alt Hacker NewsThere is always a risk of things like this. For example, to make my winecap bed, I had to get a bunch of woodchips. There is no way woodchips that one will buy in bulk are not contaminated with the spores of other wood-eating fungus.
What you learn is how to positively identify the mushrooms you intend to produce/eat. It doesn't take long. I've only had alien mushrooms show up once.
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eMPee584 • today at 5:34 PM
"I've only had alien mushrooms show up once" gonna be my reassuring quote of the day, thanks : )
Barbing • today at 5:29 PM
Do people ever try to irradiate or fumigate or however they’d treat the woodchips?
Maybe it would cost 10 times as much as the wood chips themselves… small batch spore bakeoffs…
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On the other hand, the morels that seemed to come with a load of wood chips were great for the year or two we had them.
I tried growing a little wine cap bed once, and it hadn't gone well. Perhaps it was the chickens pecking at it, can't say. I do still get wine caps on occasion, but they have migrated to more far-flung parts of the yard.