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GROWTH PARAMETERS 413
Figure 372 & 373. From the spawn featured in Figure 370, several forms s showed. large specimen
with the pitted stem and conic cap weighed 1/4 lb. The round headed one weighed approximately half as much.
A taxonomist would be hard pressed to call these the same species, but a cultivator sees such differences in form
frequently from the same culture.
If you do not have a burnsite, but have a
woodstove or like to barbecue in the summer,
then those ashes can be mixed with other ingredients
to create a Morel patch. Mix equal
portions of the following ingredients.
10 gallons of peat moss
5 gallons of ash
1 gallon of gypsum (calcium sulfate)
Mix the ingredients in dry form. Find a
shady, well drained location and remove all
topsoil until "mineral-earth" is exposed. Lay
down the mixture to a depth of 4 inches to cover
as broad an area as this volume makes. Water
until saturated. Using a shovel or spade, mix in
Figure 374. Another burn-site inoculated with "M-
11" Morel spawn produced these succulent,
fruitbodies.
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