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364 GROWTH PARAMETERS
Figures 329 & 330. Cylndrical bags are stacked upon one another to rorm a Reishi wall.
emerge into the high humidity environment of the growing room. With this method of cultivation,
moisture is conserved and channeled to the developing mushrooms. Under low light conditions, stem
elongation slows as the mycelium enters into the conk formation period. Cultivators of this method
believe that the substantial substrate mass, protected from evaporation, produces better flushes than
from a substrate exposed to the open atmosphere. With this second strategy, a condensing fog environment
is not as critical as when the substrate is fully exposed to the air. Furthermore, contamination
is less likely. Hence growers in Thailand are successful
ingrowing G. lucidum in growing rooms featuring
gravel floors and equipped with a minimum of environmental controls.
With either rapid cycle method, the cultivator can grow the archetypal form of Ganoderma
lucidum, one long favored by the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Thai peoples. From time of inoculation
to time of harvest is less than 3 months. If only antler-shaped fruitbodies form, yields are
approximately 1/4 of the yield seen if caps are encouraged to form and mature. Should the cultivator's
goals be solely that of yield and the development of the stalk is not desired, then yet another approach
is recommended.
Five pounds of moistened hardwood sawdust/chips (60-70% moisture) are filled into the
autoclavable, spawn plastic bags. The bags with their tops folded over are loaded into the autoclave
and sterilized. After sterilization, approximately 100-150 grams of rye grain spawn is inoculated into
the bags subsequent to autoclaving. Each is heat sealed. Colonization is characteristically rapid and
complete in 10-20 days. After 30 days, the blocks are removed to the growing room whereupon the
plastic is perforated. 11 use four bladed stainless steel arrowheads mounted on a board. The bags are
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