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Puma
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Oyster on coir
#14526457 - 05/28/11 01:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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The other day, after pasteurizing and inoculating straw, I had some spawn left in a jar and decided to run a small experiment: feed coir to some P. ostreatus. Straight coir, in this little 4x5x6 tub.
Today it's fully colonized. I'm going to poke a few holes in the sides and see if she'll fruit. So far, I haven't heard of oysters fruiting on straight coir, so I'm interested to find out. Any predictions?
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Puma]
#14527263 - 05/28/11 05:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Mushrooms! Im guessing oysters are agressive enough to fruit on coir
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Artman223
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Im gonna go ahead and guess that they will lol. I hope they do at least I would love to try it.. Best of luck to ya man! Keep us posted!
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Puma
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Thanks for the good vibes guys! We'll see real soon... I just gave them air, so I'll be looking for primordia from here. I'll post photos if all goes well!
Here's a couple fruiting from a jar of fine Douglas fir sawdust, cased with a bit of coir to keep the sawdust from drying out. As an experiment, I didn't even pasteurize the sawdust (but in the case of the coir, I did). The coir colonized far faster than the sawdust!
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Puma]
#14528655 - 05/28/11 10:58 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thats awesome man! Did you just use regular ol' sawdust?
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deadmandave
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Is that a quart jar? very cool how long did the sawdust take to colonize?
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Puma
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Artman223 said: Thats awesome man! Did you just use regular ol' sawdust?
Actually I had some stove pellets kicking around. I could tell by the smell they were Douglas fir. I'd been doing some agar work, passing sectors of agar to grain, then I took what was left in the petri dish and put it in the quart jar of sawdust.
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deadmandave said: Is that a quart jar? very cool how long did the sawdust take to colonize?
It took between two and three weeks, but bear in mind it was growing from agar at the top of the jar to the bottom. There was no way to shake, so I just had to wait. Actually, now I wonder which would colonize faster: a mini-tub of coir, versus sawdust, inoculated by grain. Maybe I"ll do an experiment some time soon.
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Puma]
#14533525 - 05/29/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Puma]
#14577727 - 06/08/11 12:35 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ummm, I'm pretty sure they can brother!!!(friut on coir!!) You just wait and see!!! That is THE biggest and Baddest MoFo PC I ever did see!!! YEEEEE HAAWWWWW!!!!!!
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Puma
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The proof is in! Oysters will fruit on straight coir. And surprise, surprise: they taste great.
Took this photo tonight.
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Puma]
#14593608 - 06/10/11 11:41 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Good work Puma!
Yummy.
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Re: Oyster on coir [Re: Javadog]
#14593612 - 06/10/11 11:42 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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This makes me really excited! As i deal mostly in coir atm and have been wanting to venture fruiting some of these edible cultures i have on plates!
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