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Offlineprincestoadstool
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I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's
    #5891028 - 07/23/06 03:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I was surfing the net and stumbled across this article. I thought it was pretty interesting so I figured I'd post it.

>From the NATS Current News, Vol. 19, No. 4 (June-July 2001);
originally in The Spore Print, Journal for the L.A. Mycological Society

The Levi Oyster
by Royce Harvey

Someone is bound to be curious enough to ask, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A
LEVI OYSTER? Well, here is how it came about. After 24 days of intermittent snow and some rain, I was suffering from cabin fever, and believe me, it was taking its toll. I was searching for anything to break up the monotony. Thumbing through one of my books on the subject of mushroom cultivation, something interesting caught my attention.

Oyster mushrooms can be grown on cotton waste. Now where in the world
would a person in Southern California get his or her hands on cotton
waste?

On my way out to do the evening feeding of my dogs and my sheep, I
noticed an old pair of Levi's that for some reason had escaped a one
way trip to the local dump. It was worn out at the knee and seat, and
now, from time to time, being used for a mop or clean up rag, more or
less. Suddenly it hit me: I HAD COTTON WASTE. So I decided to try and
see if these Levi's could serve me one last time, as cotton waste.

I washed the Levi's, then boiled them for 2 hours in my straw cooking
cauldron (a tamale cooker). I then hung the Levi's on the clothes line to drip (shed excess water) but not to dry out completely (they had to retain enough moisture to induce mycelium to grow). I laid the Levi's out on a table, spread eagle, and then gave one of the two legs, cuffed to the waist, a liberal application of oyster
mushroom spawn. I then folded the Levi's in half lengthwise and
repeated the process on the exposed leg. Next I rolled them up as
tight as I could, put them into a plastic bag, then into my incubator.

The incubator maintains a fixed temperature of 70F around the clock. I inoculated the blue jeans on Feb. 28th, 2001. After a while, they were totally permeated and solidified - in other words, a solid white mass in a plastic bag. I did not intend to let them fruit until the end of April. There were only a few tell-tale signs of the substrate on the Levi's. You know, I guess I have grown oysters on just about everything. This is my first time to grow them on blue jeans. Just over a month after I inoculated the Levi's with oyster mushroom spawn, they began to fruit.


Interesting, huh?


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: princestoadstool]
    #5891068 - 07/23/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Cotton, hemp, money, burritos, paper, ballcaps, stuffed animals, etc., will all grow mushrooms. The bag of substrate in front of the flowhood is a quarter pound of white widow buds.
RR


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5891113 - 07/23/06 03:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)


priceless.


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5891437 - 07/23/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)




a salutation to the Emperor


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: shirley knott]
    #5897903 - 07/25/06 11:35 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Cool photos :smile:
This is mine :smile: :cool:


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #6837428 - 04/26/07 03:30 PM (16 years, 9 months ago)

LOL!! :shitstorm:  thats not a burrito; its a rolled up cotton fabric;
some1 was pulling yur leg.


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Re: I thought this was interesting - Some one sucessfully grew oyster mushrooms on a pair of Levi's [Re: ralphroks]
    #6838659 - 04/26/07 08:42 PM (16 years, 9 months ago)

WOOOOW that is  awesome RR!:bongload: :yourock:

like the money one the most. 


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Edited by shagg (04/27/07 12:05 AM)


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