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 gratefulgere
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 Stem butts and cardboard
#8362524 - 05/04/08 07:27 PM (6 months, 16 days ago) |
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So I tried searching, I tried posting in the regular mushroom cultivation forum, and I recieved no satisfactory response. I am interested in taking rhizomorphs from a cultivated mushroom, inoculating cardboard, taking the knocked up cardboard and knocking up cocunut shell fiber, and fruiting. What do you think? Suggestions?
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RogerRabbit
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Re: Stem butts and cardboard [Re: gratefulgere]
#8362685 - 05/04/08 08:05 PM (6 months, 16 days ago) |
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It 'can' work, but cloning to agar, then going the grain route to your coir would give much better performance. Remember, the grains we use are a major food source for the mycelium. Take away the grains or brf and performance is poor at best.
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 MeltingPenguin
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Re: Stem butts and cardboard [Re: RogerRabbit]
#9056425 - 10/09/08 10:34 PM (1 month, 13 days ago) |
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Quote:
RogerRabbit said:
It 'can' work, but cloning to agar, then going the grain route to your coir would give much better performance. Remember, the grains we use are a major food source for the mycelium. Take away the grains or brf and performance is poor at best.
RR
I was toying with the idea of colonizing cardboard via stem butts, then layering pasteurized bulk maybe 1/4 inch thick between the sheets of cardboard, making a layer cake several layers thick.
Of course it won't be like a grain run, but it could be interesting, and perhaps the bulk sub could be tweaked just right for maximum output, not to mention the cardboard would be "self casing" in terms of keeping moisture in. Even if it performed half as well as a grain bulk casing, the ease of it would make it a useful low-tech tech.
Roger, what ya think would be a good place to start as far as finding an ideal mix for something like this?
I'm thinking a castings/used coffee/coir/shredded straw mix with gypsum. Maybe there's some slightly more exotic supplements that could be added as a boost without boosting contamination rate too much? Seaweed? Oatmeal? Risky I know, but if the layer was thin enough....If the bulk layer was real thin, it could be a slightly hotter mix seeing as how it would colonize real quick.
I'd like to hear info from anyone interesting in experimenting with this.
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Edited by MeltingPenguin (10/09/08 10:38 PM)
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