Should i go take it and rub it on the dead stump in my back yard
do it. gills side down. maybe score the stump a with like a few fresh nicks/cuts so water might pool in little pockets. do that to part of the outer/bark layer too, so a few nicks/cuts cross the heartwood/outer boundary.
and maybe even leave the material resting on part of it. that way you’re hitting all the permutations of inoculation environment (shady, aerobic, waterphilic, anaerobic, full sun, and all the available wood structures.
I have my doubts it’ll do anything, but for like 30 seconds of chill/amusing effort to accelerate a stump’s decay, the reward is high. stump removal is such a pain in the ass.
also, you can’t go wrong making allies with random endemic fungi! #TeamCordyceps
also, you can’t go wrong making allies with random endemic fungi! #TeamCordyceps
that’s what i’m thinkin’ like i got all this useless stump and it’s just over there bein’ a fungi
Proof so nobody calls me a fake
go over and ask if you can have it
guy’s a landlord and doesn’t live there and is old
Oh, alright, mushroom is yours
It’s the stump’s shroom now
Update, ive liberated the mushroom
Should i eat it chat?
Just kidding even if you said it was safe i’d never eat it im not fucking round with mushrooms, ain’t gonna catch ME pooping out my own liquid organs
Looks like a lawn. While some would be sad to have a mushroom taken, this one is likely to be annihilated. Without knowing what kind of shroom may not be a good idea. Getting some spores for edible mushrooms to seed the stump may be better, iirc substrate is often sterilised first though so look into it first.
The reason to sterilize is.to endure a controlled environment where your target species is not outgrown by something random. I don’t think its going to make much a difference in an uncontrolled outdoor environment where it will be contaminated almost immediately. Its just sort of the luck of the draw
I’m a novice though, so if you have a different perspective I’d be curious to hear it
