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Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest
#26540944 - 03/17/20 02:39 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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The recent pandemic has asked questions about the stability of the world's food supply and has stimulated popular interest in food self-sufficiency. Even better if the food is indoors.
What edible mushroom species lend themselves well to the typical bulk tray tek in a greenhouse system? Species that could be tissue cloned from gourmet or common grocery stores would be best. Possible species to consider: Oyster, Shiitake, Maitake, Portobello.
The spawn is grain. The substrate is aged manure, coir, verm, and gypsum. The system is Bulk trays tek in a greenhouse.
Not so interested in straw or sawdust or bags because of lack of immediate accessibility with current resources.
Thanks for your input!
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: totallylike]
#26547792 - 03/20/20 11:09 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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King oyster does great in tubs/buckets/anything. They are often available at supermarkets.
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: Nichrome]
#26548470 - 03/21/20 09:28 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Agree, if you're not going with sawdust kings may be the best option, they can be grown on coir I know. Although I'm not sure the manure is going to do any good or not, most edible species that I know other than agaricus aren't really interested in manure.
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: Forrester]
#26550007 - 03/22/20 12:01 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thank you for the input! I actually came across a whole bale of straw, so I will probably try straw bags for my King Oyster clones. I also picked up some White Beech, Clamshell, Pioppini, Bunapi and Maitake (I'll probably just eat them and not try to fruit) at the store. I have my work cut out!
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: totallylike]
#26550727 - 03/22/20 11:05 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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totallylike said: Thank you for the input! I actually came across a whole bale of straw, so I will probably try straw bags for my King Oyster clones. I also picked up some White Beech, Clamshell, Pioppini, Bunapi and Maitake (I'll probably just eat them and not try to fruit) at the store. I have my work cut out!
Good luck! Beech is one of my favorites, but it's proven itself to be extremely difficult to fruit, I had a little success but not much. Same with maitake, although it's fun to try. Pioppino on the other hand is an easy and fun one, give that one a go if you get the chance! This was my FIRST attempt:
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: Forrester]
#26553335 - 03/23/20 03:42 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for the tip on the Piopinno, Forrester! I'm actually in the middle right now of divying up pasty plates for each species, so I will put more for that one.
Do you think straw in shoebox-type trays is feasible for the grow? I don't have any mycobags and I'm debating whether or not to get them... it seems like every indoor gourmet grower is using bags with the straw. I'm sure the bag is a little more secure from contams.
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: totallylike]
#26554689 - 03/24/20 08:35 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think trays would work fine, I just used bags because I had them. My sterile technique for most of my grows was intentionally pretty lackluster, I used lipa's tek on HWFP for nearly all my grows, so not even proper pasteurization. Without supplementation/sterilization it's kind of a waste to even use filter patch bags because you know there's already plenty of contams in there, you're just beating them to the punch.
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Re: Indoor Food Supply... Edible Species that grow in bulk tubs.. CORONAharvest [Re: Forrester]
#26566135 - 03/29/20 10:23 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for the encouragement Forrester. Agar is hard at work and looking clean so far.
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