I spore printed these landscape morels but left them for 48 hours and some spores are already germinating (see the white fuzzy stuff) - looks like I have volunteers for next year's inoculum as drying now would probably kill off that mycelium. Only problem is I can't find fresh wood chips so we might have to take some gambles with older wood chips. The issue with older wood chips is that mycelium has already started running on a lot of them so it is going to end up being a mixed species bed. Let's see who fruits in the next few years on an alder bed!

Here is my oyster grow from a mushroom chunk experimental update - The jar all the way on the right had mold come up right where the mushroom is, but the oyster mycelium is outcompeting it. The jar on the far left has a cardboard filter on top of the brown rice flour/vermiculite nutritive media and looks clean. The middle jar has no filter, but looks like it was clean going onto brown rice flour/vermiculite. The right side jar has no filter, but sawdust mixed into the brown rice flour/vermiculite. Not seen to have growth yet is a fourth jar that I started a week or so later than these that has an sawdust filter then BRF/verm. I don't know how many species this uber easy tek will work with to create new spawn, but for oysters, it seems like a win.

This is one of the ones I said was probably too old to fruit. Sigh. Check out those perithecia tho.

The first pic is the harvest of decent quality fruit - now compare it to the bucket below with all the "whoops missed that one" fruits and stem butts for future nerdy inoculation projects. You win some you lose some.