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how to grow winecap directly with the grain in the straw or to make sawdust which works better i have never tried to throw the grain directly in the straw mulch?
 
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In my experience, I always use sawdust spawn to inoculate outdoor projects. The reason is that rodents including mice, rats, voles, squirrels, etc. all love to eat myceliated grain. So do birds including jays, crows, robins and chickens. And if I did have some wine cap grain spawn, I would use it to inoculate plastic bags full of moist hardwood sawdust (and chips) and then grow my own  spawn indoors for a while. Then I would inoculate the outdoor straw or sawdust/chip beds with the sawdust spawn in the bag. I have had great success with this method, especially inoculating chip/sawdust beds or straw mulch around raspberry plants, potatoes or tomatoes with wine cap sawdust spawn.

There are tons of threads on this website for beginners who want to grow wine caps. Check these out:

https://permies.com/t/wine-cap-mushrooms

Good luck!

 
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I inoculated with beech sawdust, I use sawdust from briquettes, sterilized meru, the mycelium grows slowly and at the end it has contamination with green mold, that's why meru, I think maybe it works directly outside
 
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