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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 14, 2012 12:47:46 GMT -5
I forgot to say, Happy Valentines Day you all. We saw this in the woods in Mendocino on our last camping trip. Now Mendo has shrooms! Attachments:
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Post by MikeH on Feb 14, 2012 20:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 24, 2012 17:05:21 GMT -5
Here's what the mushroom experiment is looking like today after a little more than 2 weeks: So far, so good. The mycelia have almost finished engulfing the substrate.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 15, 2012 16:53:52 GMT -5
So it's been 5 weeks already that the chopped up oyster mushroom has been growing under the sink. It has overgrown the whole jar. Not knowing what else to do with it, I took the lid off, and put it in the back bedroom where the temperature is a bit colder. The oyster mushroom growing on cardboard was overwhelmed by mold that started because I was opening the bag to let in some air.
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Post by mountaindweller on Mar 26, 2012 6:27:15 GMT -5
wow! That sounds really great and we have autumn now. Do you grow the oyster mushroom in the jar or will you transplant it into your garden? Might it work without the peroxide? Tomorrow I will look and see what mushrooms the greengrocer has, shiitake would be great, but I will nee logs. I have three bags of sawdust laying around (only timber) would it make a good growing bed? It is plasic packed but lays around for a month or two.
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Post by johninfla on Mar 26, 2012 6:45:37 GMT -5
I tried the same thing.....I think my oysters got taken over with mold. And I don't think the shitakes did anything. Just in case, I buried both in a pile of wood chips by the garden! John
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Post by richardw on Apr 18, 2012 2:15:43 GMT -5
Ive got a question,this time last year i drop a silver poplar tree with the idea of growing either Shiitake or White/Gray Oyster,but ive been told that i need to use trees that have only just been dropped,anyone know if this is right??
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Post by johninfla on Apr 18, 2012 7:45:31 GMT -5
I read that you should let oaks age a little (I think they said six weeks) but not too long so that they don't become colonized by other fungi.
John
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Post by richardw on Apr 18, 2012 15:02:38 GMT -5
Oh ok,maybe i'll need to get a few more fresh logs then
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 19, 2012 16:48:22 GMT -5
Our experience is that they can be up to 4 weeks felled. So, you have from the time you cut the logs till about 4 weeks after cutting.
However, WHEN is the tree felled is also important. "When" as in what time of year. You can get different varieties of shiitake that require "seeding" at different times of year. GOOD LUCK! Shiitake are easy to grow and really tasty. I think you'll do well!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 5, 2012 18:33:37 GMT -5
Today's harvest: Grew spawn on wood chips in a plastic bag in the house. Transplanted to a bed in the permaculture garden which consisted of wood chips, and ashes, and tree branches buried in a trench. Covered with leaf litter. Located in the shadiest part of the garden under the cherry tree. Chopped some of the fruit up into little pieces and returned it to the bed. Also am soaking some in dilute peroxide. Intending to chop it up and use it as spawn to start a new spawn of mycelia. I'm pressure sterilizing the substrates today: Straw in plastic bags, and mixed grains in glass jars. Mostly I have been growing spawn inside until it gets contaminated and then transplanting to the garden.
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 5, 2012 19:39:38 GMT -5
I am to jealous to type!
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Post by steev on May 6, 2012 23:55:22 GMT -5
Beautiful morel!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 7, 2012 1:17:55 GMT -5
Tasty too. We fried it in butter, in a pan so hot that it was just below the flash point. Mmmm. Morel crisps: one of my favorite childhood memories re-lived. One fruit divided among the family isn't very filling physically, but for me it sure hit the spot emotionally.
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 7, 2012 9:20:05 GMT -5
LOL, this would be the moment when a smaller family is better. ;o) I want to try your method, I'm not certain that we have morels in this area though. I researched a year or so ago and I seem to recall that we are just out of the "range". No time to check into it again right now, but it's on the "to do" list.
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