I am going to put up some pictures tonight hopefully once my daughter sends them to me, she took some professional quality ones. Anyways I am sure they are honeys but I think they need some time to mature before I pick them. I tried to get a spore print but I did not get one after 24 hours, I think the cap was too young, but one of the most mature I found.

I tell you if you want to grow your own mushrooms I found out by accident, drag a few dead maple or alder logs with the bark on to a location which gets full sun less than 8 hours a day, sticker them so they are a few inches off of the ground and put a heavy tarp over them, (I had a silver/brown 12x24). Mine were infested with spores apparently but I bet you could add spores for Shitake or other types, It mattered that the logs were under the tarp because the ones outside the tarp got no mushrooms. Make sure the logs are spaced apart with 8 to 14 inches between them, because that is where the mushroom grow about half way up the side of the log and towards the ground, the mushrooms on the 3 logs I had covered are pretty thick in that zone in the darkest areas under the tarp, where they get more light and air they thin out. Since the logs are off the ground, not so may bugs and they are really clean.

I think I figured out how the logs were "seeded" I don't think it was from spores. I think that it was the spalt on the surface of the log, specifically the black lines which go into the log ,also when you saw a log with this type of spalt the black lines are called "ink pen spalt" the lines look like that of an ink pen. I think this black line spalt is from the honey fungus.


Edited by RICH G (10/20/18 11:20 AM)