benzion72:

Producing Oyster Mushroom from Sawdust

Mushroom are fungi they grow on dead organic matter like tree, they help nature in the decomposition of tree trunk, we cant enjoy life without them imagine if things don’t rot all the cut tree will remain as they are forever.

To produce mushroom from Saw dust you need saw dust that is not fresh fresh sawdust have resin that will prevent decomposition. Don’t go directly to the dorma machine to collect your sawdust get sawdust that has being dumped for long. Fresh saw dust are white in colour it also depemd on the nature of the wood. Spent saw dsut range from colour brown to deep brown.
Collect as many as you like but weigh out 10kg of the saw dust get bricklayer sieve or you can improvise one with book haram net like the picture I will attached latter. Sieve all the unwanted stuff big particle wood splinter, this can tear your nylon
Add water and mix with a shovel like a bricklayer will mix concerete, sand and cement. Your own target is to make the saw dust wet and not drench

Fist Test
Hold a handful of the saw dust in your hand if water droplet come out fast then the water is too much, but if it drop may be once or twice that is alright.Your target is to have 60 percent water content.
Remember mushroom don’t need water to survive all the water they will need in their life time is supplied inside the sawdust, subsequent water is for maintaining high moisture content humidity. After getting the sawdust/ water ratio very well. You can add additive like 1kg of broiler starter to 10kg of the saw dust to enrich the substrate mix it evenly you can also add 0.1kg of Urea fertilizer also mixed evenly. Pack the saw dust in a nylon. The one I am using is called Ice block nylon it is sold N150 for 36 piece double the nylon because it will go through heat treatment.
Put a 1inch piece of PVC pipe on the nylon you will see it in the picture I will post latter. Use rubber band to hold the nylon and plug with cotton wool. Thereafter get old news paper to cover the mouth and tie with rubber band again refer to the picture attached.
Depending on your level of production you will need a 55 gallon drum that can take like 60bags of 1kg nylon at once, the drum also must have cover with protective lock you will see it in the attached picture
Place a tray inside the drum and use sack to line the drum and place the substrate inside the drum pour water to a quarter of the drum first ring ,there are three ring on a drum, set the substrate in the drum until it reach the top you can invert the last substrate upside down so the steam can reach everywhere.
Place the drum on fire make sure you drill a hole on the drum cover with nail to allow steam to come out and fire the drum continuously for two hours . after two hours allow the drum to cool down probably the second day depending on the time you started the work.
Move all the bags to the inoculation room. Spray disinfectant all through the room on your hand on the spawn bottle. Knock the spawn bottle on your hand to brake the lump of spawn or use disinfected long metal to break the spawn, you can pass the long metal e.g through fire before you insert it into your spawn bottle.
Please note that spawn is white in colour or light brown depend on age. Any green spawn is contaminated. Please do not bother to open such spawn bottle in your growing room.
Gently open the substrate and pour few grain of the spawn inside and quickly cover the span with the cotton wool and the paper that is inoculation. Perform inculation for all the mushroom
How much spawn do I need
You need 1bottle of spawn to inoculate10 bags of spawn, the more the spawn the quicker the colonization and the faster the fruiting,
Keep the substrate in a dark room. With adequate ventilation. Also guide against Rat, they love to feed on spawn, the odour is attractive so be ready to wage war against the rats.

Depending on the type of wood it may take up to three month for oyster to colonize sawdust, while paper are colonized in 30 days, and tissue paper in 17days. But the ease of colonization also influence the length of fruiting while sawdust can fruit for one month plus tissue paper can do two weeks and paper one month. All has it advantages.

After complete colonization that is the sawdust will be consumed by the mushroom, it will turn pure white. When this happen the mushroom substrate are moved to fruiting room where the temperature are regulated with cloths hanged on wall and mist with water two to three time daily to increase the humidity. You may need hygrometer to monitor the humidity

After 5 days mushroom pin will start showing and after five days they are ready for harvest. I will now provide the picture narration of all my talk

After mixing your substrate, cover it with black nylon to fasten decomposition.
mix and add water until, it's wet not soaked.
being patient with the decomposition will increase your output.

benzion72:
The earliest colonization I got is seven days and it is with tissue paper oyster mushroom

I'm talking of, spawn on a substrate. mycelium on grain takes longer than 7days for full colonisation.

benzion72:
Mushroom training cannot be done in three days because of the process it take minimum three weeks for colonization in fact sawdust take three months. there after fruiting

There are some variety that don't require sawdust as a substrate. with sawdust, you expect the spawn to colonise in 21days

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bettercreature:
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bettercreature:
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Sadly Russia doesnt have the technology to build carrier
It can only be destroy by swarming of hundreds of small sub-marine boats as one Iran revolutionary guards quoted and usa military experts attest to it

have you heard or red about russia Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier which makes US Naval fleet shrink? Lol

I havent checked that either... I will make more research

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renybenks:
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