Growing Morel Mushrooms

I give my thoughts and overall take on experimenting with morels, telling what I've learned, and revealing images of my progress. Thank you for watching! :)

[thegamewasdone]

Can't wait for the update. I loved your video. I totally agree that experiments should be freeing. Its how I've approached it and I think it adds to the satisfaction when something you tried works

[williammedford]

Thank you for sharing your experiment. Your heart and enthusiasm and honesty are a bonus.

[scott-o]

I think mushroom growers don't want to reveal their knowledge. All of these mushroom growing videos talk about everything BUT, actually HOW to grow them.

[rekartrustee]

You forgot wood ash. It raises PH and lowers acidity. These mushrooms love to pop out after forest fires. Food for thought [no pun intended]

[younginsong]

five years of studying the morel, thank you so much.

[lauradunn]

I have done the morel slurry and had great success with it. I dumped my slurry around an old Apple Tree on my property. the tree was about dead when I started my project. The health of the tree has improved because of the symbiotic relationship with a morel mushroom. I have harvested a handful of morels from my project. I have also dumped moral salary around my brother's backyard and he lives in the city. There used to be an apple tree but the city cut down the tree and it has been gone for a year but it's still produced morals. I started in spring 2018, I got my first harvest in 2019, I'm hoping in 2020 my harvest will be larger.
Every year I select a few morels to turn back into salary and dump it in the areas I know produce morels.

[Intolerant]

About the moss at the end of the video... I live in southern indiana with 46 acres of wooded forest in my backyard. Right near my back porch I have a thicket of spruce trees with a thick moss on the ground almost year-round. The moss is up to 2 or 3inches thick in some places... I've picked some 8 inch morels growing out of that moss before! It's consistently one of my biggest honey holes

[salvagemonster]

Across Iowa this spring we have found morels in peoples yards. Spread all around in the open. Not clustered together nor were they close to woods. I harvested 24 from my front yard. Apparently the 2019 derecho had spread them all over. I planted several of the small ones in a moist shaded area hoping maybe next year they will return. Very strange the behavior of these little things

[lifeafterlifeplus]

I really enjoyed taking this journey with you and I feel you will have the success you have worked so hard for. I look forward to watching your spring video and just how great your crop will be. Thanks for sharing. I myself have just begun the journey of mushroom growing. Thanks again

[baohoainguyen]

Thanks for this video, you are really great to listen to. Would love to see more videos from you.

[keithbrooks]

Groovy experiment. Now I don't know for certain on what I'm going to tell you. Only that I know it worked for me. I moved to Pennsylvania from Michigan and I had no spot to hunt morels for myself. So one doing I went back to Michigan and found early morels. I then took those back to Pennsylvania and then transplanted best I could. I did this around elm trees. But be for I did this I took some elm logs and buried them 4-5-6 inches deep and put 2 dozen morels in my bed above the buried elm logs. I did this beside live elms. I then took some binding wire and put toward the base of the live elms around the bed I made and tightened around the dads of live elms. After that I let nature take its course. Next spring I had around 100-150 morels. I picked more than 3/4. Left the rest. Also I always seed the area around. By this I mean pulling the dead leaves and stuff on ground to expose dirt I then drop the motel or tap it on the ground to speak the spores. Next spring thousands of morels. Each year I find more and more.

[neweraccount]

10:10-10:25 AMEN! That’s how the pacemaker was invented amongst manny life changing inventions... you have a bright mind and I hear the joy and love in your being when you speak... great video

[grjoe]

Morel mushrooms have been grown commercially in China for several years. It's grown in soil. The key is that there are two types of Morel. One is associated with trees and the other is not. It's the second type that can be grown in soil.

[saraconner]

what helps grow morels is using wood ash on the beds which simulates a forest fire and they should pop up after that. hope it helps.

[poppyaustin]

I really respect your dedication to having the experience of growing Morels. I'm sure with it you can achieve your goals.

[alainlehouiller]

Coming across your video 5 years later and wanting to experiment as well, this is well timed. Thank you!

[ghazanfarabbas]

Thank you for sharing your experiment. I loved it morel mushrooms are also grown naturally in our area Gilgit Baltistan, we did not know that they are also growing like crops

[rhinofart]

The pinning begins when the mycellium depletes nutrients and the colony becomes desperate. Therefore, pinning is a survival response. The mushroom structure itself is how the colony sends new genetics out to colonize a new nutrient rich environment.
Morels are very hardy(the mycellium). Hint: The reason slurries work better vs indoor microenviroments is because nature encourages the survival response, controlled environments are just that controlled and do not encourage survival response.

[hyzaar]

Humidity, fresh air exchange, and evaporation off of a fully colonized substrate (like via a constantly damp casing layer) is the key to pinning. Pinning requires at least 90% humidity and if anything goes awry, they will abort.

[xavierayayaell]

Loved watching this, thank you. You seem an awesome person.