November 14

I've been watering the mushrooms every 3 or 4 days and putting some water on the cardboard and wood shavings underneath to keep the humidity up.  There is a little bit of fuzz in the wood shavings, I'm not sure if it is a mushroom or a competitor mold.

On further research, it looks like mushroom hyphae!  Hooray!  Here are close up pictures:

The mushroom life cycle:

I think right now I am somewhere between the hyphae mating and imperfect stage.
I sent the pictures to Dr. Klomparens from MSU who specializes in electron micrographs in fungi (as per her faculty phonebook bio) so I hope she can help identify the life cycle.