Amanita Cultivation and Growing
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Amanita cultivation in a lab environment has always
been an impossibility due to the symbiotic mycorrhizal relationship of
this mushroom to its host trees. But if one has the necessary host
trees in their area, and resides in the proper temperate zone or
elevation, try and simply take a few dried or fresh caps that are in
sporination (fully flattened or upturning with longitudinal tears
along the striations), crush them up thoroughly, and mix the crushings
into the top soil. See if it will take. If one doesn't want to make
the initial investment of the caps simply chop up the stems from
sporinating specimens, which will naturally have collected some of the
falling spores, and mix with the soil. Clark Heinrich states that he
simply buries the stems under the proper host tree for cultivation,
but then again he probably lives the the perfect environment. I would
recommend that this be done in the Fall soon after the fruiting season
or in early Spring so that the spores can receive their proper life
cycle. My own observations (I've yet to actually learn this) of
Amanita growth suggest that mycelia growth takes place primarily
throughout the Spring and Summer months and is highly dependent on
rain and soil moisture preceding the Fall fruiting. If the season is
dry just water your mushroom garden every few days. A host tree in a
large container that can be left outdoors year round may be a
candidate for cultivation if one is in the right zone.
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