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Shittake Substate Recipe???
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K guys, I just got my impulse sealer and now I'm ready to start making my shittake/reishi bags. I have a garbage bag full of maple shaving from a woodworking shop. I have a bunch of oak(a bit of mdf mixed in that) sawdust. Will this work for substrate? Gunna innoculate with a needle. I can also get more compost type of oak/maple chips. BUt would whut I have work for now. Like the shavings and sawdust? Whutelse should I add?


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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: dastats]
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Use your needle to inoculate grain, and spawn that into pure sawdust. That can and will fruit or you can use it as spawn into more bags that are sawdust/chips/bran.

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: YidakiMan]
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Yeah, I would do as YidakiMan said.

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: ragadinks]
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Aight, but so hey, whut kinna bran? Like cereal? and i also seen gypsum as an ingerdient. Can i get these at the grocery store? Any is the gypsum there for ph balance?

thanks guys


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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: dastats]
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In Stamets GGMM this recipe is recommended as a base substrate for woodloving species:

100 pounds sawdust
50 pound wood chips ( 1/2 - 4 inches )
40 pounds oat, wheat or rice bran
5-7 pounds gypsum (calcium sulfate)

moisture 60-65 %

In the book it says that the gypsum does not affect PH very much, but stimulates mycelial growth.

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: ragadinks]
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k, thanks alot raga. Now question about moisture? Do you soak? Or just add the 60-65%water to the mix and stir? Calcium sulfate, can you get it a the grocery store? I'm doing phoneing right now to track it down. But just thought I would ask.


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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: dastats]
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Gypsum is used to loosen soil, to get rid of clumps. Guarentee you'll find it at landscaping, nursuries, or hardware stores.

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: dastats]
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I have never really used exactly this recipe cause I almost only use wood fuel pellets.
Usually I just soak them overnight and then let them drain for several hours.
When I use chipped wood pieces I just soak them over night, boil them and again let them drain for several ours.
They say that the moisture content is correct when only a few drops of water get out of the substrate when you squeeze it hard.
But I think you can get a better feeling for the moisture content by weighting the wet and the dry substrate ( put the wet substrate in the oven ) and calculate the difference.
But I have to admit that I never have done that either.

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: ragadinks]
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I cant find wood fuel pellets anywhere within 100 miles around me. I'm contacting a lumber distributor that is a family friend, hopefully he will have sawdust for me. I bet he can get lots!

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: dastats]
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Several years ago I tried maple shavings from a wood planer and found them to dry out very quickly.

MycoBag

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Re: Shittake Substate Recipe??? [Re: MycoFactory]
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Yeah, werd mycobag. I tried that with cyans with no success. If i added maybe a bit of coir or just pane sawdust, would that balance it all out?


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