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Terry M
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Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags!
#14113327 - 03/13/11 09:02 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here are some P. ostreatus fruiting right now on 100% brown paper grocery bags.

I put the bags through a home office paper shredder, and noc the substrate 11 days ago.
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Terry M]
#14113341 - 03/13/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ban Thurian spawned straight to coir!
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El Douche
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: shr00m3r]
#14113381 - 03/13/11 09:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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fungus_tao
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: El Douche]
#14113594 - 03/13/11 10:44 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I love to see household waste being put to good use!
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Terry M]
#14113759 - 03/13/11 11:21 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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nice fruits Terry
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Humility
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: fungus_tao]
#14113923 - 03/13/11 11:57 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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fungus_tao said: I love to see household waste being put to good use!

Can't wait to see you back in the middle of it.
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gornyhuy
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Humility]
#14121301 - 03/14/11 07:27 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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That is beautiful! I really need to get going on some edible cultures. Is there a 'brown bag tek for dum dums' you could recommend?
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fungus_tao
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: gornyhuy]
#14121359 - 03/14/11 07:36 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I wrote up a pictorial on the subject here.
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Terry M
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: fungus_tao]
#14123784 - 03/15/11 05:56 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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fungus_tao said: I wrote up a pictorial on the subject here.
I think the difference is that I used ordinary plastic mushroom fruiting bags, but filled them with a substrate of shredded brown paper grocery bags.
Tek is really easy:
For each large gusseted bag, shred 10 brown paper grocery bags in a home office shredder, tearing the bags into 1 sheet thicknesses so they'll fit in the shredder. Pause every couple of minutes so your shredder doesn't overheat (and you think you've killed it!).
For each 10 brown paper bags, add 1 cup oat, wheat, or rice bran, plus one dry ounce gypsum.
Add 3 cups water per final gusseted bag, and mix thoroughly. Fill gusseted bags and PC for 2 hours.
Let cool overnight, and inoculate with 1 quart jar rye grain per gusseted bag, and shake well.
That's it!
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shroom-jitsu
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Terry M]
#14124480 - 03/15/11 10:37 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really fatty fruits! Love em!
Is that a SGFC? If so, can I see / can you explain the size and spacing of your breather holes? I've tried oysters a couple of times now in my shotty, but I can never accomplish enough FAE without murdering humidity. I get clusters of snail-eye looking tubes that never really fan out.
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Terry M
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: shroom-jitsu]
#14124685 - 03/15/11 11:30 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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shroom-jitsu said: Really fatty fruits! Love em!
Is that a SGFC? If so, can I see / can you explain the size and spacing of your breather holes? I've tried oysters a couple of times now in my shotty, but I can never accomplish enough FAE without murdering humidity. I get clusters of snail-eye looking tubes that never really fan out.
It is an off-the-shelf Martha I bought from mushbox. I did scrap their fancy "Humiditube" thing because mine was poorly constructed and unreliable. Instead, I use just a reptile fogger in a 1-pint measuring cup, controlled by a repeat cycle timer. The fogger "on" part of the cycle is only about 10 seconds out of maybe half and hour, and I get 95% humidity from this without having to frequently refresh the water.
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Terry M
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Terry M]
#14124754 - 03/15/11 12:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh, and the Martha has a little squirrel cage fan mounted near the humidity source for great FAE. Might be overkill, but would imagine that this could be added to a SGFT if the fan was tiny enough (like a notebook computer fan) or could run slowly enough.
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shroom-jitsu
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: Terry M]
#14124972 - 03/15/11 01:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for the feedback! Judging by the quality of your fruits, I'd say overkill looks to be working just fine.
Edited by shroom-jitsu (03/15/11 01:41 PM)
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gornyhuy
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: shroom-jitsu]
#14125428 - 03/15/11 03:11 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome, thanks! Nice write up. Not much spawn needed either... really impressive.
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NSF
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: gornyhuy]
#14125573 - 03/15/11 03:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I recently spent some time with a very successful hobby and now commercial grower and he repeated to me several times over that Fresh Air MUST be treated for humidity as it enters the chamber. His low tek solution was to have a reservoir that drip fed (moistened) a filter on the fan's in take pipe.
Apparently, regardless of the humidity in the chamber, the fresh moving air must be damp too.
Otherwise you dry the surface of your blocks. And seeing as mushrooms are mostly water you want to leave as much for them to use in fruits.
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FriendlyNeighbor
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: NSF]
#14173424 - 03/23/11 11:36 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Say I have oyster on agar. Would I be able to spawn that onto the PC'ed paper bags? Or do you recommend a grain spawn always?
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BlueLightRain
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Quote:
FriendlyNeighbor said: Say I have oyster on agar. Would I be able to spawn that onto the PC'ed paper bags? Or do you recommend a grain spawn always?
You could cut out a piece of cultured agar and drop it onto the grocery bags, but you'll probably have more success dividing up the culture into several jars of grain spawn then using that to inoculate your grocery bags.
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Re: Oysters on 100% brown paper grocery bags! [Re: BlueLightRain]
#14173922 - 03/24/11 02:16 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks. I just did a little more search and it makes sense because with grain you would have more mycelium to work with (faster colonization once spawned).
Plus I think RR in another thread stated that grain really gives mycelium the nutrients it needs to jump start growth (again to out grow other nasties that may be present).
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