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Raw
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Chunky Woodchip OK?
#12295555 - 03/29/10 09:22 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok,
So I'm having trouble getting hardwood sawdust.
But I have free access to winter cut chunky hardwood woodchips, ash, maple, oak, linden, and the like...
Has anyone had success using this as an unsterilized bulk substrate? Can I get away without sterilizing it? Any tips... How do I use H2O2?
I only have Ganoderma Lucidum dowel spawn right now...
It will have bark in it from the live branches being chipped up. What can I do to grow my Reishi without sawdust?
I'm gonna try it out... I'd like to be able to use it to grow a lot of reishi mushrooms in a bucket-of-mushroom system outside in a dozen shallow #15 nursery pots.
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Re: Chunky Woodchip OK? [Re: Raw]
#12295573 - 03/29/10 09:25 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Does cactus soil work when you don't have sawdust? Will for cyans...
-------------------- Yours in the Natural State! "The woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have patches to keep, and jars to sterilize before I sleep...."
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Raw
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Re: Chunky Woodchip OK? [Re: curenado]
#12295602 - 03/29/10 09:32 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really?
I had no idea... Depends on the cactus soil I guess... A lot of soil mixes nowadays are not peat but wood based.
the wood-chips are bigger. I guess I'll just look for freshly chipped logs that are healthy and free of bugs and other molds... and soak them in a rubber-maid with H2O2 for two days then drain. I'll plug the bottom of the nursery pots with weed-block then load up the chips.
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Re: Chunky Woodchip OK? [Re: Raw]
#12297745 - 03/30/10 08:13 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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One should check all purchased mulches and grains to make sure nothing anti-fungal has been added to them. If a bag says "Won't Mold!" check it for sure. I'm also going to try hot water past. three days in a row for some of my outsiders this year to see if you get the endospores that hatch better. Like a fractional sterilization but "fractional" pasteurization instead...nothing long or fancy just three 1 hour long hot HOT baths 24 hours apart.
-------------------- Yours in the Natural State! "The woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have patches to keep, and jars to sterilize before I sleep...."
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Re: Chunky Woodchip OK? [Re: curenado]
#12298103 - 03/30/10 10:06 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Don't use peroxide. That's a bogus tek and gives worse performance than doing nothing at all because peroxide is toxic to mushroom mycelium.
If you can't get hardwood sawdust, use coir to fill in around the chips if you're using it for reishi. Don't try to grow shiitake with coir though. Another alternative is softwood sawdust, but don't use pine. Douglas fir comes to mind and is usually easy to get. RR
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