Morels

[Ontario Chick]

This is a morel alert, they were found by the pup, I am thinking about training her as a "mushroom" dog
I would have never noticed them, the only thing that normally grows in that area are ink heads , but she seemed to be very interested in something, so I went to check....

[WLLady]

we found 3 the other day.....yum!!

[Home Grown Poultry]

we found a few and so began a propagation experiment. we tried 3 slightly different methods. in 5 gallons of distilled water add 2 table spoons of molasses 1 tablespoon of table salt. some sort of hardwood Morales like, ash, apple, oak, maple, we used ash shavings, rotten maple and rotten oak. mixed with 1 emulsified mature morale. bubble for 24-48 hours and then spread in an area suitable for morales to grow which must contain hardwood, hardwood wood ash and hardwood charcoal, all this came from our firepit and our woodstove where we burn oak, ash and maple. perfect. now you wait 1-3 years.

So the thinking is all the spores have been trapped in the water when the morale was emulsified in a blender. while bubbling the spores attach to the wood floating around inside. the molasses feeds the mycelium of the spores early growth by being saturated into the wood. the salt keeps bad bacteria from growing while your bubbling for 24-48 hours. the other part is since this may take so long, the spores will stay dormant inside the wood with all the right ingredients to start life sometime in the future when the conditions are right.

or so I read. haha now we wait.

[Killerbunny]

Hiya AL, hope it works out for you.