How to Rebuild Soil with Wine Cap Mushrooms: Part 2
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Six months ago we undertook a project of trying to build bad lost soil using wood chips and wine cap mushrooms. After that six month period things are moving along nicely and we're seeing excellent spawn run, fruiting, and a good amount of decomposition.
Very nice to see the update! We've inoculated with wine cap mycelium in February and we had mushrooms already. First showed up in June. I'm so happy seeing them grow where it once was a lawn. I've been trying to find more woodchips to cover the other areas but it's been a bit difficult. Hopefully we will find more soon because I like the taste if wine caps and the fact that they improve the quality of the soil. Take care!
This is excellent! Thank you for the update!
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I've tried a similar approach to build soil on my land (1 1/2 acres)...I've had a local tree company dump a ridiculous amount of chips around the land. I used a couple of areas to test the sawdust spawn to see how it would take in various parts of the property. To my surprise, the mycelium has run everywhere and now I have wine cap mushrooms popping up everywhere. I only used 1 bag of spawn and it did take a little longer for the mushrooms to begin popping up however, I'm now filling baskets with mushrooms whenever there's a fruiting...
Would oysters mushrooms do as well as wine caps for building soil? And if using oyster would you need to layer straw over top of the wood mulch?
I'm starting my wine cap beds today, during a drought. I'm putting them in the shade (though I also need to grow more soil in the sun!). Did you water this bed? Or get regular rain?
I wonder if there's a way to tell the wine cap mycelia apart from native fungi. I used peg spawn 8 months ago, just a small kit to plant 30 cubic yards of woodchips, and while I noticed mycelial growth very shortly after and throughout the growing season, I could not tell which fungi they were from. I have native fungi like ink caps, sulfur tufts (poisonous) spring fieldcaps, turkey tails, and cyathus, but I haven't seen the wine caps fruiting yet.
Great video! We are also growing wine cap mushrooms to amend our soil. However, as I understand it, mulch pulls nitrogen out of the soil and can slow down plant growth because of the wide carbon and nitrogen ratio, but does digested soil, after wine caps break it down, have a higher nitrogen percentage? Seems like it would be lower because mushrooms use nitrogen to make proteins.
Thanks for your comment and questions! Yes, nitrogen immobilization can happen when mulch with a high C:N ratio, like the straw and woodchips that Wine Cap mushrooms prefer, is added to the soil. But we've worked with cultivating Wine Cap and measuring its impact on soil and crops for years, and in all crops that we evaluated (black beans, corn, tomatoes, etc), we have not been able to measure any detrimental effect from N immobilization. In fact, the plants in treatments with mulch and Wine Cap mushrooms were healthier, greener, larger, and more productive. If you're interested in more definitely check out our SARE series and those videos will go into more depth. :)
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I tried growing winecaps a few years ago using a similar method, but I couldn't get it to work. The mycelium fully colonized the wood chip layer, but never fruited for some reason.
I’ve read that mushrooms fruit when they are starting to run out of food, so maybe that had something to do with it?
Naïve question but did you have to re humidify the woodchips during the hotest days of summer in your area ? Is it recommended ? Thank you :)
Ideally if you can get about 1 inch of water per week on your woodchips that really helps keep the mycelium happy. We aim for about 1 inch per week, but usually rainfall takes care of that!
Lol....recap
My question is...How can I take existing wine cap mycelium growing in wood chips and innoculate other areas where the mushrooms aren't growing that well. Is it nothing more than taking a shovel full of the wood chips and transferring it to new chips in the area I'd like them to grow?
Just take a shovel-full and move it! Wine Cap mycelium will lose vigor over time, so you may have to add fresh spawn eventually if you're not seeing mycelium run. Also there are areas that just aren't great for Wine Cap production, so it environmental specific.
@@FieldandForestProducts Thanks! I've been having larger and larger flushes as I've continued to have more chips dumped around the property and the mycelium reaches out further.
It's coming along! Congratulations!
cool!