Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Using leaves as a substrate. anyone try?
    #25035070 -

I'm sure it can be done, i mean heck oysters for instance will grow on darn near anything...but have wondered if anyone has tried it?

The reason i ask is I typicallygrow on straw, which I dump in a trash can and then use my weed wacker it cut up pretty well.

I've grown on and using hardwood pellets/etc.

however i dumped al my leaves into my garden last year and well its getting warm out, so I decided to take the mostly whole leaves that have dried out, and stik them into a trash can and use my weed wacker to basically mulch them, and they come out pretty darn fine...so i am thinking...well why not right? they retain misoture decent, the mycelium obviously travels well with them because they do on forest floors for miles...the leaves are free and then some......and well one can make a huge pile of even the mulched products.....surely enough to fill plenty of milk cartons, plastic tubes, laundry baskets or 5 gallon buckets....
so anyone actually do this? I mean ive been using 5 gallon buckets and straw with wood supplement for years now, but .....

and what has been grown on them if anyone has any experience?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Using leaves as a substrate. anyone try? [Re: RandomFX]
    #25035137 -

Hi. I dump my contaminated oyster grain in big piles of leaves on common ground. I've seen oysters growing from them sometime later. Go for it and let us know how you go!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Using leaves as a substrate. anyone try? [Re: crowseed]
    #25035341 -

I have bags of Phoenix oyster and Pohu oyster growing on a mix of pine straw and hardwood leaves i soaked for 16-18 hrs in wood ash water. Slower colonization time but it's working.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* can I use hemp "staw" as fruiting substrate?? psylo33o 3,001 3 04/09/03 09:02 PM
by Raadt
* Re: substrate? B.I.O. 1,639 1 05/30/00 09:55 PM
by Anonymous
* Oysters and leaves MushMushi 1,621 7 11/07/02 06:10 PM
by psyconaut
* Is it possible to cultivate oyster mushrooms using cakes? Wheedhead! 5,566 8 04/24/14 08:40 AM
by tiltajoel
* Growing oysters on coffee grounds esp 9,126 19 05/01/10 10:15 PM
by PowerBarDC
* questions on blue oyster *DELETED* flameclown 2,874 7 03/25/10 03:48 AM
by biologys
* a few oysters spores 1,072 8 03/01/04 08:22 AM
by spores
* Paper substrate and Oysters ragadinks 2,296 5 08/06/04 11:49 AM
by ragadinks

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: RogerRabbit, cronicr, Pastywhyte, Forrester, Stromrider, SHROOMSISAY01
419 topic views. 2 members, 50 guests and 7 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 14 queries.