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collect cow dung to take home for mushrooms?

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stoneyone

stoneyone

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today while out on a hike in the fields I was wondering if one was to collect a bunch of the cow dung that has copelandia cyanescens growing out of it and took it home and filled flower box with it if i could grow my own. would this work? or something of the sort? never grown mushrooms before

I live right next to the fields so the climate is the same. its not hard to go out and pick a bunch and I do love the hunt but it may be tresspassing and its offten a hit or a miss and thought it would be great to have em in the front yard as needed and possible grow em better then stictly wild one.

any thoughts?
 
Ive wondered this myself.. Your best bet would be to make some sterile manure, take spore prints and just inoculate it yourself.
 
I got some nice ponyshit the other day

if you dont mind your whole flat smelling then id say go for it

its important to dry the shit as fast as possible. that will stop the smell and other microrganisms
 
I think you will have to take more than just the cow shit, because those are just the fruit bodies. I would try to take some soil from under the manure and 'transplant' it to your own garden. Than dumpt some cow or horse manure on top of it and hope they grow...
You're very lucky to have wild pans growing in your area, and i would definatly take some prints and vist the shroomery for a growing tek.
Btw if you collect horse (or pony) manure it shouldn't be the fresh stuff but the aged stuff. It doesn't smell at all, I actually like the fragrence, smells like earth :)
 
teotenakeltje said:
I think you will have to take more than just the cow shit, because those are just the fruit bodies. I would try to take some soil from under the manure and 'transplant' it to your own garden. Than dumpt some cow or horse manure on top of it and hope they grow...
You're very lucky to have wild pans growing in your area, and i would definatly take some prints and vist the shroomery for a growing tek.
Btw if you collect horse (or pony) manure it shouldn't be the fresh stuff but the aged stuff. It doesn't smell at all, I actually like the fragrence, smells like earth :)
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Perhaps you would know better than me, but I do not believe this is how it works. I went camping on a friend's property a week or two ago and there were quite a few Pan cyans out there. Not as many as we wanted, though, so we scoured and scoured the fields, even flipping over lots of the dung piles to pick primordial mushrooms growing underneath them.

From what I saw, the mycelium does not go into the ground at all. We also broke open a few dry piles, and you could see the beautiful mycelial network all through it. So I believe taking the shit alone would work, provided it was a pile that was clearly colonized and fruiting. Now, I don't know if you could put it in a humidity chamber and get it to fruit (seems like you should be able to, honestly, provided you replicated the conditions cyans fruit under), but either way I definitely don't think it would require the dirt underneath it.
 
ok, I never had the chance to see wild pan cyans, but if the pies are nicely colonized than yes, it could work. It's just that I read that mycelium forms very large networks, and I can imagine that it is larger than the cow dung alone.
Apparently stoneyone lives in the perfect conditions since they grow in the fields next to him. So that means his garden would povide the necessary conditions no? No need for a humiditiy tent.
Obviously this is all speculation, because I have no experience with cultivating in the wild.
 
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