1. Maitake (Grifola frondosa) - spore print from Sam
My plan is to germinate the spores in liquid culture, then inoculate cardboard, then bury around my chestnut trees.
2. Brick Cap [aka Kuritake - the Chestnut Mushroom] (Hypholoma sublateritium) - spore print from Sam
My plan is to germinate the spores in liquid culture, then inoculate cardboard, then grow outside on wood chips.
Tek1 - from Shroomery http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11622435#11622435
Have cloned kuritake, wine caps and shaggy manes to cardboard.
Tk2 - from Bobcat at Mycotopia https://mycotopia.net/forums/wild-mushrooming-field-forest/16226-naematoloma-%3D-hypholoma-sublateritium-kuri-take-chestnut-mushroom-%5Bmerged%5D.html
My outdoor patches were experimental, but both successful. The patches were inoculated with spent blocks from indoor cultivation. One was made of very old and degraded wood that was in a landscaping bed. We're talking a decade or more of aging. The wood was poplar and it was chunked by a tree service. Last year it fruited heavy after about 4 months of running. This year just a few. The other outdoor bed was hardwood mulch like you buy in 3 cu. ft. bags at Lowes. They fruited heavy last and this year. I expect a quick decline, though, because mushies seem to burn through that stuff pretty quick. I'll have to print them up next year.
also
Stamets: Substrates for Fruiting: Supplemented alder, chestnut, poplar, hickory, cottonwood or oak sawdust,logs and stumps. Chestnut, oak or similar logs are inoculated with sawdust or plug spawn and partially buried parallel to one another in a shady, moist location. It can be grown indoors on blocks of sterilized sawdust. Once these blocks cease production, they can be buried outside for additional fruiting. Another alternative is that the expired fruiting blocks can be broken apart and the resident mycelium can be used as sawdust spawn for implantation into stumps and logs.
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Great clusters of this species are often found on dead hardwoods, especially stumps, logs, and soils rich in wood debris. Another excellent candidate for recycling stumps. It comes up on the same log or stump year after year, until it's used up all the nutrients, so if you miss it one year, you'll probably snag it the following year. No matter what you call them they are better than what is classified in many mushroom guides. Several rate them a 'Good' edible. My opinion is 'Very Good'. A nice mushroom taste and a nice crunchy texture. Nutty flavor. Caps sometimes can get 4 inches or a bit bigger. However, you don't want the larger caps if you are collecting these to eat. It's the dinky little ones up to an 1 1/2 inches or smaller that make the best eating. I like to gather these after the leaves start to really start come down, generally after we have had a frost. At that time you will find hardly any bugs, just an occasional slug/snail. Hypholomas thrive in cold weather and do not produce when temperatures exceed 60-65 F. Kuritake has a nutty flavor and pairs well with red wines.
A related species preferring pine: Hypholoma capnoides (also called Naematoloma capnoides) fruits in clusters on pine stumps and decaying pine wood.
3. Oyster [unknown type] (probably Pleurotus ostreatus, i.e. Pearl Oyster) - fresh from Ranch 99 Market
My plan is to run mycelium on cardboard, then inoculate dowel pins and put into birch logs. Another idea is to chips fruit tree, birch or chestnut twigs and combine with wild bird seed or other substrate in a bag for inside growing.
Carboard Teks - from Shroomery, for growing oysters on cardboard.
A. One thing you can try is boiling the dry cardboard with organic flax meal for an hour covered in the same kind of pot you use to sterilize jars. Make sure the water level is sufficient. Cardboard gets picked on a lot in this forum, but I like it. It's easy as hell to find a lot of for free. And with the flax I think it's a great start for running mycelium. As far as how much flax I don't really measure, i just sprinkle maybe a half a cup in there. It depends on how many pieces of cardboard and how big a pot you have.
B. I've been having success with using cardboard layered with spawn and pasteurized compost or worm castings. A mushroom lasagne, if you will.
C. One layer of cardboard on top of one layer of watery bran. I just scattered the inoculated rye grain randomly and it seems to being going well so far. Picture of grey oysters using this technique: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69266480@N05/7087966781/in/photostream
D. This is a good one: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5254584
i have some cardboard agar going now, cut a circle of cardboard out the diameter of the jar i was using, softened it up with some warm water, strained most of the water off and placed in it.. i dropped a few drops of spore solution and got some white fuzz starting but not much yet. in stamets new book mycelium running he shows a picture of taking a spore print from a wild mushroom onto this moistened cardboard, and just letting it grow… should work fine. i have some woodlovers colonizing cardboard right now, tearing right threw it.. i inoculated that with agar wedges, i had an agar plate that grew out maybe 3/4 of the way, then contam'd along the edges.. in my kitchen, with no sterility at all, i cut out wedges using a unsterilized butter knife, and placed a wedge each onto 3"x3" squares of moistened cardboard.. all colonized completely, one showed some greenmold growth on the edges of where the agar was, but the growth stopped.. i have since put these 3x3 squares, now fully colonized, into pieces of cardboard maybe 10x20", this time i layered them inbetween, one layer of cardboard, then a colonized piece, then another layer of cardboard, then another colonized piece. my first experiments have been going great… i first moistened the cardboard w/ cold water and that worked fine, i read in mycelium running after that he used warm water and that helped soften up the cardboard so you could peel away to get into the corrugated part(IT IS VERY IMPORTANT(i guess) TO USE CORRUGATED CARDBOARD).
E. Plain carboard sorta worried me with spore germination. So, I used potato water from some I boiled up to eat to add to the sterilization process. I simply cut carboard disks by tracing the bottom of petris and then added the disks to the potato water with a drop of Karo as well. I put this stuff in a microwavable container with a polyfill plug stuck into the lid so the container can breath during the micro run. Just let the simmer for a minute and that's plenty. Inoculate in a gloove box and go. You'll have to load the sterilized disks into the petris with sterile tweezers. It sounds like a pain, but it's simple.
F. Oysters on cardboard and straw in a laundry basket - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3200510
G. Oysters on nothing but cardboard in a laundry basket! - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/10322837
H. Oysters growing on yellow pages phone book - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/10217114
4. Wood Ear (Auricularia polytricha) - fresh from Ranch 99 Market
My plan is to run mycelium on cardboard, then figure out how to grow beyond that.
Tek1 - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/15470954#15470954
I inoculated the jar with a spore syringe. (I ripped up pieces of wood ear and let them soak in 1cc distilled water for a few hours). Since I have very limited experience growing I shot almost the entire 1cc of water and spores into my grain jar. As a result, I have not been able to shake the pieces freely. I thought I might grow some mold because of the extra water, but so far it seems to be contamination free.
Tek2 - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/11647469
You need to find some big wood ears that have a thick part of the fruiting body that is attached to the log it's growing from.
You then (using a sterile scapel) cut a small chunk of the jelly stuff out of part that was attached to the wood, try not to get the outside edge.
I suggest then putting this chunk onto some prepared hydrogen peroxide/yeast/dextrose agar petri dishes.
Then in a couple of days you should see growth and remember wood ear mycelium has little globules of black liquid scattered around (it's not contams!)
hope this helps
Also: The method of cultivation closely parallels that of Shiitake
5. Brown Beech (Hypsizygus tessellatus) - fresh from Ranch 99 Market
My plan is to run mycelium on cardboard, then figure out how to grow beyond that.
6. Nameko - (Pholiota nameko) - plug spawn from Mushroom Mountain
My plan is to place these plugs into pine logs that have been aging for a year. I made a log raft.
When I open the bag, I will set some of these aside to run mycelium on cardboard.
7. Shiitake (Lentinula edodes), cold strain - plug spawn from Mushroom Mountain
My plan is to place these plugs into freshly cut birch logs.
Tek: 19 day fruiting on oatmeal
Sterilized Oatmeal only…..no wood. Because the mycelium is designed
to go through thick hard oak, it really takes the oatmeal very fast.
Then, the mycelium forms a hard coating around the clump. Once this
happens, they can be moved around almost like oak logs…"
found here: https://mycotopia.net/forums/edible-medicinal-mushrooms/5673-shiitake-merged.html
"Home growers should use quart canning
jars for sterile chambers. Add 2/3 cup of oatmeal, and 1 1/3 cups
distilled water into the jar. Place sealing edges up so that jars will
not seal (this rubber seal must be up and not against the jar). Leave
the screw band loose so that jar will not seal. You do not want the jar
to seal…..if it does, it will explode inside the pressure cooker when
it is sterilized. Set pressure at 15-20 lbs and cook for 40-45 minutes.
The jars are then taken out and placed in a sterile area where they are
left to cool. The cooling area must be sterile or the air that will be
pulled back into the jar as it cools will be loaded with contaminants.
This will cause for sure failure. After the jars have cooled, they are
inoculated, and held at 72F. Filtered natural light is given daily.
This method can produce fruit within 19 days."
found here: http://www.ibiblio.org/intergarden/permaculture/mailarchives/ag+pc-1993-1994/msg00277.html
When I open the bag, I will set some of these aside to run mycelium on cardboard.
8. Tiger Sawgill (Lentinus tigrinus)- liquid culture from Grow Mushrooms At Home
may purchase on ebay
Tek1 - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8616897
the substrate is whole cooked brown rice
Tek2 - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/8989786
On phone book!
Tek3 - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/8743414
will colonize quart jar in 3 days!
9. Golden Oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) - liquid culture from Grow Mushrooms At Home
may purchase on ebay
My plan is to expand the liquid culture in a pint jar, then inoculate WBS+Hardwood shavings, then grow as I do with other oysters. see above.
10. Enoki (Flammulina velutipes) - liquid culture from Grow Mushrooms At Home
My plan is to expand the liquid culture in a pint jar, then inoculate WBS+Hardwood shavings.
may purchase on ebay
Tek1 from Mycotopia https://mycotopia.net/forums/edible-medicinal-mushrooms/16352-enoki-pf-tek.html
I've got these fruiting right now… in the fridge, in the dark.
1/8 pint WBS spawned to 1/8 pint pasteurized Bradford Pear shavings (chainsaw). Was just seeing if these shavings would work- they were fresh, and I wasnt sure if they had to age or not… Incubated at room temp-inside a ziplock bag w/ a few pinholes, once 100% colonized, they were tossed in the salad crisper… not sure if 1/4pint of substrate is enough to get mature fruits…but the pins are cute! Your fruits seem thick and short- are you fruiting in light? I think dark+CO2= long thin fruits. Im going to make some more WBS spawn and try to colonize some Snaple bottles filled w/ these shavings.
Tek2, same source
Standard PF Tek except the brf has been swapped for hulled millet.
Quart-jars filled halfway or so, fruited from/in the jar, will give ya mor of the skinnys
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Fruiting on the sides of dead elm or willow. I harvest almost of mine off of dead elm trees that are standing.
Also known as the "Winter Mushroom for obvious reasons, this one can be found in Winter if we have a thaw. I've found it in January and throughtout the year. While Winter is here and nothing else is fruiting, the velvetfoot offers up a nice harvest for the mushroom hunter that is careful.
Enoki gets really tough and stringy when cooked for more than a few minutes- like Bobcat said, throw them into the dish towards the end. mmmm enoki
11. Phiolota squarroides - Scaly Phiolota
a kit http://www.mycoboutique.ca/en/shop/grow-your-own/indoor-cultivation/443/scaly-pholiota-mushroom-culture-kit#.UMgzehzfLfl
I found wild ones 12/9/2012 at Hillwood Park in an alder stump
12. Late Fall Oyster
I found wild ones 12/8/2012 on an alder log in Yost Park
I parboiled it 10 minutes, then sauteed in olive oil - excellent 12/11/2012
