How To Grow Morel Mushrooms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2012
- YourProduceGuy shows you how to make a Morel Mushroom Habitat. Morel Mushrooms are a delicacy that people will go out into the woods to hunt for. A lot of people don't have any luck finding them. So I'm going to grow my own at home and have plenty, and I'll find them all too.
You can get your own Morel Mushroom Spores at the website below.
www.gmushrooms.com/MHK.HTM
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I followed this video exactly and the following year my box produced about 3 flushes of morels the following May. It produced so many morels that we couldnt eat them all. I never knew growing mushrooms was this easy!
you are so full of shit hahaha prove it.... and do you know how many morels i can eat in a sitting??? all of them....
I have found, if you put dead wood under the ground, "lots of it'" the morels will grow through the entire wood mass. If the the area is shaded, it helps.
Now the real secrete is to have some wood logs partly buried above ground. This is sort of like hugelculture where people put wood under the ground for fertilizer and water retention.
Grow something that burns well above the buried wood and let dry. I some times used some straw and gasoline, "because I was lazy, and I don't recommend it, I got burnt!". 2 weeks before the time in your area morels are growing, light the weeds on fire, please have hose and fire suppression handy.
Wet flames, "as needed to control blaze but take cair to not put it out", as the bio mass burns away. You want to scorch and blacken the partly buried logs, but not incenerate them, infact once the logs start to burn, wet them to avoid over heating.
This simulated forest fire makes the morels grow like crazy! I have had morels grow as large as cantilope, but most grow to the size of a grapfruit. They were huge!
Morels will grow without fire but if you want to get fantastic results then you need to singe their hair a little to get results.
You do need a morel colony if you want morels. I also suggest , once your colony is going well, transplant some of the spore to the woods around your house, it will spread and you can find extra morels , when they are in season" in the forest when it rains.
Good Luck!!!!! And please don't burn your house down!
I live in the city. I have 5 huge maple tree's. Of course, morels don't grow in my yard. A few years ago, I had all my tree's topped since they were 50 feet high. Under one tree in the front yard, they made a mess and ruined the grass. The grass was covered in sawdust and as they left they put down fertilized grass seed all over the place. no straw. A few weeks later, the grass grew and also a neighbor pointed out there was about a dozen morel mushrooms. go figure that out.
change the title to: how to make a wooden box and fill it with soil
how to open a sack of spores
S'mores?
Tim mi LOL
where's the beef?
Not so good with s'mores! ;- )
If they grow in the wild in your area, a good tip is find elms that are starting to loose there bark and on south hillsides. My best day was 37 lbs last year and I mainly only check south hills...
It's really great how jazzed you are about this man @YourProduceGuy I'm growing broad beans, 6 types of tomatoes, butternut squash and two types of cucumbers. I'm not much of a gardener at all, but there's something deeply gratifying about putting the kind of work you see in this video into cultivating something and growing something. Deeply satisfying and it makes you appreciate the produce you cook with at the end. Good luck with your Morels :)
Every autumn I go to the woods to harvest these mushrooms for my grandparents. I can't wait to tell them about this; if it works well I can save time and postage! Thanks for making this!
finally i found a food channel with a host that's not annoying and is actually likable! subbed
Can't wait to see what popped up!
First time seeing Morel Mushrooms. Thank-you
Thank you for your time to make video.
Your tips are so helpful when it comes to planting and food for that you got yourself another subscriber :D
I love you videos! I find them very informative and entertaining. In the video you state that you are going to feed the mushroom box with kitchen scraps. I would LOVE to see a video of you feeding the mushroom bed. Do you just heap it on top? Dig it in? How do you feed the mushrooms? Thanks!
This is so great! I want to go get some now.
Thanks for the heads up ill be looking for it.
I can't wait to see the progress of these as they grow. I don't like the taste of mushrooms myself, but they are very interesting in their appearance and biology.
I've got one of those. Grows like crazy! I actually have 3-4 new starts coming up. :)
I grew up hunting morel & other (eg beefsteak/false-morel) mushrooms in Northern Michigan. On rare occasions we had the beefsteak, usually my folks would give them to Grandpa, he loved them & they never gave him problems. We heard the stories, sometimes someone would get deathly sick, one with a habit of eating it tempted fate, built the poison up in them.
Except Grandpa, he always "had a way", almost mystical how he delt with nature.
awesome! i love my shiitake log btw, thank you for uploading the mushroom videos! i think im going to do a morel habitat AND the oyster mushrooms since the shiitake log is working so well for me :) Many Blessings and Happy Harvest Produce Guy
I like your user-friendly method for newbies. No need to sterilize a laboratory.
thank you, I will be watching for it.
Great idea! We just got a couple of kit boxes from a local place that were ready to go, we open them, watered and in a few weeks had tons of Oyster mushrooms and just started getting some portabella coming up. I think morels will be our next adventure!
very exciting project!
a simple wood board. 6-10 inches tall. 1/2 inch to an inch thick. standing up on its side with a steak on each end to secure it upright. placed long ways north and south. in a less traveled part of the yard. is a firm base for a morel bed start. sprinkle ashes from one of the trees previously stated. then dump morel rinse water on east side of board. do this every year. within 1-3 years morels will start to grow. regrowing in same area each year after. as most spores take 2-3 years to grow and form a morel. some have sprouted same year spore water was dumped. this is very rare.
Do you have a follow up video of the next year’s growth of mushrooms?
The mycelium forms underground sclerotia. You can pull it up without breaking it off or dig it up with more of the surrounding soil. This will work 1 out of a bunch of times if you plant it in an area where morels would naturally grow. You will have better luck if you make a spore print on paper and grind it up in a blender with water. Then you can sprinkle the water over an ideal area. This is the lest scientific of ways but it has worked for me. It took two years for the first fruiting.
Love this video! you are awesome!
Thank you for sharing great project
Lisa not sure why you think they can not be cultivated??? I did this two years ago and had great results! Will say the first year nothing happened but kept it watered and fed and the next year it was plum full of morels. Some say it could take up to 3 to 4 years to get results.
Do you think I can grow these under a deck? Lots of shade and easy place to keep moist? THANKS for the videos.
Just yesterday I hopped off the rider and picked a hand full of Morels,in my back yard,north side of house,under a Pine tree of all things,in N IA. I chopped them up and put in a gallon jug of water which I shake occasionally. Going to sprinkle the water back out where I found them but in a sort of line close to the house where I can get away without mowing if they ever come up. Probably won't work but is a very easy try.
That's a great video it made me want 2 do it
For me it was a small first crop. Next Spring should be better. Spring is when they usually pop up. I have been concerned that I would do the same thing (mow them down) next Spring, so I will need to keep my eyes open!
Do you have to add new spores every season or do the mushrooms produce their own spores as long as you maintain the proper soil 'ecosystem'?
I'm giving it a try, Trying to grow unusual things is always fun. I tried growing morels a lot over the years with no luck. I was able to transplant whole sections of moss that dozens of morels were popping up at in the season and put sections inside my tropical rainforest greenhouse and have new morel growth pop up under my tomato plants. I only transplanted the soil undisturbed, but from spurs or even scattering whole morels all over the ground never gave any results.
It's inspiring how happy this guy is about his Morel cultivating. Awesome :)
cant wait now for spring lol
Very nice video thanks for sharing I really enjoy video's I can learn from
So I am anxiously awaiting my kit, in the mean time I have created a spoor mass slurry with some morels collected in my area and spread it through out my yard. You mentioned sprinklers watering your motels, everything I read has said that the chlorimine in tap water will kill the spores. Is your sprinkler water treated or is this just necessary just during the germination procedure? I used a combination of collected rain water and filtered store bought water to create my slurry but I'm conserned about how to keep my growth damp through the summer months?
Does that continue year after year to fruit? Why no wood chips topping it off ?
How do you know when the morel is finished growing and ready to be picked and is it ok to build your box in the woods??
Looking forward to it. I've been growing medicinal and edible mushrooms for years, but haven't had any success with morels in the fashion you show. I'd _love_ to be shown I was wrong, though! That's what good science (in this case mycology) it all about: showing it can be done through experimental results when other's say it's impossible.
When adding in scraps do you mix them in?
mowing 1 week before morels are to sprout and then letting patch grow wild for following 30 days is best. in michigan morels start may 1st through june 1st each year. it veries from state to state. usually 3 nights and days of above 45 at night and 60 day after a rain is the earliest they will pop up. so watch the temps and weather. also grey dog wood bushes will be in bud but not yet blooming. if there in bloom season is about a week in already.
Hi Mr Produce Guy, i was wondering if you will do a follow up video of this to see how the mushrooms grew? i was telling my dad about your video and as he loves to go and pick them and him and his friend said it was impossible to do. So i am just curious. Thanks!
well i tried to see the harvest video but can't seem to find it on your channel. Good luck with your project I will be following it with some interest. Next year indeed :-) I got about 5 pounds this year but I know a few spots.
I love morels, but normally don't have time to hunt them in season. This is a great idea.
Can you put a wood chip mulch over the dirt to keep the weeds down?
Thank you :)
thank u for the info.
i saw it, but only 3 or 4 and like i tought they will, they ended up outside the box... they grow that way... nice job produce guy
the saw woke me up!!!!! that was loud!
Great video! Do the planks need to be cedar?
I have a couple of spots in Michigan where I hunt for mushrooms. I have found blacks and *yellows (*creams or *whites ) in a cedar swamp. And my father in Ohio use to take all the little bits and pieces after he clean the mushrooms and soaking water and dump it under an apple tree in the yard. It took a year or 2 for the mushrooms to pop up under the apple tree . They still pop every spring .
I live in southern Oregon and I just discovered 4 morels at the outer perimeter of a bark mulch pile on my gravel drive/parking area! The area has no shade and is baking hot in the summer, but during the winter the sun is low in the southern sky so the area doesn't get direct sun then. Also it's our rainy season so everything's damp. No idea how they showed up there, could've been from the mulch but there were at the edge where there really isn't any mulch to speak of. Anyhoot, bottoms up! :)
Good day My Produce Guy. Can you produce some more of those fresh morel pics, or was it a small crop this year? Just think of all the morels you ran over with the lawn mower.
I recently started a morel habitat in my yard. I didn't build the box, rather...I tilled and prepared a 5' x 15' area directly in the dirt. My question revolves around your comment about not adding citrus. I've begun to add table-scraps, and I'm afraid I've already added some orange peels. Have I damaged my soil?? Is it already too late?
If you decide to try wild ginseng in your box, this is the time to plant it by seed or root, I bought some of each and planted just before it snowed here.
well done I must do this
can u pls update and post a short slide show as the morel grows... thanks.
I love those suggestions! Wow. That could be very fun and little scary. I need to think on that for a bit and see how I can work that. I have, since last year, buried some wood pieces in the box for more natural habitat for the 'shrooms. We will see what happens with that. Thanks for the awesome input!
***** *stares at her bag of morel spawn* oh man, i'm gonna be so scared of ruining this. I know how expensive they are. >.> trying to grow expensive stuff is scary dood.
Morel season 2019 is here! Cant wait ! I found 155 around a single tree last year and this year is shaping up looking to be wayyy better. Good video, lots of good info. I just love these shrooms, I even started up a YT channel mostly dedicated to them. I'll be uploading tips,forecast, recent hunts and even live streaming hunts as the season progresses. Check it out ya'll. Happy hunting🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
The Great Morel .com has a map of finds across the US
ok. I was talking in the dentist office the other day. The person I was talking to told me that their neighbor had took the little bits of mushrooms left in the bag and after cleaning them (in other words the remaining bits and pieces that were to small to eat) and just threw them in his flower garden last year. He had mushrooms pop up this year. So I am taking my bits and pieces and putting them in a bare spot near a dying tree in my back year. Think tree maybe a dying elm. Don't know my trees
Hello, wood ashes are good for Morel mushrooms
Hang in there! :-) Great answer to Lisa's comment. I've got my fingers crossed for you.
Agreed. We are guessing that the mushrooms sought the moisture in the lawn and that's why they moved out of the box. I also had a great comment about using cardboard under the topcoat of chips or straw. I'm anxious to see what happens this year, and when it does I will be sure to share it.
They likely expelled their spores nearby.
***** interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for how do you grow mushrooms try Qwixie Grow Mushroom Helper (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my buddy got great results with it.
***** aaaaaand this is closer to what i was looking for, instructions. >.> i can haz a massive container of compost. I use sterilite containers, giant ones, for raised beds.
+YourProduceGuy Wood chips and ashes I've been told. This was from a guy who is selling the kits and has a degree in this. He says. If one can find ash tree chips it's desirable he said.
There are several things worth trying
choose the best type - there are lots available.
grow them in the right conditions - some such as oyster muchrooms like cool humid areas and can be placed outdoors
(I discovered these and why they work from gregs mushroom grower site )
Do you have a video showing whether or not any mushrooms popped up?
Quick question, if I could not identify ash wood and old apple wood, where could I get them for growing morel? :D
Any update on how this is turning out?
do you blend up the paper with the spore print on it?
Wow, when no Morels grow out of your little mushroom box and spore kit, I suggest you put some wild ginseng in the box to grow. The habitat you made looks great for that.
where is the follow up video ? did the spore kit work? I have my doubts...
He called it that but he didn't plant spores. It was 'spawn' (mycelium in a substrate). Morels CAN be spore printed. See my method posted above. Not as often as elm but i do find morels under ceder.
Morels, most certainly can be grown outdoors. Heck, Gary Mills, figured out a way to cultivate them indoors and pattoned the tek. Although, I would've done the bed differently, good luck with your project Produce Guy!
Do you have a follow up video?
Were can I buy these morel spores at around Monroe Michigan?????any one know
can i grow these in a room with a temperature around 20~24ish Celsius ?
Cultivating Morels is incredibly difficult. I have hunted them for about 30 years. I've never seen anyone do it successfully. Also, they like sandy soil, river bottoms and cottonwood bark and leaves. I'd introduce some sand to your mixture as well as cottonwood leaves if possible. Whenever I hunt, I always go into river flood basins with cottonwoods. This year was extraordinary, we found about 3 pounds per hour of hunting, which is totally a huge amount. Good luck, but don't get your hopes up.
Need help? As for collecting, it's up to your Easter Egg hunting skills, but for storage, you can dry them out very well (they will shrink a lot) after drying, pack them into freezer bags and you can keep them in the freezer for later use, up to almost 2 yrs or so. If you go hunting and find your own Morels, you can collect the spores from them in a couple different ways and use them to make your own spawn.
***** where can I find what happened next in Spring?
Also I plan to do Morchella farming, can you give me tips or maybe your email address? What is the temperature needed?
Your video is very general - I was hoping for instructions on collecting, storing, and growing mushrooms from morel spores.
It is possible to farm morels. The cultivation method was invented in the 90's, several patents exist. There are morel farms with saplings (elm, ash, maple, cherry, etc) inoculated with spores. The spores sprout and mycelium grow around the trees root system in symbiotic relationship until the tree dies. When the try dies the mycelium send up "suckers" and the following spring morels with sprout to spread spores and complete the circle of life. The key here is you don't have a host tree!
What is the difference between soil and dirt? also I would cover that soil with 1 or 2 layers of large leaves like maple and wet it down then cover it with a plastic covering to keep moisture it. weird but they seem to like heat but also like shade. They also need a lot of moisture but not mud.
I was curious how this worked out for you? I have heard the morel kits are a bit of a dud. i pick a lot of wild morels and started growing shiitake's last year and would buy the morel kit but a buddy of mine tried and no luck. You?
if you find morels in the wild, dig up the mycelium in the ground and use it to inoculate your prepared bed. you can also buy mycelium in the form of grain spawn off mushroom cultivation sites. if you really wanna get down to buisness, find a wild morel and clone a peice of it in a petri dish, then use the petri dish culture to make your own spawn. mushrooms are compressed mycelium and mycelium found in a mushroom will produce more mushrooms than a multi spore inoculation.
It can take a couple years before you see any morels, growing this way. Adding burnt wood, saw dust, grass clippings, egg shells and stuff really helps. especially the burnt material and ash. If you don't have mushroom spawn, and you actually have some morels )with spores in them) put them in a tupper-ware with some water shake gently, and swoosh until you have rinsed the mushrooms well. take out the mushrooms and the brown water you have left will be full of spores. Pour it in your bedding
you posted this in June 2012, have you had any actual morels pop up this year? I've looked into getting that kit but haven't heard from anybody who have had it work.
where can you buy Morell spores?
If you have an oak tree, all you have to do is start adding compost tea and liquid fish ferts(specifically I use neptunes harvest liquid fish & kelp) to the lawn around the tree. the year after you start doing this morels start showing up. We went from 0 last year to 12 this year. I will let you know how many there are this fall, and next year. I loved the video!
how offen do you fertilize it? do you have any videos showing this? Thank you
I added the tea four or five times last year, once this year. I will attempt to make a video.
Any updates???
Love to see a video on the results/harvest! It's been one year since you've posted this, was your harvest a success? Thanks
I was wondering too. I guess no reply means no morel coming out.
@@moezaw1961 that means you didn't got morels 😂😂😂
you should have put a top coating of straw or chips on it to keep them moist
one other thing,if your going to plant these you need to test the soil and make sure the ph is right. the ph should be as close to about 7 or 8 as possible and test the potash. you need very little of that. the ground should be neutral. also you dont want that ground to packed it needs to be lose and moist,not soaking wet but moist. during the late fall let it stand through winter and then in the spring start keeping it moist again throught the summer.
The morchella esculenta, the Morel, is an organism that lives in the ground and is in a relationship with at least one tree nearby. The web of the mycelium holds water, that it allows the tree to have, in return in takes some sap from its host/partner. The mushrooms that we pick and eat are the result of the organism procreating and spreading. This happens a lot when the tree partner is killed or dies.To have mushrooms, you must first grow the mycelium, which is the true organism.hope this helps
please see paul stamets morel grow, see how its done, what they really need to be grown.
thankyou
it took me about 4 years to get fruit. also his box is pretty small, i tilled ground and mixed in the mulch behind my garage in the woods.this allows the mycellium to grow out and it can produce more fruit. another thing. watch using tap water. i used well water and rain water.works better in my opinion. to much chems in tap water.I got about 5 gallons of morels off my garden in one season. they havent grew back since.
I discovered a way to collect the spores but won't disclose the rest of my methods. Find yourself some mature morels, cut them in half and place upon some white paper in a food dehydrator set on low. Within 15 or so minutes, they will be jetting their orange/brown spores all over the papers. Simply put but not so simply done, these can be inoculated upon sterile agar media and there is ways of using the resulting mycelium to cultivate morel fruiting bodies.
what dirt did u use
It is possible for the spores to put up a random mushroom here or there for years after the tree dies. Keeping that in mind if you have the spores and just the right habitat it could work. I don't think it could last but hopefully you can infect all the trees for miles around and that would be good for years to come.
we love morels here in ontario been unable to find them for some time now do grow your own would even be better>>>but>>> how to you manage to keep cats,etc from getting in your morel box or you dont have that problem thks for all yr wonderful videos and i follow you on facebook
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