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PitcherCrab
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School project... need some advice.
#7510329 - 10/11/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I am working on a project where I need to figure out a way of growing mushrooms with the least amount of equipment possible, so that teachers could possibly use it in classrooms to show students about mushroom reproduction and growth. Because they won't be able to use things like a glove box and a PC, I need to figure out a way that doesn't need that stuff.
Here is what I am thinking as of right now: Take a store bought mushroom from a local organic producer and clone that to cardboard (using a tissue sample from inside the stem) which has been soaked in a 10:1 peroxide solution. I would either clone to a small piece of cardboard which I would use to colonize a larger piece, or just start big. Then I would spawn to pasteurized straw in bags.
How would some of the more experienced growers go about doing something like this? I read up on cloning to cardboard, but most places said that I would need to use a stem butt that still had mycelium on it. Could I clone to cardboard using a tissue sample like I do with agar?
-------------------- PC's LAGM 2021 (TOC & TWC)P. natalensis Growlog 2021Pans for PC Fall 2021 Growlog “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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RogerRabbit
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Re: School project... need some advice. [Re: PitcherCrab]
#7510394 - 10/11/07 07:44 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's funny. This is exactly the topic of my next video that's in production now. My primary target market is schools, libraries, and parents of elementary and middle school age children. You can grow your spawn for most edibles on brf cakes, and then spawn that to waste paper or cardboard. In this case, phonebooks. No PC or sterile lab required. RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
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PitcherCrab
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Re: School project... need some advice. [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7510417 - 10/11/07 07:50 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Would I just use PF tek (perhaps with some additives) then crumble and spawn to hydrated waste paper? Would I need to start from an LC, or could I clone to cardboard from a store bought mushroom?
-------------------- PC's LAGM 2021 (TOC & TWC)P. natalensis Growlog 2021Pans for PC Fall 2021 Growlog “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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Jeremy_Davis
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Re: School project... need some advice. [Re: PitcherCrab]
#7510593 - 10/11/07 08:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I was taking a mushroom growing seminar at UC berkeley many years ago, the teacher gave everybody some straw a plastic bin, a bit of bleach and some spawn. We put the straw into the plastic bin. Covered the straw with water. Put a cap-full of bleach into the water. Layer spawned the straw into plastic bags using grain spawn commercially purchased from Amycel ($20 for 20lbs.)
We cut some holes in the pastic and we were done in under 30 mintues beginning to end...I'm not sure if that is something you'd want to do, but since I'd seen it in action, and yes it worked flawlessly, I figured I'd share it here with you. Light and Love, JD
-------------------- Jeremy Davis Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, Inc. Check out the ECHO mushroom blog page to see our lab, growing facility, and more-www.echotech.org/greta
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chojin
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Re: School project... need some advice. [Re: Jeremy_Davis]
#7518244 - 10/15/07 01:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Semi-Related
RogerRabbit, in one of your threads, which I'm pretty sure was dedicated to growing on phonebooks, you kind of implied that soybased inks were somehow more edible. That may be the case, but I just wanted to let you know, in case you weren't aware, that the pigments aren't soy based as well. The oil is all that is soybased.
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Wikipedia Entry To make soy ink, soybean oil is slightly refined and then blended with pigment, resins, and waxes. Even though soybean oil is also known as vegetable oil which can be eaten, soy ink is not edible because the pigments that are mixed in with the oil are the same ones that are used in petroleum-based inks. The pigments and other additional chemicals added to create soy ink explain why it is not 100% biodegradable or edible.
Edited by chojin (10/15/07 01:10 AM)
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