Creating a shaggy ink cap patch?

[Jdon]

Hi all. I'm a sometime lurker, first forum post here.

 

Found a shaggy ink cap (Coprinus comatus) yesterday and wondered if I could get a patch going in the back yard. Today I chucked the inky mess in  a bucket of water with some strips of cardboard. After an hour soaking I buried the soggy, stained (and hopefully spore-impregnated) cardboard in a fallow vegie bed, then watered the bed with the remaining slurry. 

Anyone had any experience with cultivating these that they're prepared to share?

Thanks in advance..

[Bigred]

I would just get some potting mix and pasteurize it then mix the ink caps through it .You could go to agar and then spawn

but not sure why you would want to cultivate ink caps

 

[waterboy 2.0]

Stem butts with a little myc will also take to corrugated cardboard

That way its straight into fruiting myc(basically cloned)

 

They like a steady carbon source for the long term, twigs/sticks in the mix.

Also have found that compacted areas, like a dirt road will slow them up from spreading

and get a better run at fruiting.

 

They will run a long distance, before fruiting sometimes.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 13, 2016 by waterboy 2.0

[Jdon]

20 minutes ago, Bigred said:

I would just get some potting mix and pasteurize it then mix the ink caps through it .You could go to agar and then spawn

but not sure why you would want to cultivate ink caps

 

Thanks Red, I just saw it in a park and it was a spur of the moment thing. Knowing that a mushroom definitely hasn't been pissed on by a dog definitely makes it taste better, I reckon.

[Jdon]

Thanks for the tips WB. Interesting observation about the compacted ground - maybe the compacted sawdust path around the beds would have a similar effect... Will definitely try the cardboard/myc idea too when I get my act together.