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What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest?
#26631348 - 04/27/20 04:31 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Does anybody know what are the chemical composition of the bulk substrate after mushroom cultivation process has been completed. There is definitely Carbon and Nitrogen in there right? But i need someone who is an expert in this to tell me more about it. Thank you so much
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: RightHereAndNow]
#26631405 - 04/27/20 05:29 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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To answer the question in your title: I compost it.
I have no idea what the ingredients are.
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: poisoned]
#26633594 - 04/28/20 04:59 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Most people toss or compost. Your contents depends on what your substrate is lol.
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: bodhisatta]
#26635940 - 04/29/20 03:45 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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But most of the left over substrate would be mushroom mycelium right? Does the mycelium have high amount of carbon and nitrogen?
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: RightHereAndNow]
#26640493 - 05/01/20 04:54 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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yes, there is carbon and nitrogen in spent mushroom substrate. largely variable depending on species of mushroom and substrate material etc.
You can compost it or bury it in a bed of substrate and hope that you get more fruits, although this is not guaranteed or likely. You can feed spent oyster mushroom straw blocks to livestock assuming no weed fungi have taken hold.
Substrates go well in worm farms, and makes you feel as though you're breeding Arrakis sand worms, depending on species
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: mushes]
#26641123 - 05/01/20 11:40 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you do organic gardening and make your own worm castings .... It makes for one helluva good worm bedding substrate! Properly used, it will severely kick up the quality of your worm castings to a whole other level!
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? [Re: mushes]
#26645147 - 05/03/20 03:48 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thank you for your lovely reply
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? (moved) [Re: RightHereAndNow]
#26645262 - 05/03/20 05:43 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.
Reason: Oops forgot to move this to a better spot earlier
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Re: What do you do with the bulk substrate after harvest? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
#26645273 - 05/03/20 05:58 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you put you spend substrate in your garden and till it up and plant your garden.. Come spring you will have mushrooms growing in your garden along with all your vegetables.. or at least that is how it happens to me.
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