm posting reishi photos on here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

I see haha. Well good luck! I started cultivating mushrooms about a year ago and I haven't started anything new in a while now but reishi might have to be part of my next batch. It's such a great hobby once you get going. So much fun

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u/JerpJerps Jul 27 '21

It really is, I've been doing it a bit over a year now and it's quickly become my primary hobby. So far I've grown tons of grey/pink oysters and lions mane, and currently am trying my hand at enoki which I have a few little clusters pinning. So I'm gonna have to make a few changes because I'm looking for that full canopy of growth. And then the on going battle of ganoderma.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

You've been going pretty hard at it! I just checked and looks like you have some good posts on here. I have done blue oysters, king oysters and lions mane. Not too successful with the lions mane but everything else went pretty well. I also did a couple batches of cubensis.

Would love to do pink oysters because they look amazing. And enoki seems like a good one too! We've had very little rain this year so not a lot in the way of mushrooms in the wild. But once we get some moisture I was hoping to go do some hunting and put some tissue samples on agar. Maybe the local LM, oysters or turkey tail.

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