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Kingstopharia

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King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log 1
#21729456 - 05/27/15 04:51 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hello, this is my first outdoor grow. Hope everyone will find it useful!
A few weeks ago I asked if it's possible to grow king stropharia on straw only and got a few positive feedback, hence here I am contributing back to the forum hopefully someone else will find it helpful.
I started it today 27/05/2015 on my backyard, and hopefully can get to pick some king stropharia this year!
I started off by buying two straw bales from a local farm...

Then, a handful at a time, I place some of the straw in a big plastic bin.

In goes the weed cutter (strimmer)

After a few hours, I manage to chop half of the bale into smaller straws, enough to fill 3 large garbage bag! Each of the bales weight about 25kg! So I still have enough left for lots of projects!
Then, I start covering up my location of choice with the chopped straws. This is just one bag of straw and is enough to cover the area about 4 inch deep! (The growing circle is about 5-6 feet in diameter). The straw lies on top of the soil. I did not place any cardboard like what many people do on their outdoor grow, wonder if that is ok?
There is already a Zuchetta and sunflower growing in the grow area (which is protected in the fencing hole) as you can see. I think I will plant some sweetcorn in there later when I got the chance to add more shade.

Then the whole area is wetted, and then a layer of wood chips is applied. (I found these chips from a land clearing project nearby! What a bonus! considering I was only planning to grow using straw only) No idea what kind of wood chips they are.

Again, the wood chips and the straw is wetted throughly.
Here is the king stropharia spawn propagated from grains onto cardboard, then I added mulch, coffee grounds, wood drillings, aquarium fish water (fresh water), and compost and all of them got mix around throughly and left to grow for 3 weeks with occasionally shaking every week to wake them up.

So, in goes the stropharia spawn ontop of the wood chips, then a layer of fine sawdust is applied on top of the spawn (the black thing is the colonised compost cardboard mixture). A friend of mine had some sawdust from his dad's workshop so in it goes (no nasty chemical timber was used).

A close up of the spawn in its new home

Then another layer of straw is applied, about 3 inch thick, and then another layer of stropharia spawn goes on top, this then get cover up in another layer of wood chips,

The final layer is evenly spread

Stropharia spawn living happily next to a potato patch (top right corner in pic)

A good way of wetting the grow area, by using the stropharia spawn box which has lots of holes in it! Just scoop a tub full of water and just go around on top several times, since I have a 150 litre tank outside.


I hope everything goes well and will post more pic in a few weeks time to see how the grow progresses.
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t3chnobily
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: Kingstopharia]
#21731331 - 05/28/15 06:26 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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SRA looks happy on your composty mix. I find that it will fruit along the edges instead of in the middle of a patch. Doing mostly 2' x whaterver long rows this year to maximize edge contact.
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mushfarmer_hn
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: t3chnobily]
#22927837 - 02/20/16 07:38 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hello. I had that problem in my stropharia mushroom bed, the stropharias only growns in the border of the bed, why? How can I make a uniform grow bed?
Thanks.
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: mushfarmer_hn] 1
#22927853 - 02/20/16 07:43 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
mushfarmer_hn said: Hello. I had that problem in my stropharia mushroom bed, the stropharias only growns in the border of the bed, why? How can I make a uniform grow bed?
Thanks.
Apparently that's fairly common. The mushrooms tend only to pop up where the mycelium meet the normal soil, especially if there are plants growing there. There's nothing that can really be done about it, as such. Although making the beds long and narrow will mean that there are more edges available. It's not like the stuff in the middle is just sitting there doing nothing, though. The mycelium in the middle is still fuelling the production of mushrooms are the edges.
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Gr0wer
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: kunino]
#22928458 - 02/20/16 11:25 PM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wouldnt bother with chopping your straw for an outdoor grow. Its not like your in any rush to yield faster. And its a ton of extra work. Looking forwards to your first fruits.
Edited by Gr0wer (02/20/16 11:26 PM)
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: Gr0wer]
#22928899 - 02/21/16 05:29 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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IMO its mostly the microclimate created by the bordering vegetation or bed structure, that helps promote more fruitings along these areas. Its also why this is such a great mushroom to plant amongst vegetables like corn or whatever. It helps cover the bed in an ideal microclimate created by the garden veggies.
As far as chopped vs unchopped straw for beds, I'd recommend chopping it. This will help your mushrooms push up through the mulch easier and be easier to find your shrooms. Its easy to overlook or not even see a mushroom thats trying to bulge and poke through 8-12 inch long thickets of straw mulch. Sometimes they won't even fully emerge from the straw if its too long.
Just mow over your straw a few passes with the lawn mower. Chopping straw doesn't have to be a hassle, it can be as easy or as hard as you make it. But make sure to wear a dust mask if its dry...
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Re: King stropharia / winecap outdoor grow log [Re: poofterFroth]
#22929345 - 02/21/16 10:06 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have mine in raised beds and I have yet to see them pop outside of the beds.
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