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Problem with my Oysters growing on cardboard
    #21197870 - 01/29/15 04:49 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Hi all !

I've been trying to grow oysters on cardboard for a few months. Got a bag from fungi perfecti and inoculated jars of cardboard soaked in water. I previsouly pseudo-sterilized them by soaking them in hot water for ~1hour. However I'm not very careful with keeping things sterile.

Anyways the mycelium took over the cardboard pretty fast. Then i started to get some mini-oysters. But invariably, and that's happened in 15+ jars several times each, once the caps are 1mm to max 1cm, the mushrooms dry up and die. No matter how much I spray them.

I've tried the following:
- Bring them in a warmer room
- Put the jars horizontally so that CO2 would not accumulate.
- Increase the temperature of the room

Any idea ? I now inoculated with wood chips to see whether substrate is the issue but it's gonna take a while. Could it be a lack of proper sterilization ? When they die, after a few days they get covered with mold, but more oysters keep coming out in the same jar anyway.

I attach some pictures. I want to eat my cardboard !
Thanks a lot !
Yannick



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Re: Problem with my Oysters growing on cardboard [Re: niquya]
    #21198912 - 01/29/15 08:46 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Have you been trying to fruit them next to your heater? Maybe your cardboard sub. is to dry. :shrug:

Are you using only cardboard in those jars?

It seems like cardboard always takes a long time to colonize for me, so yours may have dried out a lot since you inoculated them.

You could try soaking a couple jars, draining them off really well and re-fruiting.

Or try a layer of pasteurized casing soil at a healthy field capacity. It could do wonders.


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Re: Problem with my Oysters growing on cardboard [Re: poofterFroth]
    #21199050 - 01/29/15 09:15 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

your cardboard looks really dry, i'd do what poofter said. you need an environment with 85-95% humidity to fruit them in. like a shotgun fruit chamber or something....

also, next time just put these in a 5 gal bucket or a plastic bag, so its not so hard to remove when the mycelium consolidates and gets hard. you don't have to "pseudo-sterilize", just pasteurize at 140-160 for 1 hour (not boiling).

good luck!


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Re: Problem with my Oysters growing on cardboard [Re: niquya]
    #21200361 - 01/30/15 06:55 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

You guys rock ! Thank you so much for the advice, I will definitely give a try to these different solutions !

Thanks
Yannick

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