Well, this is awesome! Despite some setbacks this year, I have a success! My chicken of the woods is forming primordia! As expected, it is growing straight through the filter patch. This is WONDERFUL news! We will see if this becomes an entire fruit. In any case, this is going better than I thought for a first attempt. I will have to re-commit myself to mycology! After all, if I expand and bring in others, more will be possible.
A mushroom grow bag with chicken of the woods beginning to fruit through the filter patch. The small patches growing through are the primordia.