Comments on: Working with Pine Loving Pleurotus

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:41:07 +0000

Hey I found some oyster that grow on pine on pennock pass. they had a wonderful smell of anise. it was in a burn area.

By: Jared Urchek

Jared Urchek — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:45:50 +0000

Very interesting – found a very large, unfortunately old flush of oysters on fir or spruce up above Nederland – tried to get into culture but they were too desiccated, all my cultures were contaminated with bacteria… I was surprised and excited at how large the fruiting was, and plan to go back and visit that log again soon, perhaps even take a sample of the log itself.

Anyways, I am interested in proving some strains that grow on pine, specifically. Chris, if you happen to catch that ponderosa stump fruiting again I would love to do a culture trade. Same with the lodgepole strain, Graham – I have a source for premium beetle kill sawdust and would love to grow these strains out in my lab/growroom.

All the best,

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:35:48 +0000

Thanks, Chris! That is quite interesting. If you can, get spore prints or send us some samples sometime. James says dried specimens will even work… that would be awesome! Did you see the post we did about Colorado Agaricus? We did some PCR DNA through Dr. Rick Kerrigan and found some really interesting species! Some of them are new to Colorado, and some new to the US. We should talk soon! Hope all is well!

By: chris ricci

chris ricci — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:11:45 +0000

nice article graham! i know a couple of ponderosa stumps that make huge flushes. i also found what appeared to be a small dried pleurotus specimen at the base of a dead pinyon in our horse paddock. never seen them fresh out here in the p/j forest, though. lots of agaricus in the p/j….