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 Burbles
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 Button Mushroom Grow Guide?
#12875339 - 07/09/10 09:33 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I am considering, depending on how difficult it is to start growing button mushrooms,and maybe even getting a kit to sell at yard sales, etc
However, I am not able to find ant A to Z guides on what materials to use, how to make substrate, and so on.
Might anyone have a good reference or instructions for this that are very detailed?
Ive looked here but there is to high of static to noise signal with all of the other posts.
Anyways, Any good guides? I've seen a few, they vary to a decent amount, and I'd really just like a step by step that takes out all the guess work.
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 thatguy1
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: Burbles]
#12875432 - 07/09/10 09:57 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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i second this question. i wanna give these things a shot without buying those expensive boxed kits!
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: thatguy1]
#12876542 - 07/10/10 05:16 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I don't own a copy but I have heard there is a whole section of The Mushroom Cultivator (TMC) dedicated to growing ports.
I am attempting to grow them on supplemented coir. Check the grow log in my sig for details. Will be updated later today by request.
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: fungus_tao]
#12876984 - 07/10/10 08:55 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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The only way to commercially grow buttons is from compost.
Tao told you everything you need to know. TMC has everything about making compost and there is all you need about subs, and if you're interested in small scale growing,  me and I will try to help you.
As far as I know, here in central Europe, Hungary has the biggest compost production facility and they sell compost bags pre-inoculated with button mushroom mycelium.
I think that the oysters would be much better for kits because they don't require casing and they fruit very well in conditions less than ideal.
Good luck with your grow!
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: Hacendado]
#12878113 - 07/10/10 01:51 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Oh, so maybe I should be looking into Oysters more than the ports...
Hmm, ok
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: Burbles]
#12878769 - 07/10/10 04:10 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah I'd be curious why you would want to sell button kits. They are generally seen as 'boring' mushrooms (though I think they are underrated culinarily speaking). I know people who would potentially buy a mushroom kit on a whim and I think they would go for the more "exotic" species like oyster or shiitake. If you could sell oyster kits I would think that would be potentially a good business model. You could get substrate from anywhere (coffee grounds etc) and then bill it as a green recycling thing (which it would be). Might be a cool angle to sell to farmer's market crowds.
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Burbles
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Hmm great points!
Shiitake takes a pretty long time doesn't it?
oysters can be grown on coffee grounds, saw dust, and what other things?
I'm not sure, but I do believe I can get saw dust -- thanks for the suggestions that is a great idea!
Next year I am going to try and setup a small shop in front of my house to sell plants that I've grown - I'm building a small greenhouse with at least 250sqft at the moment and I thought a mushroom kit would be also good with selling the plants... esp. if it is already inoculated and semi-established so the people just feel like their growing them - the hard part is mostly done...
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: Burbles]
#12880882 - 07/11/10 12:44 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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I saw a button mushroom grow guide one time online a long while back.
It was black and white, appeared very old, the information was outdated, and as someone else noted, BORING!
If I come across the link, I will send it. If you can tolerate to read the entire thing, then you are more patient than I.
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Re: Button Mushroom Grow Guide? [Re: HydroSplash]
#12881668 - 07/11/10 08:47 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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You could colonize phone books with oyster and sell them as kits. Might get some interest just because of the "shock value". It's pretty weird that anything will grow on phone books. Oysters also do straw fine. Newspaper. Damn near anything.
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