I've got what I think is my last flush (5th) of morels that are getting sun baked (with the exception of a random giant one which I will clone to agar) and am going to try to use stem butts and teeny fruiting bodies directly to corrugated cardboard as a way to keep the genetics in a holding pattern until I can source fresh wood chips. Will likely try these guys in a pot before spring. Cardboard culture isn't in any way new for decomposers but it its not a great food source so I only keep cultures going on cardboard for a few weeks max before figuring out a way to do some kind of nutritive media. It is, however, a great accessible tool to keep on hand in the event you are camping or on remote foray. I pour boiling water over my cardboard for a few minutes and let it drain prior to use.

Class is almost ready Anyone excited for the cordyceps in a jar class. We have it almost done over at LoM. We are just waiting to get some glamour shots of full-grown fruit and harvesting info before we copy it over here. Squiggledo's fruit are way ahead of mine

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.