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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 259275, member: 12649"] Different sort of mushroom, I'm talking field mushrooms growing on grass land (My lawn). There are a few different edible ones, The Japanese grow one that requires the wood to undergo anaerobic decomposition in spring water for months first, supposed to be a wonderful flavour, but it makes it dead expensive. Generally with fungi grown on wood you have to be careful about infection by fungi other than the one you want, that also adds to the price. What you put in is spawn, not spore. The spore only produces the single chromosome first generation that will not produce the fruiting body (Mushroom). The second generation, with two chromosomes, pushes up the fruiting body, but the way the cells split to grow it means the spores it produces will only have one set of chromosomes. If you stand a nearly ripe mushroom on a sheet of paper and let it ripen the gills underneath open and let out the spores, you get a nice pattern of them on the paper, they are like fine dust. The spawn which you plant to grow mushrooms has some of the second generation mycelium in it, that's the fine web of white threads that grows through the wood or grass, or whatever the fungus grows on. It is probably dried and mixed with something to carry it, and when it gets damp it starts to grow. [/QUOTE]