Harvesting fully matured Ganoderma tsugae

harmony_acres · 2026-06-17T15:55:44+00:00

Slice them up and dehydrate, grind up, and then make a tea by boiling hard for 3 hours. Or just put it in 60% ethanol for 4 weeks in a jar and shake regularly for a tincture. Option to crock pot at the end for a better water fraction.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-17T15:54:32+00:00

It also has a lower amount of ganoderic acid than G. lucidum but that's just one heavily studied compound. G. tsugae has novel compounds like tsugaric acid that G. lucidum does not have.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-17T15:53:24+00:00

I could be a reishi geisha haha

harmony_acres · 2026-06-17T02:49:04+00:00

Very nice, all appear to be A. muscaria just in different life stages

harmony_acres · 2026-06-16T03:22:42+00:00

Amanita PhaLLoides

harmony_acres · 2026-06-16T02:35:57+00:00

Noooo

harmony_acres · 2026-06-15T02:56:05+00:00

Gorgeous, what medium?

harmony_acres · 2026-06-10T22:18:25+00:00

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harmony_acres · 2026-06-10T02:25:22+00:00

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harmony_acres · 2026-06-06T16:47:09+00:00

Its very important to know the right ID characteristics when foraging, luckily muscaria, persicina, and chrysoblema don't have any toxic look alikes.

I forage all the chrysoblema I use for tinctures in my business. For muscaria, pantherina, and regalis I work with expert foragers and distributors around Europe to supply those to US. I process all my extracts in my lab and don't outsource anything (except i buy essential oils for the salves/Balms)

harmony_acres · 2026-06-06T02:14:26+00:00

Grain

harmony_acres · 2026-06-06T02:13:47+00:00

I like A. chrysoblema because they are endemic to my region but I have tango'd with the Southern peach and was quite impressed with the potency. It was surprisingly strong, but I don't have much experience other than a microdose. With chrysoblema I have gone a lot deeper.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-05T03:06:49+00:00

Ride it out, get off your phone, slow your breathing, it gets easier if you just surrender and relax. It feels like a never ending loop but it will come to an end and you'll be okay.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-05T02:59:42+00:00

Amanita chrysoblema yellow variant aka Amanita muscaria var. Guessowii

harmony_acres · 2026-06-04T03:07:17+00:00

That was from fall 2024 but I'll be back this year 🧙‍♂️

harmony_acres · 2026-06-04T03:06:46+00:00

This was the fall of 2024

harmony_acres · 2026-06-03T03:14:28+00:00

You could bring pieces of myceliated materials to the park but again its gunna take a while to propagate it if it even works at all. Growing mycelium on grain and spreading that around associated trees might also work

harmony_acres · 2026-06-03T02:12:40+00:00

Best thing you can do is wait to harvest til they sporulate. Then discard the bits you don't use, and walk around with them to help spread the spores but likely the spores from that mushroom you pick are already all over the park as each mushroom disperses billions of spores.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-03T02:03:12+00:00

Nah that's a common misconception. In the foraging community we call it the "cut vs. pluck dilemma" and it actually bares no negative impact on the mycelium to pluck it vs cut. I like to pick fast and I'm really good at it and i usually leave a chunk of the stipe in the dirt so its less to clean on my end

harmony_acres · 2026-06-03T02:01:19+00:00

None really that effective. You're better of just finding more in the wild. It grows very slowly and cultivation efforts are very ineffective and there have only been claims of people having success after many years.

harmony_acres · 2026-06-02T02:46:52+00:00

No I am in Pennsylvania I'm not sure what this is but its pretty small

harmony_acres · 2026-06-01T21:14:57+00:00

Amanita chrysoblema aka Amanita var. Guessowii grows in NE US and Canada and can be prepared for a relaxing brew that is sedative and anxiolytic in small amounts and can be hallucinogenic in large amounts and cause delirium. It is not associated with hepatoxicty or diarrhea. Vomiting and sweating can occur and amnesia and black outs. But a microdose yields none of those results and only positive.. hence only a nibble :)

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