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Asante
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Woodlover Gardening

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#29516138 - 03/14/26 10:16 PM (5 months, 23 days ago)

If you hunt woodlovers in nature or the fresh mushrooms section of your supermarket :grin:

you have access to fresh mushrooms and thus live mycelium of mushrooms that grow on wood.

It is very possible that you for whatever reason cannot or will not commit to proper mushroom growing, yet you love woodlover mushrooms and would love to use a no-tech, zero resource, non-meticulous method that gives you a decent chance of getting a woodlover grow going without turning your house into a biolab that your housemates or visitors might take issue with, or that you cannot give the required care due to perfectly valid reasons like poverty, lack of space and time, disability, inability, or being lazy as fuck which too can be perfectly valid.

We all want you to teach yourself to become the Admiral of Agar, the Lieutenant of Liquid Culture and the Baron of Bulk, and to help yourself and others in this fantastic hobby that has wonderful things to offer to make the world a better place.

But!

That might not be for you, and that is OK :hug:

Woodlover mushrooms, hunted cultivated or storebought, are living mycelium.

If you buy any of the right kinds of hardwood chips, or have access to freshly cut logs of the right hardwood trees, you have a substrate that is not easily overwhelmed by molds and the like, which de facto is mostly selective towards woodlover growth.

Those wood chips, suppose you soaked those for 24 hours or so in a solution of 100gr lime (calcium hydroxide, the construction material) or 100ml additive-free 5% Sodium hypochlorite household bleach, in 10 liters of water.

This would rehydrate the wood chips and at the same time pasteurize them, a variant on a technique used by some commercial Oyster Mushroom farms to pasteurize the much more readily infected substrate that is uncomposted straw.

So babble cut short: dissolving 1 part lime or bleach into 10 parts water and soaking the right kinds of woodchips into that overnight - entirely not rocket science.

If you were to take your fresh woodlover mushrooms onto your cutting board and cut them to pieces, then put on disposable gloves or use plastic bags as mittens, and you would mix the mushroom pieces into the pasteurized chips, there would be wood-mycelium contact, the mushroom bits grow out into the woodchips, colonizing them

A streamlined procedure for this is the Woodlover Smoothie TEK a tried and true method that led to expansion of The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could, a perennial outdoor Psilocybe cyanescens patch that was kept going by semi-annually adding more wood chips for the mycelium to eat.

If you have freshly cut logs of the right kinds of hardwood, big ones or small logs sold as firewood, you can drill holes in these, stuff woodlover mushroom bits into the holes, fill further with sawdust and seal with wax, then leave the logs outside in the shade to get rained on, while your woodlovers colonize the log from within.

shiitake, oysters, wavy caps, azures - you name it!

Stamets recommends techniques like, putting a piece of cardboard on a natural or cultivated woodlover patch, letting the mycelium colonize the cardboard, then putting the colonized cardboard piece inbetween woodchips to colonize them from the cardboard.

Given what you factually do, what I suggest here can be considered "woodlover gardening" as opposed to "mushroom cultivation", which is better but far more elaborate.

So if you are a mushroom hunter or another newbie to mushroom propagation, or a mushroom cultivator who wants to easily expand the fruits of his cultivation efforts, Woodlover Gardening might be a fruitful expansion of your activities.

Success rate is a bit lower than proper mushroom cultivation, but it's so easy a literal 10yo kid could do this if he learned about it in school. Please learn the ins and outs of mushroom cultivation, but either way, give woodlover gardening a chance!

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GerryD

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Re: Woodlover Gardening

[Re: Asante]
#29519996 - 03/18/26 05:40 PM (5 months, 19 days ago)

Asante said:

If you buy any of the right kinds of hardwood chips, or have access to freshly cut logs of the right hardwood trees, you have a substrate that is not easily overwhelmed by molds and the like, which de facto is mostly selective towards woodlover growth.

Those wood chips, suppose you soaked those for 24 hours or so in a solution of 100gr lime (calcium hydroxide, the construction material) or 100ml additive-free 5% Sodium hypochlorite household bleach, in 10 liters of water.

This would rehydrate the wood chips and at the same time pasteurize them, a variant on a technique used by some commercial Oyster Mushroom farms to pasteurize the much more readily infected substrate that is uncomposted straw.

So babble cut short: dissolving 1 part lime or bleach into 10 parts water and soaking the right kinds of woodchips into that overnight - entirely not rocket science.

Do you have to soak the chips in plain water afterward to leach out the lime used in the chemical pasteurization? Sorry if this has been answered. Looks like I need a few more posts to access those links …

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A streamlined procedure for this is the Woodlover Smoothie TEK a tried and true method that led to expansion of The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could, a perennial outdoor Psilocybe cyanescens patch that was kept going by semi-annually adding more wood chips for the mycelium to eat.