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crowseed
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Bry Bry]
#25013387 - 02/22/18 02:14 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bry Bry said: Latest project. 20'L x 10'W x 7'H for summer oyster grows.
Nice! I started growing oysters in a polytunnel last year (in buckets). I opened up one side of the polytunnel for most of the summer when it got too hot. I also put a tarp over the top for shade. Would be happy to share my (limited) experience.
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Bry Bry
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: crowseed]
#25013565 - 02/22/18 03:24 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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That would be great! What would you suggest to line the ground with? I was going to do some fill in with chip shred then level off with sawdust. I was also thinking of putting a near full width window in the back wall to help air flow. It will be semi shaded ( no direct sun ) majority of the day. I have a huge camo net that can be spread over the top for more shade if needed. I'm also thinking of installing a screen door in the opening to help with bugs.
Edited by Bry Bry (02/22/18 03:28 PM)
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Cepheus16
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Bry Bry]
#25014043 - 02/22/18 06:01 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hope the weather is treating everyone all right. So I'm still new to growing but id like to try my hand with some sort of gourmet this go around. I was thinking and had read that oysters would be a good place to start. Do yall agree? If not, any advice on which would be the easiest to start with?
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00Burnout
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Cepheus16] 1
#25014064 - 02/22/18 06:08 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't have any experience with other edibles yet, but if you can pull off proper pasteurization you can do oysters very easily. Just make sure they get tons of fae, oysters absolutely hate co2.
You might want to think about how you're going to deal with the spore load to. Oysters are one of the heaviest (if not the heaviest) spore producing mushrooms and not only can you develop an allergy to them but they can contaminate your other projects, including double wrapped plates.
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Cepheus16
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: 00Burnout]
#25014132 - 02/22/18 06:35 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Much appreciated, I have a building/worksop out side that I'm in the process of cleaning up/re-organizing as its gotten messy this winter. It has two 8x12 doors on opposing sides which should(i think) provide a decent amount of fae even mostly closed. my only worry with growing out there is that on a heavy rain water seeps in through a few seams allowing all sorts to grow where ever it seeps through.
with a lot of tlc and a free weekend i could get it cleaned up and decently sealed up. mainly use it as my workshop/gym and storage for all sorts of tools and the like.
Edited by Cepheus16 (02/22/18 06:43 PM)
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Leftfield420
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Cepheus16]
#25014395 - 02/22/18 07:56 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cepheus16 said: Hope the weather is treating everyone all right. So I'm still new to growing but id like to try my hand with some sort of gourmet this go around. I was thinking and had read that oysters would be a good place to start. Do yall agree? If not, any advice on which would be the easiest to start with?
Well the weather has been a bitch here, I put my oyster bag outside when it was raining..forgot about it and the next morning everything was covered in ice...I think I might still get a flush out of them...only iced over for 1 day
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Cepheus16
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Leftfield420]
#25014610 - 02/22/18 09:21 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would take some freezing rain over this damn warm spell. I left my lgt plates in my mini fridge for 4 months with out realizing about a foot of ice had accumulated in the back and around a few plates. They seem to be recovering fairly reasonably though so. I don't know how oyster mycelium holds up in cold temps but i hope that turns out well for you leftfield.
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00Burnout
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Cepheus16]
#25014614 - 02/22/18 09:23 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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What species of oyster?
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Leftfield420
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: 00Burnout]
#25014647 - 02/22/18 09:35 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ostreatus..I think it will be ok I found a wild cluster a few weeks ago in similar conditions...I cloned it and have it on grain now, been 7 or 8 days since I inoculated my jars(qts) and they're almost at 100% colonization, along with my blue oyster jar and red reishi jars
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00Burnout
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Leftfield420]
#25014676 - 02/22/18 09:47 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Should be if you found some not that long ago, I know blues don't give a fuck. My blue cultures in cold storage are still creeping along the plate lol
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Bry Bry]
#25014918 - 02/22/18 11:59 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bry Bry said: That would be great! What would you suggest to line the ground with? I was going to do some fill in with chip shred then level off with sawdust. I was also thinking of putting a near full width window in the back wall to help air flow. It will be semi shaded ( no direct sun ) majority of the day. I have a huge camo net that can be spread over the top for more shade if needed. I'm also thinking of installing a screen door in the opening to help with bugs.
Gravel bro, not wood, and you’re gonna have bugs for sure, just pick the mushrooms before the bugs can eat them, only way to keep them out is to add an intake fan that creates positive pressure in the GH.
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: AyePlus]
#25015039 - 02/23/18 01:49 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gravel it is then.
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Cepheus16
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Bry Bry]
#25015920 - 02/23/18 12:26 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Trying to figure out why I can't login on my phone to post a few pics. In the meantime though, been keeping an eye on a wild lions mane these past few months. Today I got around to making more plates to see if i can get a few cultures going from a tissue sample. Still making plans for some oysters though.
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Cepheus16]
#25016150 - 02/23/18 02:01 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Im new to gourments. Hoping for identification. Are this oysters? Its so fuzzy and some aerial growth. Some resemblance on some of mycogone infected cube culture
It fully colonized my wide 120mm glass petris 8-9 days.
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Humble Newcomer
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: pacmanbreed] 1
#25016367 - 02/23/18 03:12 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Looks like it very well could be. My pink and blue both sprint across agar and gets aerial if I let it.
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Humble Newcomer]
#25016564 - 02/23/18 04:29 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks humble for taking a peek. Ill test them on grains now.
Are oysters also susceptible to mycogone?
Edited by pacmanbreed (02/23/18 04:30 PM)
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Leftfield420
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: pacmanbreed]
#25016578 - 02/23/18 04:34 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Is it normal for red reishi to pin on MEA in 15 days? I'm thinking about snagging the pin and cloning it...but I'm iffy on it...there are little droplets of something on the pin itself
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TravelAgency
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Leftfield420]
#25017544 - 02/24/18 02:17 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Still having problems with my G tsugue and G applanatum- light definitely helped, but so far only 1 tsugue bag is Fruiting- applanatum are on a lower shelf so still may be light related for them. Put on of each in FC and cut a slit, even though I was hoping to keep them out of there and grow antlers, I wanted to make sure they were at least Fruiting strains. The applanatum started Fruiting almost immediately- it’ll start conking soon. The tsugue hasn’t yet- though I did cut the slits over a part that had taken on a reddish brown color- perhaps if I cut slits on a white part of the block? But this has proven that both strains can indeed fruit- so what am I missing in my invitro-grow?
Started a run both going off of what Mycolorado did late last year or early this year and did tiny like 2.5lbs bags supplemented with bran at about 30%- spawned about 3 weeks ago- all at 100%+- a couple starting to form what look like big knots (I don’t have much experience with this Family) but if light was an issue for the first, larger block crop I’d say it’d be so with the smaller blocked sets as they just have a regular, single bulb above them an most of the time I get there after/before work someone’s turned it off (tenants) to save energy even though my biz partner is only charging them PY (prior year) usage rates so they don’t carry the cost of the farm at all- so I’m debating either putting all the big blocks outside under a tent and just cutting the tops off and moving all the miniblocks to the open, grow light mounted shelving at my house (not at the farm, so more space there for colonizing blocks; or take the shelf and light over there and continue trying to fruit the11/18/17 big block batch indoors invitro? Because honestly they are just taking up space and resources right now
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Bry Bry
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: TravelAgency]
#25017935 - 02/24/18 08:26 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anyone else use pine straw and hardwood leaves for oysters?
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crowseed
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Re: The Gourmet Cultivation Discussion Thread [Re: Bry Bry]
#25019005 - 02/24/18 04:52 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bry Bry said: That would be great! What would you suggest to line the ground with? I was going to do some fill in with chip shred then level off with sawdust. I was also thinking of putting a near full width window in the back wall to help air flow. It will be semi shaded ( no direct sun ) majority of the day. I have a huge camo net that can be spread over the top for more shade if needed. I'm also thinking of installing a screen door in the opening to help with bugs.
Sounds great! Screen door would go a long way to help keep it cooler for sure. I gave up trying to keep bugs etc out. I've got the buckets on shelving, then I wrap a mosquito net round the whole shelf unit (originally the inside of a mini greenhouse), keeping the net off the ground, to keep snails etc out. I soak the subs inbetween flushes and that seems to keep any fungus gnats under control.
I'd worry about mould with a woodchip and sawdust floor, especially if you're growing on sawdust. Maybe it'd be OK if you have a good breeze running through. I don't know.
I found a load of roof slate tiles in a skip and have those down as flooring, on top of anti-weed fabric, on top of soil. Still harbours moulds no doubt. But it doesn't seem to be a problem. But I haven't had more than 10 buckets fruiting at once yet. It's just a hobby at the moment. If I hadn't found the slate I would've probably gone for gravel. As I walk on the floor it's slowly turning into slate gravel as the tiles get broken.
I guess it's the balance between fresh air and humidity that's key. I have personal humidity chambers for the individual buckets (ie a transparent plastic bag with slits in!) so I don't have to worry about keeping the whole area at the right humidity. The buckets with the slit bags keep their own microclimate. I do mist the pins though. I've some shotgun tubs with clay balls in to help humidity where things are fruiting. And the slate floor is good for soaking to help with humidity.
The oysters love the fresh air they get in this set up. I don't use any chemicals or anything on any of it. Just try and work with nature. I might try catching rain and rigging up a sprinkler system. It's all pretty low maintenance anyway. A really pleasing way to grow. I'm off grid with just a little solar power, so have followed developing world mushcult teks rather than using foggers, fans etc.
Hope this helps and good luck!
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