Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   North Spore Boomr Bag   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1 | 2 |  [ show all ]
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
First time compost disaster.
    #7887666 -

So I went to a feed store and bought some compost that was labeled as "mushroom compost". sweet. i pasteurize the compost in a new pillow case inside a large pot at 170 degrees for 2 hours. i take it out after about 2 hours and let it cool down and dry to a "field consistency". after that i mixed with a ratio of 1:3 (substrate to compost) and make it about 2 inches deep in a loaf pan. i then covered the loaf pans with aluminum foil and poked some holes in it. after that i le it sit in my incubator and didn't look at it for two weeks. when i took a look at it i was fucked. i made like 25 "loafs" and 5 survived. some got hit so bad whatever mold ate my mycelium also went through ITS entire life cycle and sometimes i just found compost that you can tell had something living on it at some point in time. I'm very good about following instructions and gathering lots of info before i try something, and I'm clean as all hell. what the funk? I've mastered caked and I'm ready to move on

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887680 -

Was that spent mushroom compost? A byproduct of commercial mushroom growing. As in compost that has already had mushrooms eat it all up for breakfast lunch and dinner?

If so it's pretty much no good to grow mushrooms on.
:frown:


--------------------
Rye -- WBS | Grain LC -- G2G | Bulk -- Monotub | 50/50 -- Late Casing -- A Pinning Strategy
Disclaimer: My opinion is subject to change at short notice subject to but not limited by new information and knowledge being made available.

Edited by shaggydogman (01/16/08 09:47 AM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887681 -

I think yr temp might have been too high for pasteurization.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: laten]
    #7887700 -

ill have to look at the bag or ask the guy at the store. he seemed to have a good knowledge of what he was selling me. well i still have 5 loafs that are fruiting as we speak. but it seems to always have green mold growing from underneath it. when i was pasturizing it i kept submerging the candy thermometer as far as i could get it to make sure it wasnt MUCH hotter than the water towards the top. i never broke 180

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887706 -

my first thought was that i made my mix too deep and it needed to be thinner. so that there would be more air exchange and it would be less to colonize so it would be done faster.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887720 -

Anything at a dept store labeled 'Mushroom Compost' is spent mushroom compost and not viable for growing mushrooms. Whoever you spoke to at the store knew less than you do. And I find it hard to believe that you are good at getting info and following instructions whereas there are a million posts on here stating that store bought mushroom compost is spent compost. Better luck next time

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: azurescens]
    #7887739 -

its not from a department store. and its not spent compost either. why would they sell you compost thats already had the nutrients sucked out of it when it cleaims to be nutrient rich. dont you think i would find evidence that its beed used before..and as for you thinking that im not good at getting info.. i think you are kind of a dick and adding that comment to my post completely doesnt help me at all..but thanks for that..

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887918 -

It is great for plants.


--------------------
Rye -- WBS | Grain LC -- G2G | Bulk -- Monotub | 50/50 -- Late Casing -- A Pinning Strategy
Disclaimer: My opinion is subject to change at short notice subject to but not limited by new information and knowledge being made available.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887924 -

I guess it wasn't an overly positive thing to say but I was just referencing your statement. ANyway, it is n nutrient rich for plants and or vegetables. Aside from the vendors on this board, I have never seen any type of product in any of the big or small stores that is compost for gr for growing mushrooms.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7887997 -

Yeah man they don't sell proper compost for growing mushrooms at a feed store, or at least at most feed stores. If they did sell great compost there, the news would be all over the shroomery and that's where people would buy their poo and we wouldn't have nearly as many people who SHIP poo (expensive to ship!). Unfortunately what you have is GREAT for plants; they get their energy elsewhere and don't consume the compost. I'd suggest you make an order with one of the poo or poo compost vendors we have here, and make some more cakes, or even better learn to do grains as spawn, while the poo is being processed/shipped.

Edited by heed (01/16/08 03:03 PM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: heed]
    #7888078 -

thanks for the help..yeah i checked out that high mountain compost and its quite costly

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7888113 -

Use the 25% discount shroomery members get (off of purchase not shipping), and trust me, it's WORTH it.

Or, research on here how to find and prepare poo yourself, OR, go find some good coir and learn bulk with something cheaper than the HMC compost.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7888122 -

I live right next to a Monterey mushroom plant. I am getting their unused compost to use as bulk. They compost every odd day of the month. I hope mine turns out good.


--------------------
Decreasing the world's bug population, one faceshield at a time.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: Samurai_Jim]
    #7888228 -

Nice. Get it cheap? I'd love to see your results. If it's cheap and good, it may be worthwhile to make an effort to find a similar source.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: heed]
    #7888255 -

still 25% off is sweet. yeah when i went to Sid's they had all different types of compost. i was talking to him about my needs with perlite and such(they have 50lb bags) and he says, " so are you growing mushrooms"? i told him i was, then he told me that this is what i needed..its $7 a bag and says mushroom compost directly on it. i was like well fuck this must be it lol.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7888344 -

:rofl2:

If only it was easy as picking up 'mushroom compost' at home depot.

Dude, high mountain is the shiznit!


--------------------
Give me silence, water, hope;
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes...

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: Crasher]
    #7888619 -

this place i go to is more or less a shipping and recieving yard with a cash register. im gonna have to try some high mountain

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7888802 -

Did you check he center of your shit ball to see if it was 160 to 170. I found my bags take 4 to 6 hours to reach 165. Have not lost one since monitoring the center temp.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: thedoc8]
    #7888922 -

nope all i did was make sure the entire thing was saturated with water....hmmm good lookin

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: First time compost disaster. [Re: richismalls]
    #7888996 -

Dude screw compost toooo expensive buy a bag of chopped straw at stiens garden supply or any other garden store you can get a whole bale for under 10 dollars buy some coco coir which any pet store sells for 3bricks for under 10 dollars and do a fifty fifty mix. Guarantee you will get just as good of results as this hmc compost. I have done side by side comparison. And as long as it's pasturized in paint straining bags for 3 hrs you will have as good or better results. And that one bale of hay will last well over a year. Unless your using gh's like some of us.


--------------------
We can't stop here...This is bat country!!!

Fear and Loathing is the greatest movie ever!!!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1 | 2 |  [ show all ]

Shop: MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   North Spore Boomr Bag   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* mushroom compost
( 1 2 all )		 killswitch 14,787 36 01/20/03 02:59 PM
by Roadkill
* mushroom compost from garden center e7c 1,540 8 05/08/03 05:13 PM
by psilocybinjunkie
* Bulk substrates sterilized in oven? rockclimber 4,884 4 01/23/03 01:56 AM
by rockclimber
* Mushroom,COMpost sir_shroom_alot 1,064 3 07/15/01 06:50 PM
by jonnyshaggs420
* random compost pile - useless? felixhigh 923 2 01/11/02 01:15 PM
by felixhigh
* Manure compost bigj2 1,422 2 03/23/03 11:22 AM
by psilocybinjunkie
* blackcow substrate hispeed67 971 4 07/25/02 03:34 AM
by diseased
* Composting SixTango 3,816 5 05/12/03 01:00 PM
by kykeon

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
1,745 topic views. 9 members, 1,279 guests and 178 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.03 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 16 queries.