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   "Quee"  wrote in message   
   news:c388h.4519$CR6.1205@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...   
   > hows your sun cover, do you have alot of trees around, do you use tarps,   
   > cloth... what ever... whats up on your cover?   
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   Thanks for initiating a very valid concern...   
   The spot I chose is one of the places I always see [inedible] mushrooms   
   grow. To the south is a water/sewer utitility easement seperated from my   
   land by a chainlink fence over grown with yellow honeysuckle and wild grape.   
   The easement consists of mostly 30 foot oaks mixed with a few 50 foot long   
   leaf southern pine. Outside the east fence [not overgrown] is an empty lot   
   filled with mostly 30 foot water oak, smaller wild Black Cherry and Mimosa.   
   Inside the fence, starting at the southeast corner I have four 20 - 30 foot   
   red oaks that canopy to within four foot of the ground mixed in with scrub   
   oak. This is where I am starting the mushroom beds morel and   
   pioppino/blewitt] and buried the short logs [Maitake, Reishi and Oyster].   
   Shade on the west is provide by three 40 foot oaks in a clump among with   
   more mimosa, black cherry and scub oak. This is where the Shitaake logs   
   live. The north is bounded by 70 foot southern long leaf pines. While they   
   provide little shade because they are too far apart and they lose the lower   
   branches as they get older, they act as a natural limit on how far I can   
   grow befaore falling under the influence of shed pine needles. I have been   
   observing sunlight intrusion since June this year and the worst is in the   
   early moring when about an hours worth sneaks through the fence about an   
   hour. So as I was laying the irrigation line, I planted some tall, quick   
   growing azalea varietals in the open spots on the fence. Untill they mature   
   I will hang some home-made shade cloth [landscape fabric with slits cut in   
   for airflow] to darken it up a bit from that side. In the afterernoon, there   
   are a few spots that get a dappled sunlight when we actually have some wind   
   to move the leaves. I am not sure if this is dark enough for primordia and   
   fruitbody development. [I can't visualize what 500 - 1000 lux looks like] I   
   guess I will have to find my old photometer and monitor the situation and   
   shadecloth it if needed. I should be especially concerned in the early   
   spring when oaks have not yet leaved out and the sun penetration could warm   
   the soil enough to cause early fruiting?   
      
   Your comments will be appreciated...   
      
   ~jim~   
      
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