thanks for your insight meanies! well ive already started a "controlled" woodchip patch, left enough room to grow pinus radiata AND gum nuts and leaves along with a little bittle of decaying native grasses that subs just LOVE! so hopefully by next year i can show you guys the difference in a side by side comparison !!! anychance of my controlled patch fruiting this year if it only started colonising 5 weeks ago? its pretty well developed! more so than fruiting patches ive observed. ALSO! my DIY urban-assualt patch, in a park across the road from my place got churned up and replaced by treated chips about 3 weeks ago all that effort gone to waste