|
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
Culland
Stranger



Registered: 09/12/07
Posts: 324
Last seen: 17 days, 7 hours
|
Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds?
#7717249 - 12/04/07 08:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I have a lot of space outside to play with and I want to grow enough to have a fair amount to eat throughout the growing season. I was thinking of making rows of bunker spawn as described in Mycelium Running of some edible, maybe elm oyster but open to suggestions, and just let them fruit, but ideally I would really like to extend their growing period as long as possible. Is it possible to delay fruiting of separated patches of mushrooms in the outdoors? Cover them with black plastic maybe and take off in stages throughout the summer?
I suppose the easier approach would be to have different species that fruit at different types of the year, which is what I have with three patches I started this fall, but if I wanted to keep one going all summer, is it possible?
Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks,
Cul
|
poot
bottom feeder



Registered: 11/24/07
Posts: 212
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: Culland]
#7718383 - 12/05/07 03:12 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
stlainis
-------------------- possibly the last post of mine.
|
Culland
Stranger



Registered: 09/12/07
Posts: 324
Last seen: 17 days, 7 hours
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: poot]
#7718516 - 12/05/07 05:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Sorry, I have no idea what that means.
Cul
|
Jeremy_Davis
Mycelial NetworkAdministrator



Registered: 04/22/05
Posts: 652
Loc: Florida
Last seen: 11 years, 9 months
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: Culland]
#7725749 - 12/06/07 06:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I think the way you can make them fruit at different times will be to use wide temperature strains of your mushroom cultures, and then have several separated bunker walls. You can do a variation on shiitake log growing and soak down the walls when you want them to fruit (outside of the naturally rainy season that is.)
I think once the bags/walls have used up their nutrients, they will no longer fruit. But how long that may take, who knows, you may even get successive seasons off the same walls, until they've broken down enough to compost into soils.
-------------------- 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
|
Culland
Stranger



Registered: 09/12/07
Posts: 324
Last seen: 17 days, 7 hours
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: Jeremy_Davis]
#7726557 - 12/06/07 10:03 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Yea I was thinking that I would lay out a row of colonized bunker spawn, along with a wall of non colonized and let it grow into it, then put a new row of uncolonized the next year and so on and so forth, letting the old wall colonize the new wall to keep itself alive. It's just a random idea at this point. My other concern is the invasiveness of mushrooms on my surrounding woodlands. I really don't want to let loose something that replaces the natural flora.
Cul
|
Jeremy_Davis
Mycelial NetworkAdministrator



Registered: 04/22/05
Posts: 652
Loc: Florida
Last seen: 11 years, 9 months
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: Culland]
#7727664 - 12/07/07 07:57 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
You can find locally adapted strains of edibles during your growing season. Just go hunting around in the local parks and forests. You can then culture them or try out Stamets stem butt idea to generate the original mother spawn. If you're not confident of your ability to accurately identify a species, try to link up with a local mycology club and tag along on a foray. Or try to arrange a special one with one of the senior members if possible.
-------------------- 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
|
Culland
Stranger



Registered: 09/12/07
Posts: 324
Last seen: 17 days, 7 hours
|
Re: Can you delay fruiting of outdoor beds? [Re: Jeremy_Davis]
#7728590 - 12/07/07 12:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Yea thats what I did this last season and I found some nice edibles, though nothing in quantity though and mostly stuff I couldnt grow! Lobster mushroom (on russula), shaggy mane, chanterelles, boletes, some other russulas and a few other odds and ends like jelly tooth, but nothing that would be easy to grow as bunker spawn. Hopefully this coming summer I will have more luck finding oyster mushrooms in the wild since I didnt get to start looking till after we moved in August.
Cul
|
|