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 Small Commercial Oyster Growing Operation - Grown on Straw *Pics* Update: New Grow Room! 01-03-09  1
#6766418 - 04/09/07 03:36 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is an overview of my small mushroom farm here at my facility in Oregon. We will start off with growing oyster and then once we have the funding, we will then go to shiitake, and other varieties.
Here are some pictures of the Bulk Pasteurization process using a 55 gallon drum:
Here is the straw inside the barrel inside a wire basket using a brick to weight it down during pasteurization.
This is a picture of the Propane tank and line going to the burner under the 55 gal tank, and Also the valve I installed on the bottom of the tank to allow it to drain. *important*
This is the Basket out of the barrel used to hold the straw.
This is the inside of the Barrel, The shelf used to keep the basket from going to low inside of the drum and touching the bottom.
Another picture of the Barrel and Straw basket. Ready to go!
Here is the Work bench that the straw is laid on to cool after pasteurization.
There is a hole on the one end, which is where I attach the poly tubing to *fits very tight*.
This is when the straw was raised, and is now draining.
Another view of the straw draining.
More Pictures to come!
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6766455 - 04/09/07 03:42 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sweet! Until I saw the last pics, I was gonna ask how the hell you lift that thing out, unless you're built like Arnold. Nice setup!
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: RogerRabbit]
#6766563 - 04/09/07 04:06 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Great setup Graham! I love the come-along to pull the straw out, perfect!
How much straw do you fit in your basket? How do you chop it?
Have you ever considered filling the bottom of the barrel w/ a small amount of water and boiling that, to steam the straw? You'd have to separately soak/strain the straw but it may be cheaper in resources in the longer run, heating 5gallons of water as opposed to 40 or 50.
Something to try if you have the time/space/spawn.
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: RogerRabbit]
#6766598 - 04/09/07 04:18 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, No way in hell I could get out that straw without using two people or a come-along. 
Thanks!
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: mattymonkey]
#6766656 - 04/09/07 04:32 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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MM-
Thanks!
I fit about 100lbs of straw (wet weight) into the basket.
On a cement pad with couple sheets of plywood against a fence I chop the straw with a troy bilt chipper shredder 6.5HP. It takes some time, but it works.
Im currently looking for a bale chopper.
I Have steamed products in this drum using the methods you described, however - It actually takes longer for me to get the center of the straw to 160 using that method, so it actually uses more fuel!
I am working on getting a box that I can steam in, by using a boiler to pump the steam into the box, like your bosses farm.
I am currently trying to develop a boiler fueled by wood or oil... We have tons of waste wood around my area. Used Pallets and other waste shipping wood material, and lots of logging.
-Graham
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6769414 - 04/10/07 09:18 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good! Very smart and clean!
Fabio
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Thanks! I am trying to think of better methods all the time.
Any suggestions are always appreciated.
-Graham
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6787264 - 04/14/07 01:39 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Heres some more pics!
40lbs of commercial oyster mushroom spawn.
Heres a close up of the filter used on the bags for the spawn
Heres the number of the Oyster I used... 3015
Heres the straw, cooling on the table, and about ready to fill into bags.
Another view
Here is a mix of the straw/spawn being filled into the tube in the holw of the table.
I use a method of.... put some straw in. put some spawn in methods
Enjoy!
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6787277 - 04/14/07 01:42 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oh.. and more pics to come.
Colonization and frutification later!
-Graham
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6787287 - 04/14/07 01:45 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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nice pics. It looks well set up.
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: thallus]
#6787290 - 04/14/07 01:47 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6787291 - 04/14/07 01:47 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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well well well
never seen before now a 40lbs spawn bag!!
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: thallus]
#6787298 - 04/14/07 01:49 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very nice. I love it!
Keep posting. I want to know how it turns out!
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Actually its 2 - 20lb bags of spawn.
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6787780 - 04/14/07 03:57 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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very nice setup cryo , its always good to see fellow cultivators projects,
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Thanks I figured everyone would enjoy seeing my setup
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6827186 - 04/24/07 10:39 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here is the next sequense of the growing operation, The fruiting cycle.
The bags were left to colonize the straw for aprox 1 and a half weeks. They were obviously done by 1 week, but time did not permit me to get them into the fruiting room right away. There were some visible amounts of metabolites present.
Here we go, Enjoy!
Rows of 8 inch tubes 36" long.
Tubes surrounding the ventilation system.
Picture showing the hall and rows on each side of the room.
Showing the tubes from a bottom view
More pics of the tubes up close.
good close up of the colonized tube.
Second row which only has about 6 tubes on it. The capacity for this rack is 24.
Another view of the second row.
Up close and personal with the ventilation system. Very simply system. Made out of parts obtained from Home Depot/Lowes.
More pictures to come when they begin to fruit.
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6827244 - 04/24/07 10:51 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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I like the pics man! I wish I could get mine to be so clear, but I guess when I resize the resolution suffers. Anyway, thanks for all the pics! The bags look ready to go. So fully colonized in one week...what kind of spawn ratio did you use. Or better, how many logs/bags did one of those 20lb spawn bags make you?
I think you're going to have a whole lotta mushrooms soon! make sure you're ready for the spore drop. I remember walking into the fruiting room sometimes, and the spores looked like smoke wafting from the gills into the room. Here's a pic of some spore icicles that grew on some of the caps;
Hopefully you can make out the icicles of spores in the picture, you may have to click on it to make it larger...
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Jeremy_Davis]
#6827280 - 04/24/07 10:57 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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LOL Bearded Oyster mushrooms!
2 20lb bags (40lbs), spawned to about 400lbs of straw.
-Graham
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Re: Bulk Straw Pasteurization [Re: Cryogenicz]
#6827338 - 04/24/07 11:11 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks! That's dry weight of straw correct? Figuring 50lb bales, that's like 8 bales. I get about 6 logs per bale, so that'd be 48 logs. Is that close to what you have????
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