Thanks for watching. And as per the description above (which I know no one ever reads haha), in the heat of excitement of mushroom extravaganza, I misspoke: I said the spawn contains the spores of the mushroom, but it's really the mycelium. That is the vegetative cells of the mushroom and they form mycorrhizal networks with the plant roots. The spores are the reproductive elements of a fungus, which would be found on the underside of the caps of the Stropharia!
here's a few suggestions you can try select the best variety - there are lots available. grow them in the right environment - some eg oyster muchrooms like cool humid areas and may be placed outside (I discovered these and the reasons they work on gregs mushroom grower site )
here's a few ideas to try select the top type - there are many available. grow them in the right environment - some such as oyster muchrooms like cool humid areas and may be put outdoors (I read these and why they work on Gregs Mushroom Grower site ) @Summer Rayne Oaks
here's a few ideas to try select the top type - there are many available. grow them in the right environment - some such as oyster muchrooms like cool humid areas and may be put outdoors (I read these and why they work on Gregs Mushroom Grower site ) @Summer Rayne Oaks
I am in Iran in Middle of desert (tabas city, the place of delta force). you can find mushrooms in sand domes even. mushroom fruits comes out after thunder in winter and spring.
Are they edible mushrooms? What else do you find foraging in the desert? I'm from the tropics, I've never been to a desert. I know there are reptiles including very venomous snakes. What else?
I love your mushroom patch and how much knowledge you have to share! Your such an inspiration to us and I really appreciate the work you put into your videos/plants.
Thats so interesting! Another level of planty videos! 💚 I have been joking that this autumn I will film a Lithuanian mushroom haul on my channel, cause we have so many colorful and beautiful species in here. 😅🤭
It's not often I'm impressed but this video certainly made me say wow I need to ask - have you checked out the website called gregs mushroom grower look for it on google
There are a few suggestions worth trying select the top variety - there are many available. grow them in the best environment - some such as oyster muchrooms like cool humid conditions and may be placed outside (I discovered these and the reasons they work from Gregs Mushroom Grower site )
I love foraging for mushrooms and I was thinking of getting those growing kits where you can recycle spent coffee grounds. Thank you for an informative video! It would be fab if you could collaborate with Learn Your Land
Fabulous!! I'm in the middle of raising Stropharia from liquid culture. Intention is, as a beekeeper to provide bees with what ever it is they forage off of Stropharia and other mushroom species mycelia. I've become a Paul Stamets fan, and also Tom Seeley Cornell. Total fun!!!! Oh, I've raised Oyster mushrooms on top of a bee hive last year!
The European ones supposedly form symbioses with either oaks or hazels. One in the PNW is supposed to be mycorrhizal on Douglas fir. You probably need a sow or trained dog to sniff them out--truffles fruit underground.
Very interesting video. Thanks for explaining this. I love how we're learning so much more about soil and the life and communication of plants and trees that take place out of sight under the soil without us knowing for so many centuries.
😍 I’ve seen lots of mushrooms spores/roots in my pot plants, I thought it was mould, you’re teaching me a lot of stuff I didn’t know and I’ve been gardening for 36 years 😍 🍄🎋🍃🍄🌱🌾🍄🙏🏽 💚🍄💚🍄💚🍄💚🍄🌴
I recently (this spring) started educating myself on the edible varieties in my region. Morels are so popular, but there are many many others. I live in the southeast US at the bottom of the Appalachian Mnts where wild mushrooms grow plentifully, but I have yet to eat any that I’ve found myself because it can be dangerous/deadly (I’m no mycologist). I am fond of the way that you have cultivated these yourself! I’d love to see more!
In my province here in the philippines volva mushroom, oyster mushroom and cloud ear fungus are the most common here it just grows everywhere when it rains.
Love it, I've grown king oyster mushrooms at home in used coffee grounds and it was pretty cool. I'd love to try growing a shitake "log" mushrooms are fascinating! 💜
Love this video. I haven't tried King Stropharia yet, but I have grown Oysters and Lion's Mane. I grow them indoors on sawdust blocks. So fun to grow and have around. I also put the spent blocks in the garden and occasionally get a mushroom or two out there. It's great for the soil.
I love this! Summer, I have been meaning I ask you to do an episode on mushrooms growing in houseplants. I have some mushrooms in a potted fern and have left them there because of the symbiosis as you mentioned. Would love to hear how you would approach those types of mushroom situations!
Today's word of the day is.....festoon. Thank you so much for this content. Your explanation is fabulous, I could watch and listen for hours. Fungi are stars in our environmental clean up. They work well with plants in cleaning our air, water and soil.
I am so excited to see that you grow mushrooms! Fungi and plants are so different! This is one of my favorite channels! Keep up the inspiring work and visuals 😁
Happy you did a vlog on mushrooms Summer! After reading Paul Stamets' work on the environmental and medical benefits of fungi, I've become real interested in studying the mushroom universe, even grow them on my balcony, or kitchen....the problem being that I would not be able to tell the beneficial types from those that could damage or destroy my plants, and I believe it takes a real expert to identify them...or should I assume that any spawn from commercial dealers is safe...anyway thank you for the educational video!
I really want to make lemonade out of a sucky lemon situation. I got hit hard by hurricane Sally and she took my roof and my favorite and only really big tree i had on my property. So I'm thinking of making a bunch of mushroom logs out of my 20 year old sawtooth oak. Lots of limbs from 6" to 2' across. I'm thinking about shiitake and pink oysters because they are tropical in nature. I would love to grow some wine caps but i think it will just be too hot here. In the summer it's not unusual to have 90s with 110 heat index because of our heavy humidity. Which is awesome for tropicals.
here's a few suggestions to try choose the best variety - there are many available. grow them in the right environment - some eg oyster muchrooms like cool humid conditions and can be placed outdoors (I discovered these and why they work on gregs mushroom grower site )
It's true. 1000's of our ancestors died in order to figure out what we can and cannot eat. Most of what we eat today comes from the America's and Asia. Native Americans and Ancient East Asians have contributed a lot to what we eat modern day.
Great info and your community garden is very cool! I like the art on the wall and just the whole vibe! Will you be doing a tour of it? P.S. I like reading your description box lol! REALLY! 😃
Hi i wouldnt say that in the time the mushroom doesnt bear fruit is in a dormency, cuz the substrate is still wet a little deeper and the mycelium still grows. But a very informatife video i been waiting for this 😋 Keep up the great work 🙏 namaste
Very interesting! I would still buy my mushrooms in a supermarket, or farmer's market. You know what you're doing, but I don't.. lol. I love the varieties of mushrooms available. They are beautiful and whimsical in a garden..for aesthetics, also. Thanks, Summer. :)
Just looove this. Definitely going to try this :-) Btw, if you haven't already you should read "The Secret Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. Has a lot on the relationship between trees and fungi.
Not all fungus species form mycorrhizae relationship with plant roots. Only the mycorrhizal fungi do. But still the other fungi are important for the Soil Food Web, decomposing organic material and providing food for almost everyone else. High fungi to bacteria ratio is important for higher/more complex plants such as trees. Which is why forests are dominated with these beneficial fungi.
mycelium, not mycorhizae. Stropharia is a saprobe (decomposer, in this case mostly of cellulose). Mycorrhizae are a special case of mutualism between plant roots and the mycelia of particular types of fungi. Mycorhizal fungi are hard to cultivate because they are dependent on living plants, though for species of known associations, you probably could irrigate the spores into the root systems.
You're braver than me Miss SRO! Even with my survival training & expierence with wild edibles I still have a tremendous amount of anxiety bordering on phobia of foraging for mushrooms.
Peter Cardona I also do not trust myself on this level 😂 like I’m gonna take mushroom advice from the lady who needs alarms to not forget to pick up her own children? ...risky.
I'm more focused on soil nutrition this year, mycorrhizae, and mycelium. I'm also growing asparagus. I'm wondering if I built a mushroom bed on top of the asparagus roots will they both still thrive. I'm guessing the mycelium will break straw, and woodchips down to soil. While the asparagus will recieve the benefits, and grow healthier. Basically will mushrooms stop my perennial plants from growing, or will they help them.
Great video, thanks! Taking a crack at mushrooms indoors. Going to do it indoors in a moist container in my kitchen pantry. I am going to sterilize some soil and wood shavings. I don't want to share with the birds and animals. LOL
i wood have to thank jou for joure expoce aboud mushrooms and how to grow them, even when i only want to grow them for experiment,s indoor,s in a lab condition and i try no to eat raw food
vinod kumar, you need more fungal diversity to outcompete the pathogenic fungi! Make some good, aerobic compost that is fungal dominant. Look up Dr. Elaine Ingham to learn more.
Hi! I don't know if this has been addressed before, but I was wondering why there is a CD hanging above the plants? It can be seen around 2:48 - 3:16 in the video.
Depends on the type of mushroom. I'm here in eastern Tennessee and our winters are harsh in the mountains so you either need a cold climate mushroom or just grow annually in the summer.
Is it OK for ink to be on the cardboard? This may sound silly but I'm really unsure if the ink can have chemicals in it that is absorbed into the mushroom that we eating? I have a shredder I shred card board for cat litter so it would be easy. But most boxes like chewy have ink all over them plus cereal boxes etc Ty
I saw a lot of mycelium in my ground, I don't know if it's good or bad especally since I saw mealy bugs in it, and sometimes I have troubles differenciating one from the other. I also noticed my plants have troubles growing in this kinf of ground
I love mushrooms😊🍄My sister makes the best homemade mushroom soup! HOWEVER, I found yellowish-green mushrooms growing in my parlor palm this year. And the plant wasn't looking good so I repot and sprinkled real cinnamon over the soil. So far so good. I hope you do a video on this in the future. I don't know how this happened. I live in PA. Summer!! Love this video. You are so smart in this field.👍👍👍🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
I have mold suddenly growing on the soil surface of some of my pots. The plant in one looks just fine but I feel uncomfortable that the white fuzzy growth might be unhealthy to be around. Should I repot them?
That white fuzzy growth might just be mycelium rather than mould. Under the right conditions you may find that it sprouts fruiting bodies, so i wouldn't worry too much!
In a facebook group that I´m in a lot of people are finding mushrooms in their plant soil. Is this a good sign if the mushrooms are good for the plants? Many of them get panic. I know the mushrooms don´t harm the plants but should you be extra happy if you find them in the soil? :)
Noticing your thumb nails, if they are sunken in at the base and curve over the edge you may have a condition called Tuberculosis of lymphatics. I would be curious to know if this is so.
I just wanted to see how to grow mushrooms in the garden, not you policies on green, as for learning about mushrooms, we studied them in grade school in the 1960.
Hope you find what you're looking for, Joe. No one can create content for everyone! Glad you learned about shrooms in the 60s. My 8th grade bio teacher really stoked my passion for them.
