Reddit reviews Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets

I'd recommend buying that book and reading through it once or twice before you buy equipment or anything. It covers a ton of aspects of growing mushrooms of all varieties. It's important to understand why you're doing things as opposed to just following someone's recipe. It will also make it easier to ask questions about problems you're having and understand the answers given.

Almost anything you could want to know about mushroom cultivation is in that book and it's the most important piece of equipment you could spend money on. Also the most value-per-dollar spent.

Paul Stamets covers the subject quite well.

Well, those Cedars aren't going to be much help. Any hardwoods? You could cut up some of those into rounds and sandwich spawn in between (much easier than plugging with dowels.) Pick up one of Stamet's cultivation books for more ideas. Perhaps have someone from a nearby myco group (Port Townsend or Seattle) take a walk on the land in the fall, you're in mushroom paradise up there, you might already have kilos of edibles!

http://www.psms.org/index.php

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The best starting advice is to read this book. Paul Stamets is like the pope of mushrooms and the book covers not only the biology but the economics of mushroom growing.


https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Gourmet-Medicinal-Mushrooms-Stamets-ebook/dp/B004GTLS2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536675476&sr=8-1&keywords=paul+stamets+mushroom+book

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As for morels, my understanding is that they require the trees they grow on and the microbiome they create. Nobody has learned how to create that condition in a controlled environment yet.