Chaga : How It Grows Explained
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2017
- There is a common, well spread belief that harvested chaga doesn't grow back. The myth states that you must leave 30% of a conk on he tree with 6-10 cm of total conk layers left, this is wrong, I've seen multiple examples of conks growing back after being harvested down to the tree trunk and 99.99% removed,
Inonotus obliquus, commonly known as chaga mushroom, is a fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae. It is parasitic on birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal.
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Gotta say you do know your shit my man and hi e top advice thanks from the UK !🌻
Excellent video! My husband always says the same thing. It grows into the tree from the ground. Great points: wishing more people would understand.
Interesting. Any Chaga growing in my area is safe because I can't bloody well find it lol, have a good new year bud 👍🏻🇬🇧
Howdy David!,
No Birch trees in my area of Montana, so i don't know jack about chaga myself.
But i have heard it said on you tube, not to remove it all, so i find this most enlightening!...Thank you and Happy 2018...woods
Wow, awesome video David, did not know any of that.
Interesting ,looking forward to see how much it grows after a year
Would there be a time in the year you best harvest it
I used your chaga and keep the pieces for fire lighting
Atb
Steve
Happy New Year buddy
Great info!!
Agree, only take what you need!!
Protect your chaga, keep the bandits away!! 👍
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year!
This is going to be a very hot topic very soon
Interesting good video brother
I think what we see and harvest is the chaga fruiting body. I imagine the fungal mycelium grows through the rotting wood inside the tree much further than we can see, so removing the fruiting body is actually taking only a small part of the organism. .
That is my belief. one cannot remove all the mycelium, so long as there is some remaining there is a high probability it will grow back.
being a fungus....isn't it millions of tiny organisms...not just one?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus I think it is one organism as science defines it. Another thing I wonder is if there is more than one Chaga conk on a tree, for example on this tree there were at least 2 more higher up, if they are connected or they are separated? normal mushrooms that pop out the ground, you can see a ring of them or whatever, they can be all one organism because they all share the same mycelium system under the ground - like apples on a tree. The Conk of the chaga is not the fruiting body BTW, response to original comment.
ok...so what if...you cut a piece of chaga off a tree...and moved it to another tree...a damaged spot on the tree....would it grow into the new tree?
no. has been tried by real agricultural researchers. they have never been able to artificially propagate it. it would be big business to grow it on farms and such so it has been tried.
Agreed ! Funny I’m drinking chaga tea as I watched your video
nice vid. thanks a lot
id love to see a video update on how much the chaga has grown back in another year
I looked the other day , it has about 1cm new depth over last 12 months
thanks a lot for getting back to me
Great channel, new sub Mad Dog sent me over
ATB Del
1:36 "Internet Experts" is literally a meme
Experts that comical most have probably not even seen a tree there in there basement where the experts live. Happy Trails and thanks for all the common since .
i sometimes find similar thing, but i am not sure if this is not just a tumor, or is it really chaga - is it possible to take some samples (or spores) to check it under microscope ? or any other way of identification ?
its pretty easy to identify, tumors are tough, hard to remove and woody, chaga is not hard if it has been raining , not woody, easily broken off the tree and yellow on the inside and balck on theoutside
Nicely done mate! I'm no fungus expert, quite the opposite but I would have thought that the sub terrainian part of the fungus is what keeps it re growing? So it shouldn't matter how much of the fruit/flesh of the mushroom is harvested? Like in the woods on the ground if you cut a mushroom leaving the root below ground intact it will grow again! Great video as always brother! Best wishes
your stuff is on the way. some lumps that you can do anything with, and some crumbs that are just good for popping into tea.
Your a star ! I hope you send me your address too mate I'll send a little something out to you too Just to say thank you very much! Excellent! Best wishes for the new year brother 👍🏽👍🏽
it also depends in what situation, when it comes to harvesting sold grown mushrooms, the common mistake is to cut the mushrooms at the base which actually can damage and kill the mycelium by leaving a piece to rot and get infected with other fungi, hence you twist the mushroom out thereby removing the entire stem and base which gives the mycelium a much better chance of surviving
I live in AZ and chaga nor birch tree's grow here what's the chance you could point me in a trust worthy direction as I'd like to try this chaga in a tea?
Please/thank you.
Hi I sell it on my website www.humbletrekker.co.uk/product-page/basic-chaga
David, somebody made a road in your forest! It is a race who will got back first when chalga grows back... live feed maybe? And to make it more interesting I'll be taking bets.
some fucker will take my pet chaga as soon as it is big enough, I might build a fence around it,
Is that a Mora no 2 with a cross guard? Where can I get it?
oh bro it is 15 years old, I don't know check out the mora website maybe?
Yes consider how small the chaga spore is when it starts. It starts from a tiny spore and will continue to grow once it is removed. When the tree dies and falls to the ground and rots to nothing. Then the Chaga will stop growing.
Popeye 99 indeed.
It would be " Great " if there were a Video on How to Spawn ( Propagate ) and Cultivate these Chaga Mushrooms ! That would be Very Good ! Yes !!
Scientists have tried to grow it but never succeeded. It only grows wild
interesting. i see you have strange and exotic beasts roaming around in the bush in your neck of the woods. ;-)
One question I have is do you think it is possible to innoculate trees with chaga?
It’s not possible. It’s been tried by scientists
On which side of the birch tree does chaga grow in line with the cardinal directions? Does it matter?
@@kubakubak1693 it grows on any side as far as I can tell
@@verysurvival Thank you for the quick reply. I have recently become interested in mushrooms as a medicinal food. I have a forest plot with a few birch trees. I want to vaccinate them. Therefore my question. I sifted fine chaga particles and grafted them onto the grain. After about 2 weeks, white mycelium grew, but it also contained green mold. I found the purest one and transferred it to agar. I made selections on agar several times, lasting several months. I inoculated it again on the millet grain. I want to give this mycelium to my trees. I don't know if it will work. It's just an experiment. He adds: This experiment is very exciting, for me it is a great mystery whether the selected, white, clean mycelium is the one I expect. I will vaccinate the trees and only after a year will I find out if this is my chaga.
I see that you're harvesting chaga beside the street. How does the pollution affects the quality of the chaga by the way?
I didn’t harvest the chaga. I say that in the video, it was on public property, so it shouldn’t have been harvested since it is on a tree that belongs to everyone. It would have been dirty from road pollution probably so I wouldn’t have ingested it perfect
I'm as greedy as the next guy! :) ... with that in mind? I also would leave the chaga for others to see and use, as it's so close to the road .. I can find plenty deep in the woods :)
How did it taste?
Like a vanilla and almonds taste
Curious if you know when to harvest .....?
My chaga videos are up for the world to see and be judged. You are just a guy commenting on my videos. I wonder if you have even seen a tree in the woods.
Your letting your pride get in the way now .....and your just a guy killing trees who thinks they know it all? Is that how i should reply? I've lived in the bush for long durations. And it was a serious question ....when do you harvest chaga. ? I wasn't being facetious......we're having a dialogue trading information i thought in a civial manner ....and now .....you wonder if I've seen a tree in the woods? . Ive treated you with respect countering your claims of chaga harvesting ....and giving you an opinion based on my research .....now your having a case physiologically called sour grapes. Because I question You? You need to grow up. Your too sensitive. You said your videos are up for the world to see and be judged. Then expect rebuttal if your wrong. And chaga gets harvested when the temperature falls below 5 degrees Celsius for more then 3 weeks. Best is freezing . For optimum nutritional benefits. Harvesting no more then 30 percent of the chaga. Your last statement contradicts itself....completely.
I agree that is the problem with internet university, people rehashing babble. One way to reveal they don't know what their talking about is the statements are all the same. It's as though someone wrote a script and passed it around the internet. I believe you, because I have a knack at reading through bullshiters.
Your Right Thats What i basically said in my recent vid lol people dont actual even go and get it and find it as you said lol...plus everybody takes it at the wrong time of the year and get no medicinal value lol...happy Pre-New Year !,;,;,;,Spook
The myth sounds like someone applied what they knew about regrowing vegetables by putting them in a cup a water to fungus.
I think the myth of leaving 30 % comes from wild foraging philosophy of allowing for species to continue growth in the wild - so leaving a fruiting body there to spread spores being the theme .. same with harvesting wild foods and planting a plant every time you harvest.
The chaga conk that people harvest is not a fruiting body. it has nothing to do with chaga reproduction.
Yeah I think you're exactly right. I think it's basically a guilt thing also. It's like , I left 30% so I'm a good person. Better than most. And while the conk isn't the fruiting body it's absolutely tied to reproduction. Many think the chaga kills the tree then reproduces. I think the chaga conk is an energy storage unit that is called upon and used for reproduction when the tree dies , for whatever reason.
Harvesting to the tree trunk is hard on the tree like an open wound on your hand ....takes time to heal.......leave a little don't go to the tree itself and help the tree out ......the tree will last much longer . .....
I will film this tree again and you can see exactly how much has grown back. I will film it every year
Oh, amazing, that chaga doesn’t look like mushroom at all.
agreed
i heard it was 31%
lol
it's actually 29.8%
depends if the tree is facing north or south
Southeast
The 30% rule comes from shamanic rules for gathering plants... You don't want to gather more than 70% of a patch of sage for example or the patch gets weak and cant grow back as easy... I think they just crossed mushrooms with plants which is completely not true... If you find a patch of mushrooms, pick the whole damb thing!!! I mean Leave the base of the stems... But yeah!!!
interesting
He for sure removed that chaga
nailed it
The Native Americans only harvested every 3rd plant that they found, maybe that's where the "rule" came from
maybe they are pretty smart
........it's a fungus , like mold, have you ever tried to get rid of mold ?.......it comes back !
but the internet knows everything.
30% my ass
I take it right back and sell in the night clubs in London 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whoop whooop
It’s a meter inside the tree 🌳
Well done 👍
Respect
You'll never get an accurate account with one tree ....every tree is different ....like humans ...we're all human but still different ....some of us are stronger some weaker .....some can handle cold some can't...........I admire your passion ....and love of nature ....all I'm asking you and saying is harvest respectfully ......thoughtfully .....like saving for a rainy day 😁.....I'm not here to offend you ....last thing I want to do .......I wish you all the best ....and hope you understand about leaving a little ....I'm chaga hunting on the weekend .....I just made a fresh batch today ....everyone thinks I'm crazy drinking tree bark.....lol.......enjoy your hunts !
the chaga is like a protective callus. if you remove all the scar tissue on Anything, you are re-opening the wound up to potential new infection. cultures that respect nature don't stupidly take All of a resource, as opposed to the strip mining mentality of capitalistic culture, where the resource is raped until it is no longer economically viable. its obvious which mentality you're aligned with.
It is not scar tissue. Scar tissue is part of the body healing itself, parasites do not build protective callouses that is obvious . Chaga conk is a parasite, it is a parasite that slowly kills the birch tree because chaga can only reproduce on a dead birch, so why would a chaga build a protective layer for the tree? That goes against the reproductive imperative: Removing it or leaving has no effect on the tree. You live in a city and have never seen a chaga in real life, but I have been living with them for decades and know exactly how the birch and chaga lifecycle interacts