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Common Cultivated Mushrooms
Oyster
King (Pleurotus eryngii), more info
Pink, Flamingo (Pleurotus djamor)
Brat (Pleurotus ostreatus Brat)
Golden,Yellow (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)
Phoenix (Pleurotus pulmonarius)
Blue (Pleurotus ostreatus columbinus)
Florida (Pleurotus ostreatus var. florida)
Maple, Abalone, (Pleurotus cystidiosus) More info
King Stropharia , Wine Cap, (Stropharia rugosoannulata) , More info
Black poplar,Swordbelt, Yanagi-Matsutake (Japanese) Pioppino (Italian) (Agrocybe aegerita)
Almond mushroom,Blazei,princess-matsutake,Agaricus subrufescens cultivation info
Immature and white: Button mushroom, Immature and brown:Crimini mushroom, When mature, Portabella
King Bolete:French, Steinpilz:German,
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I'm new to this....this jar has been slow to colonize. Now I'm noticing the light brown fuzziness in the middle of the picture. Confirm it's contamination? Thanks.
I've recently started attempting to grow my own mushrooms, and I got the agar, LC and everything in between pretty much dialed in. however, I've been having problems with the grain spawn part as that is the only thing I've been purchasing premade.
on the 6th of December I have inoculated 4 bags (pictures below) with 10cc of LC, previously tested on 4 agar dishes with absolutely 0 contamination. one bag has absolutely BLOWN UP, as it heavily condensed not even 24 hours later. it rapidly started colonizing, with white foam forming on top for the cake. on the 10th of December I did a break and shake as it was grayish-white all around and left it as is. the other bags have NO SIGN of colonization at all.
today, I've noticed that something is peeking out of the bag on part where I taped the hole through which I've inoculated the grain and I am wondering if this is okay or if it might be something potentially dangerous. I suspect that I might have mistakenly missed the hole and taped right next to it, exposing the mycelium to the hole and allowing it to grow through, but I have no idea.
the SAB temperature varied from 23.5C to 25.5C, which might explain the intense condensation, but I don't understand how that much of a difference can happen. hope that one of you could shed some light on this. thank you very much in advance!
So I have Shiitake, Lion's Mane and King Oyster culture syringes that I'm about to inoculate into sterilized jars of rye grain however I'm finding it hard to source hardwood pellets where I'm located in Ireland.
These are the kinds of results I'm getting on Google: https://toplinegroup.ie/collections/10710-pellets
Either it's not specified whether or not the pellets are soft or hardwood or when it is specified the wood is sourced from pine and spruce which I've read is not suitable to get mycelium to grow because they have anti-fungal properties. I've read that cedar is especially inappropriate.
Would getting straw from a pet store be my best option or can I chance it and try the pellets that are widely available at my local hardware shop?
There are alot of info on this subject but sometimes misleading, I would apreciate an experienced grower to advise on the fruiting temperature for king oyster. Also, do you recommend waiting for pins to show before moving to fruiting conditions or lower temps should trigger pins. Thanks
So I’m experimenting with new methods. I somewhere read that people are no longer using a lid in a monotub after colonizing the substrate. Is this true? I’m planning for it to go in a boom room when ready to fruit. What are people’s thoughts or opinions?
Hello, I will be starting soon with pioppino grain spawn bags to innoculate substrate. I am considering to use the below recipe, happy to take advices from experienced growers:
Hardwood fuel pellets 40% Sawdust cut 3cm long 30% Wheat bran 20% Calcium sulfate (gypsum) 10%
Ratio for above: 5/1
Pasturizing for 2 hours inside a pillow cloth and innoculating 12qt tubs.
Temps between 22c and 23c I keep them in the same room during colonization and fruiting I usually enter the room twice or 3 times. An ac is available to cool in case temp go up.
Any additional tips highly apreciated.
So I’m trying to decide what’s more efficient long poly tubes hanging from the top of the tent or to use shelves anyone got any suggestions?
I'm a first timer....I inoculated my grain jars and they colonized quickly. Without thinking of saving the strain, I used all my jars in the monotub. Now I wish I had tried to multiply those spawn jars. Can I cut some mycelium out of the fully colonized monotub and put that into grains again? What is the best way for a beginner to save these genetics?
Many thanks
Ovoids are native to my area and I was wondering what the best place to get spores or LC from them would be?
Just learning shiitakes and was wondering if people initiate primordia formation during all white phase (Stamets) or all brown phase (you tubers).
Hi, Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to use acorns (I figure white oak is probably best) as grain spawn? Also curious if anyone has tried chickpeas for grain spawn? Any successful oddball grains anyone has tried? Chur. Mush luv
Hello guys, I'm currently trying to think of a research question for my biology EE. My current idea is to increase the nutrition values of fungi. My current ideas are to manipulate
2.Adding chemicals in gas where they conduct respiration to stimulate uptake of nutrition 3.Adding enzymes on their growing environment to ease digestion 4.Genetic modification??? Through reproduction I'm currently still unsure on which species to use as I'm not familiar with fungi. I would also like suggestions of similar research topics, what chemical I can use, what methods I can try etc. thanks a lot!
Hey folks - just got my first fruiting blocks in my Martha tent (not pictured but there’s lions mane and oysters that have joined that dryads saddle at the top). I got a humidity controller but annoyingly the settings on my humidifier mean I can’t use it - so instead it stays on constantly. It says it’s shooting for 80%, but every time I check a hygrometer I’ve got at the top it’s reading 95% minimum. Have tried tweaking the settings but seems to always be super high or low 60s/70s - and while it’s a pretty cheap hygrometer the amount of mist I’m swimming through when I open the tent suggests it’s not wrong. I’ve got an extraction unit in the top which runs 15 mins every 2 hours which probably offers some respite.
Question is do I a) let it be and assume a 95+ mist tent is going to be ok, b) run the extraction more frequently to clear out the mist, or c) accept that this isn’t the humidifier for me, chalk it up as a loss and get a new one in
What should i do next with this pinning agar plate.