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coleus
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Attracting Mushrooms
#7734235 - 12/08/07 05:56 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I live in Massachusetts, and wanted to know if there was anything I could put in a pile of fill a small ditch with that would attract mushrooms to grow in it. I was thinking about using some really old hay I have, grass clippings, or compost. What should I use to attract the active mushrooms in my area?
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: coleus]
#7734495 - 12/08/07 07:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hmmmm, Massachusettes. Borrow a horse, make him shit.
Panaeolus Subbalteatus is probably the most common active mushroom in your area, so yeah, use grass clippings, hay (fresh), and horse manure. There's a ton of other mushrooms that would love to live in that environment though, so the best thing to do would be to find panaeolus subbalteatus, and remove some of the myceliated substrate, bring it home and add it to sterilized hay/manure, and wait. You got a long winter ahead of you though, my man, so you'll have to wait until next spring.
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I just picked up this hobby and i have to say it's very interesting. I was walking through the woods on the edge of a marsh that's near my house, and I saw these TINY little mushrooms with the caps not more then a few cm's in diameter. The tops had darker spots in the middle and the gills were white and spread far apart. Are these juvenile Panaeolus Subbalteatus? It seems odd that thy would be growing this late, and right after a snow.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: coleus]
#7734703 - 12/08/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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No those aren't. Subbs have a tan brown cap, with black gills. Bell shaped cap usually, and a them stin with possible faint red stripes twisting down the stem.
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coleus
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Wait, I said that wrong, there was a darker circle in the middle.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: coleus]
#7735187 - 12/08/07 11:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Any organic stuff will attract mushrooms. You can gather it and keep it moist, it will be like a giant petri dish that grows all the fungus spores that land on it.
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I was also thinking that I could use woodchips, since I've heard Panaeolus Subbalteatus like it. As landsnorkler said, this is probably the worst time of year to pick up this hobby, as I'm gonna be reading and dreaming for the next four months.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: coleus]
#7735624 - 12/09/07 07:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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No, P. subbalteatus does not like woodchips, it likes straw, lawns, and sometimes horse or cow manure.
Your idea is umm... not likely to pan out how you hope. You can't just attract mushrooms, it doesn't work like that. What you want to do relies far to heavily on chance of what spores are in the air.it would be best to begin your project at a time you know P. subbalteatus is fruiting, but even then, i think you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Sure you'll likely get some mushrooms popping up, but I think the chances that they will be active are slim. Likely, you'll just get a bunch of Inky Caps, and other random mushrooms.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: CureCat]
#7735642 - 12/09/07 07:40 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mushrooms are like money. You have to have some to make some. In the proper season go out and find some subbs and then introduce its mycelium to your patch
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undergrounder said: Mushrooms are like money. You have to have some to make some. In the proper season go out and find some subbs and then introduce its mycelium to your patch
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thats a good quote.
yeah i think finding some subbs would be easiest, and dig up the area of ground near it, and take the dirt home. then "plant" it and feed with manure.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: haymaker]
#7736076 - 12/09/07 10:47 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Uhhhhh.... good idea as long as you don't leave the spot a fucking mess.
I was disgusted by the shape of the landscape at a local museum, after a recent fungus Fair. Shit was torn up everywhere. It's that kind of disregard for private property that gets you or other hunters in trouble. The staff notices "heeey, every time the landscape gets torn up, we see kids romping around in the bushes before hand.... We better keep those shits off our landscaping!" And thus, it is ruined for everyone. I actually went around and tried to repair some of the damage, without it looking to much like i was the one causing the destruction.
So anyway, don't leave gaping holes and piles of dirt. It's fucked up.
Furthermore, if you find subbs where i used to, do NOT go digging shit up with a shovel. I found them in peoples front yards and on well manicured lawns at public parks in open view.
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Re: Attracting Mushrooms [Re: CureCat]
#7736320 - 12/09/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah, just grow some cubensis.
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landsnorkler said: yeah, just grow some cubensis.
I second that...
don't rely on nature to provide you with mushrooms at your front door. You're likely to be extremely disappointed with the result.
However, you can cultivate mushrooms in a compost heap, which if you are waiting on the season to get the specimens to get spores from, you can be making compost in the mean time.
I blendered a bunch of subbs that I didn't want to eat, and saved the resulting liquid in a jar. Once I can fertilize my lawn with some horse manure, I will begin spreading the spore solution throughout my lawn and into my compost heap. This will not guarantee that I will see subbs in my lawn, but it hedges my bets toward a positive outcome. I may also make up some malt dung agar and attempt to start cultivating mycelium to mix into my compost heap, or blender up and spray onto my lawn.
Notice that I'm not relying on the wind to blow subbalteatus spores into my nicely fertilized lawn...
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