Adding Mycellium to Soil. Need recommendations

I want to inoculate substrate jars with liquid culture of a medicinal or gourmet mushroom, and add them to my soil once fully colonized. I’d like to do this as an experiment with controls.

I was thinking of trying out 2 kinds of mushrooms. Not doing psilocybin varieties right now. What do you guys thing?

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The wine cap is a good one and if you mulch with wood chips you can do oyster shell mushies as well and it’s good eating to if you got oaks and pines you can inoculate them with chanterelle they are also very good eating and super high in beta carotene and there are many more:) some of my favs and ease of cultivation

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You can use any mushroom, better if its floor growing, but if not, no problem, it will still decompose organic matter. I usually just mix the spent mushroom substrate with the soil and thats it. For oyster sub I use it as kind of mulch.

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And the golden teachers take hot cow manure and use the mushrooms to compost it down because it’s to hot to use right away anyways then once you flush it a couple times you can put it straight on your cannabis beds and it’ll flush a couple more just something to take into consideration:)

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I dump mine into my coco coir/peat/perlite 30-gallon pots when I’m done flushing what I want. Never had one sprout. Not surprised I probably drowned it, if they were trying.

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Try top dressing next time that should getcha going, I think you’re right busting it up and mixing it in the root system took over took over the food source by top dressing it should share it because the mush stays colonized should work for ya

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