Only for Professional Field Pickers

so i live in south alabama where you can find mushies in just about any cow field and the occasional horse field. i pick them all the time and have had more experience with them than anyone i know. So today i found a new horse field and the habitat and growing conditions were perfect, however, there were no shrooms. So i figured that maybe i could innoculate this field some how to jumpstart growth. so how would i go about doing this? should i make tea and spray i on the grass? should i make a spore syringe? and if so how would i go about doing this? please help.

 

Mycelleum only spreads through spores. Tea would do nothing, that's like trying to grow marijuana by exhaling into the soil.

 

omg. i hate to make you feel stupid but when you make tea with fresh mushrooms. then the spores that are on the gills get mixed into the tea...

hints the reason i said 'Professionals'

 

I realize that you said for professional field pickers only but I am actually quite the opposite. Im in the Mobile area and just got back from another unsuccessful attempt at finding my own shrooms. The only thing successful about it was that I got away from a guy chasing me on a 4-wheeler. I was actually just wondering if you would help me out with finding a decent field thats in the Southern Alabama area. I know people dont like to give up some information like that but its getting on my nerves not being able to find any shrooms. Thanks in advance for any possible help.

 

Mushrooms require a very controlled environment to grow. Pouring spore tea all over cow shit will not get you a nice little trip. Try looking online for a good growing TEK. You can order spore syringes for about 20$.

 

injecting spores into the ground would do nothing, throwing tea on the ground would just be a waste. i mean for a professional you dont seem very clued up, though you seem to have the requisite arrogance of a drug expert. but unnecessary hostility arising from not having weed aside, i did read something on the net about jumpstarting growth colonising the spores into like some earth and then replanting the brick of it down into the ground a foot under the soil or something. the internet is one helluva resource. but these boards aint.

 

well its not much of a waste... i have more than enough around here and the field would soon be fruiting, that is, if any methods for starting a new field would work. cause the spores gotta come from somewhere for the mushrooms to be there. right?

 

Heres a thought, if you've got an abundance of wild caps available, cut the gills off into a plastic bag and just shake some out over the piles, then flip the pile over.

Plenty of people making bulk bags of what are essentially PF rice cakes, mixing in with compost and spreading out in their garden once the mycellum has run thru it / covering with a bit of straw to help hold in humidity. Naturally, you will get wild undesirables mixed in with your patch, but you will also get what you were looking for.

heres a google with some ideas & info

**edit** You can also just use the mushroom flesh much like how cloning is done as the Fruiting body is really nothing more than very dense mycellum, thou I'd have to guess just using spores would be more reliable outside of an indoor cultivation environment.

I've been doing something similar here, only with just using wild edible & legal Oyster mushrooms, finding a patch on rotting wood, grabbing a few and stuffing them just below the surface of the piles of forest litter around here.

If only it were as easy with Black Chanterelles ($64/lb. dried)

 

yeah thanks. thatll do nicely. im hoping i will be able to spread patties out into a field and that should start immidiate growth.

 

You can easily just tap mushrooms on poop and you will get shrooms in a couple weeks.

 

in my hunting experience the field will be in optimal conditions sometimes and still not fruit much. i also notice that from year to year different parts of the field will produce more than others, and it changes around. its amazing how "alive" and sentient a shroom field is and what a variety of microclimates and conditions can form in a field. you got to look around in different places.you have to remember some fields no matter how perfect the weather or place just don't produce the right kind. i can't tell you how many times i have been on a country road in gulf coast texas and seen a shroom only to jump the fence and find out its the wrong kind.

unfortunately, seeding a field with spores or shroom tea will just not work, at least with cubensis. you need to find a field that produces and catch it at the right time. good luck, and happy hunting!

 

So, what your saying, I find a nice heffy pile of cow crap, and I put a mushroom inside of it, will more mushrooms grow?

 

if the animal is fed with store bought feed such as "sweet feed" that has been "medicated" its shit wont grow mushrooms. the feed has a fungicide mixed in with it that prevents them from growing..

 

Part of the reason that in the case of fields which seem to be prime locations not producing is the fact that certain livestock feed grains on the market and certain fertilizers used on pasture lands have fungicidal chemicals / pathogens used specificly for the purpose of discouraging the growth of any kind of mushroom which might serve as a threat to the livestock.

And as far as just dumping a shroom under a pie goes, it's again a 50/50 proposition. Does the Rancher use Organic feed or treated feed? Do they spray the pasture with fungicide? (More and more do as there are many toxic mushies which are bad for Cows and Horses)

I'd really have to say your best bet would be for an "indoor garden" (if you cant do an outdoor garden bed that is.) Grow some normal food, but get your hands on a live culture, innoculate a bag of bulk substrate and when it's grown out, mix it in with your Cow / horse poop and "fapply a top layer of cow fertilize to your garden". But again, make sure that the poop you use comes from an organicly fed animal, no fungicides in their feed. (Find an Amish Rancher for instance) Google shroomery.org and Mycotopia, they have lots of teks and info and tons of suppliers advertizing stuff to help you in your quest for the Mushies, like Spores and pre-mixed substrate bags just waiting for a hit from a fresh syringe of spores. You're lookin at an initial investment of as little as $40-50 to get your ball rolling.

Much luck friend.

P.S. Squilla, Is Colfax still Hooker / meth head central? And did they ever reopen Muddys java cafe over on 22nd & Champa? I miss that state, but what a fubar job market when i was out there in 89'.

 

I thinks you mentioned this elsewhere. Im not sure.. but this is very true..
also help keep other animals and children on the farm from picking up shrooms and getting sick. And prevents hippies from coming on your farm at weeee hours of the night..