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eatyualive
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Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags 7
#21744280 - 05/31/15 09:55 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Do you have plastic grocery bags from your grocery shopping? Is there a garden store near you? I used recycled plastic grocery bags, Scott's brand wood mulch(5$) and some clean oyster spawn to grow some oysters.
Colonized Oyster Spawn
Scott's mulch 5$ at walmart, lowes, home depot, most garden stores.
home depot also has this organic mulch in certain areas.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Great-Gardens-2-cu-ft-100-Organic-Mulch-660-1033/205940596?MERCH=REC-_-NavPLPHorizontal1_rr-_-NA-_-205940596-_-N
grocery bag from grocery store
Procedure:
You can use this mulch right out of the bag. Generally it has perfect moisture content when bought in the store. In this write up the bag used was several years old so it had to be rehydrated.
1. The mulch was placed in a large bowl. Warm water was filled above the level of the mulch.
2. A strainer and white bowl filled with water were placed on top to hold the mulch under the water for an hour.
3. After an hour the mulch was poured into the strainer and left out to strain for 10 minutes.
4. All supplies were setup for spawning. This included a large spoon, oyster spawn, soaked wood chips, plastic grocery bags. A clean work space.
5. Spawn was broken up with a spoon.
6. I laid down 1-2" of mulch flat in the grocery bag.
7. A few spoon fulls of spawn were laid out evenly on the mulch layer. Several layers of spawn then mulch were layered to fill the bag. A top layer of spawn is left to end the spawning session.
8. The bag is tied and left to colonize for a few days.
9. After several days the bags colonized.
10. After a few more days 2 inch holes were cut around the sides of the bags. After 2 days pins began to develop. Once clusters matured, the bag cut was placed around the cluster so that the cluster was exposed to open air.
11. When i walk by I spray tap water manually with a spray bottle directly on the fruits several times a day. That's it.
12. After a few more days, fruits.
Same Culture a year earlier. This culture is from a liquid culture syringe from 2007. The syringe is stored in a dorm fridge. Only 1cc was used to inoculate a plate of agar. That plate was dropped into a grain master. That master was g2ged to colonize the grain jars.
13. After harvest ill flood the bag for an hour. pour off the water and sit the bag back in the area it fruits in for a 2nd and 3rd flush.
Lately, I have been pouring water into the bags for a daily watering to maintain moisture inside the bag. the open air can dry out the fruits if you can't mist a few times a day.
Edited by eatyualive (07/08/15 07:45 PM)
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21744290 - 05/31/15 10:00 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: azur]
#21744309 - 05/31/15 10:09 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice one Eat I'm going to start an oyster grow this week and it will be my first so... good timing. =)
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#21744508 - 05/31/15 11:33 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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did you initiate pinning by draping a wet towel around the bag?
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eatyualive
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: Haywire]
#21745081 - 05/31/15 02:59 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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nope pinning initiated itself.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21747207 - 06/01/15 02:32 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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it's nice to have oyster pinning by itself. I always have a hard time with our dry climate around here.
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eatyualive
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: Haywire]
#21747402 - 06/01/15 05:32 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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ah the climate here is moist.
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eatyualive
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21833519 - 06/20/15 07:03 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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updated op with new pics.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21833815 - 06/20/15 08:27 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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I want to try this but I couldn't find that kind of mulch in my Wal-Mart
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: nooberst]
#21837002 - 06/21/15 01:18 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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looks awesome! My only critique is you should try to find un dyed mulch. They spray chemicals onto the chips to achieve those colors. The shred on that wood looks awesome for myc!!
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eatyualive
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: Gr0wer]
#21838858 - 06/21/15 08:02 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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good point.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21840999 - 06/22/15 09:11 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey eat can you use wood chips instead of mulch?
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: nooberst]
#21841277 - 06/22/15 10:58 AM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've hunted around the net about the dye in EarthGro Mostly I find reports it is vegetable based dye
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#21841563 - 06/22/15 12:45 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Good to hear! Good substrate for city dwellers where bales of hay or wood chips are hard to find.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: Gr0wer]
#21843635 - 06/22/15 09:43 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#21846534 - 06/23/15 03:47 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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More info from Scotts re EarthGro... (plus Eat isn't dead yet and I think he has been eating his Scotts EarthGro Oysters... right Eat? Eat? Eat are you OK?!)
This from a chat with Scotts Customer service today:
Paul: Hello, how may I help you today? Psilo: I stepped a way from my desk for a few minutes while waiting for a response from the last chat. The question I asked about food safety was not adequately addressed: See below - Simone: Hello, how may I help you today? Psilo: Hi I have recently purchased EarthGro mulch (red) and I am quite interested in knowing what the dye is made of. You see, I have mulched flower beds, but I have also mulched garden beds, and I am even growing oyster mushrooms on some of the EarthGro Red mulch. In the latter two applications it is quite possible that dye could make its way into vegetables / mushrooms. I have read in places on the internet that the dye used in EarthGro is natural / vegetable based and would be safe around animals (I assume this means people and pets). Please advise. Thank you. Simone: I would be happy to look that up for you. Simone: Mulch colorants are water-based coatings made with pigments, man made additives and polymers that are common. Simone: Is there anything else I can help you with? Simone: It appears that you are idle or away and we will be closing this chat session now. If you have any further questions please begin a new session.
Paul: The colorants are made of the same type of water based dyes you will find in cosmetics and personal care items. Psilo: So is legal requiring that you do not give a specific response to the question of food safety? Psilo: That is if vegetables were grown in close proximity to these products and dye washed off and was absorbed into the root system - would the vegetables be safe for human consumption? Paul: This product is safe to use around edibles as long as you do not till it into the soil or use it in planting holes. This is because the mulch can rob the soil of Nitrogen. If you will provide me wuith an email address I can send you the MSDS for this product.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#21846869 - 06/23/15 05:30 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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not dead yet.
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21847221 - 06/23/15 07:05 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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eatyualive
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: PsiloPsychIn]
#21847387 - 06/23/15 07:42 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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monty python!
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Re: Oysters on Scott's Mulch in grocery bags [Re: eatyualive]
#21847452 - 06/23/15 07:53 PM (8 years, 9 months ago) |
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Pretty awesome grow!
fruited in open air? very humid where you're at?
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