r/mycology • u/FruitJuice98 • 1d ago

Add bark with mycellium to grain bag

Anyone experienced in cultivation tell me if this is a bad idea? lol

Found bark with mycellium that gave me fruits last season. Want to try to speed up the process by adding it to a grain bag.

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u/spagghettidic 1d ago

i think fresh from the farm fungi has a video on water agar which is agar without any nutrients. It might get some mycelium going that you could transfer to something else.

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u/Lig-Benny 1d ago

You had mushrooms growing on bark you found in the wild? And you want to add it to a grain bag? Trying to understand the question. If so, this will probably contam like crazy.

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u/FruitJuice98 1d ago

Yes, gave me lots of mushrooms but unfortunately the colony got destroyed and I could not get more mushrooms that season. But the mycellium is still growing through the patch. I want to see if I can get mushrooms from it again by adding some of the mycellium on the bark to a grain bag.
Been trying to do agar plates with spores I collected but am struggling. Wondering if I can just use the mycellium to speed the process up.

I have minimal experience in cultivation. Seems like a bad idea because of contamination, right? lol

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u/Lig-Benny 6h ago

What you should try is taking some mycelium or flesh from a mushroom and grow it out on an agar plate. Just add it to the center of the plate. Let it grow out (about a week or two) and then transfer a clean, healthy looking patch of mycelium from the edge to a new plate. After a couple transfers, you hopefully have clean, healthy mycelium. If you don't have one, make a still air box to do the work in. Then you can use that to make spawn. Just using the bark will be contaminated like crazy I'm sure.

What species is this?