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Offlinebravozulu
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Shiitake simple method grown on Aspin chips, wheat bran and gypsom
    #8987353 - 09/25/08 11:10 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

This is my first post and is also my first attempt at growing mushrooms.  It seems to have worked out very well so I thought I would list my very inexpensive simple method.

Basically I just used a dental pick that was flamed to pick off some tissue from the inside of a shiitake mushroom bought at Trader Joes. I added it to agar in a small jar with cotton stuffed into a small breathing hole.  The dental pick also works great at cutting the agar to put it in grain spawn.

I made the potato dextrose agar from some agar I got at mothers market and added the rather concentrated juice from boiling potatoes, some dextrose and a small amount of yeast. I added 2 teaspoons agar, .25 teaspoons sugar and about .1 teaspoon yeast per 100 ml. I then put it in a pressure cooker for 30 minutes.  After it cooled and hardened I used a knife cleaned with alcohol and dried to cut up pieces to put them in baby food jars so that it would easily cover the bottom when melted.  I then put the extra agar in the fridge and pressure cooked the baby food jars for 30 minutes.

After cooling the jars and the agar hardening, I used the flame sterilize dental pick to cut off a tiny piece of tissue from the inside of a cap I just tore.  I made about 20 of them and most were not contaminated. 


After a couple of weeks, I used the flame sterilized dental pick to cut out a section of clean mycelium from the jars.  I added that to grain spawn made from bird seed.  Then I left them is a box for about a month.


To prepare the aspen chips (Kaytee Aspen bedding and liter), I first added some gypsum. I then just boiled it for about 15 minutes and left it to cool and dry somewhat. After about an hour it was ready to mix with the spawn.


I broke up the spawn and mixed in about 1/4 cup of wheat bran.  I had many get moldy when I didn't sterilize the bran so I would suggest that in case that was the cause.  I also worked out a more efficient method of inoculating the grain spawn with a mycelium culture made by putting some mycelium from the spawn jar into sterilized water and glass chips and shaking it.  I borrowed the idea on this site I believe.


Spawn before adding to 3 liter plastic soft drink bottle


What it looks like when done.  I found that plastic wrap keeps it humid enough for at least a month when it should be fully colonized.


What it looks like after 4 days.


After about 2 months later. It had spent time spent in fruiting chamber after being exposed to 50 degrees F for a couple of days. After a week these had sprouted.


4 days later (today) it looks like this.


I am wondering if that is how they normally look at this stage?

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Re: Shiitake simple method grown on Aspin chips, wheat bran and gypsom [Re: bravozulu]
    #8991254 - 09/26/08 08:38 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

just inspired me to try something similar! I think I'll give blue oysters a shot on a mixture of oak sawdust and maybe some paper or cardbord.


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Re: Shiitake simple method grown on Aspin chips, wheat bran and gypsom [Re: combs]
    #8995611 - 09/27/08 07:55 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

would really like to see those other pics.


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Re: Shiitake simple method grown on Aspin chips, wheat bran and gypsom [Re: bravozulu]
    #8995776 - 09/27/08 08:37 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

A few days ago, you had a picture of them looking all grown up. Where did it go?

However, that picture was definitely hiratake, not shiitake.

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