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So I've been trying to learn about growing mushrooms in more lazy low-maintenance ways, treating the colonies like a perennial and I know that like with shiitakes you can inoculate logs with the spores to create a colony, and some other species you can grow pretty well under woodchips or in mulch, and recently I've been learning about truffles grow in the roots of certain species of trees and when you're planting trees you can inoculate them with truffle spores and hope the colony establishes.
This method of growing truffles in combination with trees has fascinated me and I've been wondering if there are other species of rare mushrooms people have tried growing in similar ways, since identifying the types of trees that are common hosts for fungi species is a pretty important part of learning to forage for mushrooms.
In particular I'm curious about trying to inoculate some pines, elms, ash, poplar or other common morel trees with spores as they grow up and see if I could get some consistent harvests from that over the years.
Honestly clueless here, it's just a wild idea I had during breakfast today, I don't need a great success rate as long as it works even a little bit, cause I'm planning to plant a lot of trees anyway and I'll enjoy just having the trees, symbiotic mushrooms or not.
I just think it would be cool as hell to intentionally colonize the woods on my property with local mushroom species the way they grow in nature.
