Shiitake mushroom workshop

Isaac

Here are a few more pics from start to finish... This is my first time pasteurizing in such bulk, in the past I've usually done much smaller grows in a very similar fashion and gotten great results. I've also grown on woodchips and shredded newspaper.

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chillidude

Thanks Isaac - love the idea of putting the straw and innoculant into a garbage bag and then the bucket and then simply tearing holes in the bag.

Brilliant !

BatonRouge Bill

Nice rig Isaac, you must really like eating them... along with supplying all your friends family and neighbors :lol:

Really neat the way you use the buckets. Do you have any advice on preserving them and recipes for cooking them???

Isaac

For preserving I'd say pickling and drying are the best... I like pickling cause then you have jars and jars of delicious vinegary mushroom yum. And mushrooms and vinegar are two of my favorite things! As for recipes I highly recommend a book called, "The Complete Mushroom Book: The Quiet Hunt" By Antonio Carluccio. It is full of amazing pictures and recipes. When I cook um I usually make a cream sauce or a mushroom risotto.

veggie boy

BatonRouge Bill wrote:

veggie boy wrote:

I'd not eaten oyster mushies either until I bought some to use for my cell cloning. It was just the common oyster and I've gotta admit I found it fairly tastless, though a good chewy texture that would be good in some things. I was going to hone my skills on these before moving onto some of the other oyter varieties that I expect would be more tasty.

VB, was this just store produce packaged mushrooms you took cloning tissue from???

Yep

BatonRouge Bill

This is fast becoming one of my favorite threads...creamy mushroom sauce...mushroom rosotto..
The complete mushroom book the quiet hunt...I'm gonna have to find it!

Chuky

Ok, those oyster mushrooms have me drooling. I'm going to try and make some spawn today, I've made spawn from a button mushroom before so hopefully it will work with oysters too.

chillidude

veggie boy wrote:

Finding a locally plentiful timber would seem to be an important aspect for growing on logs. Bill - you would seem to have no issues there.

Novaris - interesting to hear what you say about sugar gum. While this is mainly a souther eucalyptus variety I think (not sure we have ot here much), it stands to reason that other eucalyptus may be equaly usable. Might just be a matter of trial and error. I'd be happy if I could grow of the aucalyptus we have here as I will often have a need to cut off limbs from the neighbours trees that overhang my fences and may as well put them to use :lol:

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I'd be interested to see if they would grow on the common wattle gum wood as this is another tree that I have to cut down before it finishes its relatively short (in tree terms) lifecycle (borers normally get them at about 7 years) in my experience.

I caught Garden Gurus last night and while it's not usually that exciting, Neville visited a mushroom grower who uses an old train tunnel.
The grower showed oysters and shiitakes growing on logs and said that the logs were actually highly compressed eucalyptus dust and shavings, which also supports the argument that most eucalyptus should be a good medium for the mushies !!

veggie boy

Excellent. No shortage of that around.

knowmore09

Chuky wrote:

Ok, those oyster mushrooms have me drooling. I'm going to try and make some spawn today, I've made spawn from a button mushroom before so hopefully it will work with oysters too.

Chuky: How do you do that from fresh store bought mushrooms? I'd love to do the same. Please do share your experiment. Thanks,
KM

Isaac

knowmore09 wrote:

Chuky wrote:

Ok, those oyster mushrooms have me drooling. I'm going to try and make some spawn today, I've made spawn from a button mushroom before so hopefully it will work with oysters too.

Chuky: How do you do that from fresh store bought mushrooms? I'd love to do the same. Please do share your experiment. Thanks,
KM

You can either clone the store bought mushroom on to an agar plate by transferring a small piece of the stem tissue onto the plate in a sterile environment, or you can use the stem butts of the store bought mushroom put onto hydrated cardboard which can be done outside. If you go for the stem butt route try to fine some with stems that look fuzzy, you will have better luck with those. Then once the cardboard is colonized you can use it to inoculate more cardboard or woodchips in a bag.

Chuky

Basically what Isaac said, though if you want more detail I'm following the methods described here to get spawn, except using a microwave and/or boiling water to sterilise things rather than a pressure cooker and chemicals. It worked fine and my agar is nearly ready to inoculate jars of boiled birdseed, no sign of contamination yet. I also put the leftover boiled grain from making the agar into jars with some bits of mushroom and that is growing fine too, though a little more slowly.

knowmore09

Issac , Chuky: Thanks! Will surely try this out. Looks doable!

spiritrancho

Has anyone tried the hydrogen peroxide method of sterilizing media for mushrooms. I just ordered the books from www.mycomasters.com. I hardly have a sterile envionment with sourdough, tank algae, and desert dust spore all around. I have grown shitake with sawdust blocks but the blocks are expensive. A clean room and glove box is to much trouble and expense. Vol I & II " How to grow mushrooms the easy way" cost no more than a shitake block from some sources. He claims to tell all about growing on wood pellets and straw. Will report results after reading the books and going for it.

novaris

spiritrancho wrote:

Has anyone tried the hydrogen peroxide method of sterilizing media for mushrooms.

I am just about to try this, I am cloning some mushroom onto agar, will let you know how well it works.

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