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caricapapaya
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king oyster window box *Updated with pics 1-5-08
#7744274 - 12/11/07 09:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I decided to try a window box with some king oyster.
I made up some grain spawn, soaked wood pellet fuel with water and loaded it into a window box planter, wrapped it up in grocery store bags (HDPE) and loaded the whole thing in the autoclave.
Cooked it for an hour or so, and when it was cool, inoculated with the grain spawn in the hood.
I wrapped the whole thing back up in the bags then put it into a trash bag to colonize.
2 weeks later, it was mostly colonized and I was feeling impatient, so I sterilized some potting mix with verm and used it as a casing layer, just to moderate humidity, because I want to try to fruit this guy in open air, or almost open air.
Here are some pics about one week after casing:


there are pins all around the edge, and now where mycelium is breaking through the casing, it is pinning there as well.
The sticks in the corners are being used to hold up a makeshift plastic tent.
Does anybody know if kings are as sensitive to co2 as other species of oysters?
More to come!
carica
Edited by caricapapaya (01/05/08 11:33 PM)
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YidakiMan
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They are sensitive to CO2, but since stems on eryngii are edible its not as important as say ostreatus. As those primordia develop it will become clear which ones will become proper large mushrooms, it's okay to pick off the minor primordia.
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caricapapaya
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Re: king oyster window box [Re: YidakiMan]
#7757988 - 12/14/07 11:30 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ok, a day or so after that first pic, there were tons (probabaly more than a hundred) primordia all over the outer edge of the casing. I know I had it pin too early, it wasnt showing through the casing yet.
Anyway, the pins have been stalling out, and turning brown after a few days.
I am thinking the humidity is too low, but what do you guys think?
I have been misting by hand a few times a day.
I am hoping for another break, and maybe I'll change the conditions.
carica
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RogerRabbit
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Low humidity might cause some scaling or cracking of the caps/stems, but won't cause aborts. My experience with oysters is they often set too many pins for their own good, and there's no way the substrate can support them all, so they abort. You might try soaking the substrate overnight to fully hydrate it prior to the next flush. RR
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Hotnuts
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Re: king oyster window box [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7773289 - 12/18/07 10:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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"I have been misting by hand a few times a day."
That's probably too much. Especially if you don't have ample air exchanges to dry off the primordia after misting. Next time just hit the chamber walls with mist and avoid the substrate/casing unless you really need to mist it. Then after the mushrooms get a little larger, you can then start to hit them and the substrate with mist daily or every other day.
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caricapapaya
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Re: king oyster window box [Re: Hotnuts]
#7837805 - 01/05/08 11:39 PM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Ok, I went out of town for about 9 days and left this box on my porch in the shade with plastic wrap lightly draped over the top and came home yesterday to this:



lots of pins, some starting to develop and a few big...well, not that big for eryngii. I picked them today at about 3-4 inches tall. I think I should have waited to see how big they got, but I was impatient.
it started raining here today, so I set it all aout in the rain (well, heavy mist) for a while.
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Horse_Meister
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Exquisite! I would love to work something out with you to get some live culture/lc from you. Great work!
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