The nutrients released by dying trees and the leaf litter of the forest  morel mushrooms thrive in. Wood chips, wood ash, peat moss, and sand are also desirable soil additives for growing morels. Many homeowners have success in growing morels in the location where a tree stump is located

WHAT IS GRAIN SPAWN?

Dried Spawn is EASY to use! Just reconstitute in water, and either finely chop or use a blender, and pour the resulting spore  mixture over your substrate or onto the ground where they need to be sown.

Grain spawn can be thought of like “seeds” in mushroom cultivation. It is made by starting from either spores or a mushroom culture, which is then transferred to sterilized grain.

The mushroom mycelium then grows throughout the grain, feeding off the starchy goodness.

Eventually, the mushroom culture will fully colonize the grain, covering it in white mycelium.

From there, it can be broken up into individual grain kernels and mixed into a bulk substrate.

The mycelium will continue to grow from there- eventually producing mushrooms.


Almond Portobello (Blazei, Subrufescens)

Agaricus Blazei, or Agaricus Subrufescens - two mushrooms that go by the name Almond Portobello.

Tasty mushroom for gourmet recipes. Extracts used as cancer treatment in some parts of the world (both have cancer inhibiting effects, but Blazei is the one most often referred to in that capacity). Slightly harder to grow than regular Portobello mushrooms due to sensitivity to contamination in “sterile” settings.

This is a prized mushroom, originally for the almond flavor for which it is named, and later for medicinal benefits. It is still a wonderful culinary find, and can be used either as a button (unopened) mushroom, or as a larger traditional Portobello style mushroom.