WARNING: Contains some rhyming
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9tqKQ1GrEy4
#learnyourland #mushrooms #fungi #foraging #food #educational
WARNING: Contains some rhyming
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9tqKQ1GrEy4
#learnyourland #mushrooms #fungi #foraging #food #educational
I laid my King Stropharia (S. rugosoannulata AKA "wine cap") bed this afternoon. 160lbs of sawdust pellets, a bunch of fallen oak branches, a wheelbarrow of woodchips, and a 5 gallon bucket of spawn. It's still a little earlier than I'd like in terms of overnight low temps (it snowed yesterday) but I'm sure they'll survive. Plus, and early start increases the chances of getting a harvest this year. I did it now because the bucket of wood chips I was inoculating started growing trichoderma and I didn't want it in the house any longer.
I put tissue samples of the three "forest medley" mushrooms on agar plates, but just in case those don't work for whatever reason I also chopped up the butts and rolled them up in wet cardboard "burritos" as a backup.
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I was at the supermarket and I peeked at what they had for mushrooms out of curiosity. I found a small packaged "forest medley" that contained P. adiposa, lion's mane, and (what I think is) king oyster. I only have one of those in my culture library so I bought them to clone. I've been wanting to get my hands on some P. adiposa for a while now, so this is perfect.
I put my last two bag blocks in a super low-tech "shotgun" fruiting chamber (a plastic tote with 5" of moist perlite and a lot of 1/4" holes drilled in it), and I got the best yield thus far. I'm not sure if it was the fact that these blocks were a full 3 months old, or if it was the change of scenery, but they averaged 1 pound each. They have really nice size and color too. I may have to make few more of these totes.
I just harvested the 2-gallon bucket block. The mushrooms were much larger and meatier than I got from the bags, and I got about twice the yield from only 50% more substrate. I'm definitely doing it this way from now on.
Mongo hongos!
Fried, batter-dipped oyster mushrooms. Delicious.
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