Wine cap mushroom

hello, I inoculated some areas of wine cap in May, I checked the beds these days and no trace of the mycelium can be seen, do you have any idea what's going on?

Can you tell us of what you utilized to inoculate the areas? Was it like a grain spawn or something else?

What materials are the beds made up up? Wood chip? Leaf litter?

I'll try my best to help.

Wine caps on straw only last a short period though wine caps on wood chips last a year or two so knowing how they were raised might help folks answer your question.

Also maybe it has been too hot and dry?

Maybe you have some critters that like mushrooms, too ...

There are a lot of variables to consider....

I used a mix of straw with wood chips, I also used mycelium on sawdust, but I also have other beds with mycelium on grains where I have better activity

This year I inoculated the area I used mycelium on sawdust in straw and wood chips the bed looks good in June but we had hot summer days with 40 degrees in July I made sure to maintain the humidity and watered quite often

One thing mushrooms are good at teaching is patience. I would not be surprised if the summer heat has sent them into a waiting period and you could get a good flush in the autumn.

hello, I have been cultivating mushrooms for two years, pleurotus and various species, in the two years I learned that in mycology it is more about patience, but in my bed you can no longer see the trace of the mycelium, as if it has disappeared

Nothing is really popping out at me, it does seem strange that you don't see any mycelium.

How deep is the litter material?

I've had success with a mixture of materials in the past, I never checked where I inoculated but generally I see flushes at the start of the growing season and near the end.

Perhaps the first spawn just didn't take for whatever reason. I would give it another shot aiming for not too hot of a week to do it.

I put cardboard down I put mycelium after straw mycelium again mycelium and then wood chips I think it is about 10 cm it was ok and the presence of healthy mycelium areas around June