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Our Turkey Tail is a first-generation Trametes versicolor isolate: the banded, fan-shaped polypore you've walked past on a fallen log. It's tough, leathery and one of the most cold-tolerant species in cultivation, fruiting on outdoor logs down to around 42°F.
Inoculate hardwood logs or a sawdust block, set it in the shade and let the weather do the work. No chamber, humidifier or misting.
It keeps fruiting down to about 42°F, long after gourmet species shut down for the season.
Concentric bands of rust, cream, gray and brown that change with the substrate and season. Too tough to eat; it's dried for tea.
Let the syringe reach room temperature, then shake it gently to break up and spread the mycelium through the broth.
Flame the needle until it glows, let it cool a few seconds, and wipe the injection port with the included alcohol pad.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar or 3–5cc per 3–5 lb grain bag. One 10cc syringe inoculates about 2–4 containers.
Keep it at 55–70°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Check the underside: true Turkey Tail has a white underside covered in tiny pores. False turkey tail (Stereum ostrea) looks similar on top but is smooth underneath.
From our lab to your grainRun it into jars with wide-mouth cultivation lids or your own lids with self-healing injection ports. Spare 16G needles and sterile Luer Lock syringes are sold separately.
Use 2–3cc per quart grain jar and 3–5cc per 3–5 lb spawn bag. One 10cc Turkey Tail syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 16 days at 55–70°F. Fruiting is the slow part: expect 45–60 days to harvest, and outdoor logs often fruit on their own schedule after rain and temperature swings.
Hardwood logs outdoors, or supplemented hardwood sawdust and Master's Mix for blocks. It's a hardwood decomposer and runs well alongside Reishi.
Yes, and that's where it performs best. A shaded spot with inoculated hardwood logs or a buried sawdust block will fruit through autumn and into winter in most of the country.
Refrigerate it at 35–45°F in the bag it shipped in and never freeze it; freezing ruptures the cells and kills the culture. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before you inject.
Liquid culture is living mycelium from an isolated culture, so it skips germination, colonizes days faster and gives genetically consistent fruits. Spores have to germinate and pair up first, which is slower and more variable from grow to grow.
Liquid culture is living mycelium, so every syringe leaves our lab in a foil-lined insulated mailer. The insulation buffers it against summer heat in a delivery truck and against sub-freezing winter temperatures, so it arrives viable either way.
When it arrives: refrigerate the syringe at 35–45°F until you're ready to inoculate. Never freeze it. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before use.
Sold as a mycological culture for cultivation. Turkey Tail is the subject of ongoing scientific research, but nothing on this page is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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