bloodssonnew said:

Think fresh birch would work I got tons trees around that needa go n got tons patches that needa magically appear 🫥

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the_pizza_squirrel said:

Im not on here much but I wanted to share my failures and success growing Ps. Caeruleorhiza, my first attempt was to sterile hickory smoking chips and they seemed to just die after inoculation, I had read that they hated grain but I also tried that, this jar took about 6 weeks and is 100% colonized the grains are stuck together and you can see mycelium peeking from the husk.

I also inoculated 6 hydrated sterilized quarts of scotts naturscapes  with agar that jumped slow and took about 6 weeks to get to 75% colonization.

The most success I have had with Caeruleorhiza came in the last 2 weeks, on 6/25 I yeeted the above plate to 2 bags of off the shelf scotts I bought for this project that were sitting in my carport, When I checked the bags yesterday they were massively colonized 50% or more, even with 80-100 degree days, unfortunatly I shook the bags before I started reading this thread, I added my 6 quarts back to these bags and poked some holes for airflow as they seem to prefer slightly drier wood, ill be sure to update with some pics in a few weeks once they recover, my plan is to spawn a bed under this oak tree that I planted 15+ years ago, im going to remove the current mulch and spawn the inocculated mulch

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Generic said:

Well I have a lot to learn, but this year i cut and chipped fresh big-leaf maple and fed it to cyanescens.  I cut and chipped it green, just as they were beginning to bud out.  I took the chips home and made the beds the next day, because they were sitting in my truck, I know I didn't let them stay long.  All done within a week.  No drying of anything.  No hydrating wood chips, either, because they were fresh.

Look at them eating the maple:

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Stipe-n Cap said:

It's also very important to point out that many wood decomposing active species have easily propagated and expandable mycelium, however the presence of mycelium has no bearing on the probability of fruit other than to say that it's a necessary condition but by no means a sufficient condition for fruit.

I suspect the mycelium will have difficulty colonizing the chips with a very low probability of producing a flush but, if any of them will pull it off it would be cyans, but I highly doubt it.

I couldn't help myself

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Generic said:

I really love that cultural vernacular: 'bricked out'

I love tapping on bricked out mycelium to hear the drum noise it all makes

Nate:  I don't know your climate but that spot looks pretty exposed, so I'd think that a bottom layer of good soil would be good for holding water and supporting plant life, with wood on top for fungi.  Are you thinking of having plants in there?  I'd think like small perennial plants.  Also i'd leave the metal out of there, it will just rust away, but rocks will last.

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