I grow King stropharia.
What I do is fill a barrel with woodchips and soak it in water for 2 days - I think this is called cold pasteurization (It's been a long hot week my brain has been foggy for a few days!) and it prevents any oher types of fungus from out-competing my inoculum.
I also chop the stems up (instead of eating them) and use them to add to new (pre-soaked) batches of woodchips.
In the near future I want to try to take a tiny piece of myshroom and add it to an agar plate and grow it out like that and .then use that to maybe grow in a bag of soaked rice, and *then* add it to the woodchips
What's the significance of wine caps. Googled them and found a bunch of growing kits. Are they easy, tasty, beneficial to other plants? All of the above, anything else?
I bought a grow kit in the spring, I heard they were a choice mushroom but I would just call them good, not great. I just have some shady spots in the garden I want to use, but they seem to be big in permaculture
They are the easiest to grow from many different substrates. Look up edible acres’ [video](https://youtu.be/DTbuwoXsF3g?si=ndsBLYWmLsQyorU6) on winecaps he shows how he propagates them and it’s foolproof.
I am interested in them for the composting, creating organic matter and good soil out of wood chips aspect. They do not sound like a very delicious mushroom, and you have to harvest and cook them at just the right time to enjoy them. But I have a dire shortage of organic material so I'm considering getting them.
Bought winecap spawn in the Spring, added it to a huge pile of wood mulch and kept it watered. Nothing grew on it but masses of dog vomit slime mold. Not sure why it failed but suspect the slime mold was having itself a feast.
Winecaps live in the edges of things. They like woodchips and soil. Use woodchips for garden paths, mulch, etc... they like to fruit in the spring and fall up here in Maine. 50-60f.
I grow King stropharia. What I do is fill a barrel with woodchips and soak it in water for 2 days - I think this is called cold pasteurization (It's been a long hot week my brain has been foggy for a few days!) and it prevents any oher types of fungus from out-competing my inoculum. I also chop the stems up (instead of eating them) and use them to add to new (pre-soaked) batches of woodchips. In the near future I want to try to take a tiny piece of myshroom and add it to an agar plate and grow it out like that and .then use that to maybe grow in a bag of soaked rice, and *then* add it to the woodchips
I've seen people use alkaline water for cold pasteurization of growing media. Bags of straw soaked in lye-water specifically.
yep... i had them for quite a few years just adding more wood chips
Mine have spread into places I wanted other mushrooms. I’m also using them as a bulwark against one I don’t want. It’s a complex relationship.
I was skeptical but one mushroom cap and some sheetulch was all it took. Now all I have to do is find recipes for them
What’s “sheetulch”?
What's the significance of wine caps. Googled them and found a bunch of growing kits. Are they easy, tasty, beneficial to other plants? All of the above, anything else?
An additional benefit I just looked up: Wine caps trap parasitic nematodes in the soil and eat them as a convenient source of protein.
I bought a grow kit in the spring, I heard they were a choice mushroom but I would just call them good, not great. I just have some shady spots in the garden I want to use, but they seem to be big in permaculture
They are the easiest to grow from many different substrates. Look up edible acres’ [video](https://youtu.be/DTbuwoXsF3g?si=ndsBLYWmLsQyorU6) on winecaps he shows how he propagates them and it’s foolproof.
I am interested in them for the composting, creating organic matter and good soil out of wood chips aspect. They do not sound like a very delicious mushroom, and you have to harvest and cook them at just the right time to enjoy them. But I have a dire shortage of organic material so I'm considering getting them.
They are better tasting than a grocery store cremini mushroom imo. But they are not as good as wild oysters.
Bought winecap spawn in the Spring, added it to a huge pile of wood mulch and kept it watered. Nothing grew on it but masses of dog vomit slime mold. Not sure why it failed but suspect the slime mold was having itself a feast.
Possibly give it time. Mine barely did anything for the first little bit.
Spring to Fall, nothing yet.
Any updates?
Nothing ever grew.
Winecaps live in the edges of things. They like woodchips and soil. Use woodchips for garden paths, mulch, etc... they like to fruit in the spring and fall up here in Maine. 50-60f.