https://www.silvertreeforest.com/products/wine-cap-mushroom-spawn – Direct link to get Wine Cap spawn from our friends Erin and Pete. YES, they do ship!
https://www.silvertreeforest.com/about – Learn about their wonderful farm and their growing practices. We feel really lucky to have these friends in our life and anyone within a reasonable driving distance of Owasco/Auburn NY could do well to know what they are up to. They are also expanding shipping of plants, spawn and products so consider joining their mailing list to learn more as they grow!
https://www.silvertreeforest.com/products – Some other delightful products they offer.
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Wow! This is the first How To on mushroom growing that is done in a way that I can do it. No logs, no infrastructure, no special tools. Thank you, Pete! I am definitely checking out your website. Thank you, Sean and Sasha for bringing wonderful businesses to your viewers attention.
I help at an organic mushroom farm in Gasport, NY and this is great to see!
Exciting! As soon as I get wood chips, I'm going to grow wine caps!
Thank you Pete and Sean! This is amazing.
This might be great for my asparagus bed!
Other mushrooms that grow effortlessly on wood chips are Pleurotus Ostreatus (Oyster Mushroom) and Cyclocybe Aegerita (Poplar Mushroom). I recommend all of them 🙂
What was not mentioned in this video is that wood chips that have been around for a while will work less efficiently than wood chips that are 1-2 months fresh. As time goes on and the wood chips are exposed to environment, other fungal spores will germinate in them and compete for substrate.
If my memory is close to correct I believe that Shawn had that done around 10 Years ago also or about that time I think… Cheers
It would be best to clear the wood chips off the bottom of the solar panels in the video. Unless you have bypass diodes, they will act like a kink in a hose and limit the production of the entire array down to the output of the partially covered cell.
Placed an order my wood chips are waiting
Winecaps really are the best for wildcard woodchips. I’m also using it to wall of some inedible mushrooms that started on my oldest chips.
Got my spawn from Pete and inoculating this week… these are great tips thanks!
Are these mushrooms for eating?
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How would they do in a hosta bed?
i am growing wine cup mushrooms this year. i am very excited about them coming up soon! i think by autumn?
That was very informative, thanks guys.
Based on a failed attempt during a drought year a few years ago, I'd recommend putting at least one patch close to where you know you'll be watering frequently. That way you can make sure to keep the wine cap patch moist. Just got my spawn from Pete a few days ago, so hoping I have success this year.
Thank you for getting mushrooms back on things to grow and the co bonus.
Will be buying some spawn from them when they are back in stock! We vacationed in Durango, Colorado, USA, in January and we always take a natural souvenir home from wherever we visit. Just outside the Air BNB there was a deciduous tree that had fallen and a part of the trunk had snapped off and was next to the property. We decided to take it home with us as our souvenir. It’s about 8” in diameter and 14” long. Have been holding on to it for a mushroom inoculation with plug spawn and will be doing it soon. We also have our garden full of wood chips and we have wanted to have mushrooms grow along the paths and edges. Wine Cap Mushrooms seem to be the ones we are destined to grow thanks to this video. Happy Earth Day, all!
How would they do in a high, dry climate like the Denver area?
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So loved this !!!
Could you inoculate along the edge of an asparagus bed that has been mulched with wood chips ??
Will make sure the dogs are standing right there when I put plugs in logs. 🙂
Could you use old stems from Jerusalem artichoke plants?