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I have been trying for almost a year to make my own wine head substrates from liquid mycelium that I have multiplied in water with honey everything, I manage to inoculate the grains the mycelium grows it smells good when I try to put them in the substrate I wait for them to colonize and they colonize  hard as a substrate I use briquettes ruf from beech I pasteurize them if you have any idea what I am doing wrong or what other methods can help me for this species I would be grateful for your help I lost enough money trying to reach the level of I always produce when I need my own sawdust Spawn
Btw my english is bad i use translate
 
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Beniamin,

If I am reading your response correctly, it sounds like you are trying to make liquid mycelium by soaking chips and squeezing out water and then using that water to propagate the new batch of mushrooms.  Is that about right.  If so I would recommend the following.

1). If you really want to spread using a liquid, wait till the mushrooms grow and push out the caps.  Gently cut and collect the caps, place them in a blender with water and blend them up.  This will give you a liquid with lots of *Spores* that can then spread new spawns of fungi.

2).  After your fungi has thoroughly penetrated and inoculated the wood substrate (chips work best here), dig out a chunk of substrate and use that to inoculate a new batch of wood.

3). If the mushrooms pop up before you are ready (and this can happen) and the caps look like they have lost their spores, try gently cutting out the base of each mushroom and “plant” it in a new batch of wood chips.  Note:  you can still do this if you do option #1.

I hope this helps.  Good luck and let me know if there is any other way I can help.

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Are you trying to fruit them indoors using bags or outside in the garden? .... I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Wine caps will only fruit if they are in contact with soil. Have you tried innoculating wood chips & straw in a garden bed using your spawn?  
 
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I tried the whole process from liquid mycelium to mycelium on sawdust, at first I managed to make my own mycelium on sawdust to use in the garden. now mycelium after cereals I try to put it in the substrate and there I have problems and I was thinking if I can inoculate  Stropharia wood chipper beds only with grain spawn
 
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Grain spawn is a good mushroom growing medium, but beware of rodents!  Personally I buy mushroom sawdust spawn that I use to inoculate wood chips.  Though I have not done so, I want to try planting the bases of the mushrooms to propagate further.

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