Seems to me that would be cheating. Kinda like planting a food plot or using a trail camera or something.
Yep, only a sissy pants shroomer would try to grow his own:))
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Seriously though, I've never done it, so can't help ya there. Depending on which variety you try to grow, you might really have your patience tested. Their growth is often very unpredictable... at least in the woods it is.
I had a big sulfur shelf grow on a cherry tree behind my house ONCE in all the years I lived there :^( There are other places I can think of the same thing happening with oyster, califlower, morel, and sheepshead... find them there one time and never again since.... I keep going back though, hoping :^)
Perhaps there is a type that is more predicatable? Or easier to make content to grow?
I expect some, due to their own immediate surroundings, need other conditions such as rainfall, temps, sun and shade, etc. to be more 'precise' for them. I know several places where sheepshead grow more years than not. My most reliable spot, they come up on the same white oak, by creekside, almost every year. You don't have to leave some of the actual upper mushroom behind, but I cut them off close to the ground rather than just ripping them out by the roots. They will regrow the following year if ripped out by the roots, but if I cut them, sometimes they'll grow right back in a couple weeks. I also try to carry mushrooms in a fishnet-type bag... like those that onions and oranges come in, so that the spoors are shaken and deposited as I carry them around. It may not do much good, but I do it anyhow. That's the extent of my mushroom farmin' :^)
I enjoy the actual hunting for them as much as eating them, so even if I could grow them in my back yard, I'd still go hunt em.
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I've heard of quite a few folks trying to grow morels in a buried elm log, with no luck.
Cut or pinch your mushrooms near the base. And you can use an onion bag that's vented to spread spores as you walk around. Also some guys save the rinse water to throw out into the woods to also spread spores.
There Is a mushroom club in Pa that has walks. Western Pa Mushroom club, and they hold walks just about every where in Pa
I'll stick to picking wild.
