DIY Morel Spawn Bed - One Year Followup (Did any mushrooms grow?)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Last year I showed you how I built a morel spawn bed on my property, with the hopes of growing my very own mushrooms at home. Well it's been a little more than a year, so here is the follow-up video I promised.
If you haven't seen it, this is exactly how I built my spawn bed and mixed my mushroom spawn substrate medium.
• Making a Morel Spawn K...
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Here is the morel spawn kit I purchased:
northspore.com/collections/sa...
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00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Spawn Bed Recap
01:34 - One Year Later
02:11 - Morel Results
03:23 - Conclusion
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Thanks for following up!
you are one of the few people who actually did the fallow up video. nearly no one else has seen success with morels either, so dont feel bad. I still really have immense appreciation and respect for you for actually following up with the results. THANK YOU!!!
and btw, look around your area for them! morels can actually travel for several miles in mycelium underground until they find a good area to fruit, so you could have some that came from your little patch some great distance away, so keep your eyes peeled!!!
Thanks Trevor, I appreciate it. I'll definitely keep an eye out all over the property each year, just in case.
The Urban farming guys in Chicago showed how many they spawned and WOW.. unbelievable
If you had spawned the kit indoors first then broken up the white mycelium up into several jars jars and allowed them to multiply then if you planted that into the ground and covered it with something with a light color so not to overheat then the mycelium would've taken hold. Once the mycelium is growing it's success rate is very high.
The problem is by directly planting in developed spores into the ground other more aggressive fungi and molds over take the morels thus preventing them from ever starting.
Think of it like throwing a tomato seed in the ground and leaving it to "luck" as opposed to starting a seedling with already established roots before planting where the plant is already growing and can fight off and bacteria or mold. Once it's established it's going to grow a network or mycelium roots and eventually fruit (mushroom). At that point all you would need to do is every spring and fall is amend the soil with some more freshly made up substrate to feed it for the following year and repeat that yearly. If you add the substrate around your 4' bed they will branch out around it and you can wind up with a field over time. If you stayed patient with it in 3 years you'll grow pounds per fruiting season and basically you'll only have to do minimal work to supplement it from there on in.
So don't think it's not possible it's very possible if you get it off to the proper start. I've innoculated areas in the woods with downed trees that started growing what looks like a natural patch the only thing I didn't do was let ANYBODY know about it 🤫🤫🤫🤔😳😎😎
@@alilbitclueless100it's very doable I'm growing them on the East Coast in areas that have very few natural stands of morals. As long as you find areas preferably with Elm, Popular or Aspen trees so the soil isn't acidic like cedar or pine does then you don't need to worry so much about playing with the soil PH like adding ash. Wood ash is more about adding the Phosphor then adjusting the soil PH which can easily be done with lime. Phosphor is one of the 3 main nutrients for any plant growth and most important for the flowering or fruiting which is what the mushroom body itself is.
Sorry about writing an essay 😂 I'm not trolling or hating I'm gearing up to sell a better more extensive grow kit so people can plant in the spring and start their first harvest the following spring and then sell the organic nutrients for a yearly feeding afterwards. Morels sell for a lot of money to high end restaurants in NY city which is relatively close to my home.
Absolutely, I’d keep an eye out a little further into the trees where it’s a little more shady especially around decaying logs etc.
I inoculated six areas around our property in early fall ‘22… prepared the soil correctly, worked in the spawn with a shovel, etc. In spring had no morels in inoculated areas - but rather the location on our limestone paver patio where I set the shovel (for MAYBE 10 mins to drink a High Life:-) had 8-10 morels coming up…go figure.
Ha, that's great. I guess I need to keep a close eye on the areas where I put my shovel and prepared the mixture.
It's the limestone
I did a couple spore kits a couple years ago, in an area that I had picked them before and NOTHING!! I suggest trying it the way The Urban Farming guys do it as you can see how easy it was in the city of Chicago.. pretty impressive
Yes friends, the Urban Farming guys video is a fake...truly nobody in this country is "growing" morels...do some research on the patented process for producing morels...check out the Danish morel project...you will see that it is a scientific approach and near impossible to have any real results with the backyard slurry/
Yeah If I could I’d just try to put a spore solution into the sprinkler system and spread them that way
You still have tons of delicious plants growing back there.
I am far from a expert, but mycology is a hobby of mine. I hunt all of them. Eatable, medical, even the poisonous ones. Here is a few tips. Mycelium networks are a few inches under the ground, but being from Michigan we need that network to reach below the frost. So think deeper rather then a bed, as moisture and temperature are the only thing mycelium cares about if you use the right material. Spores are not like seeds, two spores must meet to start the network. A post hole would be great. Then wood chip bed soaked in boiling water to kill of bacteria would be ideal. Maybe even a plastic sheet over that hole a foot to all sides to hold that moisture thru winter. Uncover in spring and wait and see. Not criticizing just giving you insight on how mushrooms work and tips to better your chances. This is my plan for fall. All the best. Love your effort, don’t give up.
Your best bet is to continuously make batches of Morel slurry and pour the slurry around the bases of hardwood trees about 2 to 4 feet from the tree. Always be searching for sources of more Morels. Even buy damaged or poor condition specimens if you can to keep making slurry. You should be pouring at least a pitcher of slurry a week, whenever the weather isn't freezing at night. Also pour it in places that don't naturally see a lot of direct sunlight and don't dry out quickly.
Don't bother with beds. They are unnecessary.
If you cut down any hardwood trees on your property, collect the sawdust. and drop it in clumps in the same places you pour. Cow manure tea also helps.
Propagating Morels is a numbers game. The more you pour, the better your chances. Never stop even when you start getting results.
Thanks a bunch for actually doing a follow up : )
When I was a kid, my Mom and Dad had a piece of property in South Lyons, MI. We’d go there on the weekends and it was right next to a cow pasture. One year I was wandering around under some trees on the back of the property and ran into a huge bed of Morels! There must have been 200 of them! Needless to say, we quickly havested them! Most were cleaned and frozen and we ate Morels for a long time! I’ve never seen a patch like that since. Where I live now, we don’t have Morels. We’d have to go north for about 3 hours and although they grow up there they are still scarce.
Did you leave any behind? I think the scarcity is due to people picking / eating them all.
Morels are basically unicorns to me at this point. Good share
This year, we kept walking deep into our forest to areas we've seen them before with no luck. Then all of a sudden we've found them alll over right by our house. We did spread all our morel washing water the years before.
Trick! Dead elms. We have a lot of dead elms and they seem to grow at the base of every single one of them!
Usually June to July but helps to be cold then a warm front with lots of rain will make ‘‘em pop
I bought 4 kits last year and spread them around my wooded areas around my property here in Virginia. I see all types of mushrooms on our property, mostly Fly Agaric, destroying angels, puffballs, oysters, parasols, witch's hats, and even found a cauliflower mushroom about 30 feet from my back door. As I have yet to see any morels, I thought I could get a few spore kits to work. Nothing yet, but still have my fingers crossed. May have to make a trip back to Illinois and go through the woods in springtime with a shovel and 5 gallon buckets to take sections of earth back that I find morels. This in my opinion would be the easiest and most reliable method of getting them to take hold in a new state. It's that mycelium that lies a few inches down that produces the mushroom. If you get a good shovel full of it, you should have the best luck. Now if I can just figure out how to get that cauliflower mushroom to pop up in a few more areas. That was tasty.
It can take a few years for results.
@@klausschwabshubris I get tons of fly agaric on my property. Not my thing but I'm sure a lot of people prefer them.
I feel your pain. I tried morels a few years ago and let it go for 3 years and never got anything. I only had a smaller rased bed on a city lot in Lansing and just think they don't like it here. I have found wild chanterelles near by so one of these seasons I might try my luck growing those. 🍄
Im definitely no expert but i suggest you look around way beyond just the bed
Thanks!
You rarely see mushrooms the first year after putting down. You may get a couple on year two, but 3-4 years and you should start seeing a bunch.
My fingers are still crossed. It was 2 full years ago when I did it, and nothing so far.
Did you place any black paste down before you made your morel bed? If not, the mycelium will levee your bed in search of food and will not produce until it runs out of a food source.
I’ve read it can take 2-5 years. Any updates this year?
Haven't seen anything come up this year.
Anyone think buying dried morels may be a better way to go with morels, to make a slurry?
Iv had good luck going out an picking some morrles fry them in a pan with butter eat them then take my empty morrel picking bag an shake it out on the lawn here an there then around some aspen an spruse trees next year im eating morrels they wont come after that year so i have to do the same same thing each year o well try it it works 4 me iv tryed the spore shake thing it dont work for me so kis
So it is now 5-16-24, any updates on the bed and have any sprouted yet?
Still haven't seen any, unfortunately.
Maybe try burning the patch many mushrooms like morels are triggerd by forest fires to reproduce
They usually fruit a year after the fire. I've heard of some people who had luck inoculating old fire pits
@GreatLakesPrepping Try adding an exogenous nutrient bag. If you do it soon you may see morels this year.
That's a bit disheartening, Great Lakes. Hopefully, some morels may still appear this year. If not, I hope you have better luck next year.
It takes years for these kits to work. I have been making my own slurries and kits for years
Fingers are still crossed that some will pop up one of these years.
@@GreatLakesPrepping It’s fun no matter what.
Anything this year? I just found one in my backyard. A single perfect morel.
Nice experiment, sad you didn’t get results this time.
Too much sun??. I always see these morel in shady areas.
Search other spots on the property. Maybe the mycelium traveled pretty far and popped up mushrooms 100ft away.
I think the biggest mistake here is that there is no decaying tree for them to grow. It takes up to 5 years for morels to grow and they are always found under an old old tree. Also, the network needs to be deeper.
How about this year??
Unfortunately not
It's been almost another year, how is it?
Still haven't seen anything back there.
@@GreatLakesPrepping dang! Next year will be the year!
Maybe it needs nutrition bag.
You probably should have done at least a bit of weeding…
Huh...it's a puzzle. Nice try though.
Nice try brother!
i don't believe it's possbile to grow morels
With all due respect, it is the fault of the North spore kit...there is an existing patent for growing morels but the details are pretty tedious. The reason you never see any results videos on TH-cam is there are no truly successful back yard morel growers
Guy who figured out how to grow them, back in the 80s, was killed...go figure
These kits are worthless snake oil gimmicks.