How to Make Morel Slurry
Using Morel Liquid Culture to Grow Morel Mushrooms on Your Property If you need to wait more than 2-3 months to start your mushrooms, just keep your mushroom culture in the fridge - it will be fine for a minimum of 12 months! If you’re a mushroom enthusiast, you probably know how difficult it can be to grow certain types of mushrooms at home. Morel mushrooms are one such variety that can be challenging to cultivate. They’ve evaded commercial growing for years and many people will tell you they’re impossible to grow. However, with the right techniques and a bit of patience, and maybe a pinch of good fortune, you can successfully grow morel mushrooms on your property. Traditionally morel slurry is made with fresh or dried morel mushrooms; these are instructions for making a slurry using liquid mushroom culture. Liquid culture is made of live mushroom tissue suspended in a nutrient broth, and is an awesome tool for growing many varieties of mushrooms.
A Recipe for Morel Slurry To make morel slurry, you’ll need the following ingredients: 10mL Morel Liquid Culture Water Molasses or Honey (a tablespoon or two will do) A large jar A big bucket Ashes (a cup or so is good, it’s optional but HIGHLY recommended and more likely to make this whole experiment work out for you.)
Start your Morel Slurry: Boil however much water will fill your jar and add your molasses or honey and let it cool to lukewarm, then pour it into the jar. Add 10ml of Morel Liquid Culture. Stir well with a clean spoon. When that’s all set and your slurry is in the jar, you’ll want to cover it with a very clean piece of cloth or paper napkin (if you use a piece of cloth, you can throw it in the water when it’s boiling to sterilize it, pull it out before you add whatever sweet stuff you’re using) and use a rubber band to hold it on the jar. This just makes it so that your slurry can breathe without much of anything landing in it. Let it sit and steep overnight. The next morning, or afternoon, or whenever you get to it – Pour the contents of the jar into your clean bucket. Add your scoop of ashes. Fill the bucket up with water (lukewarm is good but cold is ok, just not hot as hot water will kill your morel culture) Put the bucket somewhere safe where small children won’t fall into it/mess with it, put the lid on loosely and leave it overnight again. Voila! You now have Morel Slurry! Continue to the next page to set up your morel patch outdoors.
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