canndo
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You may be too late this year but you CAN start anyway, you won't get fruit but you will have a well established bed the following year if you extend your patch, be sure to keep it moist and watch out for too much direct sunlight.
Mushrooms have a "mentality", just like any other organism, they feel the need to reproduce when they believe their time is possibly at an end. Pot reacts when it is prevented from reproducing, in mycology, the organism senses two things, that the conditions are right for a release of spores (depending upon how they are spread) and it senses when it's food supply is getting low or it has met some sort of barrier to continued growth. Some of course simply deal seasonaly, some respond to water. The best possible time to release spores is a day or so after a good rain, the spores have the best chance of germinating on a moist surface, that and the moisture content of the fruit are often why you will see umbrella type mushrooms on lawns a day or so after a rain.
Most wood lovers like the sugar in the wood first and the lignin second so the fresher the wood the better but when the mushroom senses a combination of a shortage of sugar, an increase in moisture and a dip in temperature they will attempt to reproduce. Some of these mushrooms are light sensitive and that is why you wll see so much going on below the surface or even below the ground.
I have always noticed that the predominance of all mushrooms grow in the sunlight dappled areas of forests or fields, in the places where light is intermitent or dimmed somewhat, under brush and the like. Furthermore, mushrooms are edge dwellers, they fruit at margins, much like fish like the edges of things, the outcroppings, the protruberances, the irregularities.
Mushrooms have a "mentality", just like any other organism, they feel the need to reproduce when they believe their time is possibly at an end. Pot reacts when it is prevented from reproducing, in mycology, the organism senses two things, that the conditions are right for a release of spores (depending upon how they are spread) and it senses when it's food supply is getting low or it has met some sort of barrier to continued growth. Some of course simply deal seasonaly, some respond to water. The best possible time to release spores is a day or so after a good rain, the spores have the best chance of germinating on a moist surface, that and the moisture content of the fruit are often why you will see umbrella type mushrooms on lawns a day or so after a rain.
Most wood lovers like the sugar in the wood first and the lignin second so the fresher the wood the better but when the mushroom senses a combination of a shortage of sugar, an increase in moisture and a dip in temperature they will attempt to reproduce. Some of these mushrooms are light sensitive and that is why you wll see so much going on below the surface or even below the ground.
I have always noticed that the predominance of all mushrooms grow in the sunlight dappled areas of forests or fields, in the places where light is intermitent or dimmed somewhat, under brush and the like. Furthermore, mushrooms are edge dwellers, they fruit at margins, much like fish like the edges of things, the outcroppings, the protruberances, the irregularities.
Might even start my own thread so you can Jack me back... lol.
