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First Grow - Where to start?
    #5730477 - 06/09/06 12:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I have ordered some Pleurotus ostreatus 'Grey Oyster Mushroom' mycelium dowels off ebay. This is my first ever grow with gourmet mushrooms and am just wondering how much difference there is between growing psilocybin mushrooms and gourmets.
A few questions i have are:
How do i make spawn, starting with these dowels?
Whats the best substrate for oysters? I can get straw
Would this be pasturized in the same way as hpoo?
Is the spawn/substrate incubated and fruited at the same temps as Cubies?

Advice is highly appreciated.


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5730754 - 06/09/06 01:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

hi zeegos, you should buy Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, is a good reference for methods and parameters for every edible/medicinal mushroom :smile:

for dowells you means plugs?


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: FreeSporePrints]
    #5731165 - 06/09/06 03:30 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yea, there plugs for logs. I'll have a look for that book, thanks


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5731202 - 06/09/06 03:41 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Hey zeegos,

You can add one of the dowels to sterilized grain or sterilized sawdust to make spawn.

It would be hard to say what is the best substrate for oysters, they will grow on and fruit on anything with cellulose, they seem though to be really fond of
straw, coffee grounds and cottonseed hulls. I think for a small grow cottonseed hulls are the easiest to use as you can pasteurize them in pot by boilingeditbring to a boil and in a covered pot simmer for 20 minutes and then drain and cool. The will grow on any hardwood, though in the wild I think you are more likely to find them on the softer hardwoods like willow.


For oysters, straw can be pasteurized by heating to 160 to 170 for a and hour in hot water and then draining, if you have a way to steam it at these tempatures that will work also.

Oysters for the most part like tempatures about 10 degrees cooler than Cubies
for all stages of growth.


Hope this helps,

falcon


Edited by falcon (06/09/06 09:59 PM)


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: falcon]
    #5731231 - 06/09/06 03:51 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Thanks falcon  :thumbup:
I'll be getting my PC soon (7 litre beauty) and i'll get myself some nice jars for the spawn. I cant find any WBS at the mo. Maybe other bird seeds will work? Or i can get maze.
I saw an interesing grow with the use of a paper roll  :shocked: i might give it a try. But since i live near farms, i think i'll just get myself a nice bale of straw.


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5732436 - 06/09/06 10:10 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:cool:  :smile:

7 liters sounds good,

other kinds of bird seed work, sorghum, millet, sunflower seeds, also rye grain, WBS is usually the least expensive, maize should work.

Have fun :laugh:


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: falcon]
    #5733783 - 06/10/06 10:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I found myself a source of WBS. I'll need to borrow my friend and his car to go pick up all this stuff  :grin:
Need to get a PC, jars, coffee filters, WBS and straw


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5733936 - 06/10/06 11:34 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It's better to use tyvek or polyester non woven interfacing than coffee filters. Coffee filters could be a place where mold could get started.


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: falcon]
    #5734450 - 06/10/06 02:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

hmm, tyvek may be an American brand name. I believe its a type of breatable envelope? I will also look out for breathable tape.
Also, is polyfill just cotton wool?


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5735724 - 06/10/06 09:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yep, tyvek is a brandname and is sold as breathable envelopes, it is also used as house wrap in new home construction.

Polyfill is very similar to cotton wool, it is made from polyester fiber though, instead of cotton.

The polyfill they sell for fish aquarium filters is a lot finer and easier to work with than the one that is sold as pillow filling. The only drawback to the finer stuff is that is not as easy to push a needle through if you are working with liquid cultures.

I haven't tried breathable tape, thanks, will check that out.

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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: falcon]
    #5736762 - 06/11/06 01:10 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yes too i wanted to try breathable tape..i believe it permits more aeriation..but also more contaminants.


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: FreeSporePrints]
    #5742205 - 06/12/06 03:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I got these mushroom dowels today. I went out into a random field and hacked at a huge branch of a dead looking oak tree with my trusty axe. Rater tireing getting it home  :grin:
It was about 25cm thick and approx 80cm long. I drilled and plugged 8 holes in total.
Im gonna keep the other 8 i have for some straw bags and maybe some LC, if its feasable??
I'll try pinch some straw from a nearby farm tonight  :wink:


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Re: First Grow - Where to start? [Re: zeegos]
    #5755967 - 06/16/06 01:03 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

since the bag has been opened, go to agar
this is what I do with dowels works like a charm just scape a bit of mycellium onto the agar with a scalpel
IMHO do a couple plates with gentemycin (a antibiotic that survives pressure cooking) and some plates with hydrogen peroxide
that culture probably needs to be cleaned up if it's open
the peroxide helps to keep contam spore from germinating and the gentamycin is good to keep down bacteria
never tried both in the same plate but that would probably work too


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