Mushrooms are the fleshy fruiting bodies of a fungus, which bear spores for reproduction. Includes mushrooms with a stem and cap as well as any fruiting body, such as truffles or jelly fungus.
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Does wood shop sawdust work well for mushroom casing?
I have a friend with a home wood shop, and he said I can get his clean sawdust for free. Will this make good casing to keep things from drying out? Hay is a common casing for wine cap, so why not sawdust?
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How well do mushrooms grow on peat?
I'm putting a wine cap bed about 10 feet from a peat bog. How well will the peat feed wine caps, and any other mushrooms i'm able to grow in the bed?
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what is the liveable temperature range of winecap?
I'm trying to promote wine cap growth, and am unsure if I should leave a black tarp on it, or take off the black tarp.
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What type of wood does black oyster mushrooms grow on?
I have a bag of black oyster mushroom sawdust, and was wondering what type of wood I should use to make totems with.
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Why don't people plug inoculate ends of logs, just the sides?
I've seen a lot of videos with people inoculating the length of the logs. Why don't people do the width?
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What edible mushrooms will grow on huckleberry logs?
I was given some huckleberry wood by a friend, and was wondering what mushrooms I can grow on it.
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How long does it take for King Stropharia to colonize cardboard?
I recently put in a cardboard bed of King Stropharia, and was wondering what growth rates I'm looking at to get successful colonization to rip it apart, and get more material going.
I love mathematical formulas.
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What is the best way to sanitize your hands when working with mushrooms?
I've been bleaching my hands before working with mushrooms, and am getting white spots on my cloths. What is the best way to sanitize your hands before I reach my hands into the moisture chamber to work with the kit?
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What happens when shiitake are exposed to sugar water?
I looked closely at my shiitake about 2 days after picking them, and was wondering if the fuzz on top of them is normal in the development of new buds:
within 1 day:
A few days later (the big clump was a fruiting body):
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How far will oyster mushroom pins grow before they give up?
I've got pinning on the sides of a mycelial block in a plastic food box. Will they grow the couple of inches along the sides to the open top, or should I take it out and put it in a bag for room to grow ?
IS it better to have it open on all sides ?
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Can You Grow Mushrooms & Truffles Using Aeroponics and is there a way to store their "seeds"?
I'm interested in growing a Alba white truffle and Portobello mushrooms using aeroponics. Can this be done? If not is there a faster and more scalable method than using traditional dirt in general? Thanks :D
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Is it normal to mushrooms caps to dry over a day?
Yesterday I was watering one small succulent plant I take care I noticed three Mushroom caps growing next to it. I took a photo and let them be. Today I woke up excitedly to check on them and found that they had opened their caps already, I added…
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Oyster mushrooms, inoculate log in summer, or wait for autumn?
I recently got some big logs, lime/linden.
I have oyster mushroom dowels, but it's summer in the UK and the logs are going to be drying out.
Should I wait for autumn and cool damp weather, or will that give other fungi an opportunity to take hold ?
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approximately how much compost does a foot of wood chips compost down to?
I'm heavily composting my garden with arborist wood chips, and was wondering how much compost I get from a square foot of wood chips. I'm using Stropharia Rugosoannulata to break down the wood chips.
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Mushrooms in raised beds
Well, as title says.. a few questions about mushrooms and veggies:
I have several raised beds with different vegetables. Raised beds are made from heat treated wood pallets and on top of them I've used wood chips as mulch.
Plants are doing really…
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