houdinihar said:

BJML said:

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BJML, looks like some coprinus in the extreme bottom left rack. i have read that some people merely cut them off the straw and leave the rest as is. how do you handle that?

You said the temp was 32 C = 89.6 F. One of my problems is my outdoors temps has been close to 100 F for more than a month-so the temps in my garage are almost as bad. My temps are still low 90-'s to 100 during the day and 70's at night outside during this month of September. This seems to be well outside the normal range of growth for the Vv. My Tricholoma crassum and Calocybe indica are tolerating these higher temps just fine.
I do have a small incubator that can be used for maybe 2-4 of my filter bags to control my temps in the 90 degree range once the ambient temps drop enough.


houdinihar

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Lennybernadino said:

Hey BJML what pasteurization method are you using? Is it the hot water bathmethod or injected steam method, I am just begining again the experamints to try to figure out a highly productive way to grwow this mushroom with the materials available wich does not include rice straw at the moment ,    jEr

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Lennybernadino said:

COuld you PLEASE give us a more detailed description of your steam system? that looks really simple and effective and perhjaps the perfect solution for farmers out in the jungle . And those cotton stoppers are those non absorbetn cotton wool wich I cannot get around here? Could I use normal cotton? Polyfill?
    jEr

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wbastz said:

Hi Lipa

The appearance of the mycelium of Volvariella volvacea in the Petri dish seems strange.

What happens if you pull a piece of the mycelium  with a metal rod ?

Does the mycelium adheres and rolls up the metal rod like a spider web?

In all of the cultures of Volvariella volvacea that I have, the mycelium has the consistency of a spider web. The same applies to the Volvariella bombycina cultures.

Cheers,

Wilson

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Like I said, Cultures from different regions seem to exhibit different growth characteristics. I have some cultures from Hawaii some from the Philippines, some from Thailand and North America. Those from North America and Hawaii seem to grow rather thick on dishes and those from the Philippines and Thailand seem to be more wispy. In substrate conditions the mycelium of both become very spider web-like and continue through the substrate as such.

Here it is at day 3

Lipa

BJML said:

Lennybernadino said:

COuld you PLEASE give us a more detailed description of your steam system? that looks really simple and effective and perhjaps the perfect solution for farmers out in the jungle . And those cotton stoppers are those non absorbetn cotton wool wich I cannot get around here? Could I use normal cotton? Polyfill?
    jEr

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I Put water into drums which are connected with pipeline to the growing house, then heat it by firewood. Then the steam goes into the growing house.

BJML

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Javadog said:

Thanks BJML.  You made an excellent contribution to this thread.

BTW, that dish does not look like the VV that I tried to work with, but
I understand your comments about its variation.

The Bombycina (sp?) dish seems to have "collapsed".  I wonder if I let
it get too cold?  I did make transfers though, and I hope to start some
grains this weekend.

Take care,

JD

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Lennybernadino said:

I am just trying to start up a small commercial straw mushroom farm, I am hoping to get at least at least 5 kilos a day . I don´t have rice straw available in all locations so I am experimenting with other substrates such as Palm heart waste (where it grows naturally ) , sacha inchi hulls, and banana leaves . I have been cloning from the wild and making spawn from that, I also use transplanted stem buts from time to time and they work very well to quickly colonize a substrate but not clean.

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if you want to get 5 kilos/day, i suggest you to build 2 growing houses 3m x 4m. at 1st harvest day, usually 2-3 kilos @growing house, a day after that 5-8 kilos @gh and so on.



BJML