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One of the most affordable mushroom cultivation is growing honey agarics in the country - for this you just need to look for a suitable stump or a piece of the trunk of a fallen tree with a rich mycelium in the forest and move it to your site. Moreover, you can grow both autumn and winter or summer mushrooms in the country. A more painstaking way is to grow mushrooms at home in a room specially equipped for this.

The technology of growing honey agarics in the country and in the garden on stumps (with video)

Summer mushroom (Kuehneromyces mutabilis) is well known to the inhabitants of Russia. Who among the mushroom pickers has not seen the abundance of small fruit bodies with thin legs on stumps? The hats are edible and delicious. Few mushrooms are capable of producing such a high yield on logs as summer mushrooms.

Summer honey agaric begins to bear fruit on birch logs a year after sowing. The mycelium winters well in logs. Bears fruit in high humidity conditions. During cultivation, it transforms the wood of the logs into micro-wood, which has thermal insulation properties.

How to grow mushrooms in your garden? The easiest way to grow mushrooms in the garden is to bring from the forest deadwood, pieces of logs or hemp on which this mushroom grows. Under the condition of regular watering during dry periods, summer honey agaric gives several waves of fruiting on the brought wood.

On half-dug logs sown in 2005, honey mushrooms grow close to the ground. Summer honey agaric loves old, dilapidated stumps and branches.

To obtain high yields when growing honey agarics on stumps, it is necessary to make a covered pit below ground level - such that the upper ends of the logs dug in there by one third of the lengths of logs with summer forest do not reach the roof by 20-30 cm. The cover is best made of boards almost without slots and install it on the bricks.

The mushroom also settles on old sections of logs, on which the Shiitake mushroom previously grew. In our dry climate, forest mushrooms such as summer mushrooms and reindeer flocks are displacing shiitake from the woody substrate. Apparently, this explains its absence in our forests.

Reindeer rocking (Pluteus cervinus) and autumn line (Gyromitra esqulenta) also grow on dilapidated dead wood and stumps.

In the garden, winter mushrooms can also be planted on logs. Winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) is an edible, tasty and healing mushroom. It can even be eaten raw. Most willingly, it grows on pieces of willow wood, on willow stumps. It is possible to grow mushrooms on birch logs. Fruit bodies are formed not only on the bark of the logs, but also on the end. It bears fruit in late autumn and even in winter with the onset of positive temperatures during thaws. There are known cases of fruiting on New Year's Eve under the snow. Under the microscope, the frozen, bursting cells of the winter honey fungus mycelium begin to grow together when the temperature rises above freezing.

Growing autumn mushrooms from mycelium on stumps

Autumn honey (Armillaria mellea) it is difficult to grow on a separate stump, but it can settle on its own in a garden plot on birch stumps and even on weakened apple trees. Growing honey agarics on stumps is also possible in a garden plot with a high level of groundwater. When ennobling garden plots, bushes and trees are cut down in the place of former shrubs and small forests, and the roots of felled trees remain underground. The autumn honey fungus assimilates these remnants with its mycelium and grows on them, crawling out of the ground.

How to grow mushrooms from mycelium in the country? Breeding in the gardens of autumn mushrooms is hampered by their unwillingness to take root on a free-standing stump. When growing honey mushrooms from mycelium on stumps, the mycelium will begin to master the wood of the stump, but this will all end.It will not bear fruit until it captures a large territory. Autumn honey agaric prefers to form a plantation on many stumps and trees at once, capturing them with the help of long and thick rhizomorphs of its mycelium. Its cords of mycelium (rhizomorphs) glow in the dark. But in order to see this phenomenon, it is necessary to accustom the eyes to darkness for more than an hour.

There is also speculation that it can inhabit garden trees as a parasite. Therefore, it is undesirable for the garden. But here little depends on us. Growing honey agaric in the country and in the garden is not so easy, but if the mushrooms have settled themselves, they cannot be destroyed. Therefore, nothing remains but to collect them, salt or fry them. Raw mushrooms can cause stomach upset. Even with cold salting together with milk mushrooms or with other milk jugs that do not require boiling, the autumn honey must first be boiled for 15 minutes so as not to be poisoned. Boiled and dried autumn mushrooms are not poisonous at all.

An attempt can be made to create a plantation of logs dug into the ground for growing autumn mushrooms. On a garden plot in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, the forest comes close to the garden plot. There are stumps near the site, on which the autumn mushroom grows annually. You can dug into the ground one and a half meter pieces of logs from the spruce trees destroyed by the bark beetle. Arrange drip irrigation of these logs and wait for the autumn mushroom to capture our logs.

To effectively moisten the logs along the axis, a hole with a diameter of 2 cm and a depth of 60 cm was drilled in the center of the log, and in the upper part, using a wood cutter, cylindrical cavities were selected, which play the role of funnels for filling water. Water can be poured from a kettle or using a drip irrigation system. Water is supplied from the barrel through silicone tubing and dripped from a disposable syringe.

Ephedra are moisturized for a long time due to the presence of resin. During the initial moistening, rotten wood is moistened slowly - about a week. Water enters a damp or rotten log quickly enough.

The video "Growing mushrooms" shows how to grow these mushrooms in the country:

How to grow mushrooms from mycelium honey agarics at home

The basis of the substrate for growing mushrooms again at home is the husk from sunflower seeds or sawdust of deciduous trees or dry pine boards.

The fruit bodies of the winter honeydew has a unique ability to push the caps out into the zone of fresher air with the help of long legs. This property makes it possible to simplify the collection of fruiting bodies by growing winter honeydew in a tall bag, in which only its lower part is filled with the substrate.

How to grow honey mushrooms at home to get a good harvest? To do this, take a bag from a polypropylene sleeve 25.5 cm wide and 28 cm long.Place 2 liters of substrate in it. You get a bag with a diameter of 16 cm, a height of 28 cm and a volume of 5 liters, of which 3 liters is free space above the substrate.

For the manufacture of one substrate block with a volume of 2 liters, take 230 g of dry sunflower husk or 200 g of dry sawdust. Add 70g grains (oats or barley). Add a teaspoon of chalk or lime flour - CaCO3 to the mixture. Add enough pure water to the substrate so that the mass becomes equal to 900 g. Stir the substrate and place it in the bottom of the bag.

After that, the substrate in bags must be sterilized in an autoclave for 1.5 hours or pasteurized by fractional pasteurization. The cotton plugs should be wrapped in aluminum foil and sterilized so as not to get them wet.

After cooling the bags with the substrate with your hands, mash the grain mycelium of the winter honeydew. Hands, table and the room itself must be clean! Open the neck of the bag and sprinkle the mycelium on the surface of the substrate (flat tablespoon). Seal the mycelium and substrate in the bag with a spoon or hands. Insert a 3 cm sterilized cotton plug into the top of the bag's throat.Tighten the neck of the bag with twine around the stopper.

For incubation when growing mushroom mycelium in the substrate, place the bags on the shelves at a temperature of +12. .. + 20 ° C. At this stage of mycelium development, air humidity does not matter. Through the film of the bag, you can see how the mycelium grows from the grains with mycelium. After about 30 days, the substrate block can be considered ready for fruiting. It will become denser and lighter. Small tubercles will appear on its surface - the rudiments of fruiting bodies. It is necessary to move the blocks to the place of their future fruiting carefully, without removing the cotton plug, trying not to damage the surface of the block.

To make mushrooms appear, it is enough to remove the cork from the bag and leave the bag open. The upper empty part of the bag will act as a "collar" in which the caps of the fruit bodies of the winter honeydew will stretch upward from the zone of high carbon dioxide concentration to the air. The mushrooms are harvested after their caps come out of the bag, and the legs look like pasta filling the upper, empty part of the bag. The mushrooms are cut along with the legs, which are tied with a thread like a bunch of flowers. Both the caps and the legs are edible.