How to Harvest Chaga Correctly (Featuring Birch Polypore) 

I like how you planted new chaga on a different tree. Also, I enjoy the vibe.

Hey! Love to see someone promoting sustainable harvesting with Chaga. What's your opinion on harvesting in the different seasons? How do you think it affects potency ?

What an articulate and knowledgeable dude! Loved this video!

Chaga is very aggressive. I had bought a culture and it's very fast growing on petri dishes and sawdust. Though I've noticed it requires grain (sugars) in the sawdust, it will not grow out fully on pure sawdust unless u give it a very long time. But it's faster than most mushrooms at colonizing. I understand that it's more medicinal from birch, because of the birch triterpene. But it took about a month to colonize a block, and is building thick mycelium on top, I notice the mycelium just builds onto of itself. It's white though, but from what I understand about fungi found at chernobyl, melanin is used by certain fungi to protect against radiation and extreme environments. So I think it's environment is too mellow to produce melanin, upon exposure to sun and cold it should reach the extremes needed to produce melanin.

I have had Chaga tea many times but never found one until today on a walk! It's good size and I marked it on my phone map to harvest later when I have a knife 😀. Safe land to do so too 💚

What kinda mushrooms you on? Dont think it was Chaga 🤣

Enjoy your content. New subscriber.

That’s great news the Birch Polypore also contains cancer fighting properties ❤️💪😘#MushroomFantasies

Awesome video, been looking at information for a presentation and found this guy three separate times

My husband and I live in the Adirondacks also, thanks for showing this.

Love to you from Ohio! Thank you for being awesome!!!!!

Just subscribed, cause you showed how to harvest chaga perfectly. Very good video. 🏆🤠👍

Is there a specific time of year that the Chaga should be harvested?

2:52 and 2:59 it's just the left and right, not left hand side and right hand side.

I dont believe birch polypore is an anti coagulate...not positive ..nice foraging

dude had i flute recoder should have stop watching there. drank moss hugged and thanked a tree wTf

Once the tree dies how long will the Chaga be good for use? Thanks 🙏

I think i found some of it while i was looking for something else. That Chaga looks freaky asf tho

As soon as i saw the native flute, i was like, “yea, this guy’s legit”

Deep in the Adirondacks 😂 shit i can see my house thats chateaugay lake

" dear mister chaga man " i loved that genuine laugh :P

Great vid thanks 👍

@6:25 Sprinkle tobacco for the chaga spirit.

Do you have any links to medical reports concerning chaga ? TIA.

Ada boy, don't get bloody cut towards your buddy

thanks for sharing this info! what are the result on the "colonizing new tree from active mycelium" experiment?

Cool video, thanks for sharing

What are incredible place

Excellent content, could listen to you teach all day!

Can you do a video on Rishi

Um ok .

So???? Did it take???❤

How high does it go?

Can't hear you

Love Outdoors

Cool stuff

Show us!

Amazing

Nice!

When you grind that up, is it still orange? I bought some chaga online from Vimergy and it is almost black.

You're a weird dude, but I was weird just like you when I was out in the forests during my youth. You brought me back :)

Thank you!

Can the chaga grow on another type of trees. ? I ask because I have seen that typ of growth on trees that look similar to birch tree at first glance. The growth sticks out of the tree and it's black on the outside and orange on the inside . But I dont think the tree is a beech tree but it looks similar to a birch tree. Thankyou

You oddly drawn to birch as well. SAME HERE, I cannot quite. Put my finger as to why

a plug saw bit and a matchcing boring bit would probably yield some amazing results. you can buy a threaded auger but and do it by hand i have a set for bushcraft. very easy and light

i recently found a big chunk im not sure what to do with, out in a moss forest

You guys have the best chaga tea bags awesome quality

But ya it's the chaga on the dead birches you don't want to harvest at all because that's how chaga sporulates.

It looks like something I would be too afraid to even touch lol

damn, that was a clean chop, then I thought you were gonna take a bong hit. lol

Whoa. This video is so fabulous!

Yeah but what if a bear just peed on that moss? Careful dude, your freaking me out

I hope that wire is not copper.

Excellent video

Great video

Are you not killing the host tree by introducing chaga to it like you did?

Winter chaga is the only chaga that is effective

It's absolutely untrue that you need to leave x-amount of chaga behind. The truth is, you shouldn't bother harvesting small pieces like you did. I onky harvest hunks that are over 8 lbs a piece. That means I leave the vast majority of chaga I find alone to grow into giants. The only chaga that produces spores are the ones on already dead birches. The trees are already dying as well when they have chaga, and eventually, the chaga kills the host. Every time. Just harvest big hunks. They are worth more anyway, I got a piece recently that I can sell for several hundred per lb due to the quality. So why bother harvesting smaller chaga?