Yeah black truffles are mycorrhizal in nature and the tubers encapsulate bacteria while they grow. Their relationship with the ecosystem is a lot more complex than we even know. I think it's cool that you tried and a trip to Europe to do a truffle hunt would be fun, no doubt. If you go, pay a well trained dog or pig handler to guide you so you can at least find some! 😂 No matter how you "slice it" the truffle will always cost a lot of money. I've only ever eaten them as minor ingredients in a recipe before. I've never eaten a truffle and probably never will, but they are very cool.
This experiment left me thinking for hours. Is it possible to clone a fresh truffle like u would a mushroom? Or get a spore print? I saw a video where the owner of an orchard suggested making a slurry mixing dried truffle shavings and fresh ones and adding them directly to the soil where your tree will go to grow your own truffles but it’s hard to know if it would work, especially since u have to wait 5 years approximately to see results If u ever decide to try again, please keep us updated 🙏🏻
@@SporenSproutat the risk of them costing you even more, I'm willing to bet $1000 that you won't be able to effectively cultivate them by innoculating tree sapling roots with mycelium, in Michigan 😂 I mean, you might stand a chance of you are able to acquire a large enough section of the natural substrate and correlating flora to possibly attempt to replicate the exact environment in which they grow, but even that's a stretch. I might consider upping the ante with that 😂
@@SporenSproutI was looking into harvesting seed from blueberries. Anything from outside my country (USA) wasn't worth trying, because of the irradiation. So anything out of season... It sounds like the life cycle of these are involved, too, and include other life that we don't have but maybe also would NOT want here in USA? With invasives being such a huge problem, I can't say I'm disappointed at the irradiation measures tbh. My little corner of the world is currently overrun with toxic, damaging invasives of multiple taxonomies, many of them having originally escaped gardens or other human purposes 😢😢
Try doing it with North American truffles, then apply it again with a Spanish or Portuguese truffle, not Italian ( far too much competition to trust them not doing something to the teuffle when selling it like that,) besides in the Iberian peninsula truffle hunting is not as common as in Italy or France.
@@dbdba I cloned the morel and have the mycelium, I have not attempted to fruit it yet. Working on it soon. The term “clone” is used correctly in this case.
Lol, That is not the smartest experiment. If it was so easy, the truffles wouldn't be so expensive in the first place. You could have saved the hasstle. and money. Ha ha. FLY to italy? you can just order liquid culture for not a whole lot of money. The truffles are expensive, the you could have bought a lot of liquidculture for what those truffles cost you.
@@MrMastadox Yeah I plan to buy various LC and DNA sequence them to find out which ones are actually legit. I don’t trust the suppliers. If I would have done what you are suggesting without testing I would waste 7 years haha. There nothing stupid about my experiment, I gain experience this way.
@@SporenSprout getting the liquid culture isn't the issue nor what makes it expensive. I just do not see why you spend a lot of money on some truffles. When you have access to all the information you need to know to understand how they are grown, what conditions they require. Its likely you don't even live in a climate that makes growing them possible. Sure. You can experiment as much as you like. And if its worth it to you. cool. But you could have read about it and saved yourself the money, you could have learned what you learned by reading about it for free. Many have tried it before you.
That's a shame, but thanks for sharing details of your attempt. Really interesting as always!
@@richardd9634 Thank you for watching! 🙏
Yeah black truffles are mycorrhizal in nature and the tubers encapsulate bacteria while they grow. Their relationship with the ecosystem is a lot more complex than we even know.
I think it's cool that you tried and a trip to Europe to do a truffle hunt would be fun, no doubt.
If you go, pay a well trained dog or pig handler to guide you so you can at least find some! 😂
No matter how you "slice it" the truffle will always cost a lot of money.
I've only ever eaten them as minor ingredients in a recipe before. I've never eaten a truffle and probably never will, but they are very cool.
I'm from Italy, a friend of mine has a dog that can find truffles, it's the only way to get some fresh tartufo nero.
@@squarz let me come visit! 😂
@@SporenSprout A barter agreement might be worth the expense!
HOOK HIM UP! So he can upload his awesome experience
This experiment left me thinking for hours. Is it possible to clone a fresh truffle like u would a mushroom? Or get a spore print?
I saw a video where the owner of an orchard suggested making a slurry mixing dried truffle shavings and fresh ones and adding them directly to the soil where your tree will go to grow your own truffles but it’s hard to know if it would work, especially since u have to wait 5 years approximately to see results
If u ever decide to try again, please keep us updated 🙏🏻
you got far further then me, would have eaten them, linguini and some butter, sliced truffles on top. Same problem: only fresh ingredients work :-)
Spores are over the exterior of the truffle, spore prints could be a way to go
Love it!
I thought these were almost impossible to cultivate without a tree
@@thewayithastobe I’m going to inoculate tree sapling roots once I am successfully cloning them.
@@SporenSproutat the risk of them costing you even more, I'm willing to bet $1000 that you won't be able to effectively cultivate them by innoculating tree sapling roots with mycelium, in Michigan 😂
I mean, you might stand a chance of you are able to acquire a large enough section of the natural substrate and correlating flora to possibly attempt to replicate the exact environment in which they grow, but even that's a stretch. I might consider upping the ante with that 😂
I believe in u, u can do it!
Need tree roots, takes around 5 years and some luck. There's a guy on the east coast thats doing it right now.
I thought food coming in from other countries is run through a radioactive process to kill off incoming bugs, fungus and disease
@@frankmosses9121 That could be a factor! Interesting 🤔
@@SporenSproutI was looking into harvesting seed from blueberries. Anything from outside my country (USA) wasn't worth trying, because of the irradiation. So anything out of season...
It sounds like the life cycle of these are involved, too, and include other life that we don't have but maybe also would NOT want here in USA?
With invasives being such a huge problem, I can't say I'm disappointed at the irradiation measures tbh. My little corner of the world is currently overrun with toxic, damaging invasives of multiple taxonomies, many of them having originally escaped gardens or other human purposes 😢😢
not the best kind of truffles but i wish there could be a way to grow and harvest them 😊
U HAVE to do this bro
Cool experiment!!! Thank you for sharing. Oregon also has truffles, too- much closer than Italy 😄
Amazing Chanel.
@@TheGrmany69 Thanks!
Virginia Truffles grows and sells them. Great people and you can get them fresher.
@@Aaron-b5f are you sure they are Tuber melanosporum? There are other native truffles in the USA but they are not Périgord
That’s what they are according to their website. I haven’t personally done any testing but I used to inspect their trees. Great people!
@@Aaron-b5f I looked them up and they seem legit! That’s really awesome I’m thinking about going there now haha
I like your tattoo! Is that the chemical structure of psilocybin? 😊
Try doing it with North American truffles, then apply it again with a Spanish or Portuguese truffle, not Italian ( far too much competition to trust them not doing something to the teuffle when selling it like that,) besides in the Iberian peninsula truffle hunting is not as common as in Italy or France.
Good idea
"I've had *success* using it to clone morel mushrooms"? Did I miss a follow up video or something?
@@dbdba
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@@SporenSprout right...but have you been able to grow mushrooms yet? 😉
@@dbdba I cloned the morel and have the mycelium, I have not attempted to fruit it yet. Working on it soon. The term “clone” is used correctly in this case.
If he would've said he had success cultivating morels, that would be a different thing altogether 😂
Semantics are an important thing!
That's too bad. They looked delicious.
Which method compost are using for portobello
@@ajay3696
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Sorry to hear that you spent $80 on something that will never fky, Maybe this mystery should be just what it is.
Can you teach us how to grow Azurescens?
And now u know how to not clone truffles :) Even with fresh ones there is zero chance to get mycelium growth on agar.
Clearly lacking a dachshund or a truffle pig. Next time get one of them boys under the flow hood to assist.
Dammmmmn so they sold you bad truffles 😬😬😬😬. So if you ate them then what?
@@TriggaTreDay They weren’t bad, just not viable for cloning. People eat dried dead mushrooms all the time.
@@SporenSprout cool. I have never had them before so I was filing a bit skeptical. Good to know.
Lol, That is not the smartest experiment. If it was so easy, the truffles wouldn't be so expensive in the first place. You could have saved the hasstle. and money. Ha ha. FLY to italy? you can just order liquid culture for not a whole lot of money. The truffles are expensive, the you could have bought a lot of liquidculture for what those truffles cost you.
@@MrMastadox Yeah I plan to buy various LC and DNA sequence them to find out which ones are actually legit. I don’t trust the suppliers. If I would have done what you are suggesting without testing I would waste 7 years haha. There nothing stupid about my experiment, I gain experience this way.
@@SporenSprout getting the liquid culture isn't the issue nor what makes it expensive. I just do not see why you spend a lot of money on some truffles. When you have access to all the information you need to know to understand how they are grown, what conditions they require. Its likely you don't even live in a climate that makes growing them possible. Sure. You can experiment as much as you like. And if its worth it to you. cool. But you could have read about it and saved yourself the money, you could have learned what you learned by reading about it for free. Many have tried it before you.
@@MrMastadox damn you sure are itchy about how someone else spends their time