15-06-2004, 09:02 AM
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Oyster mushroom update!
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(simy1) wrote:
Katra wrote in message
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In your original post I could not avoid noticing that you started your
culture after cooking the mushrooms somehow.
No no! I did not cook the mushrooms I used for planting! :-)
I cut off the stems and bases, and cooked the caps and ate them! I used
the raw stems and bases for the original puree... They are not as tender
as the caps, and they were the basis for my spawn.
Thanks. I have some experience with commercially available spawn, but
none with homegrown. I suppose this will work with all the fungi which
can do without much N,
It should, I was going to look into more cellulose consumers such as
Shitake. Any mushroom can be grown from tissue cloning. You don't really
need spores and can induce your own spawn it seems.
and that of course includes oyster. But even
they enjoy the addition of boiled coffee grounds (which also provide K
and acidity).
I think that is why they suddenly REALLY took off with the addition of
the clean pine shavings. Pine is a bit acidic. :-)
The spawn is rapidly growing into the damp pine shavings off of the
toilet rolls. G They seem to like it.
If you are willing to sacrifice one of the rolls, you
could try to break it and spawn a few gallons of a coffee
ground/grains/straw/woodchips mixture
Well, I do have two rolls and one is doing better than the other, but
the way things are looking, it's taking off into the pine shavings that
I put on the bottom of the grow chamber so I ought to have lots of spawn
to play with shortly. :-) I intend to experiment and appreciate the
suggestions very much!
Any hints on how to sterilize small logs?
I have a rather large woodpile and do not grill a lot and some of the
bottom layer is already rotting and growing it's own wild mushrooms with
all the rain we have been having. G I'd like to try innoculating some
small logs.
(choose any of the first two,
any of the last two, duly boiled ahead, easy to do if you have
beermaking equipment), and then you would be able to harvest a few
pounds of oyster. But I think I will try your blended stems trick,
make a pile outside (coffee makes both oyster and green molds go very
fast, but the mold usually wins indoors, loses outdoors), see what
happens.
Okay, let us know! :-)
Did you bleach and rinse the stems to sterilize the surface before
blending?
No, I was just careful when I handled them to have clean hands, and
rinsed them off with hot water. I did, however, bleach the food
processor that I used to grind them.
I wonder if UV would work also, since I have access to a UV
machine.
Careful. UV kills tissue too. :-)
Heaven knows I got enough contamination into the colonies with the
darned bug invasion, but they seem to be resistant enough so that they
are not being significantly damaged, or so it appears at this time.
K.
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