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chobumms
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Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!*
#9687366 - 01/27/09 07:32 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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I pasteurized A brick of coir with a quart of coffee (yes, grounds) and a quart of verm. then squeezed each handful as hard as I could after draining, spawned two of these tubs with WBS spawn at a ratio of roughly 1:4 to 1:3.
The spawn substrate is about 4-5 inches thick in each tub. I put it in my indoor 5X5 foot greenhouse with a average humidity of 80-100 % because it fluctuates, and with the sun pouring in from a window, but it is too far to affect the temps around these (roughly house temp 75 degrees). I know that's high, but how do I lower the temps? Freeze my house and the wife?
The harvest was two full gallon sized ziplocs, I didn't want to weigh it, cause the mites might throw it off by half a gram.
These were grown with mites on them: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/9686908#9686908
I still got good harvest poundage because these mites eat spores, not live mycelium.
Any questions are welcome through this thread or my PM box.


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flip3084
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Re: Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!* [Re: chobumms]
#9687375 - 01/27/09 07:37 AM (15 years, 30 days ago) |
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Those look yummy
great looking oysters my friend
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Re: Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!* [Re: flip3084]
#9691528 - 01/27/09 09:22 PM (15 years, 29 days ago) |
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They turned out good considering your circumstances. Pleurotus Ostreatus does best in low 40's to low 50's. You lose about 80% yield growing it in warm weather cause they want to grow so fast and thin. But they will refruit faster though in warm weather. You also will get better results fruiting them while still covered/wrapped. You could place foil over the mycellium and poke 1/4 holes about every 2" which would cause the fruits to grow larger and in clusters out through the holes making them much easier to pick and clean.
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chobumms
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Re: Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!* [Re: Buckeye Oysters]
#9698537 - 01/29/09 04:36 AM (15 years, 28 days ago) |
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I did the bouquet holes with my blues and I do like easy picking much better
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Re: Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!* [Re: chobumms]
#9702081 - 01/29/09 07:59 PM (15 years, 27 days ago) |
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This time of the year, you could try growing under your house or in a garage if you have one. I used to have a self contained mini-air conditioner set up in my grow room when I lived in a Seattle condo. You run a 4" dryer hose to the outside from the condenser, and then use flex duct to pipe the supply air to the ceiling of your fruiting area, and the return air out near the floor. The picture below is what happens if you let oysters drop their spores though. RR
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Re: Pleurotus Ostreatus on coir, coffee, and verm *GROW PICS MAN!* [Re: RogerRabbit]
#9716155 - 02/01/09 08:29 AM (15 years, 25 days ago) |
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mighty dusty RR. thanks for the tip.
chobumms, nice oyster grow with lots of pins then plenty of fruit. looks like you turned your tub on its side to finish the grow. they look very nice. would not mind trading a king oyster grain batch(baggy size) for a print or grain batch of your p. ostreatus. let me know. i think i also have some yellow oyster prints.
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