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Blue and Yellow Oysters
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I just got some blue and yellow oyster culture syringes. All I've got to sterilize with is my pressure cooker and an alcohol lamp. I was planning to inoculate sterilized grain in a canning jar and then either just fruit them right off of the grain or transferring them to a straw substrate or something like that... Does this sound like the right thing to be doing with these syringes? Any advice?


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: PitcherCrab]
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you could do that, infact thats prob what most would do.

I wouldn't fruit from the jar thow, you would just get a handfull of mushrooms maybe.

I myself havn't got the nerve to mess with pasterizein straw yet, nor have i messed with casings....what ive been doing is taking filter patch bags and filling them up with 4 parts wbs .5 parts sawdust and a dash of used coffee grounds.

fill a bag up to about 1-2 inches of the filter patch and when that thing fruits you will have a decent crop....and you don't have to mess with cleaning jars either.


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: makaveli8x8]
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Oysters fruit poorly off of straight grain. I'd inoculate the grains, then use those after full colonization to inoculate the straw.
RR


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
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If I were to use straw am I going to need a lot of room? I've seen lots of pictures of big bags of fruiting oysters hanging from a ceiling... can I fruit them in a large plastic bin or something? This is my first attempt at cultivating oysters so I don't really know what I'm doing yet. Also, should I keep my culture syringes in the fridge until I use them?


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: PitcherCrab]
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You can use a laudry basket, there´s another post on it, check it out here:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/6448671/an/0/page/0


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: felixhigh]
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If you want to use a simple substrate that really pumps out a good flush with Oyster's, use newspaper. Newspaper is really simple to use. I use 1 sunday paper without the inserts and 1 quart of grain spawn per project. Some of the inserts have staples in them that don't feel so good in the hands when you're ringing out the paper. Use a 1/4 cup of bleach to 2.5 gallons of cold tap water and allow the paper to soak for a few hours in the bleach water. Simply take handfulls of the paper out and gently ring them out. Then load doubled up plastic grocery bags with the paper and spawn in layers. Like a 1" layer of paper and then cover that layer with a few spoon fulls of broken up grain spawn and so on until the paper and spawn are gone. You want the last layer (the top layer) to be paper. Then simply take the handles from the bags and tie them into a knot like you would your shoe strings. Don't double knot it, just one so you can untie it easily. Then press down on the project pretty good so it gets compacted. You don't have to stand on it, but do compress it well. Then simply allow the project 2 weeks for colonization and then introduce it to the Oyster strains proper fruiting conditions. Easy as pie and really works well. I love it for a few projects of Oyster's.

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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Do you tear the newspaper into thin strips before you spawn to it? Was thinking of doing that with cardboard boxes....cutting it into 'chips' sort of. It would be time consuming, but I'm wondering if it would be worth it...


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hypercube]
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Na, when you ring it out it turns into a paper ball. Simply split the ball into chunks when loading the bags. It goes really fast and is a simple as it gets. Compared to straw it's so much heavier and far better of a performing substrate with Oyster's. By a long shot IMO.

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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I think I'll give that a try. I've got some old phone books I need to dispose of.
RR


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
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Ack! That's what i'm doing in the morning for fun. I'll race ya!  :smile2:

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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My grain spawn isn't ready yet. You'll probably beat me. I won't be starting it for at least a week.
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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: RogerRabbit]
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I'm just joking. I was going to use the remainder of my spawn to use on a phone book myself. Just for the heck of it. But I think the Ms. done trashed them all. I had about 5 books here that were doing nothing but taking up space. lol. I figured they'd come in handy for shroom food, along with the ton of newspapers I have stored away as well.  :biggrin:

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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Thanks for the suggestions! I inoculated 6 spawn jars of WBS about 4 days ago with the blue oysters and I am starting to see mycelium growth in all the jars... as soon as they are ready I think I'm gonna try the newspaper.


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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: PitcherCrab]
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I'm in the process of documenting how I prepare my Oyster's on newspaper. I can show you the whole cleaning of the newspaper and spawning parts if you want?

I'm a cheap bastard, so I also use plastic grocery bags for substrates too. They work really nice believe it or not.

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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That would be awesome!
Looking forward to it!

*taps foot on ground, waiting for cultures to arrive*


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hypercube]
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Ok. By the time you get your cultures and have your grain colonized, i'll be done with the projects (fruiting) and will show you how. It's easy as pie and very effective.

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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Awesome! I'd love to know anything you have to tell... Perhaps you should post it in a new thread so the information is available to everyone?


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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: PitcherCrab]
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Have you nearly got your spawn ready PC? I'm almost ready for you. The block started pinning like mad yesterday. :thumbup:

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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: Hotnuts]
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yeah its done... I was actually *just* thinking about how I should start to do it.


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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear


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Re: Blue and Yellow Oysters [Re: PitcherCrab]
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Ok. Give me a few hours to get the pictures re-sized and organized (and myself). I'll start a thread for the technique. It's very simple.

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