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[PerseidTraveler]

Ok this is so cool!
I live in a place that is considered a cold desert. We get most of our moisture from snow and normally get almost zero rain...but this year it has rained more than it has every year previous combined it seems like, on top of a ridiculously wet winter.
I have been growing shiitake and lion's mane mushrooms for quite a few years now indoors, and I have attempted multiple times to grow them on logs, but the second I see pins they immediately dry out. I have tried tarping them. But they get too hot. I have tried hitting them with the sprinkler everyday, but by the time they get an inch or so above the grass and log, they dry out.
Anyways, I have been throwing my spent substrate blocks into my Compost for a couple years now, and this morning I was walking out to see my chickens, and I noticed a tiny little white ball growing near my cabbage bed!
I know this will probably dry out too as soon as the sun comes out, but it is so cool to me to see a lion's mane growing outside of my grow tent

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[YoshiTrainer]

That is cool, I wonder if you could cover it loosely with a white grocery bag and use a couple bricks to hold the handles in place? Something simple just to give your mush a little help?

[PerseidTraveler]

That is cool, I wonder if you could cover it loosely with a white grocery bag and use a couple bricks to hold the handles in place? Something simple just to give your mush a little help?

I'm going to try again one day when I have more time, and lighter plastic as opposed to tarp material is definitely a change I would make

I'm in my early 30s and have lived here all but the 5 years of my life between ages 17-22...we are usually on campfire restriction by now, and this year the mountains are still green, it's incredible. Last fall a friend of mine found A. Muscaria in a couple patches around 8,000 feet above sea level on a mountainside and we have never seen them in the wild here...it's really quite amazing that the mycelium will

[inmyHead]

Awesome! I've recently been wanting to try cooking with lion's mane, because I've heard it's similar to crabmeat and easy to prepare. I don't have any knowledge of growing those types mentioned, but I do have some firsthand experience with Amanitas. Well, with identifying and consuming at least. If you're planning on consuming the Amanita(s) I could definitely help, if interested. I'm not a pro with them, but have decent knowledge - and from experience doing Google searches can become very misleading if not dangerous.

Good luck with the lion's mane!