My lion's mane decided to grow a rather large clump without me even misting it. There must have been enough moisture in the block for it to decide to grow another clump. Who know maybe I was over watering it before.
Now for more last year finds. This guy was my first amanita muscaria find of the red variety. I had to go all the way up to Michigan to find it.
More eyelash cup fungi. I never get tired of finding this stuff.
Here's an orangy yellow russula. Who knows if these are edible or not.
This is what the gills of the russula look like. I've read that some russula are edible while others mostly cause stomache aches. Parboiling is supposed to remove the toxin but it could be risky...Here's a #mushroommonday surprise I got this morning before heading out to work.
I am still trying to learn more about mushrooms, do most people buy grow bags, and start the process over every couple of weeks?
Yeah getting a grow bag is the easiest way to start. Depending on the mushroom you can get a crop every week. My golden oysters have been blooming every week for the past three months.
Thank you for replying to my questions, I have been thinking about how people can become more sustainable and before the grow bags get entirely depleated, do you think that a person could harvest mushrooms and toss the mushrooms and some sugar in a blender, and spread the mushroom spores on a new batch of sawdust/wood chips...how do you think a person could continue to grow mushrooms even if they could not buy more spores from other growers?
Thanks
One way to get the oysters to grow after the bag is depleted is to let them drop spores onto pieces of corrugated cardboard. Once the cardboard is nice and dusted by spores you layer them in between straw or some sawdust. Like a cardboard straw sandwich. Then you put a humidity tent over the layers and keep everything humid and around 70 - 80 degrees. Eventually you will see white myceleum growing on the cardboard and they will begin blooming into mushrooms. The hardest part is keeping green mold or other fungi from taking over, fairly difficult.
Does a person need to soak the cardboard before the spores fall on it?
Also can you explain to me how mushrooms survived for years and years out in nature, because some people act like everything needs to be sanitary so we can grow fungi. Wont what people are doing just produce fungi with weak imune systems?
No need to soak cardboard as you will be misting the block of mushrooms that are growing already. Too much moisture can be bad. Fungi only grows in their preferred environment. Otherwise the spores just sit there inert. So the key is to give them their right environment to grow into myceleum. Here's a way to grow mushrooms by soaking the cardboard if you alreasy have a block infused with mycelium
Thanks for the information, here is a video that I found about growing mushrooms:
Please help me understand. What is the substance that the guy is intermingling with the wood chips, and how can I make the stuff? It looks like frosted mini wheat cereal
But I am pretty sure it is mushrooms, so how is it made in nature?