David Medlock

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Jan 26 at 10:55 PM

Shake it up !

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Jan 23 at 08:46 AM

In the top 5 videos hands down, really a great one for sure!

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Commented on I grew cordyceps on Jeff's egg sub fo...

Jan 23 at 08:43 AM

Also to note...my whole OP is built around feeding the local population with local genetics and this extends to medicinal. Yeah commercial strains are awesome and I grow them too but the end goal is everything being from genetics within 50 miles.

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Jan 23 at 08:41 AM

I grew cordyceps on Jeff's egg sub for the first time year ago, dove down the rabbit hole pretty fast since. Really interested in what you guys are able to share on cordyceps strain maintenance/breeding/cultivation. I have gleamed what I can but right now cordyceps growers seems to be looking down on sharing more than ever. A lot of "figure it out for yourself" especially with seemingly simple things like...

-What is the general lifespan of a new strain? Like on the plate, then in the master LC and then subsequent production LC. 

-What are the storage options like? I assume cryo is a no go but no one will say. I like hyphae suspended in sterile distilled water for gourmet and am trying that for cordy now, will test 6mo/1yr for viability. 

Where I spend my summer here in the dense Appalachian forests I can find hundreds of wild militaris easily and started collecting them last season for cloning/breeding. Most went to waste but I want to try again this season better equipped (with knowledge more than anything. Appreciate anything you guys can share!

Love the simplicity of eggs and rice, gives me a tax write off for the free range ducks and is a selling point for the cordy I grow*
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Sep 23 at 08:54 PM

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Tyler N AllenNo...I used this...

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Sep 18 at 10:44 AM

Benjamin Harder I cultivate for profit yes, Highland Fungi.No still running trials tweaking the COW, the goal though is to be able to grow it for a nutraceutical side not so much market side unless we find a way to get yields WAY up. The horse feed is just one of the pelletized supplements I use, COW seems to like it.Not sure about the drinker part but studies show Laetiporus sulphureus to be beneficial to liver health.I have not fruited L. cincinnatus yet, I have a wild clone I am working but it's not a high priority at the moment. The underground fruiting nature of L. cincinnatus may or may not making fruiting more of a challenge.

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Sep 08 at 11:29 AM

Also in my case the 14lb blocks were fully colonized in 7-8 days and then continued to get denser and grow up the bag to the filter. I had fruits in exactly 7 weeks from NOC which was on the slow side. You'll notice in my photo the discoloration around the base...that is from this particular bag spending too much time in a grow room, they don't require or like high humidity and are content to fruit at normal room temp and humidity parameters. Though I never tried in a HART room...

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Sep 08 at 11:25 AM

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Hey Ben! I can't speak yet to this months specific strain or what MCS will chime about...BUT this year I have had great success fruiting one of my local strains in XLS-A bags running 14lbs of substrate. I mostly used data from the study I will link. Takeaways for me were drier substrate is really important for COW like 50-55% and it likes higher supplementation. It also seems to like a good mix of supplementation. I specifically used 14% horse feed pellets for my run which had added trace minerals and such.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599174/ 

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Sep 07 at 07:30 PM

Yes.

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Sep 07 at 07:29 PM

Benjamin Harder HAHA I did the same thing and ordered a 3790 spawn block from them and cloned that fucker lol got #1 son too...

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