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Can I grow mushrooms using dowels on leylandii stumps?

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sherlockian | 19:50 Sun 21st Nov 2010 | Gardening
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I have felled 2 leylandii and want to rot the stumps/trunks organically, and have read that growing mushrooms on tree stumps speeds the process up - but can mushrooms grow on this type of wood or does it have to be from deciduous trees?
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Just how long do you think you will live to see tree trunks rot? The best way is to get them dug up or get a machine in to grind them to bits.
Are they the 'happy' kind? ;-)
fungus will grow on the stumps, but not the mushrooms you get in the shops. i don't know where you would get spores from, or if they would be an edible type.
http://www.thompson-m...LT-xaUCFVBO4QodlRDuQQ

We got ours from here and used an old apple tree stump.
Not sure of the tannin/acidity levels of leylandii - probaaly a good idea to phone and ask where you get the spores/dowels from.
Ours grew very well in my son-in-law's wine cellar, and we still get them popping up even after three years!

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