vitog Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Both black and yellow morels are now coming up in the PNW all the way up the coast to British Columbia. I found my first blacks on Friday, along with some yellows in another area closer to the coast. The latter area produced a single yellow last weekend. The attached photo shows a group of very young blacks that I've been targeting for cloning. Last year I was too late to get them at the young stage that is best for cloning, but this year the timing was just right. This group has been coming up in exactly the same spot since 2011, when I first discovered their location. They are clearly associated with the small tree behind them, and I'm hoping to have them cloned and then use the resulting spawn to inoculate seedlings of the same trees. It would really be useful to plant inoculated trees nearby so that I wouldn't have to drive so far to get my morel fix every year. That's my dream anyway, but I realize that it is a long shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Cool experiment, vitog. I wonder if it may take years before mycelium becomes established to the extent where mushrooms are produced. Nice photos of those young blacks. My camera can't wait to photograph some :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakotabob Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 That is a cool experiment. Like Dave, I can't wait to get out. I am about 30 days out from where I collect blacks in Manitoba near my seasonal campground site. I have an experiment going with blewit spawn right now. It seems to be going well. I am using them for composting. I plan to spread some around under my spruce, pine and juniper trees around my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Blewits seem to be one of the easier saprobes to get established. I throw pieces of bug-riddled Blewits in various different areas on my property... compost heap, yard waste, under some pines, under a Douglas Fir, under some spruce (adjacent property), here and there on the lawn. Pretty much every year I get some. They appear in new spots and persist for 2 or 3 years, often in areas where I had tossed the pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitog Posted April 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I've been trying something similar with stem butts from Shaggy Parasols. I've planted them in the woods nearby, as well as in some raspberry beds mulched with wood chips in my back yard. The only success was a couple of years ago when some came up in my neighbor's yard about 15 ft from where I had planted the stem butts. I didn't even see them until the neighbor pointed them out, and they were too old to use by then. I've also had singles come up in a flower bed in the front yard for the last 2 years, but I can't imagine that the Shaggy Parasol mycelium traveled about 50 ft around my house to get there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 About ten years ago I tossed some scraps from Shaggy Parasols under the Douglas Fir back of our house. This type seems to favor coniferous litter around here. Although I had not seen any Parasols under the Doug Fir before "seeding" the area, we have collected Chlorophyllum rhacodes from this spot almost every fall afterward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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