Spalting Lumber

[JoshNZ]

Looks like you have achieved a result! Look forward to seeing the dressed boards. Do they need to be air or kiln dried now too?

[metalspinner]

Oh, yes! They will need to be dried. For now they are dead stacked probably until February/March.
...and all the tubs have been moved to the shop and will be left to cook for a while longer. The Elf Cup fungus needs considerably longer to do it's thing. 

[rusticretreater]

I was gifted the book Spalting 101 this holiday season.  It says on the back cover "Take your spalting time from years to hours in this detailed DIY guide to spalting wood."  

Apparently you get the fungi to make pigmented fluid which you then apply to the wood.  Some of the techniques say 2-3 years, 1-2 years, 3-6 months, 6-11 weeks.  I haven't seen anything that reads hours.  

Its a difficult read and sometimes uses those hard scientific words without a clear statement of what it really means.  Gonna have to read it 2-3 times to get a handle on things.

[metalspinner]

Sugar maple is her control. It's super easy and repeatable for her lab tests. 
I used sycamore and beech which would have different time tables.