Growing Turkey Tail Mushrooms on Logs

In this video we will cover a little bit about Turkey Tail mushrooms and why you might want to grow them.
A brief look at how to identify Turkey Tail Mushrooms and the main reasons we like to grow them.
Find more information about how to grow Turkey Tail Mushrooms here: www.fieldfores...
Turkey Tail Mushroom plug spawn can be found here: www.fieldfores...
Turkey Tail Mushroom sawdust spawn can be found here: www.fieldfores...
Books mentioned:
Mushrooms for Health by Greg Marley
Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide by Christopher Hobbs

[@Allyourbase1990]

I grow tt on blocks but really want to try this

[@shanemorris7349]

I find them in the eoods from time to time. But they usually little dried up.

[@alexleeman8277]

Would be good to see the whole process in a video. Thanks for the information

[@danielwininger1750]

What's a good tree to use? Will Balsam Fir work?

[@nammoien4476]

How do we use them?

[@FieldandForestProducts]

Most people use them to make tinctures and teas. They can also be dried and powdered, but it's easier to steep them.

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

Really great for Mushroom Stock aswell.

[@migueljose2944]

Turkey tail tea has no taste or after taste but visually you can tell you're getting the medicinal benefit if you get color in the water you're simmering it in.

[@timothylongmore7325]

I tried to grow TT. I got them from fungiperfecti and followed the instruction exactly with the exception of submerging them to iniate the flush. I watered them heavily instead. they started to emerge and then just quit. The weather here tends to go from 90 to 50 overnight basically. I used aspen logs for tt and elm for lionsmane. Haven't seen any sign of lionsmane either. Yours look great.

[@FieldandForestProducts]

Weather like that can be tricky for mushroom cultivation for sure. And i'm not sure when you inoculated your Lion's Mane logs, but they can take up to 18-24 months to fruit so don't give up on them yet!

[@timothylongmore7325]

@@FieldandForestProducts Ok thanks for the reply. I inoculated the lionsmane last summer , plugs. I've been watering them. They were planted vertical about a foot in the ground. I'm going to bring in a couple small blocks of the TT and see what happens.

[@migueljose2944]

@@timothylongmore7325 I'm guessing you are in the mountain west region. I'm in Illinois which is a lot different... wild Turkey tail population has exploded in central Illinois as the white ash trees die from the as bore so we don't need to grow it. Turkey tail here prefers the following wood in order of prevalence: ash, honey suckle, oak, cherry, walnut. You might give mountain ash a try.

[@timothylongmore7325]

@@migueljose2944 I'm in the north east. Northern NY tug hill region. We've got the ash borer here to. Our native seems to be smaller and not as common as seen elsewhere it seems. That could change. When I first started shrooming we were looking for artist conks , without much luck. Finding dead ones only. After thinking about it I realized we'd had a drought for several years and appartly the mushroom retreated into their substrate and waited for the rains to return. We're usually really moist here. Tons of them now but no one buys them so I leave them be.

[@ellevaruna1744]

I had a pile of birch branches in my back yard and they became covered with turkeytail on their own in less than a year. So they definitely like birch! I'm in Vancouver Washington. @@migueljose2944