We all voyaged up to Cambridge for the wedding on Saturday evening and for a follow-on brunch Sunday morning. Eugene was all smiles, and it was great to see his parents, who have been living in South Korea for the past few years. It was also nice to meet Kat's family.
Sue and I both ended up pretty tuckered out, and we went to sleep early in part because Sue had/has a big day today - running a handful of groups. I did manage to pick up seven bags of leaves from the curbs of our neighbors yesterday afternoon. Those will be used for the compost experiment we're running - ideally eventually for the garden beds (as of yet unbuilt).
Another experiment is going very well: the enokitake experiment. Who knows if it's legit, but I've read that these fungi have anti-cancer properties. They are growing like mad. I will continue to update this post with pictures.
(Sorry, but they may take a few seconds to load, since I have to use the higher-res camera so you can make out the individual shrooms.)
5 comments:
hmm. these pictures are sort of cool. and sort of gross. those are my deep thoughts on the matter of mushrooms.
Awesome! And we thought we killed them. Mine are getting really big too, but they're more patchy - not such even growth. How do we know when it's time to harvest?
Well, the instructions say, "when the caps flatten out." I'll be harvesting this weekend and will take pics! :)
hi i am having a little trouble growing enoki,
in your first picture, how long was it before youre kit looked like
your 2nd pic?
how many days or hours passed?
thanks for your info
-texas fungus
Hey there, Alex,
If you've got the same kit as me/us, it's from Fungi Perfecti. I had mine in the fridge. I put the ice-cubes on it, and then waited and waited and waited. Nothing happened, even though I was misting once per day.
I took them out of the fridge and put them in our cold basement, then they started exploding. My friend Jenny on this post had the same issue. Keeping them in the fridge didn't seem to work. It was probably 4-5 days in the basement before I started seeing the little caps start to form.
Once the caps appear, they grow very fast. Maybe it was another 5-6 days between Pic #1 and Pic #2.
Also look at Fungal Harvest.
Hope this helps!
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