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Kawan


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new cultivator
#17333765 - 12/04/12 04:30 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hi Guys,
I'm new to whole mushroom cultivation and i was always verry intrested in this so i started a little project and am i wondering if i'm doing ok.
At starters I got some oudside grown mycelium from a friend azurencens, cyancen, ovoideocistidiata.
the friend from who i got the mycelium told me to put it in a bucket with wet chips, dril some holes and put some tyvek over them, and place them in room temp area and close te top to multiply. here are some pictures one month in the progres

 Cyancens
 ovoideocystidiata
 azurencens
please let me now if this is the way to go?
kind regards
plantje
Edited by plant-paradise (12/04/12 04:32 PM)
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Wimy
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You definitely have some mycelium growing there, it seems as if you are having pretty good success so far. I would recommend leaving them put and not opening it up to take pictures etc unless it is a very brief progress check. When it looks like most of the wood chips a colonized with mycelium (the white stuff) you make a bed with them in your yard. I do not know if it's a good idea to spawn in the coldest months of the years with those sp, it might be okay I'm just not sure. Looking good though, good luck, hope to follow your progress all the way to harvest!
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Re: new cultivator [Re: Wimy]
#17333889 - 12/04/12 04:53 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wimy said: You definitely have some mycelium growing there, it seems as if you are having pretty good success so far. I would recommend leaving them put and not opening it up to take pictures etc unless it is a very brief progress check. When it looks like most of the wood chips a colonized with mycelium (the white stuff) you make a bed with them in your yard. I do not know if it's a good idea to spawn in the coldest months of the years with those sp, it might be okay I'm just not sure. Looking good though, good luck, hope to follow your progress all the way to harvest!
Thank you for your reply i'm really glad to hear from the experiencend growers that i'm following the richt road.
i want to multiply some more if this is fully grown and sell some to the local smartshops here in holland. I'm planning to make a bed in februari after the last frostings are gone.
Edited by plant-paradise (12/04/12 04:54 PM)
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Well if you made some tubs with fresh wood chips and used clean disposable gloves (I would use the gloves) then you should be able to start expanding now. I would actually start with a small container and remove one of those colonized chips off the top and put it right in the middle of a one or two quart container of fresh chips. You could do this two or three times at once. Then once those smaller containers colonize you can break up those chips and use them to inoculate larger tubs. With a large tub, the more spread out the spawn is (the colonized chips) the faster it will go. This is why you let a smaller container colonize first, so you have a good amount of colonized chips to go into the larger tub so that the mycelium can start growing from more places than just one in the middle. These are called inoculation points, and the more you have the faster the tub will finish colonization.
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You are doing well! You are likely one of the few new cultivators who went straight to wood-eating species. 
Go here and scroll down to the Woodlovers section for some additional reading.
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Re: new cultivator [Re: Wimy]
#17334233 - 12/04/12 05:45 PM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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I started off with 1/3 mycelium and 2/3 woodchips and put it in layers in the containers after that i mixed it a little.
so if i understand correctly I could speed up the proces by making new tubes with fresh woodchips and mycelium and let it overgrow and then put the cakes in the mother container again?
btw what is a quart container? is this a container size if so which size is it?
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Thank you
thank you for the link to the woodsection i will definatly check it out.
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A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. It refers specifically to how much a container holds, and is a standard here in the US. Whatever you go by there, it is very easy to convert measurements.
You would want to break up the smaller container's contents once it is fully colonized and spread it throughout a larger tub of fresh wood chips, rather than simply placing the whole "cake" in there. To get more innoc points.
You won't add anything back into the "mother container" You will simply take some of the wood chips that have the most mycelium on them out and use that to start up the smaller container. This will be your primary spawn for a new tub. The mycelium will grow from the individual wood chips in the smaller container on to all the others and finish faster due to the smaller size. Then you will have a good amount of primary spawn. You break up the primary spawn and spread it throughout a new tub of fresh wood chips. This is a process called 'bulk spawning'. By breaking up and spreading out the primary spawn throughout the tub it will finish faster than if you just took one woodchip out of the "mother" tub, and you do not want to take a whole handful out because that defeats the purpose. Those tubs are already well in their way.
Understand? I know it can be hard for a new cultivator to understand these concepts so if you don't understand tell us what you are having trouble with and maybe someone can help me explain it I
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Re: new cultivator [Re: Wimy]
#17337702 - 12/05/12 10:46 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wimy said: A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. It refers specifically to how much a container holds, and is a standard here in the US. Whatever you go by there, it is very easy to convert measurements.
You would want to break up the smaller container's contents once it is fully colonized and spread it throughout a larger tub of fresh wood chips, rather than simply placing the whole "cake" in there. To get more innoc points.
You won't add anything back into the "mother container" You will simply take some of the wood chips that have the most mycelium on them out and use that to start up the smaller container. This will be your primary spawn for a new tub. The mycelium will grow from the individual wood chips in the smaller container on to all the others and finish faster due to the smaller size. Then you will have a good amount of primary spawn. You break up the primary spawn and spread it throughout a new tub of fresh wood chips. This is a process called 'bulk spawning'. By breaking up and spreading out the primary spawn throughout the tub it will finish faster than if you just took one woodchip out of the "mother" tub, and you do not want to take a whole handful out because that defeats the purpose. Those tubs are already well in their way.
Understand? I know it can be hard for a new cultivator to understand these concepts so if you don't understand tell us what you are having trouble with and maybe someone can help me explain it I
Ahh yes it's all clear to me now exept the quart part I looked it up on wikipedia and it say's that a quart is aproximatly 1 liter is this true? if so I now know what I need.
another question.
I see a allot of people producing in clear glass jarrs or tubs. what is better to use clear glass/plastic or should it be dark?
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Clear. For two reasons- light is actually beneficial to mycelium in all stages of growth (despite what you may have read) and so that you can see your progress.
Don't worry about the quart. Remember I said one or two quarts anyway. Just use a much smaller container that will finish much faster than a large tub will. Like something you would use to store leftovers in the fridge
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