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Found my first blewit yesterday


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I figured I had a good property for blewits to grow, spruce trees, plenty of hardwood with downed trees and limbs that close to pockets of leaves.  So I thought I’d help that out, and spread several bags of blewit spawn  in likely spots last year, and again this year.  This year I put one in my compost pile (mostly horse manure, hay and straw), hoping it would colonize and I would then be spreading blewit mycelium anytime I spread the compost.

So, yesterday I found my first (we just had our first frost last night).  I found it growing in the middle of the back yard, 200 feet from the nearest spawn I spread!

Spore printed it last night.

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I thought I might have them coming up under a blue spruce I have, as I saw about 15 mushrooms coming up under it.  I checked this morning, as they are a little bigger.  Not blewits, but shaggy parasols, third flush this year under that tree!  I don’t know how the frost will affect them, but I watered them this morning to try to encourage them.

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