tan
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Post by tan on May 23, 2018 22:48:10 GMT 10
So I bought my annual ‘grow your own mushrooms’ box at good old Bunnings last weekend (and the obligatory snagga).
There HAS to be a way to re-inoculate these things to make them useful for more than one year, there just has to be. Mushies come up year after year in the wild...
Anyone managed to do it or got theories on how it could be done? Preferably without any expensive technical stuff.
Ive tried leaving the last few mushies to err...’go to seed’ for lack of a better term...that doesn’t seem to work for me unless I’m doing it wrong.
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Post by remnantprep on May 24, 2018 8:32:59 GMT 10
Are they re-sporing ones? I don't know much about mashies
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feralemma
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Post by feralemma on May 24, 2018 14:36:27 GMT 10
I know people who have bought mushroom compost type products and had mushies sprout in that.
I was wondering the very same thing yesterday and contemplating getting a mushroom box next time I go to the big smoke.
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Post by spinifex on May 24, 2018 18:09:34 GMT 10
I have a particular patch in the wild that have produced mushrooms reliably for 8 years. The main mass of the fungus permeates the ground and is there all year round - you can see it if you dig a hole in the patch at any time of year - even when the ground is dry. They always start putting up fruit (ie the mushroom we eat) 10-14 days after a rainfall of more than 15mm in Autumn. They fruit for upto a month and then stop. So I guess with a box you can hold onto it for a year and see what happens.
A long time ago composted horse manure was the medium of choice for cultivating the standard mushroom. You could take some of the hyphae mass from the box you buy and put it into a container of 'fresh' horse manure compost and see if it takes off. We get plenty of mushies in our horse paddock at home.
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Post by feralemma on May 28, 2018 10:26:17 GMT 10
I have a particular patch in the wild that have produced mushrooms reliably for 8 years. The main mass of the fungus permeates the ground and is there all year round - you can see it if you dig a hole in the patch at any time of year - even when the ground is dry. They always start putting up fruit (ie the mushroom we eat) 10-14 days after a rainfall of more than 15mm in Autumn. They fruit for upto a month and then stop. So I guess with a box you can hold onto it for a year and see what happens. A long time ago composted horse manure was the medium of choice for cultivating the standard mushroom. You could take some of the hyphae mass from the box you buy and put it into a container of 'fresh' horse manure compost and see if it takes off. We get plenty of mushies in our horse paddock at home. The only things that grow in my horse manure pile is those little yellow toadstools and oats 😂 |
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Post by spinifex on May 28, 2018 18:26:19 GMT 10
Also lots of those little Ink Cap toadstools ... which are edible ... but extremely unappealing.
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