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Books as growing substrate with liquid culture
    #28689515 - 03/07/24 03:31 AM (10 months, 5 days ago)

Hi, I hope you're all good shroomery people.
For an art project I have to use books as growing substrate for an edible mushroom. Probably Plerotus eryngii.
My way to do it would be to immerge the book in a water solution with hydrated lime for few seconds, than put some grain spawn inside the book and close it in a plastic bag or in a plastic box, with a temperature of 20° celsius.
I've never used liquid colture, so my question is: could it be used for it? Because the grain spawn create a extra thickness, but at the sam time it give space for mycelium to breath? Anybody experiment this?
Thank you everybody

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Re: Books as growing substrate with liquid culture [Re: Sporas]
    #28689518 - 03/07/24 03:49 AM (10 months, 5 days ago)

You'd want to colonize grain, brf + verm, whatever is your choice.

Then you'd pasteurize (or sterilize in other ways) the book, and simply place the colonized material inside, then place the book in a bag. When it's colonized, just follow basic procedure, so shotgun it or monotub.

Grocycle made a guide on it, you could Google it.

e: temperatures and humidity depend on whatever species you are growing.

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Re: Books as growing substrate with liquid culture [Re: 3963]
    #28689523 - 03/07/24 04:07 AM (10 months, 5 days ago)

That's a good reference, thank you.
I imagine the idea of using liquid colture is nonsensical?

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Re: Books as growing substrate with liquid culture [Re: Sporas]
    #28689529 - 03/07/24 04:14 AM (10 months, 5 days ago)

You could, as you said, immerse the book in a nutrient-dense solution (transparen hot agar?) and try to transfer the culture to the book, injecting in a couple locations on the inside, and outside of the book. The mushroom will eventually consume the cellulose if its acidic enough. You'd want to aim for a pH level of 5-6.5. You must impregnate the pages with nutrients for the fungus to consume, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium etc... This is only theoretical though.

The simplest, most aesthetic way would be to use brf+verm in my opinion, allowing for fae, while keeping the book relatively flat.

You'd also have to pick a variety before you start the process.

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