Here is a recipe I found online....just wondering if this recipe is a good one for cubes.......
Mushroom Compost is a complicated material made from several different materials. Most of it is made from a base of straw or hay. To that is added a small amount of supplements, minerals and manure. A brief out line on how mushroom compost is made follows...
Phase 1, Agaricus bisporus Compost Formula. 1 - Three wire bale formula. Day Treatment to material and ingredients to add. 1 Monday Wet down.*Wheat Straw one bale, or Stable straw with 10% horse manure, ( 50 pounds.) 2 Tuesday Let it sit: 3 Wednesday Let it sit: 4 Thursday Add - dried poultry waste and Urea. (1 Pound - Dried Poultry Waste & 1.2 ounze Urea.) 5 Friday Let it sit: 6 Saturday Flip pile and wet down.* 7 Sunday Let it sit: 8 Monday Flip pile and wet down.* 9 Tuesday Let it sit: 10 Wednesday Let it sit: 11 Thursday Add - dried poultry waste and Urea. (1 Pound - Dried Poultry Waste & 1.2 ounze Urea.) 12 Friday Flip pile. 13 Saturday Flip pile and wet down.* - Add 2 pounds - Cotton Seed Hulls. 14 Sunday Let it sit: 15 Monday Flip pile and wet down.* (Compost will naturally start to heat up to high temperatures.) 16 Tuesday Let it sit: 17 Wednesday Add - 3lbs. Cotton Seed Meal, 2 lbs. Gypsum, 1 lbs. Rape Seed Meal, 1 lbs. Peat Moss. 18 Thursday Turn pile, water lightly.* (Keep the pile in a more compact format to allow heat to build up.) 19 Friday Let it sit: 20 Saturday Turn pile, water lightly.* 21 Sunday Let it sit: 22 Monday Turn pile, water lightly.* 23 Tuesday Let it sit: 24 Wednesday Turn pile, and fill containers. - Ready to pasturize at 142 degrees F. for 6 hours.
First stabilize at 132 F. for 3 hrs. , then raise to 142 F. for 6 hrs. Finished compost has 65-70% water content. Slowly let cool for 2 days. Slow clean air ventilation required. Well made compost is blackish and has a light carmel type coating covering the straw. Over composting will lower mushroom yeilds. Compost is pasturized to kill any existing undesirable fungi growing in the compost. It can then be inoculated with mushroom spawn.
* Wet down just enough to moisten the material and not enough to cause water run off. Run off washes away the added nuitrients.
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I see that you are quoting TMC...that said of course that formula will work minus one point: STRAW and HAY are totally different
Straw: Hollow stalks of grain (such as wheat), used mostly as bedding and garden mulch, but which is also used as feed.
Hay: Any of several nutritional grasses and legumes, such as alfalfa or clover, that is cut, dried, and then used as fodder for farm animals
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