How To Grow Morel Mushrooms
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- YourProduceGuy shows you how to make a Morel Mushroom Habitat. Morel Mushrooms are a delicacy that people will go out into the woods to hunt for. A lot of people don't have any luck finding them. So I'm going to grow my own at home and have plenty, and I'll find them all too.
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change the title to: how to make a wooden box and fill it with soil
how to open a sack of spores
S'mores?
Tim mi LOL
where's the beef?
Not so good with s'mores! ;- )
I have found, if you put dead wood under the ground, "lots of it'" the morels will grow through the entire wood mass. If the the area is shaded, it helps.
Now the real secrete is to have some wood logs partly buried above ground. This is sort of like hugelculture where people put wood under the ground for fertilizer and water retention.
Grow something that burns well above the buried wood and let dry. I some times used some straw and gasoline, "because I was lazy, and I don't recommend it, I got burnt!". 2 weeks before the time in your area morels are growing, light the weeds on fire, please have hose and fire suppression handy.
Wet flames, "as needed to control blaze but take cair to not put it out", as the bio mass burns away. You want to scorch and blacken the partly buried logs, but not incenerate them, infact once the logs start to burn, wet them to avoid over heating.
This simulated forest fire makes the morels grow like crazy! I have had morels grow as large as cantilope, but most grow to the size of a grapfruit. They were huge!
Morels will grow without fire but if you want to get fantastic results then you need to singe their hair a little to get results.
You do need a morel colony if you want morels. I also suggest , once your colony is going well, transplant some of the spore to the woods around your house, it will spread and you can find extra morels , when they are in season" in the forest when it rains.
Good Luck!!!!! And please don't burn your house down!
I followed this video exactly and the following year my box produced about 3 flushes of morels the following May. It produced so many morels that we couldnt eat them all. I never knew growing mushrooms was this easy!
you are so full of shit hahaha prove it.... and do you know how many morels i can eat in a sitting??? all of them....
I live in the city. I have 5 huge maple tree's. Of course, morels don't grow in my yard. A few years ago, I had all my tree's topped since they were 50 feet high. Under one tree in the front yard, they made a mess and ruined the grass. The grass was covered in sawdust and as they left they put down fertilized grass seed all over the place. no straw. A few weeks later, the grass grew and also a neighbor pointed out there was about a dozen morel mushrooms. go figure that out.
Wrong. I have been picking huge yellow morel mushrooms around cedar trees for the last 3 years. I mean there are not hundreds of them, but enough for a good mess. Some are can weigh up to half a pound for one mushroom.
For me it was a small first crop. Next Spring should be better. Spring is when they usually pop up. I have been concerned that I would do the same thing (mow them down) next Spring, so I will need to keep my eyes open!
Do you have to add new spores every season or do the mushrooms produce their own spores as long as you maintain the proper soil 'ecosystem'?
If they grow in the wild in your area, a good tip is find elms that are starting to loose there bark and on south hillsides. My best day was 37 lbs last year and I mainly only check south hills...
I realize this was 10 years ago....knowing that morel are notoriously difficult to cultivate, is it safe to assume this particular attempt didn't yield anything noteworthy?
Lisa not sure why you think they can not be cultivated??? I did this two years ago and had great results! Will say the first year nothing happened but kept it watered and fed and the next year it was plum full of morels. Some say it could take up to 3 to 4 years to get results.
Morel season 2019 is here! Cant wait ! I found 155 around a single tree last year and this year is shaping up looking to be wayyy better. Good video, lots of good info. I just love these shrooms, I even started up a YT channel mostly dedicated to them. I'll be uploading tips,forecast, recent hunts and even live streaming hunts as the season progresses. Check it out ya'll. Happy hunting🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
The Great Morel .com has a map of finds across the US
Do you have a follow up video of the next year’s growth of mushrooms?
I like to say I like watching your videos but you got to do something about your audio recording. When you pronunciate your s its almost piercing on the ear drums.
Your title is wrong, only you made a box and filled by soil for flowers
I love you videos! I find them very informative and entertaining. In the video you state that you are going to feed the mushroom box with kitchen scraps. I would LOVE to see a video of you feeding the mushroom bed. Do you just heap it on top? Dig it in? How do you feed the mushrooms? Thanks!
Does that continue year after year to fruit? Why no wood chips topping it off ?
MAKE SURE YOUR WOOD ISN'T TREATED!!
The mycelium forms underground sclerotia. You can pull it up without breaking it off or dig it up with more of the surrounding soil. This will work 1 out of a bunch of times if you plant it in an area where morels would naturally grow. You will have better luck if you make a spore print on paper and grind it up in a blender with water. Then you can sprinkle the water over an ideal area. This is the lest scientific of ways but it has worked for me. It took two years for the first fruiting.
Hello, wood ashes are good for Morel mushrooms
a simple wood board. 6-10 inches tall. 1/2 inch to an inch thick. standing up on its side with a steak on each end to secure it upright. placed long ways north and south. in a less traveled part of the yard. is a firm base for a morel bed start. sprinkle ashes from one of the trees previously stated. then dump morel rinse water on east side of board. do this every year. within 1-3 years morels will start to grow. regrowing in same area each year after. as most spores take 2-3 years to grow and form a morel. some have sprouted same year spore water was dumped. this is very rare.
Love to see a video on the results/harvest! It's been one year since you've posted this, was your harvest a success? Thanks
I was wondering too. I guess no reply means no morel coming out.
@@moezaw1961 that means you didn't got morels 😂😂😂
I discovered a way to collect the spores but won't disclose the rest of my methods. Find yourself some mature morels, cut them in half and place upon some white paper in a food dehydrator set on low. Within 15 or so minutes, they will be jetting their orange/brown spores all over the papers. Simply put but not so simply done, these can be inoculated upon sterile agar media and there is ways of using the resulting mycelium to cultivate morel fruiting bodies.
Many people can eat completly eatable mushrooms and get sick. It depends on the indiviuals system. Many mushrooms are filed with anti oxcidents, enzymes, and acids that effect the body differently !
You don't feed Morels with kitchen scraps unless your scraps are woody material.. Mushrooms are wood decomposers... the scraps are feeding worms.
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"Not knowing if you are getting a crop this year, or next, or if you ever will". - Then why is the video called "How To Grow Morel Mushrooms" ?
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Uh, this doesn't work, guys. Sorry. A simple bit of research would show that this type of mushroom, the morel, grows in nutrient-poor areas (not under a heap of kitchen scrap crap). It doesn't grow well "on demand" in highly contrived contraptions like this box either, and if it did, do you really think they would be $45 a pound at the store? Use your common sense. They guy seems nice enough, but intentionally or not, he's just wrong, period.
is therefore one of the few that could be successfully cultivated--and since R. Ower, who patented the morel cultivation process originally worked with a collection he made in a San Francisco planter. What were the odds? Had Ower been virtually anywhere else in North America, the morels he picked could not have been cultivated, and his patent would never have been developed.
Would have been more useful to have shown in progress of the mushrooms growing.
And if you just use dirt and
Isn't there a chance that wild, perhaps poisonous mushrooms could develop?
it took me about 4 years to get fruit. also his box is pretty small, i tilled ground and mixed in the mulch behind my garage in the woods.this allows the mycellium to grow out and it can produce more fruit. another thing. watch using tap water. i used well water and rain water.works better in my opinion. to much chems in tap water.I got about 5 gallons of morels off my garden in one season. they havent grew back since.
This is a video about how to build a wooden box and put dirt in it.
see; gmushrooms.org/media-video/
Yeah, sorry to be an jerk on youtube I didnt' mean to be. Seriously though, people have even found them in their fireplaces. Ashes are a key trigger for them to fruit, so I'd add some in the winter. Great work getting people to become more self sufficient.
I have watched several optimistic people planting Morel gardens but have yet to see ANY of them produce... Follow up? Is this just a pipe dream or what?
I grew up hunting morel & other (eg beefsteak/false-morel) mushrooms in Northern Michigan. On rare occasions we had the beefsteak, usually my folks would give them to Grandpa, he loved them & they never gave him problems. We heard the stories, sometimes someone would get deathly sick, one with a habit of eating it tempted fate, built the poison up in them.
Except Grandpa, he always "had a way", almost mystical how he delt with nature.
Do you think I can grow these under a deck? Lots of shade and easy place to keep moist? THANKS for the videos.
So you have some mycelia growing. Perhaps threatening the tree resulted in their fruiting.
according to paul stamets, you can do hardly more than apply ash to an area to encourage morels. if they could be cultivated the price wouldnt be so high on the market.
What is this? You can make a slury and splash any surface. No box, no soil, no huge waste of time and money. This guys is soooo dumb.
Soil, not dirt
Theres nothing dirty about soil
Its a living breathing miracle substance.
Looking forward to it. I've been growing medicinal and edible mushrooms for years, but haven't had any success with morels in the fashion you show. I'd _love_ to be shown I was wrong, though! That's what good science (in this case mycology) it all about: showing it can be done through experimental results when other's say it's impossible.
Any update on how this is turning out?
It does work, he just uploaded a video with the morels growing in his yard. You don't know what you're talking about.
Cultivating Morels is incredibly difficult. I have hunted them for about 30 years. I've never seen anyone do it successfully. Also, they like sandy soil, river bottoms and cottonwood bark and leaves. I'd introduce some sand to your mixture as well as cottonwood leaves if possible. Whenever I hunt, I always go into river flood basins with cottonwoods. This year was extraordinary, we found about 3 pounds per hour of hunting, which is totally a huge amount. Good luck, but don't get your hopes up.
You effed up the box corner! Check your tape measure
When adding in scraps do you mix them in?
Would this grow good bye a dead tree stump
I love those suggestions! Wow. That could be very fun and little scary. I need to think on that for a bit and see how I can work that. I have, since last year, buried some wood pieces in the box for more natural habitat for the 'shrooms. We will see what happens with that. Thanks for the awesome input!
***** *stares at her bag of morel spawn* oh man, i'm gonna be so scared of ruining this. I know how expensive they are. >.> trying to grow expensive stuff is scary dood.
I recently started a morel habitat in my yard. I didn't build the box, rather...I tilled and prepared a 5' x 15' area directly in the dirt. My question revolves around your comment about not adding citrus. I've begun to add table-scraps, and I'm afraid I've already added some orange peels. Have I damaged my soil?? Is it already too late?
I see what happened. You dropped a little bit of the Spore on the ground in front of the garden bed where it had access to tree roots in the soil. That's why you grew three Morel in front of the bed but nothing in the bed. The mycelium hasn't gone through the soil enough to get to the tree roots underneath and I don't know if it will or not. Fingers crossed
Dude looks like the dad from Casper
He called it that but he didn't plant spores. It was 'spawn' (mycelium in a substrate). Morels CAN be spore printed. See my method posted above. Not as often as elm but i do find morels under ceder.
They can't be cultivated? I hope you're kidding.
Morels CAN be cultivated but you are correct that this video should be removed or re-titled. He even called the bag of spawn...spores at first.
Notice how there are no other videos on growing morels? It's because they are very hard to grow and for the majority of people, finding them in the woods during the proper time in spring will be their best chance of having beer batter'd and fried morels. Oyster mushrooms on the other hand are very easy to grow, you should try growing them for better chance at success and satisfaction.
ok. I was talking in the dentist office the other day. The person I was talking to told me that their neighbor had took the little bits of mushrooms left in the bag and after cleaning them (in other words the remaining bits and pieces that were to small to eat) and just threw them in his flower garden last year. He had mushrooms pop up this year. So I am taking my bits and pieces and putting them in a bare spot near a dying tree in my back year. Think tree maybe a dying elm. Don't know my trees
No good watching this is a waste of time
one other thing,if your going to plant these you need to test the soil and make sure the ph is right. the ph should be as close to about 7 or 8 as possible and test the potash. you need very little of that. the ground should be neutral. also you dont want that ground to packed it needs to be lose and moist,not soaking wet but moist. during the late fall let it stand through winter and then in the spring start keeping it moist again throught the summer.
It is possible to farm morels. The cultivation method was invented in the 90's, several patents exist. There are morel farms with saplings (elm, ash, maple, cherry, etc) inoculated with spores. The spores sprout and mycelium grow around the trees root system in symbiotic relationship until the tree dies. When the try dies the mycelium send up "suckers" and the following spring morels with sprout to spread spores and complete the circle of life. The key here is you don't have a host tree!
I have a couple of spots in Michigan where I hunt for mushrooms. I have found blacks and *yellows (*creams or *whites ) in a cedar swamp. And my father in Ohio use to take all the little bits and pieces after he clean the mushrooms and soaking water and dump it under an apple tree in the yard. It took a year or 2 for the mushrooms to pop up under the apple tree . They still pop every spring .
if you find morels in the wild, dig up the mycelium in the ground and use it to inoculate your prepared bed. you can also buy mycelium in the form of grain spawn off mushroom cultivation sites. if you really wanna get down to buisness, find a wild morel and clone a peice of it in a petri dish, then use the petri dish culture to make your own spawn. mushrooms are compressed mycelium and mycelium found in a mushroom will produce more mushrooms than a multi spore inoculation.
I was curious how this worked out for you? I have heard the morel kits are a bit of a dud. i pick a lot of wild morels and started growing shiitake's last year and would buy the morel kit but a buddy of mine tried and no luck. You?
Can you grow morels in a green house
Can you grow morels in a green house
Uhm, does that wood have formaldehyde in it? Cuz if it does have formaldehyde, which is anti-fungal, well, make sure it is formaldehyde-free wood.
well, at least he has a nice worm box, apparently the things can be grown but it's an intricate process that most people would not be able or want to undertake. I think if it were commercially feasible there would be commercial growers by now considering what they can sell for by the pound.
The morchella esculenta, the Morel, is an organism that lives in the ground and is in a relationship with at least one tree nearby. The web of the mycelium holds water, that it allows the tree to have, in return in takes some sap from its host/partner. The mushrooms that we pick and eat are the result of the organism procreating and spreading. This happens a lot when the tree partner is killed or dies.To have mushrooms, you must first grow the mycelium, which is the true organism.hope this helps
Just yesterday I hopped off the rider and picked a hand full of Morels,in my back yard,north side of house,under a Pine tree of all things,in N IA. I chopped them up and put in a gallon jug of water which I shake occasionally. Going to sprinkle the water back out where I found them but in a sort of line close to the house where I can get away without mowing if they ever come up. Probably won't work but is a very easy try.
Need help? As for collecting, it's up to your Easter Egg hunting skills, but for storage, you can dry them out very well (they will shrink a lot) after drying, pack them into freezer bags and you can keep them in the freezer for later use, up to almost 2 yrs or so. If you go hunting and find your own Morels, you can collect the spores from them in a couple different ways and use them to make your own spawn.
how to build a suburban box .. how to look at camera and talk ..
if there's NOTHING GROWING then there's no "how to grow" .. WRONG TITLE brah
Good day My Produce Guy. Can you produce some more of those fresh morel pics, or was it a small crop this year? Just think of all the morels you ran over with the lawn mower.
its not very often Ive been surprized however watching this really would make anyone think I need to ask - have you looked at the resource called gregs mushroom grower just google for it
Morels, most certainly can be grown outdoors. Heck, Gary Mills, figured out a way to cultivate them indoors and pattoned the tek. Although, I would've done the bed differently, good luck with your project Produce Guy!
What is the difference between soil and dirt? also I would cover that soil with 1 or 2 layers of large leaves like maple and wet it down then cover it with a plastic covering to keep moisture it. weird but they seem to like heat but also like shade. They also need a lot of moisture but not mud.
It can take a couple years before you see any morels, growing this way. Adding burnt wood, saw dust, grass clippings, egg shells and stuff really helps. especially the burnt material and ash. If you don't have mushroom spawn, and you actually have some morels )with spores in them) put them in a tupper-ware with some water shake gently, and swoosh until you have rinsed the mushrooms well. take out the mushrooms and the brown water you have left will be full of spores. Pour it in your bedding
I learned what species mine are, and in reading about it I thought you would find this part interesting:
Morchella rufobrunnea is the proper name for the "Morchella deliciosa" described by many western American authors. In addition, DNA testing reveals that commercially cultivated morels also correspond to Morchella rufobrunnea. This is not particularly surprising, since Morchella rufobrunnea is one of the very few saprobic morel species and (cont) ...
golden morels. the pointed top black ones. grow best in tall grasses/weeds near pine trees. rounded top black morels look like whites but short and fat. grow best around large oaks. white morels or greys are grown best in sand around edges of popal stands in fields. giants or yellow morels grow best everywhere. there the all around beginner morel. there are 4 types of morels. all morels can be placed into one of the 4 groups.
How can I get morl's seed
I live in southern Oregon and I just discovered 4 morels at the outer perimeter of a bark mulch pile on my gravel drive/parking area! The area has no shade and is baking hot in the summer, but during the winter the sun is low in the southern sky so the area doesn't get direct sun then. Also it's our rainy season so everything's damp. No idea how they showed up there, could've been from the mulch but there were at the edge where there really isn't any mulch to speak of. Anyhoot, bottoms up! :)
***** where can I find what happened next in Spring?
Also I plan to do Morchella farming, can you give me tips or maybe your email address? What is the temperature needed?
looks good man, and great video, but id like to point out, if you do not already know, or at least i think i know. your are very very red, and meaning in a super high blood pressure way, or ya eat far to many carrots maybe lol, sorry just couldnt help but saying something.
Wow, when no Morels grow out of your little mushroom box and spore kit, I suggest you put some wild ginseng in the box to grow. The habitat you made looks great for that.
mowing 1 week before morels are to sprout and then letting patch grow wild for following 30 days is best. in michigan morels start may 1st through june 1st each year. it veries from state to state. usually 3 nights and days of above 45 at night and 60 day after a rain is the earliest they will pop up. so watch the temps and weather. also grey dog wood bushes will be in bud but not yet blooming. if there in bloom season is about a week in already.
Dude no mushroom picks?
Let's edit the bullshit parts
I'm giving it a try, Trying to grow unusual things is always fun. I tried growing morels a lot over the years with no luck. I was able to transplant whole sections of moss that dozens of morels were popping up at in the season and put sections inside my tropical rainforest greenhouse and have new morel growth pop up under my tomato plants. I only transplanted the soil undisturbed, but from spurs or even scattering whole morels all over the ground never gave any results.
Hi Mr Produce Guy, i was wondering if you will do a follow up video of this to see how the mushrooms grew? i was telling my dad about your video and as he loves to go and pick them and him and his friend said it was impossible to do. So i am just curious. Thanks!
Quick question, if I could not identify ash wood and old apple wood, where could I get them for growing morel? :D
I would suggest using a wood other than cedar for the Habitat, as cedar is one of the types of wood that has a spore-inhibiting effect when it comes to mushrooms. Cedar is one of the few kinds of wood chips that mushroom growers specifically advocate should NOT be used. This may have contributed to the morels fruiting in the lawn instead of the actual habitat.
I can't wait to see the progress of these as they grow. I don't like the taste of mushrooms myself, but they are very interesting in their appearance and biology.
you posted this in June 2012, have you had any actual morels pop up this year? I've looked into getting that kit but haven't heard from anybody who have had it work.
Bark and wood is not live roots. The method Eric hints at involves a symbiotic relationship.
we love morels here in ontario been unable to find them for some time now do grow your own would even be better>>>but>>> how to you manage to keep cats,etc from getting in your morel box or you dont have that problem thks for all yr wonderful videos and i follow you on facebook
It's really great how jazzed you are about this man @YourProduceGuy I'm growing broad beans, 6 types of tomatoes, butternut squash and two types of cucumbers. I'm not much of a gardener at all, but there's something deeply gratifying about putting the kind of work you see in this video into cultivating something and growing something. Deeply satisfying and it makes you appreciate the produce you cook with at the end. Good luck with your Morels :)
It is possible for the spores to put up a random mushroom here or there for years after the tree dies. Keeping that in mind if you have the spores and just the right habitat it could work. I don't think it could last but hopefully you can infect all the trees for miles around and that would be good for years to come.
Yes and it should be done about the time that they would be dispersing their spores naturally.
I like your user-friendly method for newbies. No need to sterilize a laboratory.
mushrooms r fickle (did i spell that right?) anyway if u tried this and u got no fruit take a weed burner and superheat the soil mushrooms need a sterile environment
So I am anxiously awaiting my kit, in the mean time I have created a spoor mass slurry with some morels collected in my area and spread it through out my yard. You mentioned sprinklers watering your motels, everything I read has said that the chlorimine in tap water will kill the spores. Is your sprinkler water treated or is this just necessary just during the germination procedure? I used a combination of collected rain water and filtered store bought water to create my slurry but I'm conserned about how to keep my growth damp through the summer months?
I love morels, but normally don't have time to hunt them in season. This is a great idea.
Can you put a wood chip mulch over the dirt to keep the weeds down?
Don't bother with ashes, use wood chips and a little saw dust from the type of trees you find morels growing under in nature... added to your growing media in the box. Layer it so the mycellium can take advantage of those nutrients without smothering.