Already few people will surprise the growing tomato, cabbage, parsley. Whether the cultivation of mushrooms at home. But it is quite simple, but you will always be confident in the purity and environmental friendliness of the product. You can grow oysteries anywhere: in the basement, greenhouse, garage, even in the garden.
What we need to grow oyster
- Substrate.
- Mycelium.
- Polyethylene bags or bags.
- Thermometer.
- Hygrometer.
Mycelium is sold in specialized online stores. From a kilogram of mycelium, it is possible to collect up to 3-4 kg of oyster.
Preparation of substrate for growing oyster
The correctly selected and prepared substrate is very important to obtain a rich yield of delicious oyster. The substrate is best used dry straw. It can be:
- wheat straw,
- barley straw
- luzga sunflower,
- husk buckwheat,
- corn stems and cobs.
The number of straw is calculated from the proportion of 10 kg of the substrate at 400 g of mycelium. Now the resulting raw material is crushing on a part of 1-4 cm long.
Crushed raw materials carries many harmful bacteria and microorganisms. To clean the straw, we lay it into a large metal container and cook in water for 1-2 hours.
Upon completion of all the cooking water from a container is poured out and allowed to cool straw. Once it reached room temperature, start packaging of packets.
Packing packages for growing oyster mushrooms
For growing oyster is suitable containers of any size. It can be as small packages, and the whole bag. The main thing is that it may be convenient to store them. New packages can immediately fill the substrate, and used must first be disinfected. For this purpose, we soaked them for 2 hours a bleach solution. We work only with gloves.
Now we start to fold the substrate and mycelium into packages. The first fall asleep the substrate ball, a thickness of 5-6 cm, from above - a bowl of mycelium at 0.5 cm. So alternate the layers to the very top of the package. The latter put the bowl of the substrate. Package tightly tie.
Ready mushroom blocks are placed in a clean room, where the ambient temperature should be 18-23 ° C. Several times a day, this place is carried out and carefully observed the temperature of the blocks. If it becomes above 30 ° C, all mycelium perits. In order to cool the packages, we direct the fan right on them.
After 3 days, we make perforation. For this, the knife is wiped with alcohol and make slots in a staggered package every 15 cm.
Approximately 10-15 days of the mycelium will start a package, and indoors will pleasantly smell mushrooms.
Mushroom Mushroom Care
After the incubation period is completed, the most interesting is the appearance of mushrooms. At this stage it is important to create conditions as close as possible to natural:
- air temperature 10-15 ° C,
- high humidity,
- lighting Mushrooms for 8 hours a day,
- the ventilation of the mushrooms is at least 4 times.
To increase the humidity spray the ceiling and walls. It is impossible to get water to the surface of the substrate.
Harvesting Veshenok
If the conditions are suitable, then after 10-15 days, mushrooms will appear through the slots in the packages. They grow quickly, especially at the end of ripening. It is at this moment that they are best to collect. Remove the sneakers with simple twisting them from the package.
After gathered the first harvest, the fungth must be thoroughly ventilated. And after 2 weeks we are waiting for the next wave. Total will be able to collect harvest 4 times.
The substrate from the packages can be reused to fertilize the beds in the country.
Grow oysteries is simple and unpainted, a little desire and diligence, and you will become an experienced mushroom industry. As a result, you will indulge your seven delicious and useful mushroom dishes.