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resptodd
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compost bin just for mushrooms
#7596555 - 11/04/07 09:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've been composting for my garden for quite sometime, it's pretty straight forward and easy to make some good compost for the veggies. But I want to start a compost bin only for use as a mushroom sub. Looking for comments on this.(I've already searched) My main ingredients will be Hpoo and straw, what else? has anyone ever done this? If I could get a 50gallon trash can full of compost for mushroom cultivation---Oh the Glory! I'll share!
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resptodd
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: resptodd]
#7596615 - 11/04/07 09:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Come on where is everybody? I need some input. I want to make some compost even my momma' will be jealous of.
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resptodd
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: resptodd]
#7596723 - 11/04/07 10:15 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just got finished talking to a great old friend, he's a high school science teacher now he came up with a good compost recipe quick. This is great compost for oyster, white buttons, ports-criminis. 50gallon trash can with many-many holes drilled in it for aeration. 10lbs Hpoo(can be fresh), 2cups chicken poo, 1 bale wheat straw(soaked 24hrs), 1/2cup blood meal, 2lbs cotton seed meal, 1/4cup super phosphate, 1lb potash, 1-3lbs gypsum, 8oz bag of activator. This is a GOOD recipe. If you know how to compost, this is sure to work. If you don't know how to compost surf for the info it's worth the time. My portabellas are gonna' love this.
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BlargIAmDead
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: resptodd]
#7596737 - 11/04/07 10:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pretty much any rotting organic matter is fantastic for plants/fungus. Coffee grounds, egg shells, gypsum, horse poo, straw, vegetable ends, tea leaves, maybe grass clippings (but that can make it where things like nut grass and weeds take over your compost pile). Apart from that I don't think anyone can give you the perfect compost. Trial and error I suppose. If your shrooms are smaller than you'd like add some gypsum or horse poo. If they shrink don't give it that anymore. It's going to be a long involved process so you might want to keep a log about what's in the compost. But at the end....you'll have the +5 Golden Compost of Psychedelic Smiting.
Nevermind then: Good luck with that recipe. Sounds like a killer! Mmmm portabellas are fantastic. Have you ever grown shiitakes?
Edited by BlargIAmDead (11/04/07 10:21 PM)
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mycocurious
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: BlargIAmDead]
#7597423 - 11/05/07 05:33 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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you don't need any forum of manure in your compost at all for mushies. the reason mushies like manure is simply because it's a little nug of partially composted (in the beast) straws and grasses.
the very same recipe you used for your garden would be ideal for your mushies just make sure to avoid tomatoes as you'll have "volunteers" popping up in everything for years. My compost is mostly oak leaves, melon rinds, coffee grounds and coffee filters. To that I'll add all kinds of egg shells, bits of this, bits of that and whatever else is compostable - paper towels, dryer lint (not the fabric softener sheets though), dog hair from trimmings... nearly anything that is bio-degradable.
Just avoid all types of animal meats, oils and waste...
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resptodd
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: mycocurious]
#7597514 - 11/05/07 06:53 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mycocurious, so is that to say my garden compost will suffice for mushroom substrate for grain inoc.? My garden compost is a beautiful thing, hell sometimes I want to take a bite of it. I've been beating my head over this for nothing.
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anarchOi
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Re: compost bin just for mushrooms [Re: resptodd]
#7597590 - 11/05/07 07:43 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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your garden compost will deff work you'll want to try a few different things your compost alone with grains should work but i might add some composted cowpoo or some other type of additive
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