Mushroom Propagation

[FragOutpost]

Originally Posted by stephanie

How do you keep them from curling up?

I try to cut the shroom as far down the stalk as possible when removing it from the rock. They really don't curl up on me too bad.

[Capt. Sean South FL]

Hello, I have found this to be the case with my mushrooms as well. So, what I did was, I used my 12" tweezers and put them underneath the mushroom so it was in the middle with the (wings) flapping over the tweezers then I gently lifted them to force the mushroom to a semi closed position and cut the base then. It works most of the time.
Hope this helps!

[FragOutpost]

Welcome Capt Sean and thanks for the great tip!

[joey10sl]

Today im feeling brave and im planing to propaguate one of my mushrooms.The mushroom im going to do is kinda "stealing" the spotlight from my other 2 mushrooms next to it. Ill be sure to tell you how it goes!
Ill post a picture before i propagupate it, feel free to comment or point something out if im doing it wrong.

[joey10sl]

The mushroom....well didnt turn out tooo well. i barely got a pice of the mouth in on each of the 2 pieces... What are the chances they will survive?
Ill attach a pictur of the used tools and of the new somewhat halves.(the white sticks are holding the mushrooms to a branched live rock)The mushrooms are at the end of the stick andre are a light green, srry about the photo quality!

[Teeka01]

I have never seen them attached that way. Have you ever tried the bridel vail method?

[rj593]

The sticks will probably not hold them in place for very long. I think you will have much better success using some bridal veil, but please post your results.
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