Hello, today I’ll tell you about my successful experience in growing Oyster mushrooms.
I am a civil engineer, I live in Donetsk, I love to invent and work in the garden.
I became interested in growing oyster mushrooms, so I came up with a design for this and called it “Cradle”
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Denis Khokhlov, Donetsk
inventor of the all-wheel drive bicycle Kalmius
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In our climate, oyster mushrooms in such a “cradle” are baked alive in the mycelium. Here the norm is up to +40 in the shade in summer, but in the sun it’s +50. And for mushrooms you need no higher than 18 degrees, generally only +10 is optimal.
I grew oyster mushrooms several times, bought ready-made bags with mycelium and nutrient substrate and grew the mushrooms in the basement. They always grew, although not in the quantities promised by the mycelium seller.
What did you use to highlight it? Oyster mushrooms need light, weak and only for a few hours. Or was your basement just always dark? Usually, oyster mushrooms without light are very elongated and do not grow in a marketable form.
I illuminated the oyster mushrooms with fluorescent lamps, but for these mushrooms high humidity in the room, good ventilation and the required air temperature are much more important.
I didn’t highlight anything on purpose at all.I have this stump on which I grew oyster mushrooms, a little in the shade, behind the barn. I didn't even look after him. I just planted them, and they grew like weeds. Just harvested.
I always grow oyster mushrooms in a bag that already has oyster mushroom mycelium in it. In my opinion, the mushroom harvest on the stump will be much more modest. To increase the yield a little, you need to bury the bottom of the stump a little into the soil and water it.
The rains are pouring. Moreover, this year in the summer there were somehow too many of them. I’m saying that I didn’t do anything at all to get a harvest of oyster mushrooms (and more than one). I just planted the mycelium in the stump and that’s it. And they grew like weeds.
So oyster mushrooms, they grow in nature on trees. Never paid attention to strange growths on old and dry trees - this is oyster mushroom. Depending on its location on the trunk, the mushroom has a one-sided or round cap.
Continuing the topic. Our October in the Moscow region turned out to be surprisingly warm, and just yesterday, when I was at the dacha, I was surprised to see that I had a new harvest of oyster mushrooms. Not much, but I took off about a kilogram and a half :)
Such warm weather is rare for the second half of October. Therefore, in the cold season, it is still better to grow oyster mushrooms in a basement or greenhouse. Typically, oyster mushrooms grow in three waves of mushrooms.
I rarely go to the dacha in the cold season, so this kind of mushroom cultivation is definitely not for me. And at home, I just have greens growing. Mushrooms are generally not easy to grow. And there is no place.
Of course, because mushrooms need a separate room with the required temperature and high humidity. In addition, in the place where mushrooms are grown, a lot of mushroom spores appear in the air, and this is dangerous to health.
I already wrote on the forum about my experience in growing oyster mushrooms. At one time, I cut down a Christmas tree, leaving a stump about a meter and a half from the ground, made notches in this stump, filled them with earth, filled them with water and simply planted oyster mushroom mycelium in them. The harvest turned out to be surprisingly excellent.
Our oyster mushroom on stumps didn’t work out at all, but in bags with mycelium, it grows normally and gives good yields. We grow it in the basement, at a certain humidity and temperature.
Do oyster mushrooms grow on a Christmas tree? I've never seen it. This is resinous wood. I collected oyster mushrooms only on deciduous trees, mainly poplars. I haven’t tried growing it at home yet.
Yes, quite so. I’m in this stump, I just made a lot of notches, which I somehow filled with earth, into which I actually planted the mushroom mycelium. But then the spruce itself, in the stump of which I made a mini-farm, is dry. The resin has been gone for a long time.
About the poplars. I also thought about buying a car of poplar logs, which remain after the sanitary clearing of the streets. But there probably are more harmful substances than useful substances accumulated there?
Of course, it is better to bring hemp from the forest, where the wood will be much cleaner, without impurities of lead and soot deposited from car exhaust gases, and it will be even easier to buy ready-made bags with oyster mushroom mycelium and substrate, and grow mushrooms.
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As for the presentation - no matter what, as long as we have something to eat ourselves. I bought them at the store - they are delicious. And not wormy. Perhaps they can be preserved?
You can buy oyster mushrooms fresh all year round - these are not seasonal mushrooms. In addition, it is best not to preserve mushrooms, but to salt them. If you eat canned ones, then you can get botulism.
To be honest, I’m used to the fact that this type of mushroom grows well in a specialized basement, but as I understand it, you are proposing to grow mushrooms outside, right in the open air?
I also have positive experience growing oyster mushrooms on the balcony! I grew them in small freezer bags. They are more durable, and at the same time perforated. And my substrate was super-simple and super-economical. I didn't bother with any additives. I just tore egg cells (cardboard) into small pieces and mixed them with sunflower seed husks. I soaked the whole thing in boiling water for several hours.Then it cooled down - I mixed it with a handful of oyster mushroom grain mycelium, filled the bags tightly and began to wait for the harvest. There were 300 grams of mushrooms from each bag!