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  • From: lunaflora21@aol.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Growing mushrooms
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:14:41 -0500


I'm sorry, I can find the original message that went with this thread, so I
apologize.
Pat,
Growing mushrooms from tissue culture is way easier than from spores, and you
can produce large quantities of edibles (and medicinals like reishi or turkey
tail) using cultures.? If you have horse compost you want to grow mushrooms
on, you can grow edible secondary decomposers like white button mushrooms
(Agaricus brunnescens)...but the majority of really good edible and medicinal
mushrooms are primary decomposers (growing off woodchips, sawdust,
undecomposed straw, grass..etc).? The pre-made kits you order from Fungi
Perfecti (where I work as a lab tech) are made of up a supplemented sawdust
mixture as the substrate, not manure.
There's lots of ways for creating many inoculation points (like you get with
spores), but still by using tissue culture.? You can let your culture jump
off onto most types of grain and then disperse that grain once its all
colonized and all those kernals will jump off onto your provided substrate.
Wait for a while and VIOLA you have mushrooms. Really easy!
You're not very likely to find spores for sale from a website per-say...but
if you really want to try using spores to grow mushies, you can go out
hunting for edibles you likein your area (in the spring or fall) and ID them
(or get someone else to ID them correctly) and then collect spores by doing
spore prints...and then disperse them wherever you want them.? I love seeing
people talking about mushrooms! :) Hope this helps. Happy (early) Solstice
ya'll!
?Take care,
Katie









-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 6:09 am
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Growing mushrooms










On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:29:55 -0700, you wrote:

>I love the button mushrooms and I have far more then my own fair share of
>horse maure ( with 7 pooping machines here). But what I haven't been able to
>find easily is the spores for growing mushrooms for food. I have tried the
>"kits" but they come already packaged with the manure. I'd like to find
>somewhere to purchase only the spores and use my own large quantities of
>compost. so does anyone have some contact info for companies who carry
>spores for legal Edible mushrooms? thanks

Will this help? http://www.fungi.com/cultures/index.html

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania

Good planets are hard to find; let's take care of
the one we have.
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