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Inoculation with Turkery tails?

 
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I just found a bunch of turkey tail has developed on the corpse of an apricot tree that was waiting for chipping.
I'm moving in a couple of weeks and we will have to take down several large maple trees this winter. I hope to do shiitake and lions mane on some of their logs. (my first tries on log mushrooms) I'll be buying inoculation spawn for this.
Since I've been gifted with these turkey tails, I'd love to try and spread some of them to some logs as well. ( many should be available)
We are going to try and get the trees cut down in late fall or winter, with inoculation to happen in the very early spring and I'm wondering how to best to use my found mushrooms for inoculation.
Do I let them dry out and then freeze them and use them ground up to inoculate? Cut slits into the logs and stuff the bits in?
This is just a surprise bonus find that feels very serendipitous so I'd welcome any suggestions on ways to try carrying them over to our new place.



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I've heard that if you mix the mushroom and some water in a blender to make a slurry, that the slurry can be used to inoculate. 'Proper' inoculation of logs involves inoculating pegs that are then pounded into fresh cut logs to help the fungus you want to establish become dominant before other spores can gain ground.


Give it a shot! The worst thing to happen is you won't see turkey tails.
 
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