Dowel mushroom kits

[Alison]

Think I'll put off buying any for now until one of you guys reports any success, as you say JazzDuke they're pretty expensive. Keep me posted.

[Acorn]

Mushrooms

Unfortunately no success from me either. I looked at my logs this weekend and still nothing! What a dissapointment!

[Earthbabe]

Oh dear!

I've been given some dowels and some "seed" for Christmas. Reading this thread is most depressing. The dowels are already sprouting and I have no source of recently cut down logs.

I'm not about to lop a large branch off the pear tree and it sounds like they are extremely picky.

Any suggestions about alternatives I could try. The "seed" is also going mouldy in the packet so I need to sort something for that soon too.

What a way to start the year.

BTW they are Enoki and Pink Oyster respectively.

[Nicos]

Oh dear indeed!
What a lovely idea as a gift though!
Why not try phoning a few local tree surgeons and see if they have any fresh hardwood? Or even the local council?
You could well be lucky as I believe now is a good time to lop trees before the sap rises.
With all this wind we are having, there must be some broken branches needing sorting out??
Are you storing the spores in the fridge? They will certainly last longer that way, and buy you time to phone round.
I checked on my logs a couple of weeks ago and they are still 'resting'.

[Earthbabe]

Thanks Nicos I'll put them in the fridge and make some enquiries. The lottie officer may be my first port of call or at least that department. Come to think of it my neighbour's family may have some logs/bits not long cut/blown down.

[mushroom_max]

hi there!
I'm new, and read you are searchign for morels, so joined tyhe site just to tell you! but it's good as i should be getting an allotment in spring!
I have a few links for you here

http://www.micro-science.co.uk/shop/...x.php?cPath=32

the one above sell lots of stuff for growing all sorts of edible msuhrooms, including morel spores....and ktis where you just inject the spores in.



lastly, www.mycologue.co.uk has some interesting stuff!

e-mail me if you have any mushroom growing questions!

Max

[Mrs Dobby]

Hi Max, welcome to the vine and many thanks for posting the links, I'll take a good look in the near future!

Hope you enjoy yourself here as much as the rest of us Grapes do! You dont have to be mad here, but it may just help a little, oh, and watch out for LJ's peastick!

[Nicos]

No news yet...but maybe with the wamer weather???