That last thing is what I did.
My wife gave some asshole my last spore card I had saved though, so that's that. That particular strain never made me feel yucky even, but being fresh and grown in clean substrate might help.
I got an outdoor patch of p. cyanescens, I usually eat some fresh ones every fall :)
Last two falls have been horrible weather. Gotten way too cold and the pins freeze. This year I didn't get any at all. Probably will rework it in the Spring to liven it up.
Oh wow! I guess with just the right conditions, the mycelium still just live out there all the time and grant you some shrooms when it wants to!
I'd worry about contamination but I worry about things. I kept ours in really clean jars with rice and vermiculite [and moisture] in a really clean box inside of a really clean closet and if any sign of contamination was seen that jar went down the trash chute. Because we were in a big fancy faggoty building that had trash chutes then.
I could just eat one and lay back in bed and marvel at how cool the cracks in the ceiling looked. Or play World of warcraft and not be able to actually DO anything aside from marvelling at the pretty colors and stuff. It really did help me de-aggro... probably too much at times.
Once the mycellium colonizes the substrate (wood chips), it keeps other fungus out. I do soak the wood chips (alder chips, like for smoking food) in water for 24hrs to kill anything in there. I see other mushrooms growing in the area (because I keep it moist others grow well too) but they stay out of the patch. You just have to watch when you are harvesting around the edges, but wavy caps are very distinguishable from the other native ones.
Indoor growing is much more dependable though, where you can control the environment. Its a fun hobby if you have patience.
I tried to make a morel patch, but those are notoriously hard to grow on your own.
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