Grow Morels with a Spore Slurry!
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- How to make a spore slurry to grow morels in your own back yard. Foraging and Mushrooming Instructor, Rachel Goclawski of Cooking With Mrs G takes you through the process from ingredients and supplies to preparing your spore bed to kick-starting some morel mycelium! *This video was taken in spring 2021- it takes years for morels to fruit. I don't expect to see fruiting until 2023 or 2024*.
NOTE it is not recommended to spend lots of money buying spores for this method. It's a fun experiment to try when you have found a bunch of older morels that are past prime for good eating but still have spores, or, as I have exemplified in this video- morels that had been stepped on, weed-wacked and otherwise damaged. Tip: try posting on your local town pages to get some morels from neighbors who don't want them! (That's how I got these!) - Jak na to + styl
I made a slurry 3 years ago. I used a quarter cup of maple syrup, a pinch of non iodized salt, and flour. Today we found 17 and it looks like they just popped. I also tossed ashes from the stove out on the snow. I'm hoping tomorrow will show many more
WOW, I absolutely love this video
Thank y'all so much! That looks like fun.
🍄Use rye flour, and add gypsum to the slurry, it seems to work better.🍄
Great tip!
I will definitely be trying this thank you 😊
Thank you so much super easy method!
Making my slurry now. Found a few morels by my barn growing out of the gravel.
I found about 15 today! On Easter Sunday!! I have literally been looking in the country about 12-15 years..but today I found them all! Fried them up and they were amazing!
Thanks for sharing! We’re going to try our hand at morel hunting soon🍄
You were very informative!!!! Subscribed! Thank you!
Thank you!
Inculcated a bed in my garden a couple years ago I am hopeful this spring we might get some.
Are you going to make a follow up video this year? I'm curious to see the results 👀 😊
Love this video thanks so much just getting into researching on growing my own I believe this will help alot❤
Love the video. I’m in Alaska and would love to do a patch. We had a fire at skilak lake and people find them out there. Hardwoods are birch trees , alder, poplars and aspen.
Thank you 🍄
Years ago i started a very nice patch where i was living. I moved but the family living there let me know that it worked well. Besides sprinkling the shrooms on the ground i added one secret ingredient. Great results.
In my area morels pop starting Easter and last till Mother's day. This is because they are symbiotic. Morels need the sugars from the roots of the tree. So, I would suggest freezing blocks of water infused with maple syrup and set them out on your patch a week or two before Easter so it will melt and simulate sugars being released into the mycelium.
Thank you so much for holding my hand during this process.. I've got my slurry bubbling ❤️ your video is excellent!
So excited for you! Hope you have a harvest next year!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski did you end up with any morels from your seeding?
@@brianbenham6779 Hi, Brian, morels take a few years to go from spore to fruit so I am hoping to see some in a year or two!
@@brianbenham6779 Hi, Brian it typically takes morels a few years to go from spore to fruiting so I'm hoping to see some in a year or so!
So after this process, you won’t see results until the following year correct, also am I too late yet this year to do this?
Love ❤ it
THANKS FOR SHARING.HOWS THIS YEAR LOOKING 2023
Dear Mrs. Goclawski
I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for the invaluable resources you've shared on CZcams about morel mushroom growing. Your clear and concise explanation videos have been incredibly helpful and informative for me as I embark on my own mushroom growing journey.
Your dedication to providing comprehensible explanations and detailed instructions is truly admirable, and it's evident that you're passionate about helping others learn about this fascinating topic. Your expertise and insights have been a tremendous asset to me, and I feel more confident and empowered thanks to your guidance.
I also appreciate the additional information you've shared in your videos about topics such as soil preparation, harvesting techniques, and pest management. These insights have been incredibly valuable and have helped me to better understand the nuances of morel mushroom growing.
Once again, I can't thank you enough for the incredible resources you've shared. Your dedication to educating others is inspiring, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have access to your expertise. Thank you for all that you do!
Best regards🙏
Did it work for u??
Wow looks yummy!!!
LOL! Let's hope the morel spores thought so! We may find out this spring
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski so spread the spore is the morel to the story??😁
@@wooki_in-the-wild if you have the "morel support"!🤣
For the first cpl years of owning the house, i had a few morels that grew right up against my house. I live at the base of powell butte in Portland or. I have never found them beyond my property and the next door neighbors yard. Then, after a cpl years, they stopped. I was the first owner and discovered the dirt my house sits on was from a landfill. I don't know from where, but I would find all kinds of stuff in the soil like plastics, metal.... trash, basically. Wherever it was from must have had a massive morel garden
Thanks for spreading the those spores upon the earth and propagating mushroom knowledge .
They seem to love the acidity from apple trees. Only at the bases though as far as I've gathered. Local plant, here in souththern WV, we call, 'may apple' is also a good sign uaually. Found 30 this evening
Omg if they mowed and stomped.... next year will probably be an award winning type year
Great content on your channel. Im starting to get very interested in plant and fungi identification and foraging. I happily subscribed. Your videos are definitely appreciated 🙏
Thanks, so nice to know the videos help people!
Out here, CDN Rockies, they grow consistently near cedars, rather than the list of trees you mentioned. My "rather than" is a little out of place, cuz we have a mainly conifer forest up where our burn was last year, but yes, the few i've found down here in our valley do seem to grow almost anywhere it wants. Tho in another vid i watched I noted they poured & harvested from under trailers and such that mimicked forest canopy.
They especially show up after forest fires.
@@Ermagawd Yes, they're part of nature's way of reforesting, inviting birds & animals interested in morels as food, consequently leaving droppings which nourish the soil...
Thank you so much, with this preparation can apply to another mushroom?
I tried your slurry recipe this year. Nothing to do now but wait till next spring to see if I was successful.
Wishing you luck and morels!
Takes years
Hi thank you so much for this great video. Now I’m very excited to try and grow some morels of my own. Where can I order Morel spores? Thanks!
I found a cluster of small Morels of 4 under a palm bark on a pile of concrete rubble and sandy dirt. It has rain quite a bit over the past month in the east county of San Diego. This is the second harvest off of this oddity. The dirt is high in concrete cement content. It is very acidic. I'm gonna go ahead and make a slurry and see what happens..
Not acidic. Basic like wood ash, lime, and gypsum.
I've tried this method a few times now even putting my slurry in spots behind my house that are proven morel spots. I even used over a pound of morels in my second batch of slurry to no success. Doesn't seem to work where I live for some reason. I find plenty of morels but thought if I could get the slurry to work I could have even more hahaha. You can never have too many!
What kind of trees do you have?
You should be using wood chips
I've dried 1000s of pounds on my porch on window screens. Billions of spores and good spore prints on my screens produced zero morels. Fake
It doesn't work anywhere with any consistency. This process is complete nonsense. She has a fundamental misunderstanding of how the morel lifecycle works.
And the morels she used were already spored out. If she had used fresh yellows that weren't dried out they would have still released some spores.
I've dug up murrels soil and all a d transplanted let them die off the following year they came back now I do again
I brought in some compost a few years ago for my urban garden and some morels popped up. I wasn’t exactly sure so I didn’t eat them but later found out they were. They never grew back after that 😢
What a complex process, thank you for explaining this. Is rain water from a barrel suitable for the slurry?
Filtered it should be OK!
I want to try this I have shaded woods around my property with a mix of hardwoods and pine trees.
Do you think this will be ok
I found your video looking for another I had watched some time ago but am unable to find. The gentleman's technique was very similar (with airstone) but I want to say he used maltodextrin for the sugar instead of karo syrup. Not sure where you are located but here in SW missouri I find them in a wide range of habitats but the thing that is consistent is limestone. The midwestern united states was an inland sea millions of years ago and all those diatoms (small shelfish) dying for mellenia is what cause the abundance of limestone in the midwest. Here in the ozarks it is pretty near the surface and evident as rock outcrops or visible when the hills are blasted through for highways. I threw the book out the window on host tree species as I really don't feel its that critical and have found them amongst many hard and semi hardwood species. But it is always in very rocky, well washed areas with good leaf litter and natural mulch so I think you are spot on with the lime. I wonder if a small quantity in the bubble bucket wouldn't be a bad idea? I am going to do some research on sugars and try to find the most like those that naturally occur in tree saps (think maple or other) as i firmly believe that the symbiotic relation with threes and the types of sugars present in their root system must be at least part of the complex equation that is the morel life cycle. I watched an interesting program recently where they were using special isotopes as markers and determined that trees share nutrients with each other and do so through the mycelium of fungi! Pretty amazing and remarkable stuff. I do know that it takes at least a full season of growth before the mycelium will fruit so I will try to remember and report back on my experimentation next season. Got a few grey and yellow morels drying out right now :) Take care and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I hear ya on throwing the book out on host trees. Lol, especially when people are saying they found mega crops around Xmas tree farms and not far from pine trees. 😂😂😂
I've seen a number of these videos using the slurry method but have yet to see one showing any results. As your video was from last May I know it's a bit early in the year for you have any growth but hope to see a follow up video from you next month showing what {if any} growth you have this year!
I am watching the patch- still a little early for morels here in MA but I will most definitely post if they decide to fruit this year!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski There just starting to pop here in Mo but the weather has been fickle. 85 one day and 45 the next. So I don't doubt it's too early in MA.
Keep us updated!
Also would love to know the results!
I hope to see if any grow
Thank you! A morel slurry video came across my feed so I watched that one then searched for more. I love morels and am fortunate enough to get a couple in my woods each year. I plan to try a slurry and pour it out in my woods. The other person recommended honey. You used syrup. Is it a matter of using something "sugary"? Good luck with yours! I hope some pop up this spring. (edited to add: I always knew about spores...so I leave the root in the ground and shake the mushroom as vigorously as I can shake a mushroom when I pick them. That has seemed to help a bit. But I'm excited to try the slurry).
Honey is antiseptic like chlorine.
I love the video very much. I also like to ask you about the flour you use. I wonder what kind of flour is it?
Can I use maple syrup instead of molasses?
I have rain water that I keep in the large container. Can I use it? Do I have to boil the rain water?
I don't have the Morel but I have a pack of spore I bought. Can I used that ?
Please help.
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just subbed to your channel I live in sw va we find morels but not like in mid west....I didnt realize we could do this so excited to try.....Did you say hickory was a good place for morels? I have never checked these area's....I just recently found a big hickory grove and will check in a few days!
Hickory is not the top tree morels associate with but they do associate with them! If I had elm or ash in my yard I would have chosen those but I am still hopeful for morels this season!
Here in Nebraska I find the vast majority of morels around cottonwood trees.
I’ve looked specifically around elm trees, ash trees and others, but here cottonwood is king for some reason.
I am definitely going to attempt to make this slurry, we are in the middle of our season and it is getting on to the end, the big yellows are starting to pop. My favorites are big greys, I found one a few years ago that was bigger than a soda pop can and couldn’t believe it. I ate it with a fork and knife lol.
Anyways, thank you for the great info, I will definitely be giving this a try 😊
Our Morels grow in evergreen forests.
Black morels grow in coniferous forests
HELLO In which month did you put the mixture you prepared into the soil? Thank you
She did a great job! There is a bunch of disinformation in the comments. This method and similar methods have been used for years.
Thank you endlessly for this! I am so excited to try it. I have questions. Would this work with already dried morels which weren't washed yet? Also, in my yard and fallow field, I find them under white pine trees and no where else. I am in Michigan. What is it they like about the white pines? All of our ash trees died due to Emerald Ash Borer and we have no Elms nor the other tree you'd mentioned. Also, will Distilled water work in place of Filtered Water? Thank you in advance if you reply (and to anyone else as well).
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Come you make a slurry w/o sawdust spores I think no got ripped off just a 3 x3 baggie so hoping if I make a slurry I can increase it
Only work with fresh ones....or can be used with dry ones...???
Hi Rachel, how did it work? Do you have a follow up video?
What is the purpose for the flour? I have never seen that in a slurry but am anxious to try... all purpose?
Which season is best to splur the splurry
It's time for an update!
Did you have anything pop yet? It’s May 7th 2024. I found some at a State Park here in central MN. Planning on making a honey slurry to put on an old wood chip area where other shrooms have been growing.
I found two morels at the edge of my herb garden, the first I’ve had on this property. I live in an area that used to be farmland and had a lot of apple orchards. At a previous address where I had an apple tree growing I had a few morels for two seasons.
The morels I found this year (still in the ground as of early May) popped up near my garlic and spring onions, with well-rotted cedar mulch for cover. Growing in cedar mulch environment surprised me a bit. Since I only found two relatively small fruit bodies, I’ll probably order some spores to augment my slurry efforts.
The questions I have are:
1. The best shaded area on my property is a perimeter that is shaded by cedar trees. There is a lot of well-rotted mulch and wood litter on the surface but are the cedars a good companion or environment for morels?
2. Is a Brita pitcher adequate for filtering the water? The claim is that it filters out chlorine, but should I trust that?
3. If Brita filtering isn’t adequate, is distilled water OK? It wouldn’t have chlorine or other added chemicals in it, but would it be “too sterile?” My guess is it would be OK since the spore slurry is fed by carbs & protein (flour) and sugar (Karo syrup)
4. Finally, would organic cedar mulch be OK for the slurry? I have LOTS of it, but it acts as a natural pesticide and I’m not sure how it would affect the growth of mycelium.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Be careful with them in old apple orchard s they used to use arsenic and deet on the trees and it was on the ground too I would not eat many or have the soil tested to see if there are either in the soil . There is a case study on line is a person who got very ill and went to Albany Med center hospital... The young attending was not able to figure out how eating these edible mushrooms would make him sick for he brought some in with him. A older doctor who was also in ear shot heard and stated that the farmers would spray the trees with arsenic to kill off bugs. And would wash off and go into the ground sure as shooting the man had arsenic poisoning... Just be careful with old orchards is all I am saying.
the only patch i had grow after spreading spores was under a compost patch/pine stick pile. I think there is something to the composting aspect. I also spread honey water over that area.
Can you use dried morel mushrooms?
what did you use with the mixer?? Can you tell me
Does it matter what time of the year you do this
Could you use pond water for the slurry? Also do they do good around oak?
Have oak logs stacked like a cabin for mushroom plugs. Thought about pouring the slurry in middle of logs on decaying wood, and such.
Thanks!! Great video!!
They do best around ash, tulip poplar and oak. :)
Have two buckets going now. Couldn't find a stone filter for pump, but used some of a scouring pad...seems to be working haha
Also realized couple were soaking in tap water, so kept them separate from the other one.
Only had one for each, so did a tenth of your recipe
Also made substrate for the buckets
Coco coir, gypsum, vermiculite 😁
Has this worked? I'm curious about it.
Cool video, just wished you showed them after they were actually grown as well
Oh great video! I was just thinking how I could encourage morels to grow in my woods, and what I came up with was more convoluted and probably wouldn't work. I was going to buy a morel liquid culture syringe and innoculate a bunch of agar plates and let the mycelium grow to fill the plate. Then I was going to blend it up with water and a sugar source to create bulk liquid cultures, then squirt it all over the woods near my house.
that would work great
My sister was told to just dump the water and not cut the mushroom. Then resoak the mushroom to get more spores. Can you do that.
Now that is a BUNCH of maybes..............
Is this something that produces morels the next season or the same season? When should it be done? Is there a certain month that works best?
It takes one to two seasons to produce, so if you spread a slurry this season, you may get morels next season, or the season afterward. Spread the slurry when morels are fruiting in your area
does it work with dried morel mushrooms ??????????
I dry my Morales with a fan on paper towel and find alot of yellow on the paper towel and think this is a thick bit of spore's i then take these paper towels to the woods and plant them on dead trees ive never found them in ash forests but they are black Morales and might be different popple trees are very good because they lose alot of branches and grow so thick and die so much when the forest matures hope this helps their population
Does your milkshake bring all the morels to the yard?
Well did they grow?
nice video but am wondering if you had success with it ? Going to share with my Mushroom group if you did :) tks
I've been trying to make slurry's for at least 25 years and still have never had any grow from it.
Since you were 5?😂
@@lipeeno Since I was 14yrs old been trying. I've been hunting since I was 5 or 6
Cholarine water it losses Cl over time from it turning into a gas usly 24 hrs sitting open to air but if the water source has choramine that will need to be filter be a good idea to test the PH from where it grew and replicate in the new hot spot. If the time was taken to look into the natural habitat could have morel the next year.
Maybe I missed it, but can I use dried morels I purchased that were I think vacuum packed?
Yeah
Oh!! One more question.. we are having a cold spell here in Oregon.. is it still ok to put out the slurry when it's chilly?
Would help if soil temp is 50degrees or more
RO water
How were your resultz?
Q: live in midwest, my best shaded area is an OAK grove.... are oaks ok? Q: is water from dehumidifier ok? Q. are wood chips from a tree service Ok? they are not aged but fresh.
Morels don't normally associate with oak but if they take to the wood chips it may work. Older wood chips would be better. Humidifier water is fine!
So it’s been a couple years now have you seen any signs of shrooms or mycelium?
Did it work lol
can i use a 1 yr old kit?
Rain water will works the best
I have well water.. do I still need to filter it?
Also, must the slurry be aerated or can I stir it several times a day?
Filtered water is best for the slurry but regular well water works fine for the dilution part. Constant aeration is very important, though. A small pump and air stone aren't very expensive at your local pet store or online
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski thank you! Appreciate your quick reply as I picked my morels yesterday and want to get this process started ❤️
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski How long do I have [after picking a morel] to make the slurry and get it in the mulch water? The guy who mowed for me today found one decent sized morel. I've got puffball mushrooms in another part of my yard. Can I put the slurry near where those puffballs are, as well as where the morel was found?
What about rain water? Would that work?🎉
We had lots of them then no rains 2years haven't seen anything since I'm going to try this .we tried some we bought didn't take some times it's 3 years to get any micelium grows in hard clmps in ground don't dig there.
You mentioned needing filtered water, would natural water from a stream also be acceptable?
Sure, the reason why I say filtered water is to avoid the chlorine in most tap water. Natural spring or stream water shouldn't contain any chlorine
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski many thanks
I want to try this seems more legit, but we need a follow-up video so our time isn't wasted, im not sure about the blender part i still feel like it would interrupt the delicate process, i mean its the only super harsh part in the video
Part 2
Can I use wildflower honey instead of molasses for the sugar part of the slurry?
No, honey is anti-microbial and anti-fungal. If you use feed molasses for cattle it could also have a fungicide in it. Blackstrap molasses is your best choice.
Honey does NOT kill the type of fungus mushrooms are. People make liquid mycelium out of honey water all the time.
Can you use well water?
Yes, well water is preferable because it doesn't contain chlorine
Any update?
Hello, any updates on morrels? Did u grow any? Season is slowly passing so i guess u allready know if u got some this year or not
A year would be too soon for morels to fruit but I'm hoping to see some next year or in 2024!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski 10 months later...any luck?
@K B too early for morels here in New England and it takes 3-5yrs for them to fruit. Hopeful though!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski can you explain why it takes so long for them to fruit with this method? We had fresh wood chips delivered last fall and now we have morels popping up all over in them this spring, only months later.
It's called mushroom mulch.
Any results? This is the most important… slurry it’s easy to make , but what you get after is important.
I placed seven morels in a quart mason jar filled with distilled water and placed in a refrigerator for about six weeks now. I was waiting for more warm weather to make slurry. Should they still be viable to make slurry with?
Thanks!
yes, spores love the cold and will stay viable like that.
Thank you for responding! Getting ready make it today. I have a bunch of fresh rain water to work with caught.
@@fomoyearsfofofiv8178 did it work? Are you getting mushrooms?
@@KB-2222 I hadn't seen any from the areas I applied yet. Last year was a very hot and dry May, June and July though. So they probably didn't innoculate.
Out west here, went Morel hunting yesterday, so now I want to make spore slurry out of the leftovers, debris & all, but I don't want to break my blender. So can I use a mortar & pestle or would that break/kill the spores?
Very cool! I hope to visit the west sometime soon I here the morels are much more plentiful than in New England!
a mortar and pestle won't hurt the spores any more than a blender would so mortar away!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski That may because the forests are barely still more plentiful, as are the fires, which spur morel growth...the next mid-spring, of course. The CDN Rockies is nice to visit. Let me know if you're coming around & I can arrange a mushroom workshop, or somesuch as you're prepared for.
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski Yeah, the spores must be too small for this scale of pressures to be effected, i can only guess.
@@reforest4fertility that would be amazing!!
They seem to be getting harder to find in our area. Everything posted. And the places we used to find them. They just haven't been growing back. Really annoying.
I wonder was this a success?
Would we be able to use dried morels for this?
If they are dried morels sold for human consumption than, sadly, no- those morels are washed before drying so the spores have been washed off
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski Oh, that makes sense- I will look online for some spore/seed morels!
@@watersfarmpreservationinc.1791 best of luck!
@@CookingwithMrsGRachelGoclawski thanks!
update?
It's 2024... What was the result? Did it work? Follow up!
Can you complete this process with spores bought online?
Great question, you sure can!
Hello.
I live in estonia. I dont understand what syrup it is. Can you write it. So i can google it 😃
It's called "Karo" but you can also use molasses