So I was going to make a woodchip bed that would be innoculated with wine caps. I had the spawn which I got from field and forest, but it was a busy year and didnt have time to make the bed.
So what I did was, I got 2 storage bins that I drilled holes in for drainage, addee a shovel of dirt since they say they need some bacterial activity to fruit, and filled the bins with the sawdust spawn and woodchips in April. They are at the side of the house and are in full shade because of another house close by, this also creates kind of a wind tunnel that it is always shady and very windy.
So now it looks like the bins are thiroughly colonized with mycelium, and after a few day break from the heat with a thunderstorm, one of my bins has 4 mushrooms in July!!. But they look different from the wine caps I have seen online, I wouldnt say they are burgundy wine red colored, they are more brownish/yellowish/tan, with the top kind of cracked on one of them (i assume its just the very windy location drying them up), the gills are white to pale grey.
Can anyone confirm that these are wine caps, if not what could it be? I thought that wine caps are super aggressive and outcompete everything, the bins with the woodchips are full of mycelium after 3 months of being innoculated with sawdust spawn.
