'Shrooms

Wine cap or King Stropharia (Stropharia rugosoannulata for the mycophiles among us) emerging from the bed of chips and straw at HP

Last May, a bunch of GRP ladies helped with two mushroom projects. One was constructing a bed of hardwood chips, mushroom sawdust spawn, and straw for the King Stropharia also known as wine cap. Last week, the bed produced a few mushrooms. Very exciting!

The logs inoculated in May that have been hiding out in a damp spot at HP. Notice the mycelium pattern that corresponds to the 4” pattern drilled in the legs and filled with sawdust spawn.

The other project was inoculating logs with spawn of shitake, mahogany and oyster mushrooms. The logs at HP are definitely full of mycelium, but not fruiting yet. Amy/Eric and Pam/Bill also inoculated many logs at their places in Johnson and mushrooms are sprouting. We check the logs at HP almost every day...

And this is what we were hoping for. Shrooms!

The mushrooms a day later! The big one is about 5” across!