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fruiting oyster fungus
#16797877 - 09/06/12 10:53 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm trying to grow some oyster mushrooms using the tech that this site says could potentially be used to grow p.cubensis. I started with 12 jars and do to my own stupidity I am down to 6 uncomtaminated jars that are at full colonization and have been for a few days. I am thinking that I am going to start dunking and rolling them in another day or two even though I don't have any pins yet. I am going out of town for a day in two weeks and I want to speed things up a bit.
Other than my own stpidity of trying to get the jars to colonize faster by putting them in an 85 degree greenhouse the whole process wasn't really that hard. I do think that the hott humid environment was what caused six of the jars to get contaminated.
My own stupidity aside I do have six jars that can be birthed which isn't that bad for a first timer(In my opinion). So the big question that I have is whether getting these oyster fungus to fruit will be hard or will thousands of years of evolution help me out? If I stick to the tech articles on this site will I be okay? Am I overthinking this or is it really as easy as the tech articles meake it?
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16797989 - 09/06/12 11:18 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Na man, you'll be cool.
What tek? Are u going to spawn those jars? Are they grain jars?
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I am just using one of the the brown rice flour techs. I did sterilize a few jars of water and honey. I was planning on inoculating them with spores yesterday but my dog decided to eat a porcupine so I ran out of time. I hope there isn't a time limit on putting spores in them.
I am not sure what you mean by spawn but I was just going to dunk and roll them and then stick them in a plastic container on some perlite and hope for the best.
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16798057 - 09/06/12 11:32 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oysters need TONS of FAE!! Just keep that in mind...
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#16798188 - 09/06/12 12:00 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gobblin said: Oysters need TONS of FAE!! Just keep that in mind...
Much more than cubes for sure. I think I recall reading in Stamets' "Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms" that the growth parameters chart recommended 6 full air exchanges per hour.
If you like the fruits you get from your cakes, try doing a straw log on the next grow around. I'll bet you love the results you'll get
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I was just about to tell him to spawn to straw. Lolz
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Straw is about the best oyster substrate you could ask for, and it's cheap too! You can also grow them on news papers, cardboard, old jeans, dried lawn clippings...They really aren't too terribly picky.
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So your saying that growing oyster fungus might take a bit more effort than say p. cubensis?
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16799762 - 09/06/12 04:46 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Less effort in my opinion 
All you really gotta do is pasteurize your substrate of choice and spawn too it, just like you would cubes. I'm saying that you have a lot of options available to you as substrates.
I saw a pretty cool method that wildernessjunkie posted over on the Myco-Tek boards. He pasteurized his substrate, then spawned it into 5 gallon buckets that had holes drilled on the sides. Very convenient if you have the space for them, and they're reusable! Most teks I've seen, people spawn their substrate into a plastic bag to make logs, then cut holes in the plastic after they colonize. The clusters with these methods are absolutely gorgeous! Here's the link to WJ's grow: http://myco-tek.org/showthread.php?2979-Oyster-Buckets
EDIT: On the FAE, it's really not that much more difficult. People have gotten oyster cakes to fruit along side cubes before as a way to camouflage cube grows. For the best results though, you definitely want to give them a bunch
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has anyone had good luck trying to grow laetiporous polyporous...the orange chicken mushrooms just clear some things up if I spelled the name wrong.
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16799981 - 09/06/12 05:24 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I haven't done much research into Laetiporous cultivation, but I know that there are a few people experimenting with them on the Myco-Tek boards. I'm watching a Chicken of the Woods research thread over there that looks promising.
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I went out today and found some chicken mushrooms. I picked them and ate all but the toughest parts. These parts are going to get shoved in a hole that I drilled in a log.
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16806936 - 09/07/12 06:35 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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back to my oysters. The one week rest time between dunking and full colonization will coincide with a short day trip that I am taking. Should I try to fruit them after five days and then leave them alone for the day that I am going to be gone or should I let them sit for another day or two for a total of 8-9 days of rest time after full colonization?
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Re: fruiting oyster fungus [Re: mycology]
#16806955 - 09/07/12 06:37 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Let them sit an extra day or 2
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